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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 3d

The photo:

The comments you will laugh at:

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · 4d

It's like watching Tom Brady throw a football or Shohei Ohtani hit a baseball. Just happy to be alive at the same time as the greatest poster of all time.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...

*opens manilla envelope*

... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...

*slides 8x10 photo across table*

... you wore the tutti frutti

CIAsandman on Twitter writes: "Leftist friend got called “fuckin lib” by a foid at a bar last night. Their cultural grip is slipping. It’s cringe and gay to even be associated with anything left of center."

On January 21, 2025, CIAsandman tweets: "White boy fuel." There's a photo showing him holding a half-eaten piece of bread a bottle of water. On his wrist is a white Swatch watch.

An eBay auction for the Swatch says: 1996 Vintage Swatch Watch TUTTI FRUTTI GW109 Working Swatch Watches Women

A detective looks down at a suspect while a light is shining above the suspect's head.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 5d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 6d

It’s clear at pretty much every turn that none of these people have any experience with anything they’re doing and are just playacting what they’ve seen in movies.

It’s a government run by people whose experience amounts to the “I’m not a doctor but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night” ads.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 8d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 7d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 7d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16d

Oh, so they give the Peace Prize to people pushing to go AWAY from autocracy? I see the problem.

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · 17d

oh come ON

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 17d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · 18d

Taking a break from stressing about politics to loudly LOL

Boston.com @boston.com · 18d

Report: ‘Potential exit strategy’ talks have started at UNC over Bill Belichick trib.al/CjS9c4o

Report: ‘Potential exit strategy’ talks have started at UNC over Bill Belichick

According to 247Sports, "exit strategy" talks have begun at UNC over the future of Bill Belichick as the Tar Heels' head coach.

trib.al

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 25

Half-baked but: I keep thinking about shame, and how in the past people in government might have had a sort of built in firewall against doing the most egregious shit we’re seeing. But now the info environments are so separate that they get *positive* reinforcement for just absurd action.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · Sep 26

That power wasn't originally there then, but it's originally there now.

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · Sep 26

Huh

https://www.levernews.com/content/files/2025/01/1985RobertsMemo-Budget.pdf

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 15, 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING
FROM: JOHN G. ROBERTS,
SUBJECT: ImEoundment Authority
David Chew asked our office for general information on the
President's impoundment authority. He originally asked Joe Wright
for such information and was provided the packet at Tab A, but
thought a clearer exposition was necessary. I talked with Chew to
obtain some sense of what he was interested in, and he indicated
that the issue of impoundment was raised in general discussions of
how to achieve budget goals.
The attached memorandum simply outlines the requirements of the
Impoundment Control Act of 1974, 2 u.s.c. §§ 681-688, touches upon
the unresolved Chadha issue presented by that Act, and attempts to
dampen any hopes that inherent constitutional impoundment authority
may be invoked to achieve budget goals. As noted in the memo-
randum, the question of whether the President has such authority is
not free from doubt, but I think it clear that he has none in
normal situations, and we should discourage Chew and others from
considering impoundment as a viable budget planning option. Our
institutional vigilance with respect to the constitutional prerog-
atives of the presidency requires appropriate deference to the
constitutional prerogatives of the other branches, and no area
seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the
purse.
Attachment

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · Sep 24

I feel like I don't have enough context on this story. Is this a local company fighting of a PE-backed vampire? Or a hacky firm that'd gotten lazy undercutting competition that would have made real investment? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/b...

Applegreen drops out of Mass. highway service plaza deal - The Boston Globe

Losing bidder Global Partners had been challenging the lucrative deal to redevelop and operate Turnpike travel plazas.

www.bostonglobe.com

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · Sep 24

what kind of dead-end racist dildo do you have to be to go to a place where these people are being kidnapped and trafficked off to foreign torture shores and be like "not good enough, not fast enough"

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Sep 24

BREAKING: Further confirmation that the shooter targeted immigrant detainees, not #ICE agents. All three #shooting victims were people ICE was holding and processing at the center. The shooter died of a self inflicted would and has been described as a white male

www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

Dallas ICE Shooting: 3 people shot in active shooter situation

www.fox4news.com

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · Sep 19

Posting this for no particular reason -->

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · Sep 18

You are absolutely allowed to do that. They’ve done it to every sitting President before him.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 18

Trump:

"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · Sep 18

This would honestly be really funny if it wasn't ruining so many lives

Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · Sep 18

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:

*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is the first thing I've laughed at in like 2 entire days -- please, The Onion, never change and never leave us

The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 18

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 18

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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justingraeber.bsky.social @justingraeber.bsky.social · Sep 17

The only way anyone could take the quote that way is if they're completely devoid of empathy -- not just inside themselves, but even in understanding how it works in others. These days it feels like everyone in a position of governmental power (at the federal level, at least) has this issue.

a pun that sound like 'Tod' but scarier @rtodkelly.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Sep 17

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · Sep 17

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

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