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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 9m

You could not pay me to fly right now.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 8h

This is fascinating because the subtext of playing this at the airport is "we've fully consolidated power and your oppressed ass just has to take it" but the text that it's directly in conflict with is "we're powerless in the face of the minority party"

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 13m

Yep. I lost my captioning job because of AI, & I have yet to find another. All the captioning/writing/editing sorts of jobs I did are gone.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 6h

I am on desktop.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 6h

I actually have what I think is a memory that my four-year-old self interpreted as a rain of tiny frogs.

If it actually did happen, and wasn't just a dream, I assume it must have just been a sudden population in the creek behind us & a bunch of them crawled up the rear wall of the house.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

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

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

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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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 6h

You don't see that little symbol on the right that looks like a bookmark?

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All Hallows Hattie @feralhattie.bsky.social · 8h

help i’m being attacked in portland help help

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 6h

Welcome to Portland, Will.

What are you up to?

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 7h

‘I Am Worried About My Community,’ Says Frog Who Daily Confronts Federal Agents in Portland

“I don’t want to see anybody treated inhumanely,” says a local resident who wears the costume to show that the narrative that demonstrators are “violent terrorists” is “ridiculous.”

'I Am Worried About My Community,' Says Frog Who Daily Confronts Federal Agents in Portland | Common Dreams

In Portland, a protester known for wearing a frog costume speaks out against the Trump administration's actions. Despite being targeted by federal agents, Todd remains committed to nonviolent resistan...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe next a story about the billionaire buddy of Scott Bessent, who invested heavily in Argentina when Milei took power, which is who were are actually bailing out at the expense of America's farmers.

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

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 7h

A lot of the Democrats have in fact been fighting, but part of the media helping Trump is making the opposition look bad, amplifying anything that will upset their voters, suppressing anything that would please their voters.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 7h

The Biden admin fought for constituents.

Most of them had no idea that he was responsible for thousands of good projects & programs & appointments. While he toured the US giving speeches about the IRA, the media ran clips of Trump saying Biden was hiding in his basement.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h

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

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

We have actual bookmarks now!

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

I can’t have it in the house.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t often make myself laugh out loud with my own TikToks. It’s already #Caturday somewhere.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDjvY3c/

Yellow providing an example of how cats can fold space. #fosterkitten #adoptdontshop #harposfriends #physics #funnypets

TikTok video by RainSurnameCats

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

*decades

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

It took me a long time to break the Nutella off a spoon habit.

But when my blood sugar reached pre-diabetic levels, I cut my sugar consumption by well over half, which is still rather more sugar than is reasonable.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

I think a thread of examples of this would garner a lot of attention.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no, I didn't think you actually believed it was a real thing!

I was just adding the detail that it was not even physically possible for it to be a real thing, lol.

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