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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 12h

Fun fact, it's 100 days long this year

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 13h

Me: sees news about Diane Keaton
Me: looks at God
Me: looks at the White House
Me: looks at God (derogatory)

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 13h

Fuck me, this broke my heart.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 13h

Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16h

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 16h

Should’ve 𝓀𝒾𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 anyway

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 1d

Boyfriend snapped me this morning when we woke up

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

I think both can be true, but I do recognize the ubiquity of this observation lately!!

Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

Just mean to say the pretense that she’s ever not done what she can to score wild numbers feels faulty to me. She’s been this artist for a long time!

Both artist and businesswoman.

She’s definitely going all out :)

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t okay to critique it. I hope my reply didn’t make your voice feel clipped!

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

Re: the hypothetical bullied teen girls, probably not.

Vinyl variants are a topic of hot discussion. Nobody cares much which digital albums were bought. All the included bonus tracks have leaked already to YT/TikTok.

Voracious buyers usually do so for the goal of bigger numbers.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

She’s making sure the record is as untouchable as possible.

Might seem like overkill but it’s very likely to achieve the intended goal.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

She’s been making these moves for a while, and they’re definitely being imitated.

I don’t really care that she does it, either. It doesn’t impact my appreciation of the music.

It does feel good to watch the numbers landslide in after the release week tho. 😂 Which is, I think, what chafes folks.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

I love her and generally ignore. I bought a vinyl and stream the album.

We exist.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

The variants argument is tired. Your faves do it and they’d do it more if folks cared.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

OMG DIET COKE LIME IS BACK

a bald man wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is standing in a hallway .

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is standing in a hallway .

media.tenor.com

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

Yessir 🫦

Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

All the Scream films
IT, chapters 1&2 (and the miniseries)
Over the Garden Wall
Barbarian
Weapons (new)

Experiencing Haunting of Hill House for the first time and omg

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 2d

You can always kinda tell when the flight attendant likes being over the loud speaker.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 3d

~ boudoir ~

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 3d

Please, God. I ask for so little.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Michael King 🩷 @heymichaelking.bsky.social · 3d

The roommate finally has me watching The Haunting of Hill House, and what a lovely, cinematic elegy.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

For one, the federal government cannot constitutionally commandeer state officials to do its bidding.

But more importantly, the president does not see his political opposition as legitimate but rather as a target for a carceral and militaristic state. It is deeply undemocratic and authoritarian.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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