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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 3h

Simplifying lives and ensuring the nourishment of children?
Pretty solid, Canada.

Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advan...

www.cbc.ca

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 5h

An executive with a compliant congress could use Mike Johnson's constant delay of congress, point to this part of the constitution, and simply say "The Houses of congress cannot agree. Go away for the rest of the year"

and poof, the Epstein files are secure until January.

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 5h

Let's talk about #proroguing #Congress.

US Constitution Article II, section 3 (part)

he may, [...], convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 6h

10x would be a thing in the original number was more than half a dozen

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h

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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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

Loser Loses.
#resist #protest

Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday said the recognition would instead go to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

time.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

#Federalism is important.

Two Republican Governors Break With Trump Over Troop Deployments

Republican governors are finally calling out Donald Trump for using the National Guard to take over American cities.

newrepublic.com

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

When you have to overwinter a fertile pepper bush because the air temps are dropping 🌱🌶️

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

Of course the #deployment itself is a #provocation.
#resist

Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now

Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

wapo.st

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

If you know you know #Nazi #arches #history

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say, I love watching the Scottish plow location streaming website in winter. Are they going to have one for the English track-deleafers?

#humor

Puningham - Scandinavia and the World

Webcomic: You might not beleaf it, but the British have special leaf blaster trains. The British public were asked to name a new one. The wi

satwcomic.com

Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

Remember : Athens murdered an ugly war hero just because they didn't want to give up the wealthy they'd gathered under a period of tyranny. #history #humor

Aliens in Athens

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

existentialcomics.com

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

Another cursed game

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Sep 10

Chess Variant

xkcd.com/3139/

Comic. [chessboard where one block of 2x2 sliding squares is shifted inward, with a blank next to it indicating the direction of the block’s movement] [caption] Sliding Number Puzzle Chess

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11d

Hiking

xkcd.com/3147/

Comic. [Two people hiking up mountain] PERSON 1: Okay, we’re nearing the next downhill segment I’ll put in the order. ...Confirming start and end points… Submitted! [water slide being dropped from above by drones] PERSON 2 with long hair: Look, here it comes! [Waterslide positioned on downhill slope of mountain with both people riding down] BOTH: Wheeee [Waterslide carried back into the air] [Both people continuing to hike up next slope] [caption] On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 9d

100% All Achievements

xkcd.com/3148/

Comic. PERSON 1 to person with white hat: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I’m up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I “can’t have more than 20 majors” and “need to graduate next year.” It’s outrageous! [caption] My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

#humor

Turing Test

xkcd.com

Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

"Shays’s Rebellion filled Alexander Hamilton with dread."
#history #politics #resist #protest

The Insurrection Problem

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?

www.theatlantic.com

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

ICE wants YOU to betray your fellow-HUMANS. Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want—like a LAWYER when you’re eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.

#humor

ICE Job Postings

ICE wants YOU to put your LEFT foot in then put your LEFT foot out then DO the hokeypokey and TURN IN your brother-in-law whom YOU didn’t realize THIS would AFFECT.

www.newyorker.com

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is why Trump's declaring war on it?

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear - Air travel is the only public good that the wealthy consume at a substantial enough rate to be discomfited by the government shutdown.

As Flights Back Up Nationwide — Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers Who Stay Home During Shutdown - View from the Wing

Flight delays are spreading across the country as the government shutdown drags on — and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is issuing a warning that echoes 1981: air traffic controllers who don’t sh...

viewfromthewing.com

Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 1d

DUH

The Republican Party Has Become Incompatible With Democratic Governance

Let’s begin with a principle that transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed, expressed…

medium.com

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Legend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · Jun 7

When cucumbers attack

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Coko @cccoko.bsky.social · Jul 12

There's wonderful joy when I can sit on our patio and have a morning moon view like this...just above our pine trees. A bonus is that the weather isn't quite hot....yet! 🌕
#PhotographersonBluesky #Photography 📷
#julymoon #fullmoon

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · Aug 17

The Russian meeting we were all hoping for

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