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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

here's today's post: "Pamnesia Pam can’t remember shit about Dear Leader’s dead pedo bestie" — won’t you please help find a cure?
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Pamnesia Pam can’t remember shit about Dear Leader’s dead pedo bestie

won’t you please help find a cure?

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 2d

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 2d

If you need to pick on something about Miller, focus on the fact that what drove this man to extremism was being asked to pick up after himself. That was his bridge too far that requires we burn the country down, because how dare they ask him to dispose of his own garbage. Toddler lifetime rage.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

spoiler alert: we are being governed over by abject, drooling morons, of which Bobby Brainworms Jr. and Dr. Ooze are only two examples.
go read my post from today, it's a good'n. thanks! link is here: bit.ly/4q09r2I

oh wait, Oz hasn’t finished shitblizzarding.

“the folks that we’re trying to help both in Medicaid and in the exchanges are people, who with a little bit of help, they hope they can get healthy and be able to take care of their families and move on.”

move on from what, having health insurance?

oh great, Dr. Shitblizzard has completely bought into Bobby Brainworms’ crackpot notion that if you’re sick, it’s your own fault — and you’re a drain on society.

stop taking that Tylenol, and all your autisms will be cured — and then you can cancel your health insurance, because you’ll never need doctors again.

what a shock to learn that Whalehead McChainsaw and Dr. Gobble These Diet Pills are on the same page when it comes to pushing quack theories about medicine and health. these are the lunatics running our nation’s healthcare system. what could possibly go wrong?

you know who else thought the sick were a drain on society? of course you do.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4d

*where “wank” is it precise technical term, via @iris-meredith.bsky.social

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 4d

here's today's post: "make no mistake, this is the Project 2025 shutdown" — once again, Donny is about to punch himself in the face.
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make no mistake, this is the Project 2025 shutdown

once again, Donny is about to punch himself in the face

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 6d

here's today's post: "fuck off, stop pretending this shit is Joe Biden’s fault."
sorry, clowns — we're not as gullible as your cultists.
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fuck off, stop pretending this shit is Joe Biden’s fault

sorry, clowns — we’re not as gullible as your cultists

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 7d

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 7d

i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing

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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 7d

Goodall was such an icon because she did & said things that were heresy in the scientific community. Her work on animals' capacities represented not just an abstract finding but a practical ethic that led her to advocate for veganism &vocally oppose animal experimentation
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Jane Goodall’s most radical message was not about saving the planet

The conservationist used her stature to advocate for one of the most important, yet most unpopular, causes in the world.

www.vox.com

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 7d

"HOLY" MIKE JOHNSON, THE "LIMPEST DICK" IN CONGRESS, IS REFUSING TO SWEAR IN ADELITA GRIJALVA BECAUSE HE'S PROTECTING DEAR LEADER, WHO IS ON EVERY PAGE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES. RELEASE "THE FILES," YOU FUCK! I EXPLORE THIS IN TODAY'S VERY POWERFUL POST. THANK YOU FOR READING IT HERE: bit.ly/4nZc1nE

here’s a name you need to know: Adelita Grijalva.

Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona’s 7th district, was elected to the House last week. she replaces her father, the late Raúl Grijalva. here’s a fun, awesome fact about Adelita: once sworn in, she’ll be the 218th — and deciding — vote in favor of Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to release the full Epstein Files.

so, if she was elected a week ago, why the fuck hasn’t she been sworn in yet?

I just explained why, weren’t you listening? she hasn’t been sworn in specifically because she’s the deciding vote to force the release of the Epstein Files — and Holy Mike doesn’t want any of that shit to happen.

if Grijalva were a Republican, and a reliable no vote for Massie’s petition, Holy Mike would have sworn her in the moment her plane landed in DC. but she’s not.

so, Adelita sits and waits. what’s that old saying? oh yeah: justice delayed is justice denied. release the full, unedited Epstein Files, you fucking fucks.

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall was also the first to bring attention to wild tool-using vultures, which she spotted randomly one day while out driving. These birds use stones to break into ostrich eggs.

Be observant like Jane and who knows what you’ll see! 🧪🥚

A two page spread of national geographic magazine with a story by Jane Goodall and her husband reporting on egg-breaking, tool-using Egyptian vultures.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 8d

She built a legacy that wove science AND emotion together to help us better understand ourselves, our primate cousins, and nature. She was a giant and it’s on all the people she inspired and influenced to keep her work and her values alive. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 8d

In their recent book, Brownstein, Madva, and Kelly argue that people don’t necessarily join causes because they think they’re going to win in the short term … yet their decision to participate during a seemingly hopeless period creates the conditions for ultimate victory

www.vox.com/politics/463...

The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one.

Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.

www.vox.com

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 8d

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8d

Trump just said the shutdown will cause disruptions to Social Security services - but Social Security funding isn't impacted by a shutdown, and the staff who run it are "necessarily implied" & continue to work.

If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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Steve Downes @stevemdownes.bsky.social · 8d

Celeste Maloy wants to deny Utahns access to critical healthcare. This is what the President and the GOP stand for. Don't belive her nonsense about Democrats shutting down the government.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

RFK Jr just prevented my 9mo from getting her first Covid shot, curse that man for all time.

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Steve Downes @stevemdownes.bsky.social · 8d

Celeste Maloy is an ideologue and does not represent her constituents.