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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 9h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 8h

They don’t make ‘em like this anymore

Breakdown (feat. Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone)

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 9h

I’m so grateful I grew up in the 90s when we had some sanging ass R&B ladies.

Been listening to Mariah and Whitney all evening.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 13h

Lemme go watch The First Wives Club 💔

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 15h

Diane Keaton (1946–2025)

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 15h

This one hurts a lot. RIP Diane Keaton.

I don’t even know what else to say.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 14h

NOT DIANE KEATON 💔

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 19h

I’ve become obsessed with a 1.5 legged Dachshund named Matilda (she’s living with people who run an organization for disabled dogs)

Mary @marybadthings.com · 20h

The deadline for people to file their taxes after receiving an extension, is Wednesday.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 20h

Handsome! And I also now feel old as hell 😂

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 20h

WTF?! Looks like it’s time to boycott Netflix, too.

Hinchcliffe’s star has only risen. In March, fewer than two months after Trump’s second inauguration, Netflix announced a deal with Hinchcliffe to air four comedy specials. The terms of the deal have not been made public, but Hinchcliffe Trumpishly told fellow entertainers, “You’ve never heard of anything like it before” and hinted at a payday comparable to his friend and collaborator Joe Rogan’s $250 million Spotify contract. Now in its twelfth year, Kill Tony has nearly 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube and is currently the platform’s third-ranked podcast. Kam Patterson, a twenty-six-year-old former Foot Locker employee who first appeared on Kill Tony in 2023 and has since emerged as the show’s biggest homegrown star, was recently cast on this season of Saturday Night Live.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

😂

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

This is….. WILD AF

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

“Real Housewives of Potomac” star Wendy Osefo and her husband, Eddie Osefo, were arrested Thursday in Maryland after being indicted by a grand jury for allegedly falsely reporting a home burglary and theft.

'Real Housewives of Potomac' star Wendy Osefo and her husband arrested on fraud charges

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the couple fraudulently reported a burglary and theft at their Maryland home.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

👀

Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

Does she not realize how many people work there and how long it will take to go through all of those memos?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

I want to be surprised, but...

Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

So now one of my professors is telling us that our news reporting assignment is due by Sunday night, even though it was never assigned to us? And there’s nowhere to submit it on our online platform?

Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

Are you fucking kidding me? 🤦🏾‍♀️

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 1d

Lord, help me get through this semester 🙏🏾

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 2d

Send this man to prison!

FadeMeBets, too, acknowledges this. “A lot of gamblers, they aren't the nicest people,” he says. I point to a comment he left on one of his own videos in May about the Chicago Sky’s Courtney Vandersloot, in which he claimed she’d be on her period. “I also made sure to play with her feelings and manipulate her on an alt account to mess with her emotions before game time 😊,” he wrote.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 2d

EL.OH.ELLLLLLL

One prominent figure making and predicting these wagers, who goes by FadeMeBets online, has garnered thousands of likes and shares on Instagram for his menstrual cycle betting strategy. He claims he’s been correct on 11 out of 16 of his period-related predictions, with about 68.75 percent accuracy. “What's kind of good, but also kind of bad, is it brings more people to watch the WNBA, but, on the downside of that, it's usually just all gamblers,” says FadeMeBets, who declined to be named, citing privacy concerns.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 2d

Imagine posing this line of questioning to a man who created one of the greatest TV shows of all time (we’re pretending the final season doesn’t exist)