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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 41m

NO PISS IN YOUR EYE

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

Day 54 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

Rich men laughing and one of them is Zohran and it says “average NYC bus user” and then a picture of the Great Depression with Cuomo and it says “average son of a three term Governor”

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1h

Letters from the Portland Front

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 59m

"After Trump got his Covid shot..."

Well done, Senator.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21h

These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not sure that the people who spent 2024 telling us that Biden was the senile one, that Trump had no idea what Project 2025 was, & that Harris was exaggerating by calling him a fascist who would use the army against civilians are up to the task

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21h

These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · Jun 17

you joke, but the Portland No Kings march had a speaker who identified as a clown... their message was that we shouldn't call Trump a clown, because true clowns comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, or whatever

this was about the time the crowd started chanting "MARCH, MARCH, MARCH"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM © Replies disabled

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 1h

wile e. coyote genius is written on a card

Alt: A furry hand holds a business card. The card reads: "Wile E. Coyote. Genius"

media.tenor.com

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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 1h

If one party tells you it's raining and the other says it's not your job isn't to just quote them your job is to go outside and see if it's raining ffs

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

The frogs keep multiplying and new resistance animals are added every day.

We’ve got a unicorn, a T-Rex, a raccoon, a bear, a giraffe and a shark!

Trump says Portland is full of “dangerous criminals” and protesters show up en masse to create a zootopia.

Never change Portland.

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 11h

Hmm. Leaves only one team to hate

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 11h

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

If you insist on ending tie games earlier the following are all better ideas than the free runner on second:

- ending game in tie after 12
- runners left on base return for next inning
- teams have to pull a fielder every inning after 10 or 12

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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 12h

That's the kind of game that either ruins you for the next series or wins you the whole damn thing.

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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 12h

So... You've gotta bunt here, right?

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 12h

California should hire the people being laid off for our shadow CDC

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: