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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 29m

This is like ICE saying "there are no documented permanent injuries from our use of tear gas".

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 38m

People actually have actually published studies about both.

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 44m

An important difference is that laser experts say that lasers cause vision damage whereas toxicologists say that fentanyl exposure without injection is harmless.

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 1h

Useful...

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 1h

Remember all the predictions of hyperinflation early in the Biden admin?

This admin is doing everything they can, and it's still not happening. (although stagflation will be very painful)

2021:
www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ceo-...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey believes hyperinflation is an impending threat to the US economy — and will change everything

Jack Dorsey used Twitter to express fears about hyperinflation. His comments came amid supply-chain disruptions, which can affect the price of goods.

www.businessinsider.com

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 5h

More than 160 people showed up at
9th & Massachusetts in
#Lawrence, #Kansas today, 12 October 2025
"to stand for democracy and against this unconstitutional dismantling of our country."
Pro-democracy Kansans have been showing up here every Saturday since right after the MAGA regime's installation.

In the foreground: "R" (with US Flag) & "D" (with megaphone) led chants throughout the demonstration, their favorite: "There's no excuse for violence! We will not be silenced!"
All around them and on the opposite street corner, others hold hand-made signs rejecting various policies of the MAGA regime. Across and down the street: Lawrence's red brick downtown buildings.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 4h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 4h

Bias cut underwear is kind of fancy.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4h

How to sell underpants, the totally innocent and oh so very straight old 1940s American way:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 7h

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 8h

Some interesting and other totally unsurprising demographics implied demographics here.

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 9h

NYC - Mayoral Poll:

Bronx:
🔵 Mamdani: 39%
🟢 Cuomo: 36%
🔴 Sliwa: 19%

Queens:
🔵 Mamdani: 40%
🟢 Cuomo: 31%
🔴 Sliwa: 20%

Brooklyn:
🔵 Mamdani: 54%
🟢 Cuomo: 33%
🔴 Sliwa: 9%

Manhattan:
🔵 Mamdani: 51%
🟢 Cuomo: 31%
🔴 Sliwa: 9%

S. Island:
🟢 Cuomo: 40%
🔴 Sliwa: 34%
🔵 Mamdani: 21%

Quinnipiac / Oct 7, 2025

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 9h

Alex Thompson and Nate Cohn are big mad that the public has generally sided with Democrats during the shutdown rather than Republicans

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 11h

Hilarious how mad the press is the shutdown isn’t hurting Dems so they are pivoting to shit on them anyway possible

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 9h

Yup, The Atlantic did a superb job “normalizing” RFK Jr, arguably the world’s most dangerous & extreme conspiracy theorist & anti-vaxx activist 😢

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 22h

Something mildly wicked this way comes.

💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta say, I'm looking forward to our little mid October nor'easter.

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 22h

A) Agree
B) Dolores Claiborne
C) Talisman or It
D) The Stand

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 23h

He was a very erudite guy. Ran in very learned circles.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

On the upside, as Charlie Chaplin, of all people, reminds us, "The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

'The Constitution is crap because of this' is such an odd position because it isn't like other republics have proven remarkably more resistant to charismatic, populist demagogues.

If anything, parliamentary systems have been substantially more vulnerable.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta say, I'm looking forward to our little mid October nor'easter.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1d

this liberal, being able to actually read and do math, knows that people who fought in WWII were in their late thirties and forties when this picture was taken