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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 20h

Nice work!

Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 21h

I didn’t go any further with a solar panel company because they offer Tesla batteries. Salesperson couldn’t wrap their head around why.

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 21h

Hmm, I keep gold doubloons in my junk drawer, along with original Mark Twain manuscripts. Wonder if they are worth anything.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 1d

You are a ridiculous person. Goodbye.

Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 1d

Haha ok. They are an insult to journalism so let’s just say it’s even.

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 2d

To provide a service. I don’t follow this account. Why are you responding like this?

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 4d

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand why people follow an account that doesn’t report or link to real news, but here is a link

www.wtoc.com/2025/10/12/b...

4 dead and at least 20 injured in mass shooting on St. Helena Island

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the intersection of Highway 21 is partially closed Sunday as Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office deputies investigate a shooting.

www.wtoc.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 4d

You are an absolutely ridiculous person.

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 4d

Non-answer. Ok.

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 4d

Unify? Why hasn’t he endorsed Mamdani? Where is the support for a fellow NY Democrat?

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 4d

Finally. He needs to go even harder though it’s a good start. Better late than never.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Jeff Janis @jeffjanis.bsky.social · 4d

I was fortunate to see him in Brooklyn several years ago. The definition of Elegance! Such deeeeeep music.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 4d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.