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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3h

🐶🐱 New California pet laws!

🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID

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sageboomer.bsky.social @sageboomer.bsky.social · 3h

"Motion To Vacate"

When will one of you REPUBS, step up to the microphone and say this?

Mike Johnson has to go. This blatant lie to the American people. He said it forcefully. He said it with conviction and passion.

"Trump was an undercover agent in the FBI"

#MarjorieTaylorGreene

Come on Marj !

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 4h

Noticing a pattern of poor prediction of consequences from that group

kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 4h

Who is rapidly deteriorating

kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 4h

You might say they are not tuned in to consequences, only reactionary

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 5h

More reason to wp;dr

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 11h

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Today the list of right-wing sexual predators stands at 1,466 entries.

Trump's spiritual advisor wasn't at Church on Sunday because he was starting a prison stretch for raping a 12-year-old girl.

He's entry #1313.

#RightWingSexualPredators

docs.google.com

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 5h

It will be interesting to compare the list with the representatives who most wanted him to become speaker.

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when there were warnings about the growing epidemic they were calling "internet addiction"?

Now it's barely mentioned and everything is becoming enshittified.

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 6h

If there's one thing I learned from history it is that we don't learn from history

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 6h

They only like religion because many of the people in it are eager to outsource their reasoning to someone who appears confident.

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FanOfWalt @fanofwalt.bsky.social · 6h

Photo of a bowl of alphabet soup, with caption:

DONALD TRUMP HAS
ISSUED A STATEMENT

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

this is a remarkable reality check on bari & CBS. wow.
read every word.

"I mean that you’ve obviously been put in charge of CBS News as a way of appeasing the Trump administration — something to allow the merger to go through."

I don’t mean that he’s going to personally come for you, Bari. I mean that you’ve obviously been put in charge of CBS News as a way of appeasing the Trump administration — something to allow the merger to go through. Carr blessed the Skydance acquisition after CBS paid $16 million to President Donald Trump in what was definitely not a bribe, and didn’t renew Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s contract. Skydance promised Carr an anti-DEI, pro “diversity of viewpoints” nanny in the News division. That nanny is a Republican donor who somehow has even less journalistic experience than you do.

So that kind of puts you in a precarious position, babe. The moment that deal is closed, you’re disposable. And there are just so many ways to dispose of you! Every day will be a thrilling new adventure. Will a Truth Social post end your career? Will you accidentally publish AI slop? Is there going to be a mass quit, leaving you with a gaping hole in your programming? Or will a MAGA-pilled influencer inevitably goad Musk into an advertiser harassment campaign that ends your career? Perhaps there will be a newsroom scandal I have not adequately foreseen! This is a deck that’s stacked against you, and you haven’t got the skills to finesse your way through the deal.

Congrats on that $150 million payout for The Free Press. Someone else owns it now.

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 6h

LOL @ "Allies in trade benefit everyone" coming from this regime

kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 7h

They will only suffer if they try to stop it.

It's like a blackmail variation of that Upton Sinclair quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11h

U.S. District Judge April Perry is now questioning DOJ lawyer Eric Hamilton about the National Guard deployment. She starts by noting the 14 CA troops, 200 TX troops and 300 IL troops.

But she asks if those numbers could increase, and whether the troops could go elsewhere in Illinois.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Hamilton is done. We're expecting questions from Perry now.

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 7h

I read a story some time ago about someone who escaped one of these camps that made Lord Of The Flies seem tame by comparison

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

Elie Mystal: Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

www.thenation.com

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 7h

Our = the people involved in the international blackmail and extortion racket, of which the whole Epstein ordeal is just one component

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kex @joquarky.bsky.social · Jul 10

> “If somebody is harming an animal, there is a good chance they also are hurting a human,” said John Thompson, deputy executive director of the National Sheriffs’ Association. “If we see patterns of animal abuse, the odds are that something else is going on.”

www.fbi.gov/news/stories...

Tracking Animal Cruelty | Federal Bureau of Investigation

Acts of cruelty against animals are now counted in the FBI’s criminal database.

www.fbi.gov

kex @joquarky.bsky.social · 8h

He wants hospital ERs to check for citizenship before treatment

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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