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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1m

Have had so many conversations about my writing where I am, like, "Yes, life is sometimes unsubtle, but that can feel so unsatisfying in fiction," and this fuck keeps upping the ante as to _how_ unsubtle life can be.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 5m

Seems like demolition of a part of the White House should have some kind of government approval or oversight.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3h

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

MONTECITO, CA—Signaling a new chapter in her career, pop star Katy Perry released a new single Monday about the superiority of Canadian manufacturing. “When I learned about the strength of Canadian au...

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 6h

Trump as Hitler is overstating the case, although there are genuine Nazi elements in the government. Trump as Charles I is just correct

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 6h

if Trump were a king he’d be circumventing the legislature by imposing taxes without consent, and would be preventing rebellious legislators from taking their seats in the house.

Wait a minute…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 6h

Fair. I think the post was just reacting to Trump saying there are no court cases when it’s invoked.

Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 6h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18h

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19h

Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 17h

Moreover, even though the whistleblower story contains real news—he hasn’t talked before and he’s making his case publicly—here’s how the CBS News website is playing the two stories at this hour: Kushner leads, whistleblower story is below 10 other stories under “more news.”

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 1d

ALWAYS USE WIKIPEDIA.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 1d

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 1d

It slaps! And I only discovered this because I saw your post and wanted to see who else had covered it.

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 1d

Fall Out Boy did a Muppets Christmas Carol cover and it’s a banger.

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It Feels Like Christmas - Fall Out Boy

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know Fall Out Boy just released a cover of It Feels Like Christmas? youtu.be/CLP15B43uNA?...

It Feels Like Christmas - Fall Out Boy

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

However, it's a very good sign of what we'll be able to do when he actually attempts to overtly rule by force.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

The 3.5% "rule" also applies to consistent, constant protesting. Not one off events imho.

So yeah, if 15 millionesh people were in the streets every day you could see why that would be problematic for the admin.

We are certainly not there yet.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 2d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Matthew Bamford @mtbamford.bsky.social · 1d

Still holds.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

This is really significant. Hullo has been a rare success story in the express passenger ferry market. Most fail after a single year, but Hullo has run for a few. I hope they learn from this and train their crews better.

Castanet.net @castanet.net · 1d

Hullo Ferries vessel struck humpback whale (BC)

Hullo Ferries vessel struck humpback whale - BC News

The company operating a high-speed, passenger-only ferry service between Vancouver and Nanaimo is fully cooperating after one of its vessels struck a humpback whale near Vancouver in English Bay, a federal department says.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

DHS also said the woman's car "rammed" the agents' vehicle. But the Chicago Sun-Times reports that her lawyer says body cam footage undermines the notion that she drove her vehicle toward them and shows an agent saying "do something, bitch" before shooting. 3/

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to Google “musk jet handjob”.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

Being conservative is believing George Soros can buy millions of Americans marching on a weekend when Elon Musk couldn't buy a handjob on his own private jet.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet that reads:

Speaker Mike Johnson
@SpeakerJohnson
Now we know Saturday’s events are actually funded by Soros, and sponsored by the Communist Party USA, among other far Left and communist groups.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

Elsewhere in No Kings vs. No Tyrants world:

- Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Sweden all rebranded to "No Tyrants"
- Melbourne is siding with Vancouver on the begrudging constitutional monarchy front and just keeping "No Kings"
- Honolulu is doing "No Tyrants" instead of "No Kings"

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Spencer Keys @spencerkeys.bsky.social · 2d

His argument is:

- if it isn’t unfettered capitalism, it’s socialism, and;
- Friedrich Hayek said so.

Let’s be clear as well - every argument he makes would force him to classify the Trump regime as socialist, which is supported for 45% of Conservative voters.

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

Zeus wept.
I just can't.

Carson Jerema: Yes, the Nazis were socialists
Pierre Poilievre has enraged his critics by being historically accurate

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Tamara but Spooky 👻 @procrastamara.bsky.social · 2d

Scene from the Simpsons. Girl is holding up her finger at young Homer as he tries to enter a treehouse. The text says “it says ‘no kings’ we’re allowed to have one.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly “bonking,” as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.

While everyone else rode back to Loeb’s East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb’s friends, David “Tiger” Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. “I was in unbelievable pain,” Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, “I’ve never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn’t cash.”

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