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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 13h

...You see it too, right?

(Ht: Keith Edwards)

The light behind Trump makes it look like he has a pair of horns.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 16h

Welcome to Antifa, Gov. Stitt

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Politico @politico.com · 14h

Republican Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt condemns the deployment of Texas's National Guard to Illinois.

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if [Gov. JB] Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration,” Stitt told The New York Times in an interview.

GOP Oklahoma governor criticizes Texas National Guard deployment to Illinois

Kevin Stitt, the chair of the National Governors Association, broke with his party in an interview with The New York Times.

www.politico.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 17h

Oh wow. Like a Hell House but for Left Behind fans.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

OH they're *all* frying their brains on AI-generated videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think so. Is that the thing where you had to pretend it was the Tribulation and you had to sneak to your "secret" "underground church" meeting without the "soldiers" catching you?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17h

This apparently came up during the court proceedings, but I was surprised to see that it actually made it in to the TRO.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 17h

A lot of the injunction is basically "don't do cop violence without justification" but this popped out at me

2. It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
Case: 1:25-cv-12173 Document #: 42 Filed: 10/09/25 Page 4 of 6 PageID #:838
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties,
must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 17h

My mom claims they acted this out at this church coffeeshop they were part of but it sounds like everyone knew it was the dads from the church. The whole thing was more of a LARP of the Tribulation than anything else.

Oh, and I should mention that church became an actual cult over time.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 17h

I heard it at summer camp as a church in communist China and the people who burst in were dressed as Maoists.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 21h

I absolutely hate that putting something in " " no longer gets you anywhere in google search. It literally gives you stuff other than the verbatim thing you asked for.

Why? It used to work. Why make it dumber?

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Kayt Sukel @kaytsukel.bsky.social · 18h

To “make” the proof. Jesus.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been waiting for them to start talking about trying to stop the planned 10/18 protests.

Americans - if you are inclined to and able to, get out to a protest on 10/18. Peacefully exercise your Constitutional rights, to speak, to assemble, to seek redress of grievances, to live as free people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"Maybe you can look into that, Pam" -- Trump directs Pam Bondi to try to stop a planned anti-Trump rally in Austin

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

i regret to inform all of you that greene is actually good at a certain kind of backstabbing politics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18h

We are so close to getting Reaganomics declared an official heresy...

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18h

I was wondering (given that she's close to the same age bracket as I am) if she had seen the Wishbone adaptation of those books and took her cues from there.

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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 19h

Billy Shake's intended takeaway from Romeo and Juliet: I get that their families beefing is stupid but these kids are just as dumb too

The modern takeaway: Aww, look at these kids! How romantic!

Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 19h

The only reason anyone thinks "Romeo and Juliet" is romantic is they don't spend enough time together to discover each other's horrible character defects before they die.

If they had actually succeeded in running away together it would have been like the last scene from "The Graduate"

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 20h

"Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job" - chant that has become a regular part of the Broadview demonstrations, according to the Rev. David Black, as reported by @jackjenkins.me

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 19h

The only reason anyone thinks "Romeo and Juliet" is romantic is they don't spend enough time together to discover each other's horrible character defects before they die.

If they had actually succeeded in running away together it would have been like the last scene from "The Graduate"

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 19h

Oh god where do I begin? The Scarlet Letter was the *opposite* of a love kept secret, it was an open humiliation (for Hester) and inner torment and guilt (for Dimmsdale) and they don't get to be together at the end; NEITHER OF THESE STORIES IS ROMANTIC; Romeo is impulsive and prone to self-harm...

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 19h

Me: "Okay, let me look at the lyrics, now I'm curious."

Me: "..."

Me: "Has... has she actually read the book?"

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 21h

This is delusional. You can't support a hospital on only an ER - they're not the profit center of a hospital! ERs take enormous charity care losses due to EMTALA and have to be cross-subsidized by more profitable service areas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Steve Bezner @bezner.bsky.social · 23h

Learn to do what is good.
Pursue justice.
Correct the oppressor.
Defend the rights
of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.
—Isaiah 1:17

Worship without tending to these things is foul.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 1d

A couple of nights ago a helicopter crashed onto a freeway in Sacramento and managed to hit a patch without cars. The cars all stopped in time. Folks jumped out and found out that all three of the passengers were alive. The helicopter was on one so they lifted it off.
Wow.
youtu.be/AyqeKzWklEI?...

Bystanders help lift helicopter off injured paramedic after crash onto Sacramento highway

YouTube video by ABC7 News Bay Area

youtu.be

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