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The Onion @theonion.com · 1h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1h

The CDC's website was updated sometime in the past week, signaling the meeting date is now "TBD."

Childhood vaccines safe for a little longer as CDC cancels advisory meeting

The committee aims to take on the entire childhood vaccine schedule.

arstechnica.com

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve asked my brother (UTMB MD, Psychiatric residency Yale, Neuropsychiatry fellowship, Harvard) about how much ppl can lie to themselves, and hold onto those lies, even in the face of reality crashing into their face (pertained to our parents and my clients)

it’s one of the things humans excel at

Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 8h

And the thing is, I don't think what they were doing was precisely lying, unless they were also lying to themselves. But I think in general, adult faith is inherently something different. It's not unquestioning credulity. It's more like "acting as if" their beliefs are true.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17h

Presidents and governors shouldn't be able to deploy National Guard troops from one state to another if that state's governor objects.

That is common sense, and yet Republicans just blocked my amendment to stop this blatant abuse of power. Another shameful abdication of duty.

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 2h

I have a 16 year old niece, and lemme tell you: there was no way this wasn’t going to be the biggest single of all time.

Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 2h

This would make more sense to me if Taylor was coming off a generationally great album or something rather than Tortured Poets Department

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2h

“The Fate Of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift debuts with 128.896 million streams in its first week on the global Spotify chart.

It’s the biggest streaming week ever on the platform.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

Realizing why the vibes of the frog man pictures have felt familiar — its this old meme with stakes

Bane and Filthy frank (in pink spandex) facing off, arms spread

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 3h

if they want a martial law declaration to go well for them they prolly shouldn’t have called all the generals and sr NCOs fat and gay 2 week ago, then held back their paychecks

a Marine O9 giving either potus or secdef the pvt pyle 1000-yd stare

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 3h

tell little mikey I said

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

What happened to anyone who seriously threatened to reverse any part of the Thatcherite revolution? Who was it that enforced those penalties. There’s your answer, and there’s who is to blame.

The Guardian Y @theguardian.com
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Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? |
Martin Kettle

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 3h

“ah yes, 1898. 102 years ago.” my brain says, reading this

Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 5h

102 Years Ago Today: New York Giants outfielder Casey Stengel becomes the first player to hit a #WorldSeries home run at Yankee Stadium! His inside-the-park homer helps defeat the New York #Yankees by a score of 5-4! (October 10, 1923) #MLB #History #SFGiants #Postseason

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 4h

Sandwiched between years of Halloween Pails, McDonald's mixed things up with "McBoo Bags" in 1991, a line of glow-in-the-dark vinyl bags for trick-or-treating. These hit just the right nostalgic spot for many, but never had the popularity of the Pails or McNugget Buddies.

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 3h

think you meant best

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 21h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 3h

feel like I just watched Jacque Pepin disassemble a chicken in less than 30 seconds

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h

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When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along. Nobody is suggesting mass deportation of white supremacists, or the dissolution of straight marriages, or stripping away health care for conservatives. The troops and the cops weren't ever sent down primarily white streets, masked kidnappers aren't terrorizing white churches or corporate courtrooms. These supremacist hatemongers are being criticized, yes, and opposed, yes, and yes the culture of violence they have created sometimes ricochets back on them, but we are living in the country they demanded on having. We are all now experiencing the Republican proposition for humanity. Many of us are demanding they stop pursuing this proposition, and Republicans and other supremacist hatemongers insist this demand represents violence against them. Klein, by drawing the lines where he draws them, is agreeing with Republicans about this.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 14h

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Left: Johnny Cash wearing a pink feather boa, a sparkly gold ascot, and gold glasses with pink feathers at the temples.

Right: Elton John in a black cowboy hat and leather jacket over a plaid shirt.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 12h

Leave them kids alone!

A red brick among paler facebricks on a building, with "Just another" scratched into it.

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 5h

this is the correct answer

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 5h

Tracy would refuse because women drivers make him horny.

Jenna couldn't go because the Emir is still mad about their breakup.

Lutz would offer to go for the exposure.

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 5h

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 5h

My kids are both in 8th grade US history this year. Learning about U.S. history during a government shutdown and presidential abuses has them rooting for AOC (Articles of Confederation) in 2028. “No executive branch and no federal budget!).

Where’s the NYTimes story about our anti-federalist youth?

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SCARE-in Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 5h

I’m to 1787 - 1803 in my American history survey and talking about the checks and balances system on Wednesday was incredibly surreal.

Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 5h

My kids are both in 8th grade US history this year. Learning about U.S. history during a government shutdown and presidential abuses has them rooting for AOC (Articles of Confederation) in 2028. “No executive branch and no federal budget!).

Where’s the NYTimes story about our anti-federalist youth?

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 14h

“rule of cool. hah! the rules are cool enough on their own, Commander. no, you cannot make a Charisma check to seduce the Avatar of Mystara. Rom, it’s your turn.”

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