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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 10h

You grifted the grifter! Nice!

Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 10h

Would be a bad thing if some leftists used this site to make up shit...heh heh heh

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I made a little tool to answer the trickiest question in American politics. pbump.net/who/

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 10h

I'm a lapsed Catholic turned atheist who hasn't been to church in decades (and for good reason imo), but I'm glad Pope Leo has been consistently vocal about this.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 10h

@sportsgossipshow.bsky.social Know anything about this?

Vulture @vulture.com · 11h

Was Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson almost dancing on our TVs every week? ‘Dancing With The Stars’ host Alfonso Ribeiro claims that the casting was between her and another contestant.

Was Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend Jordon Hudson Almost on DWTS?

Was Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson almost dancing on our TVs every week? ‘Dancing With The Stars’ host Alfonso Ribeiro claims that the casting was between her and another contestant.

www.vulture.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

Marisa Tomei, just for her performance in My Cousin Vinny alone

(Do Italian-Americans count?)

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

On The Road by Jack Kerouac is boring as hell

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

Suspect Guilty GIF

Alt: Tim Robinson in a hot dog suit saying "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

media.tenor.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

"we spent years gleefully angering and shitting on our core reader demographic of educated Democrats, and now we're shocked they're not giving us money anymore"

incredible work

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 20h

Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

Fun fact: the original version by Cub isn't on streaming (at least last I checked). I bought it on Bandcamp.

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

Karl Rove in particular!

Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/KHnIvw7CCKk

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

I go to the bathroom and come back having missed the announcers carving a turkey in the booth

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 14h

According to Connect Four's Wikipedia page, it actually is known as Four In A Row in the UK (and I assume elsewhere), along with other names:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect...

Connect Four - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Noel Murder-y @noelmu.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes we as a society get so disgusted and offended by a TV commercial that the ad quickly gets pulled from the air, and friends, we need to apply that takedown energy towards the Verizon commercial where the guy at the plastic surgeon has his mouth in his chest. This is an emergency.

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in the Seattle area, please keep an eye out for my friend Daniel's Mariners memorabilia that was stolen from his storage unit!

Daniel Carroll @tworsandtwols.bsky.social · 2d

Also, hey, if you're out in the world or the Internet trying to find special Mariners stuff to celebrate, could you let me know if you see some of the things stolen from my storage unit?

www.kiro7.com/news/local/m...

Mariners fan robbed of custom jerseys, memorabilia ahead of ALDS Game 5

A Mariners fan says someone broke into his storage locker and robbed him of his jersey collection.

www.kiro7.com

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned that British people call Connect Four, Four In A Row, and now I know why we dumped tea in Boston Harbor

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 1d

MIL-SEA: The Seattle Pilots vs. the Seattle Mariners

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 1d

bookish checkpoint

--last book: Blackmail and Bibingka

--current read(s): The Payback (ebook), Strong Female Character (audiobook)

--newest adds to the tbr: Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year

--eagerly waiting for: The Last Hour Between Worlds

Sam 🌈📚🎧💙🐈‍⬛ @wanderolah.bsky.social · 2d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: A Mouthful of Dust

✧ current read(s): Bad Luck and Trouble

✧ newest adds to the tbr: Shifting Gears

✧ eagerly waiting for: Hazelthorn and The Everlasting

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 1d

I have away a bunch of leftover postpartum supplies and my remaining breastmilk bags on Buy Nothing to someone who told me his wife is expecting soon. Glad they can be of use to someone else!

Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 2d

Sean Duffy was on The Real World in the late '90s, and his wife was on the San Francisco season, which was a few years prior (and is now a Fox Business host). Between them and Kennedy (who hosted Alternative Nation back then and is also a Fox Business host now), something was up with MTV in the '90s

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 3d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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Jordan Walker, Texas Ranger @lauramarie.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when Theo Von was on Road Rules over 25 years ago. He's older than me, and I'm 44. Never thought he and the electrician from NewsRadio would someday be warping the minds of young men

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