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WhimsickleSquirrel @whimsicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

I appreciate Marc openly admitting that there is no longer any customer base for this newspaper.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

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delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 5h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Cobwebs @shadowmanor.bsky.social · 12h

I really feel like they're just throwing darts at a board labeled "Causes of Autism." Next they'll announce that it's due to coming within six feet of a penguin.

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Emily @allweeksend.com · 13h

It’s very cool that a judge has to ask the department of justice “is it really wise to defer to the president if he’s deranged and everyone around him is lying to him?”

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

Perry asks, what if the president is relying on "completely invalid evidence?"

"What if DHS folks are not tethered to reality in their assessment of events. Does that matter?"

Hamilton: "A couple points …"

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 18h

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 15h

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

fwiw this is not what the actual bill they have repeatedly tried to get through says

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Cobwebs @shadowmanor.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I've got a whole kid whose existence is due to social media.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

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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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Cobwebs @shadowmanor.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly Japanese Creeper/Boston Ivy? It's got three-lobed leaves and turns red in fall.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthen...

Parthenocissus tricuspidata - Wikipedia

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Samsung > Apple

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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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 1d

Text reading “"Not really. This is a different thing. It's spontaneous and it's called wit."

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Cobwebs @shadowmanor.bsky.social · 1d

I'm coming up on 25 years married to someone I met on social media.

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Day 8 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 3d

I'm very close to being a one-issue voter and that issue is Follow the Goddamned Law and Put Those Assholes in Prison.

eschneider @eschneider.bsky.social · 3d

"Willing to go full criminal charges" is probably the most important policy issue for 2028. :/

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Cobwebs @shadowmanor.bsky.social · 1d

The bit at the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz" where Dorothy falls into the pigpen and all the farmhands panic is very much true-to-life.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 2d

He said the already pretty loud part even louder.

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 2d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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