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Your Mom @mountains206.bsky.social · 1d

The password is “BrooksBrothersRiot”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

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Wow, this extract from Wolff's book is a shocking insight into Trump's mind:

On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken, because it didn't have "the gorilla channel.” Trump seemed to be under the
impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but
gorilla-based content, 24 hours a day.
To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel, broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily-constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was "boring"
because "the gorillas aren't fighting".
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. "On some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight," an insider told me. "He kneels in front of the TV, with his face about four inches from the screen, and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like 'the way you hit that other gorilla was good'. I think he thinks the gorillas can hear him."
1/4/18, 9:07 PM

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

For everyone who is grinding through each day .,.

CBS Mornings captures the joy of the relentless 24/7 news cycle

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

My god why won’t anyone ask how that’s possible

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 1d

jam rewound:

Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · May 9

Friday preserved Jams on fresh strings.

So I don't just keep posting all the Synthony videos... here's an orchestral-electro set from Tomorrowland.

Man, I love seeing the conductor and musicians' faces transform at certain parts of a song, especially when the crowd sings: the sheer fucking joy.

Tomorrowland presents: Our Story 2024

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 1d

past the jam please

Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · May 15

I've received a sacred day off tomorrow, so have a pre-Friday Jam

enjoy the dirty sax and 2 minute-in meeps

Digby Vermouth - Supernova Dreamsicle | Borderlands 3 OST

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 1d

Aged Jam. Seriously, this Paris Paloma song is cathartic poetic perfection. "Unpaid marketing department for the power" I mean come on.

Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 16d

DrizzleJam of a Friday:

I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down
I just didn't expect them to be such losers

Good boy! 🐶 You're working exactly as intended!
Has the penny dropped: You're never gonna get it
Unrewarded for all of your defendin
From your "loneliness epidemic"

Paris Paloma - Good Boy [Official Music Video]

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 1d

Somethin fuckin weird in my Friday jam:

Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 2d

We were told they wouldn't bring charges for "less than $1M" by the FBI. $18K is fucking bananas.

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 2d

United States attorneys offices all have prosecutorial guidelines – amounts of financial loss or property damage, etc. below which they won’t bring a case. I’ve never heard of a financial fraud guideline loss threshold anywhere near as low as 18 K, which is the amount of loss in the James case.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Phil Brooke @coast1909.bsky.social · 2d

Dispatch from Portland last night:

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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David Michael Nolan @conanriquelme.bsky.social · 4d

My favourite moment from
Fraction & Jimenez’s Batman so far.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 2d

I think the farmer thing is still not sinking in for a lot of people that didn't grow up around it.

Farming is already an extremely hard market to break into. Most new equipment, which you must sign away your rights to maintain on your own, cost upwards of 1.5 to 2 million dollars. Each.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

farmers are probably generationally fucked. medicaid recipients are fucked barring some fix in the next budget round. rural health care systems are toast. employment is looking *very* wobbly.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2d

The secret door.

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ALERTCalifornia @alertcalifornia.bsky.social · 2d

New story on this summer's shake table tests on the 10-story building made of cold-formed steel. ALERTCalifornia helped collect data to understand the building's resiliency to multiple hazards like earthquakes followed by fires. https://bit.ly/46rnDdm

Trial by Fire–and Simulated Earthquakes

When a 10-story test building in San Diego shook and twisted this summer, it wasn’t because of a real earthquake — it was part of a federally funded experiment designed to make future buildings safer ...

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 3d

The Secretary of Health and Human Services does not know that babies don't grow inside placentas

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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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