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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 4h

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1h

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2h

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 6h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

I get it. When you’re in a struggle for your lives, your nation, you make bedfellows w/ whoever will get you closer to the goal. But I’m not sure how killing random civilians at sea does that. So either this is flattery to make friends or she really believes those boats are propping up the regime.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

The Nobel committee gave the peace prize to bombing fishermen in the Caribbean

Ky (she/her) @kyalynn.bsky.social · 2h

LMAOOO they might as well have just given it to the guy directly

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer
Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 1h

Does it know enough of hate?

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 1h

Tapping the sign

Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 2d

These are not serious people

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 1h

marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-w...

A Tom Fishburne comic with the first panel showing one person sending an email and saying, "A.I. turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote." and the second panel showing another person saying "A.I. makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend to read."

Bari Weiss is of course both people at once, with a long history of pretending.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 4h

I'd forgotten about that, & the Singaporean F-15SGs are almost identical to the Quatari F-15QAs.

Metro North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 4h

Mountain Home even has a Singaporean Air Force contingent already

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing a lot of folks being shocked by this but this is just a training agreement. Mountain Home is a major F-15 base & the Qatari air force just bought a bunch. This is pretty common, Norway & the UAE both have facilities in AZ for flight training.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 4h

This is a demand to suck up to her, snitch on their colleagues and shows that she has no idea how to manage people. She definitely wants management speak and to get articles that flatter the issues she cares about most (supporting Israel, fearing trans people, and college students being annoying).

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the full memo.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 5h

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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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 5h

Ok, but they are spelled differently, bouillon for the chicken one, bullion for the gold

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 9h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 9h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA:

Employment Growth: +60k
Unemployment Rate: 7.1% (+0%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.3% (+0.6%)
Employment Level: 21.0M

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 7h

Canadian data has been so weird but ill take it

George Pearkes @peark.es · 7h

Big jobs print up north.

(Bloomberg) -- The Canadian economy added more jobs than expected but the unemployment rate held steady as more people entered the workforce.
Employment rose by 60,400 positions in September, driven by increases in full-time work.
The jobless rate was unchanged at 7.1%, Statistics Canada data showed Friday. The job gains surpassed even the most optimistic projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists -- the median forecast was for 5,000 jobs to be created.
Gains were led by public employment. The manufacturing sector added 27,800 employees, and agriculture, health care and other services all added workers. The employment rate -- the proportion of the working-age population that's employed -- rose 0.1 percentage points to 60.6% in September.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 7h

"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren’t. "

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 9h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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