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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 20h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 20h

Daddy-O himself. I knew it! 😁

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 20h

Unsolicited Mick Pic

Black and white photo of Yankees great Mickey Mantle, who has a bat resting on his right shoulder

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 1d

Same.
Also, if Shaw *wasn't* starting.

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad you seem pretty chill at having spiders around.

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 2d

This happened & CNN tried to help the fascists cover it up.

Sure would be a shame if certain no-goodnicks kept this afloat.
#cnn

youtu.be/vWudXaj60rU?...

Stephen Miller Says Trump Has 'Plenary Authority'

YouTube video by HuffPost

youtu.be

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 2d

This happened & CNN tried to help the fascists cover it up.

Sure would be a shame if certain no-goodnicks kept this afloat.
#cnn

youtu.be/vWudXaj60rU?...

Stephen Miller Says Trump Has 'Plenary Authority'

YouTube video by HuffPost

youtu.be

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 2d

Sad but true.

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 2d

Phew. The #Cubs survive for one more day!

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 2d

I was wondering this exact thing! 😁

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 3d

Once again lamenting how rarely "7 P.M. tired" translates into "midnight tired".

Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 3d

Penny is tiny but mighty. She only likes ice in her water dish.

Penny, a buff ginger cat, looks attentively at something a bit to her left

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 3d

Trollope. He wrote a few novzillas, didn't he?

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 4d

*cries in Schattenfroh*

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 4d

So sorry that cats are clean creatures, ya stank-ass "bear".

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your belief that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder will fix you is a valid one.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 5d

I saw the full live-stream of Greta Thunberg and the other flotilla detainees speaking after they arrived in Greece but I couldn't find it again to share here. Here's what I did find, for those of you who have not seen it.

youtube.com/shorts/0diMS...

Greta Thunberg: ‘We Are Not Heroes. We Are Doing The Bare Minimum’

YouTube video by Novara Media

youtube.com

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon character is holding a rake and says willie hears ya willie don t care

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a rake and says willie hears ya willie don t care

media.tenor.com

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 6d

Trapped again

#catsofbluesky

Finn, a brown & white tabby, has once again claimed my lap, sitting with his left front paw tucked under his right

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 6d

Of course!

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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · 6d

I have been reading Schattenfroh for exactly one week. I am 28 percent done, I have not quit, I highly doubt I will quit, but... I really am in it deep. It is absolutely confounding. The prospect of being immersed in this for four more weeks is daunting. But I have not quit.
#booksky
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Derek @thomsirveaux.bsky.social · Sep 10

I, uhhh, did the thing.

💙📚👀
#booksky

Two thicc boys: on the left, a nearly 1000 page book titled Schattenfroh; on the right, a brown & white tabby cat named Finn

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6d

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy.

Choose.

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