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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 22h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

“School” is an unnecessary word in your post

a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room .

ALT: a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room .

media.tenor.com

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

Ew. Printing??

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

Little Britain-ass characters.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 10h

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve never understood why people think the talented writers of comedy shows are any less qualified or brilliant as “hard” news shows.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 20h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

Good lord, she’s gorgeous

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 19h

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

It’s racism

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 6h

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works.

Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly.

- Ben Goldacre

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 5h

Fucking howling

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 9h

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 6h

Loool

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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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 6h

There is nothing cooler in the world than doing a standoff with a wolf - god, this game is cool #GhostofYotei

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7h

“Ramaphosa”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7h

Australians lost TWICE

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7h

Omg

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7h

That poor kid, maybe one day she’ll make it.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7h

Satantango sounds fascinating and the bits of writing I saw look gorgeous.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7h

I've never heard of Krasznahorkai - has anyone here read his stuff?

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 7h

🏅 The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, considered by many as Hungary's most important living author whose works explore themes of postmodern dystopia and melancholy.

📸 Adrian Dennis

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

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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Bishop Joey (he/him) @bishopjoey.bsky.social · 1d

Social media post from @DrChrisThompson (dated 17/12/2021):
Time for your annual reminder that, according to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week. Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk, $27,574/yr, or 13.50/hr.
Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution.

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