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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 1h

Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold?

Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 1h

Amen.

Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 1h

Weird inclusion on music choice. I love metal, but I'm not a fascist. Nor have I ever loved Thatcher. Metal isn't specific to ultra conservatism. We all aren't Disturbed.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

The man who doesn’t read and can’t handle a briefing furloughed the people guarding America’s most dangerous weapons.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h

All the things folks pretended were happening in 2022-23 under Joe Biden are actually happening now under Donald Trump

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 8h

Highest credit card delinquency since the financial crisis 14 years ago.

Add that to home sellers outnumbering homebuyers, consumer confiance plummeting, consumer spending plummeting, inflation increasing, growth decreasing unemployment increasing… a brewing storm.

Good economic news all around👍👍

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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 9h

They've botoxed his forehead so much his eyebrows stay permanently raised.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13h

people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons.

And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

DHS is at it again. They’re mad that I correctly pointed out that their claim of 515,000 “illegal migrants deported” was wrong so called me a “chronically online troll,” which is particularly ironic coming from an account which actively trolls people all the time.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
X.com
Breaking: chronically online X troll, who complains every day that we're deporting illegals, now complains that we aren't actually *aren't* deporting illegals.
Mental gymnastics gone wild.
Not to worry, the deportations will continue.
i Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick •7h These numbers are NOT trustworthy. We know from previous data releases that the large 515,000 figure counts things like visa-holders turned away at airports as "illegal migrants deported," and the 1.6 million number is from an anti-immigration group...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

I too find myself wondering about this

Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 13h

I wanna fucking know how many people circling the wagons for Platner right now adamantly refused to vote for Harris last year because a tactical alliance with Liz Cheney was morally beyond the pale. I’ll bet that Venn diagram’s bigger than zero.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 12h

I agree with this. There are a lot of people out there who think both parties are the same and if Democrats put a show of pushing out people with Nazi tattoos and shitty text messages and abused employees then all of a sudden you're making inroads.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid

The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 11h

Just showed a coworker the east wing. Her mouth dropped open.

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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 13h

Nobody is aware in my job circle except me.

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 13h

i keep going back to this post because its still happening

gg @ggold328.bsky.social · Jan 31

i feel like things are happening that millions of people are clueless about and that are so outrageous, so unbelievable that if i tell anyone, they will think i am being hyperbolic and crazy

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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 14h

Also shot person in car. That person matters.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

sorry, man, but this is breathtakingly, shockingly corrupt in every fucking way it can be, and an open and shut and uncomplicated case for impeachment. he didn’t even pay for these lawyers, his donors did, for fuck’s sake.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

*one* of the many reasons we need to get dems back in charge of congress is to do some basic fucking oversight on how many books they’re cooking and how badly they are cooked

𝕁, Accused Boyfriend of Antifa @checkwithscience.com · 16h

how/where the fuck is he getting a quarter billion dollars to do all this?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 15h

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say

A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

www.kktv.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d

okay. so there are often a few dessert recipes that share things (type of dish; fruit) in common but this is really kicked up for fall. just about everything that isn’t pumpkin is apple or pear & one of the variety of “baked fruit w/ starch on top”, to the point where they offer a guide to the types

guide to fruit dessert types part 1, featuring Brown Betty, buckle, and cobbler

guide to fruit dessert types part 2, featuring crumble, crisp, slump / grunt, pandowdy, and sonker. apparently all of these are real words

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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 2d

A little morning palate cleans.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.