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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 3h

Omg looks so amazing

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5h

Plus, in this weekend’s guide, a Jamaican food truck open until 3 A.M. and specialist fried Chicken-and-caviar sliders with live jazz.

The full guide: lataco.com/weekend-eats...

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 5h

🤣🤣🤣

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

Bari Weiss’s first project for CBS brought in a phenomenal 145 viewers. Love this for her.

GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

This will piss them if more. I only use Ketchup on hotdogs and scambled eggs. Two things, my whole life ketchup experience.
Blame my auntie.

ficklenuts has a pair of normal entiddies 👻 @ficklenuts.bsky.social · 10h

Dipping my bacon in ketchup just to piss people off

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

@raskin.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

larosalind.bsky.social @larosalind.bsky.social · 11h

Hit & Runs. Blowing red lights & stop signs. Going the wrong way on 1-way streets. Driving vehicles with no license plates. Perhaps our local police could start enforcing basic traffic laws for all our safety?

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 12h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 6h

One in five restaurant workers was born outside the U.S; in California, it’s nearly one in three.

The full story: lataco.com/restaurants-...

By Andrea Borgen Abdallah

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

So much winning
50k in bags that dissappear
20 billion to Venezuela? Qatar gets a military base IN AMERICA?
Inflation up, food costs up
Gop shutdown for a sex predator coverup?
NOT seating winning AZ congresswoman for weeks, in a gop shut down,leaving her constituents w/o representation?
Too much

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

Totally

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

Calling bullshit

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 7h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6h

“When I was first starting Imagination Library, I had to talk him into helping me, but he loved it … especially when he heard kids call me the Book Lady. Deep down I think he was prouder of me for that than anything I ever did.” tucson.com/life-enterta...

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

Again. Who is going to stop them? That is the over arching question with no answer. Court ordered xyz- ignored
No brutality or detaining- well fu now we are not doing that.
SCOTUS & THE GOP made this shit twit, made this petulant king.
So who will stop this violence?

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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John @writeroftruth.bsky.social · 6h

and the pedophile they road in on

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

🤣🤣 Dubai chocolate treat wasted on the young one

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6h

Little girl examining her chocolate bar on the L train: “this is filled with boogers.”

Man who appears to be her grandfather: “that’s not boogers, it’s pistachio.”

Girl: [stares at green filling a while] “No it’s boogers”

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h

I love it.

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

Greta represents everything Theil hates.
It's his tell.
We need to keep on this one. Make mcsweaty sweat more

Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 7h

It’s objectively funny that Peter Theil thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 6h

Never followed and belled quicker!
Theil is a fucking dangerous, connected zealot billionaire menace.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

Tired of Peter Thiel trying to destroy democracy by forcing his dystopian vision of the world on us?

You can join @purgepalantir.bsky.social, a movement that is protesting the billionaire and his companies.

And @solidaritydept.bsky.social has a full report exposing Thiel that you can share widely:

Peter Thiel - The People's Audit | DOCS

Learn about Peter Thiel's role as Chairman at Palantir Technologies. Net worth: $25.6 Billion. Key threats and impact on democracy.

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 7h

Yep

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 7h

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 7h

Police state

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

But RFK Jr.? He’s different. He’s not just dumb. He’s majestic dumb. Dumb that glows. Dumb with wings. Dumb that makes other dumb look up and say, “One day, I wanna be like him.”

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Stupidity Officially Resigns: RFK Jr. to Assume Full Control

In Which I, Stupidity, Concede Defeat to a Man Who Debated Biology and Lost to a Placenta.

open.substack.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10h

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 11h

I know people are freaked out by the arrival of troops in blue cities but I can tell you that here in LA, the worst abuses that happened this summer didn’t come from them. They were mostly here for show. The big ugliness came from local law enforcement.

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 9h

Yes there was a bit of kitch that wasn't needed but great movie. Saw it yesterday

John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 21h

Best movie out there right now imo. There are absurdities involving Sean Penn's tented penis, bits of the ludicrous--but THIS MOVIE ROCKS. It's based on Pynchon's VINELAND. And we are all of us book-ended by the ludicrous. A roller-coaster blast of a movie. VERY politically topical. Must see.

One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

YouTube video by Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

www.youtube.com

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 9h

Did he think he was building that arch to hold his imaginary prize

💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 9h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

Trump just threatened to impose severe, unprecedented tariffs on Chinese imports. He won’t negotiate with Xi at the upcoming APEC summit, choosing to sink the global economy. The Dow is already down 300 points. This will devastate American small businesses and cause your expenses to skyrocket.

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 9h

I just saw that movie!!!! It was very good.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10h

Man, it's a mistake to think about any political party as a unified front and not a writhing bag of strivers. We just don't think about the GOP in this way because they're better at keeping their drama contained to the Christmas Adventurers Club

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GemsSeller GIA AJP @gemsseller.bsky.social · 9h

This is so cool

The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 12h

Excavations at Herod the Great's palace in Israel, revealed a cache of 2,000 year old date palm seeds (Phoenix dactylifera) preserved in a jar

Scientists germinated the seeds & this is Methuselah, named after the longest-lived person listed in the Bible

Photo: D. A. Sonnenfeld

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