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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 6h

They’re calling them the biggest and most beautiful ambulance bills of all time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 20h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 8h

Whether you’re a Facebook mom who’s been 100% more correct about the direction of things than the most sainted Beltway pundits or a burrito taxi voter suddenly realizing the stakes, the guy who looks right into the camera and says, “Come and get me,” plays as strength in a way Newsom’s antics can’t.

Casey Ayers @casey.app · 8h

Newsom illustrates the absurd by being absurd, which would’ve worked better in the first term & now serves mostly to expose the media’s hypocrisy.

Pritzker, on the other hand, presents as taking it seriously and literally; he offers clarity to the low-info and head-on fight for the already enraged.

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 8h

Newsom turns Trump's online ways back on him. Which would be fine if the whole country lived on here and watched Maddow, but they don't. If it amuses anybody it's them alone. There might be something to if he didn't fall ass-backwards into alienating the left, but there we are.

leveloneminiboss.bsky.social @leveloneminiboss.bsky.social · 8h

The limitation of Newsom’s method is that it’s just a joke. Jokes are fine, but when they’re not funny, there’s nothing else to stick with you.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 16h

Good take imo

Ray Roberts @rayroberts.bsky.social · 17h

Jags unload Campbell's long term money... ( Devon Lloyd extension incoming)

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 19h

Violating the rights of a guy named Miranda is simply lazy writing

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 20h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 20h

“The doctors were astounded by his incredible fitness and vigor and the president was greatly honored to accept their request that he return every few weeks for additional study so that medical development may benefit from his exceptional health.”

Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 21h

He had his “yearly physical” on April 11th. They’re not even trying.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 22h

Can we please get a Hayley Atwell wellness check?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 22h

Jaxxed

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 22h

I am once again asking anyone ever to ask him what “fa” stands for and why anti is bad.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

The wake of the Dotcom Crash was a bad time for tech valuations but an *amazing* time for tech development.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Quite baffling that so many still won't face how this is a bubble whose post-burst shakeout would take down unsustainable firms and reward ones that focus on cost discipline and energy efficiency in ways that might be good for AI development

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

He’s still reliant on Sidious for direction beyond feeling disdain for the Jedi. Yoda admits they’ve been short-sighted & could benefit from new ways of thinking, while still rejecting the Dark Side. This plays sufficiently to Dooku’s ego; he plans to use exile to scheme but unexpectedly finds peace

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

Bail arranges to moderate a top secret meeting between Dooku and Yoda. Windu shows up unexpectedly; Bail demands he leave, which Dooku accepts as proof Bail is unbiased. Given Sidious has gone missing, Dooku accepts comfortable exile on Alderaan where he learns to commune with his student Qui-Gon.

josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but what about Dooku? Do we have a situation where the Jedi sit the war out but the Separatists are still led by a Sith?

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

Organa narrowly clears thru the Senate new taxes on Core Worlds to fund social/peace programs for CIS-leaning worlds, derogatorily labeled Alderaan Everywhere. This damages his popularity, but it is buttressed by repurposing war assets to chart new hyperspace lanes in the outer rim, improving trade.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

Padmé, seen as mentee and heir apparent, is elected Chancellor but fails to broker a peace, leading to a vote of no confidence. Replaced by a bellicose scion of a Corellian shipbuilder who profits from going to war with the CIS, falls to disgrace and is succeeded by Bail Organa, who brokers peace.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Star Wars alternate history question:

Let’s assume Palpatine dies of a heart attack in the opening scenes of Attack of the Clones

What do you think happens to the galaxy?

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

Look, you get to see two of the best teams in football, coming from polar opposites of our great land, highlighting the majestic abundance of America, or you get to see Jerry Jones’s corpse continue to desiccate through poorly lit, heavily zoomed shots from sideline cameras. Fox feeds the people.

Cade @sir-cade.bsky.social · 1d

Yea Fox.

Put the absolute dog shit game on for the majority of the country.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

This feels undeniable as a creator of any sort. I’ve often used the same analogy in describing my own process and output potential.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

boy is this a relevant observation

To create something, anything, good, takes time and desire. “A project that takes five years will accumulate those years’ inventions and richnesses. Much of those years’ reading will feed the work,” Annie Dillard wrote in The Writing Life. Good creative work draws on the well of your experience, on everything that you consumed and felt and saw over a period of time. If you dip into the well constantly without giving it time to refill, you end up with nothing but pieces of mud, nothing that will satiate a thirst for art.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

Hey that’s why it’s a good answer lol

Casey Ayers @casey.app · 1d

I genuinely like it, mostly when I need the sort of half comfort food half self-punishment experience following Jags losses

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.