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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not sure I’ve seen such a crucial game where all the runs scored were aided by the other team.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 10h

Thank goodness.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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larosalind.bsky.social @larosalind.bsky.social · 10h

@jimwhitegnv.bsky.social fuck it. #team dodgers!! @greggjlevine.bsky.social

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 10h

Well, @larosalind.bsky.social , one of us may need to go make a wellness check on @greggjlevine.bsky.social

He has a few days to recover before the LCS, though.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 10h

Again this is how Portland looks right now

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 12h

Did he?

Did Schumer actually say “couch” to Vance?

That made my day. Maybe our olds are finally learning how to fight back.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 12h

Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully.

Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ health care and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.

A headline from the New York Post reads: “JD Vance calls Chuck Schumer ‘one of the most famous Palestinians’”

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 16h

Urban crime : Trump :: Iraqi WMD : George W. Bush

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 22h

World's tiniest violin...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

From @theathletic.com: A year after the Dodgers embarrassed them in the World Series, the Yankees came up even smaller in the 2025 MLB Playoffs. This was supposed to be their time. Instead, it will be a golden opportunity missed, our columnist writes.

Why the Yankees just wasted a golden opportunity they’ll never get back

A year after the Dodgers embarrassed them in the World Series, seizing upon their flaws, the Yankees came up even smaller vs. the Blue Jays.

nyti.ms

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so old I remember when a former President having a quick chat with the AG on an airport tarmac was a month-long scandal.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

FUCK THE FUCKING YANKEES!

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 1d

Game over
Series over
The @BlueJays punch their ticket to the #ALCS 🔥

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Jeff-o-Lantern 🎃 @jts65.bsky.social · 1d

Their girlfriends all got arrested, too.

Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

By eliminating the Yankees from the postseason, the Blue Jays have become honorary founding members of Antifa.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

By eliminating the Yankees from the postseason, the Blue Jays have become honorary founding members of Antifa.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare my horse pastures to be heron sanctuary.

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actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · 1d

me every time they show Yankees fans despondent as their team trails in an elimination game

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

a thing to keep in mind, moving forward, is that if you're ditching this shithole, don't tell us about it on social media until you're safely on the other side

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray wrote a book on antifascism and was trying to leave the country with his family after being targeted by right-wing operatives and receiving death threats:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

I assume his first name is Schladolf?

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Pouring one out for Joe Davis who has to say the name Schlittler on air for a national audience 400 times tonight. 🫡

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Escalation continues.

This is beyond the pale.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 1d

Is Trump going to have Americans extrajudicially executed in their homes?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

The mushroom is now a giant zucchini!

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

Trump keeps saying he needs to send federal agents in to protect Chicago because the Police aren't doing the job.

You know what makes it hard for our city's brave police officers to do their jobs?

Trump's agents throwing tear gas at them.

ICE accidentally tear gases Chicago police during clash with protesters

Several officers could be seen rubbing their eyes, squinting, and struggling to remain standing on October 4.

www.newsweek.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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