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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 7h

The type of reach that would make even Reed Richards say "This is too much!"

Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 7h

I just feel like this is a reach.

First we had to watch a bunch of them mourn Charlie Kirk…even the ones we least suspected would.

Then, there’s this ongoing Taylor Swift fiasco.

Now, they’re mourning the passing of Diane Keaton.

I’m not the only one seeing this, right? Right?!

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Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 8h

Full nude is the way to go

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meliquec.bsky.social @meliquec.bsky.social · 9h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of 📺

Battle of the Planet (G-Force)

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 8h

And yet he falls apart when someone calls him "Governor Hot Wheels"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 10h

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah…gotta respectfully disagree with this one. 🤣🤣🤣

The BBQ Man @deejay.blacksky.app · 13h

While niggas will eat whatever phat ma comes through with, at least get the bush tapered. I’d prefer not to lick a Freeform coil

TCG @itstcg.bsky.social · 13h

TL sleep?

Wax the booty hole leave the bush.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

Art is going to be so bad when only privileged wealthy people can afford to make it.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 23h

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 12h

President Trump got his COVID booster shot Friday night while Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s most famous anti-vaxxer and the HHS Secretary, restricts Americans’ access to the vaccine he hates.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gets-c...

Trump Humiliates RFK Jr. With Surprise COVID Booster Move

The president got all of his shots while his administration restricts the availability of vaccines.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 14h

So my elevator gives news updates and when I tell you I stopped in there for a good 30 secs forgetting to press a button as I was fixated on the little screen because why the hell was “Trump” and “Nobel Peace Prize” even in the same sentence

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Bathsheba in Blue @bathshebablue.bsky.social · 14h

I love how the media starts slavishly pumping out these stories:

‘Trump spoke and behold! … there is funding!’ without any mention of exactly how this can be done legitimately or legally.

And they certainly don’t explain that Dems put up a bill to pay troops that the GOP blocked.

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Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 16h

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Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 16h

This isn't caping for Jared Leto but gotta be real with ya'll...
Even if Jared wasn't in the film, Tron: Ares would've still done underwhelming numbers in the box office like it is right now. And what's wild is that Jared Leto was tame as hell in the movie and was pretty good for it.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 17h

Again:
1) If the RIFs are illegal, "We are going to divert appropriated funds to pay Da Troops" is double mega illegal, and that actually matters.
2) The military's payment system is so baroque I'm not sure it's even possible to do this
3) They just keep blowing up their own leverage.

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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 16h

Government’s shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid — some even being fired.
MAGA Speaker Johnson just canceled House votes for yet another week.

And this guy’s out golfing.
You can’t make this 💩 up.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18h

Oh shit. President Crimes and his crimes friends are committing crimes with the fake money for doing crimes. Have you guys seen this.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19h

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 18h

Seeing Black people on the trails >>>

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 18h

I'm honestly, sincerely wondering if the Trump admin makes it to the midterms at this rate. This is their first actual crisis vs. pushback on their bullshit, and they are beefing it about as hard as possible.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sorry, but it's just absolutely astounding that their "plan" for this shutdown appears to be "Fuck absolutely everybody in the ass, including the army and DHS, while also picking a trade war that can't be prosecuted, much less won, without the government being open".

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Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 18h

Once again, military folks in totality aren't working for the love of the game. They do it for the stable paycheck.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7d

I keep going back to this, but one of the reasons South Korea has an incredibly effective protest culture is because they have *decades* of organizational experience through daily/weekly protesting. it helps a lot to do the routine stuff to be able to pull off the big stuff.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 7d

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

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Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 18h

You risk career suicide not paying federal workers and especially not paying the military. You're literally dead to military folks if you dont pay them. They will remember. They aint stupid.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely wackadoo that they're going to the mat on this tactic.
"Refusing to pay your soldiers and then ordering them to attack their own people" is how you end up with barrack revolts.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Sinner Representative @irepresentsinners.bsky.social · 1d

“Pro-pal” protestors at MVP’s 9:30 Washington, DC book tour stop last night.

Ms. Devi is absolutely done with their bullshit and held her own 👏🏼

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Marie Laveau's Modern Day BS Killer & Eater of 🍬 @youraibabydaddy.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sure those ✨️vibes✨️ at those protests with no real solid plan and objectives is going to go so well!

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