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Beowulf6561 👺 @beowulf6561.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah. They’re not actually interested in protecting the rights of their constituents. The primary concern of the Democratic Party is protecting capital and the interests of their corporate donors.

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 4h

It would be so awesome if the Democrats were actually what the Republicans say they are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 3h

Has John Thune....met.....any of the current Senate Democrats...?

They're not any more interested in forcing through progressive policies than the current Senate GOP is, lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Kelly McMahon @kak94753.bsky.social · 1d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 8h

Ooooooo science!

Check out the link for a neat simulation video of what two black holes orbiting their center of mass, might look like ⤵️ 🕳️🔁🕳️

www.livescience.com/space/black-...

Groundbreaking image shows two black holes orbiting each other for first time

Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure.

www.livescience.com

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 9h

this is the classic power move of a manager who works about an hour a day but wants to create the impression they are working from sunrise to sunset

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 9h

www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

www.openculture.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13d

NO AI
ONLY BRAIN

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 16d

Three new ones! Plant your flag in the cerebellum. No, wait, don't do that. Anyway, buy some Anti-AI watercolor art! artologica.etsy.com

green and blue brain watercolor with text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

blue brain watercolor with text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

rainbow brain watercolor with text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Bertrand Russell smoking a pipe and looking into the camera.
Text:

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." --Bertrand Russell

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

I want to make it very clear that interstate rivalries, not concern for "states' rights," is the motivating factor here.

OK and TX hate each other almost as much as MI and OH hate each other. Stitt doesn't want Abbott's NatGuard in Oklahoma, it would be viewed as treason by OU fans.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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leslierob007.bsky.social @leslierob007.bsky.social · 1d

tax billionaires at 90%

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

He also didn't earn the physics degree @upenn.edu printed out for him: they gave it to him after he whined to investors. The investors gave the school $$ and they gave Elon a fake degree

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finescents.bsky.social @finescents.bsky.social · 1d

Household wealth should be limited to 100 million.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

The border is being redesigned to keep Americans in.

nobody @petbugs13.bsky.social · 1d

what in the actual fuck

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A Rutgers University expert on antifa tried to flee the United States with his family on Wednesday night in the wake of death threats that followed President Trump’s push to characterize the left-wing antifascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization.

But when the expert, Mark Bray, got to the gate at Newark Liberty International Airport, after getting the family’s boarding passes, checking their bags and going though security, he was told by the airline that “the reservation was just canceled,” he said late Wednesday night.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

A programming meme.

"What people think programming is like" and it's a pic of a white dude in a black hoodie hunched over a laptop, with his fingers ablur as they type quickly.

"What programming is actually like"
And it's a kid sitting and thinking with a look of consternation on his face

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

@democrats.org better start laying out detailed, concrete plans to hold these monsters accountable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

How is it these dipshits are in charge

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Someone uploaded the video to reddit. He said it and then just abruptly stopped talking. The video is still working - you can see him blinking. And it's not an audio problem his mouth isn't moving

www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 3d

What's creepy about this is his facial expression and body swaying doesn't skip a beat, he just shuts up like you pressed the B button in a game to skip the dialog audio but the character's still swaying in place, waiting for you to press the button again to move to the next dialog part.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Someone uploaded the video to reddit. He said it and then just abruptly stopped talking. The video is still working - you can see him blinking. And it's not an audio problem his mouth isn't moving

www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

Explore this post and more from the LateStageCapitalism community

www.reddit.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

Congress's pay and physical office accoutrement should exponentially decay for each day even one Federal worker goes without fair pay and benefits

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

Wow what an incredibly unsurprising bit of media history

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

How many times do I have to say it that an Ivy League education does not mean you're smart?? 😭

a cartoon character with red hair is sitting at a table with a bowl of oranges .

Alt: We all headdesk like Merida from Brave, here, when we also find out that Elon Musk didn't even earn his physics degree from @upenn.edu: they printed one out for him after he whined to investors he didn't have a degree 💔💔

media.tenor.com

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