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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 1h

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · May 30

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

MY CARD.
MR. GEO. PUSHEM, EFFICIENCY EXPERT.

AND STAY OUT!
I HAVE NO USE FOR THE SHARP BOYS THAT GO AROUND SHOWING EMPLOYERS HOW THEY CAN KILL OFF THEIR HELP QUICKER BY
SHIFTING TUO MEN'S WORK
ONTO ONE!!!

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 40m

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25m

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

"‘You run away a lot,’ said one of the voices. ‘That is good. You are a survivor.’

‘Survivor? I’ve nearly been killed dozens of times!’

‘Exactly.’"

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Rust Momster @cambrianera.radical.town · 3h

I think the fact that we allowed cops to lie openly with no real consequences is part of How We Got Here. If the people with the ability to shoot others in the street are allowed to lie about it, you can't expect other officials to abide by a higher standard.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 3h

Yep! Pretty obviously. There'd still be corporate and other pressure against them, but do you seriously think that pressure would be as successful if people weren't collectively pissing themselves about the idea of Soviet influence campaigns and the like?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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PDX Pipeline @portlandevents.bsky.social · 19h

Hers a photo of our fall colors and aerial tram. The ICE facility is right by where the tram starts & then takes people up to OHSU & Veterans hospital

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 6h

A white bunny with long gray ears snuggles into a soft, gray blanket.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

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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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 11h

…in part because of an all-consuming ideological conflict with the USSR. As I said.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 20h

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 13h

Initial conditions:
m1=28.5 m2=28.7 m3=133.4 (solar masses)
v1x=-6.73 v1y=-1.248 v2x=5.811 v2y=-3.285 v3x=5.644 v3y=3.115 (km/s)
x1=-32.0 y1=20.0 x2=-30.0 y2=-11.0 x3=35.0 y3=16.0 (AU from center)
Music: I Need a Ride (The Expanse) – Shorter

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · 14h

This is a very general problem with all the Trump admin "let's bring back the 19th century!" plans: you can't do it. The 19th century in 2025 just looks like your country falling apart.

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 2

It’s worse than that. 19th c. medicine in the 21st c. won’t produce 19th c. outcomes. Not when airplanes mix ppl globally on a daily basis, when pop. density has risen to dizzying heights, when human communities have encroached on animal habitats to unprecedented levels…

It’ll be so much worse.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 1

Just trying to get my head around the absolute gutting of cdc and nih today. A bleak day for the US and …. well staying alive longer than people did in the 19th century.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 14h

They cooked their brains on ideology built on Southern revanchism and racism, but the idea of a glorious race war only ever appealed to a small minority. So they're trying to sell their would-be Civil War as self-defense, but that's hard when the other side very obviously doesn't want to kill you.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 14h

I think Miller and friends fail to realize that that deep righteous fury simply doesn't exist today. They're trying to gin up hate for Democrats but nobody actually wants to fight over it. Even the right-wing hate for immigrants doesn't run deep enough to fight a war over.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 17h

A brown lop-eared bunny sits on a wooden floor in front of white cabinets.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 18h

oh my god if he keels over now we'll never hear the end of it

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19h

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires.
We cannot have both.

NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 19h

he's getting sloppier

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 22h

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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