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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 15h

40k Primarchs as 30 Rock Quotes

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 17h

get over it already

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D2 Postin' ⬛️⬜️🟪 @destinythememe.bsky.social · 21h

My mind was granted a vision and my hand merely an instrument of the Traveler's will

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 17h

my cat looks like a rotisserie chicken and sleeps like this next to my fuzzy poodle and it makes me very happy

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 17h

my cat looks like a rotisserie chicken and sleeps like this next to my fuzzy poodle and it makes me very happy

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 18h

Hopefully they're not getting paid for work this bad.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Frank @thelowkeygeek.com · 19h

It's in the replies already, but the fact that he then said to Morden that he would "look up at your lifeless eyes and wave" and that they called it back years later when it actually happened was awesome.

Vir, like G'kar, was the embodiment of persistence through adversity.

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 22h

I think of this Vir from Babylon 5 quote often:
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price."

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 22h

my boy is suddenly interested in joining the model UN at his school. He's been really into geography lately. Then he hit me with "I might see what a real government looks like"

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 1d

This has been true for well over a decade. I don't know why this is news to anyone at this point.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 2d

Just under half of gamers worldwide are women, according to a new report published by the Entertainment Software Association

www.gamesindustry.biz/esa-48-of-vi...

ESA: 48% of video game players are women

2025 Global Power of Play report also found that mobile is the preferred device for women and players overall

www.gamesindustry.biz

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 3d

we’re sealing the honmoon at the new york city gay men’s chorus

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

if I repost this I risk "what did you expect? [list of other bad shit Apple does that everybody knows about]" discover tab adventurers in the mentions but I must bear this burden happily because wtf

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Travis Duncan Stewart @travisdstewart.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

McDonald’s: monopoly is back!

We knooooow

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

Yuuuup

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 1d

CW: body horror

Last night I was in intense pain from one of my teeth that was suddenly quite loose. I yanked it out finally after the course of a few hours and then passed out asleep. Woke up to a crime scene on my pillow and an awful sore throat.

How’s your Wednesday going?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to the era of “Kavanaugh Raids.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 2d

They right, friend. Please take extra care of you.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

this is wonky stuff and is also really important

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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