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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1h

besides this all being terrible, it's just so fucking embarrassing. imagine debasing yourself this way, even if you are marc thiessen

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2h

Time to truly cancel your WaPo subscription (even though they still have some great reporters).

“Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.”

I just can’t.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1h

i do comfort myself a bit with the fact that the quick dopamine hit that Trump and MAGA get from indicting Comey, James, et al, is gonna really founder on the shores of a lengthy slog of discovery and trial motions. halligan is gonna be miserable, even with her plan to bring in non-DOJ attorneys.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1h

certified lover boy, certified pedophile, certified loser

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 2h

yeah i think that's where i'm landing as well

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 3h

Gotta say I'm not sure if it's better or worse when they just straight up say "we're gonna manufacture stuff to support our lies"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously, the absolute quickest way for me to decide that there is literally nothing else I need to hear from that person

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

right?? pretending one was running around pre-2025 predicting a complete retreat from the previous couple years where the Court steadily aggregated power to itself and would instead hand it to the executive branch is just ridiculous

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

"everyone could totally see that the supreme court would do a complete 180 on executive power and make itself subservient to the president instead"

no they did not. do you hear yourself?

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

going thru and blocking literally everyone responding to something with "ARE YOU SURPRISED????" in response to any observation about our current unprecedented times. it's always nice when those types surface in response to someone else's skeet and i can just make quick work of it

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

i'm not sure what's worse - the cpsc account now just skeeting out recalls or the fleeting moments when it unsuccessfully tries to be funny in the ways it was before the trump administration robbed us of that tiny joy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"Before we were Antifa we were the Originals, but we had to change our name because someone was already using that name. It was the Regulars, then they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought, well, we could go back to The Originals but what's the point?"

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 22h

Actually, all of antifa is my girlfriend. Noem got things backward.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

lolllllllll you hacks

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

“If there’s one person in the world I wouldn’t bet against now,” Caitlin Flanagan argues, “it’s Bari Weiss”:

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

When all is said and done, the Supreme Court will be greatly responsible for creating a balkanized United States—where states will be able to regulate medical treatments the justices approve of, and others won't be able to regulate those the justices don't approve of.

See also: Dobbs.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

absolute mad king behavior here. singlehandedly raise taxes, then singlehandedly dole revenue out whenever advantageous

White House says it will use tariff revenue to fund federal food aid for mothers and young children | CNN Politics

The Trump administration said Tuesday it will use tariff funds to keep afloat a federal food assistance program for nearly 7 million pregnant women, new moms and young children during the government s...

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 2d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth's gonna show up to yell "NO FATTIES" and that will fix it somehow

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

100% without a doubt our chi/doxie/beagle mix would eat us after we're dead and she might strongly consider it before we were as well

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 1d

It's so evident that Johnson's conception of himself does not include "rabid lying liar who lies all the time," which is why he is bad at it, even as he lies all the time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 2d

exactly - i know they're a small shop and also that they're not the type to just release something half-baked to get it out the door.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 2d

saw that it might be delayed, but yeah, their stuff is just so good-looking but functional, uncluttered. pastebot for mac is a life-changer also tbh

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 2d

the accuracy

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 2d

holy shit this is so good and so spot-on

This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.

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