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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 8h

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 13h

kid rock as porta potties: thread

Kid Rock wearing pink and looking stupid.

A porta potty that matches the pink of his ugly ass shirt.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 19h

Update: the Cub fried chicken is gone.

Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 19h

Today I told a kid I loved their Wellstone T-shirt.

"It's my mom's. I needed a green shirt today for the fun run."

Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 20h

Otis the brindle hound mix eating from a fork being held by a man.

Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 20h

My partner and I are going to get irresponsibly high and watch the news as a comedy.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21h

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 20h

Otis is a big fan of Cub fried chicken.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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damned teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️👻 @ellenteapot.ca · 1d

I don’t think reporters should be abducted off the streets by roving gangs of masked thugs #uspoli

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter is going to Monticello next week, so I made her Google Sally Hemings.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2d

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 1d

I would die, but I'd love to see Pompeii.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d

if you had to time travel to one ancient city in its prime for one year, which city would you choose?

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 1d

I thought the neighborhood peacocks were gone because I didn't see them all summer.
Just saw the weird white one! 💕

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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 1d

The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management has issued a license to Lake of the Woods Cannabis Company in Baudette. The dispensary's address is just a stone's throw from the Canadian border and it will certainly be a contender for northernmost marijuana dispensary in the continental US.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · Sep 4

*sits bolt upright in bed* BAT IS SHORT FOR BIRD RAT

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 1d

Lol lmao lolsob

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is threatening to fire "problem children" air traffic controllers who fail to show up for work during the government shutdown.

DOT chief threatens to fire air traffic controllers who skip work

The Trump administration has also threatened to lay off thousands of federal employees at other agencies if Congress doesn’t halt the government shutdown.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Social media is how I've made friends with other chronically ill people.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think Secretary Kennedy knows what a placenta is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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