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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 18m

elmo from sesame street is surrounded by flames with joyreactor.com at the bottom

ALT: elmo from sesame street is surrounded by flames with joyreactor.com at the bottom

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 41m

Poignant protest.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 59m

“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.

The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 21h

I found thousands of Antifa members at Arlington Cemetery.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

So, people who have at-risk relatives, or kids, or pregnant women struggle to get the Covid booster.

But Trump can just waltz over to Walter Reed to get his... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 8h

The Trader Joe's in Madison, WI had an underground parking lot with pillars in the worst possible places, and narrow spots at weird angles, and this totally tracks...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a suit is making a funny face and saying oh no !

ALT: a man in a suit is making a funny face and saying oh no !

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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, depressingly.

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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 8h

60,000+ dead children, women, and men later...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 10h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 20h

Don't threaten me with a good time. Also, is Mike Johnson like 4'4"?

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how embarrassing changes like this are going to look in 3-5 years

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22h

the day that it finally happens is gonna be surreal because the way they report it will be fucking deranged

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Helmar @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and him talking in the third person about themselves is all you need to know about these whack-jobs.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

She's very concerned, I'm sure...

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

New from Susan Collins: “I strongly oppose OMB Director Russ Vought’s attempt to permanently lay off federal workers who have been furloughed due to a completely unnecessary government shutdown caused by Senator Schumer.”

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Need a "Don't show me posts I can't comment on" option lol

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

real Fox News chyron

GALVESTON, TX REMOVING RAINBOW CROSSWALKS

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

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