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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 12h

Chris how long do you think you can hold your breath

Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 17h

One of my (irrationally) all time favorites. RIP The Gator

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 17h

⚾⚾⚾ Red Sox Hall of Famer Mike Greenwell has died after a battle with medullary thyroid cancer.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 20h

please please let there be somewhere a Democrat willing to bring a gun to a gunfight

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 21h

Whatever actually happens with the Nobel Peace Prize, we're gonna tell donald he won, right? Because it's not like he's going to read a newspaper and it would be awkward if he ordered an airstrike on some like Thai monk or something for stealing his glory

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives will be upset that Lee Greenwood didn’t get it.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 1d

They work quick, boy

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

I’m seeing Godot on Friday and now the entire time I’m gonna be imagining this guy waiting for the show tunes to start

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 1d

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Pritzker can offer to send in the IL National Guard

Chron.com @chron.com · 1d

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

4 dead in Houston-area shooting rampage starting in Sugar Land

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 1d

If it happens when I'm out of the country this weekend I need you all to keep the party going til I get back (note: I am not actually worried that the party will end too soon)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 1d

Twitter screenshot from Andrew Lawrence

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: lol no no not those views
Me: so... deregulation?
Con: haha no not those views either
Me: which views, exactly?
Con: oh, you know the ones

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 2d

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

(this was baseball related by the way, I realize that in 2025 it could mean literally anything)

Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

ah crap

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 2d

If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

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Ok Blue Jays Song - Music Video

YouTube video by Connor Balzereit

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

if you have last-minute Yankee Elimination Day shopping to do I'd think about heading to the grocery now

Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

this guy should be writing long screeds after getting fired from pushing a hot dog cart around the French Quarter

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like the Nobel Prize committee could break him once and for all (coughcoughGretaThunberg)

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

You can only tell it's not a real Globe front page because it doesn't have a headline to a half-assed Shaughnessy column about how the Red Sox are frauds

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

Some scholars say puppies are friendly

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 3d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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