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Just Trying to Make the Best of It

@jumbeckgene.bsky.social

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Dad to Tim & Ernest (Beagle mixes). Forever missing 🐶 🌈Sunny, 🌈Schubert & 🌈Kate, and 🐱🌈Douglas & 🌈Dixie.

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Just Trying to Make the Best of It @jumbeckgene.bsky.social · Nov 15

Meet Tim and Ernest the handsomest boys in our neck of the woods.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 10h

AstraZeneca will sell cheaper drugs to Medicaid patients due to a deal they signed.

Too bad they are in the UK and they are subject to 100% tariffs on all imported pharmaceuticals that some absolute fucking dumbass started on October 1.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

Trump reaches deal with AstraZeneca to lower U.S. drug prices

Trump announced the agreement with AstraZeneca on Friday, after striking a similar deal with Pfizer late last month.

www.cnbc.com

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𝕃𝕦𝕜𝕚𝕦𝕞 @americanmanifesto.news · 10h

ICE raids, steep tariffs, and a new anti‑terror law—sounds like a textbook scenario, right? This analysis shows they’re straight from a 1945 army guide on how fascism could look in the US.

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 11h

“Can you show us a video of Portland in flames?”

Is a question someone needs to ask the frickin’ President of the United States.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h

The house just extended their vacation!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

NOBEL rewards democracy over authoritarianism

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

Sister Jean was a role model in Illinois — inspiring us to embrace our neighbors.

As a lover of life, she taught us to channel positivity to keep us hopeful in times of need and kept that attitude all the way to a life well-lived at 106 years old.

May her memory be a blessing.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 13h

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 11h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Sixpence Nonethewiser @sugaronastick.bsky.social · 10h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 12h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, you did.

But I sure as fuck didn't!

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SteveSleeve @stevie547.bsky.social · 12h

Chi Town is pissed🖕🖕🤬🤬

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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