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｢Dᴀɴ｣💗💛💙 Lustycomic.com @lustycomic.bsky.social · 1d

Americans please keep calling your reps! <3

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building https://theonion.com/after-careful-thought-teen-applies-to-college-where-fa-1819577078/

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

The traffic out of DC last night was staggering. I typically remember shutdowns being low traffic, but I wonder if a lot of federal workers were leaving the city to visit family knowing that the shutdown will last at least til mid next week.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 11h

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Excavate Card Bot @cards.excavate.top · 1d

Meteor Flare

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Penny Parker @snapcube.gay · 1d

t-shirt that says “i just took a big shit at buc-ee’s”

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 1d

Wow I'm glad I saw a random YouTube video that I can just opt in for windows 10 security updates for free for another full year (anyone in the UK and EU can do this btw, it's in your settings). I was about to actually install Linux in desperation! 🤣

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thorny, proud Bleeter @ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social · 17d

there's something kind of thought-provoking about "Mario Teaches Dying". it really sounds less like a threat and more like Mario is a hospice counselor or a Buddhist monk

No Context Creepypasta Quotes IS TAKING TOO LONG @nocontextpastas.bsky.social · 17d

“This Mario was a killer. I looked back at the screen. The title sold it. The title read: Mario Teaches Dying.”

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 1d

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this or nothing

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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gokuashnaruto.bsky.social @gokuashnaruto.bsky.social · 1d

Journathan... Jourstar.

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🦇 Parilani Pie @parilani.sparkle.blue · 1d

with alt text in case anyone needs it 🏛️

girliesinnermonologue
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Did the name odysseus already exist before the odyssey?
or was Homer just like "This is my new book 'The Journey' and our hero's name... Journathan"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Central European Guy At Other End Of Bar Watching Some Sport With Mallets On Phone https://theonion.com/central-european-guy-at-other-end-of-bar-watching-some-sport-with-mallets-on-phone/

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Hiru 🍉 not sane @hiru3152.bsky.social · 1d

will i color this someday?
i don't know, that's scary.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Video shows rescuers pulling a Palestinian boy from the rubble of his home in Gaza City. Israeli forces attacked the house on Thursday after the approval of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Excavate Card Bot @cards.excavate.top · 1d

Overwhelm

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Vampire Survivors 🧄 Emerald Diorama OUT NOW 💎 @vampire.poncle.games · 1d

Vampire Survivors online co-op

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Protesters at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago scuffled with police.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Illinois, saying the administration was providing “unreliable evidence” on supposed threats to federal agents.

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