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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 3h

Ooooooo this is fun

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h

Trouble in paradise 🍿

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 4h

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 5h

A substantive response of course

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: DeSantis was mid-speech when a protester erupted with accusations about Epstein.

The tension was electric — the room froze. The Epstein scandal isn’t over. It’s a political bomb that keeps finding new targets.

RELEASE THE FILES!

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 5h

Wow, he's so far gone he's having moments of terminal moral lucidity, which must really suck for him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 7h

A) Oh no and B) this is the same thing as threatening to move to Canada if Trump wins. I get the feeling but most people aren't doing it.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 7h

So I took this photo but when I text it it looks like the 2nd image. But if I save it to dropbox, it looks right. What is happening?

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 7h

Washington started shooting people because of a tariff on tea so yeah. Low threshold for violence.

Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 7h

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 9h

Sharia law doesn't need to be banned because it doesn't exist in the US. So he's really calling for the banning of Islam in the usual slightly deniable bullshit way these people talk.

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 15h

If there was a high school weightlifting coach that expected everyone to bench 225 out of the gate everyone would see how silly that is but making high school kids read stuff that requires footnotes to understand the dated vocabulary is great. I don’t get it.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

That’s either great for the Brewers or it’s terrible cause they’ll regress the mean and get swept or it means nothing. Baseball!

Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 1d

The Brewers and Dodgers played 6 games this season.

Games won:
Brewers 6
Dodgers 0

Great NLCS on the way!

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

That’s either great for the Brewers or it’s terrible cause they’ll regress the mean and get swept or it means nothing. Baseball!

Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 1d

The Brewers and Dodgers played 6 games this season.

Games won:
Brewers 6
Dodgers 0

Great NLCS on the way!

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I see a flaw in that painting the enemy as antifascist is kind of an unnecessary giveaway if you were growing it in a lab.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

And I don't mean it was a mistake to cast him in that movie. I mean Jaime Kennedy was a mistake.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

If I weren't here to gloat I wouldn't be here at all.

But anyway, my god. I have this vague and absurd hope that there's an enormous amount of bullshit that's in the process of getting flushed and seeing Leto and Tron swirling around the drain is heartening.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

You can track the decline with triangulating their bullshit. We went from the doc bragging about how he was the healthiest president of all time when he couldn't go down stairs to "best I can do is compare him to a 65 year old who smokes 3 packs of Old Golds a day while chugging Wild Irish Rose"

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

HEY DID YOU GET THIS MOVIE IS A META COMMENTARY ON SLASHER FLICKS? --- Scream.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just as dumb as it looks. Don’t cook up some double secret probation stuff. They did it and then they chickened out because it looked bad. The colostomy bag is leaking, that’s all.

J Blue @jd-14.bsky.social · 1d

Trump administration reversing federal job cuts

Trump administration reversing federal job cuts and re-hiring those laid off. Workers have until the end of October to return to the office.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

MSN

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

I understand scream a lot better as an adult and wow what human trash can wrote this? I mean it’s good writing but I don’t like the human writing it. Also Jaime Kennedy was a mistake.

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

The scream movie is so old that having a cell phone was considered suspicious.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

It's supposed to be impressive but instead it looks like a Naked Gun bit.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 1d

The Texas Republican Party’s governing body on Saturday backed down from its threat to bar nearly a half dozen lawmakers from next year’s GOP primary ballot, ending an intraparty stalemate that would have led the organization into a costly legal battle.

Texas GOP abandons effort to kick 10 Republican lawmakers off primary ballot

The decision by the group's governing board ends an intraparty stalemate that would have led the organization into a costly legal battle.

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

I realize that's not the main objection but yes he's a loony fascist and this is awful but my point is that 50 year old women who eat unseasoned food, follow all the rules, and obsessively plan everything are very valuable and Donald clearly doesn't have one.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

I think in prior White Houses there was someone whose job was to making things work right and look good. That looks like some dorks trying to cram their Warhammer map on a folding table that is too small.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

I think in prior White Houses there was someone whose job was to making things work right and look good. That looks like some dorks trying to cram their Warhammer map on a folding table that is too small.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

By which I mean they should have been saying that years and a few hundred billion dollars ago.

Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

You remember when at the start of the pandemic everyone was hanging on whether WHO was going to call it a pandemic as if anyone with a dictionary and a map of infected countries couldn't make that call? We need to stop waiting for people in fancy suits to think for us. A lot of them are bad at it.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Justin Coke @justincoke.bsky.social · 1d

Draining the swamp ya'll.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

www.nbcnews.com