mklinger421.bsky.social
@mklinger421.bsky.social
In tech, DMV area. Crafter for fun and relaxation
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lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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DC ALERT: No clue why, but more than a dozen National Guard are lined up on U Street in NW DC right now, west of 14th Street.
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I write words. Words are written. Words that form writing. Words to the wise. Word to your mother. Word to your father too. Have you heard? The bird is the word. My word is bond. Bond, James Bond. I, too, was shaken, if not stirred. Shaken by my words. The words I write. Because I write words. Word.
Only 17 pages in and I am winded.

This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
So he's going to pay back all the US taxpayer money he's been sucking up, right? RIGHT?!?!
*SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE 2026 IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION *SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Talk about grade inflation....
POLITICO: I wonder what grade you'd give the economy

TRUMP: A+

POLITICO: A+?

TRUMP: A+++++
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Start calling farmers “welfare queens”
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Someone more artistic than me should make a parody one of these.
Like a corruption Advent calendar.
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Go away for a week and now they are glommed onto me.
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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… and he SERVED ✨
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Presidential Walk of Fatigue
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Nov. 5:
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sometimes it is good to get away from regular life and see how beautiful this world is. Gulfoss, Iceland
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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As a son of Appalachia, I understand the opioid crisis better than anyone. That's why I'm proud to stand with the Honduran president who delivered drugs to needy Americans with such efficiency.

by JD Vance
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, his family, and all of his companies and organizations. We publicize the name of every contractor involved with this project and permanently ban them as corporate entities and individuals from public contracts.”
Trump fighting with his architect about wanting to build a ballroom bigger than the actual White House feels very on brand

wapo.st/4rqrqA2
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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He doesn’t care about you. At all.
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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hey the handbasket is 90 paid subscribers away from a huge goal—think we could get there today??

thehandbasket.co/upgrade

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November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM