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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 13h

can you get bjorn corn near you, it’s so good

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13h

Ed "Big Balls" Coristine is able to immiserate millions because his dad owns this popcorn company. Get it out of your pantry now!

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 14h

it will never not be weird to me that some folks who seem to hate the Dems the most also seem to do literally no political work other than voting

season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 14h

my husband is a big believer in cinn raisin with savory and …..he’s not wrong (it pains me to say!!!!)

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15h

tweet by alex nichols (@lowenaffchen):

"Bari Weiss has two kinds of stories:
1. I drove 6 hours to a women's liberal arts college to spend a week eating pussy and there were too many posters about Kwanzaa in the dorms
2. Here is an email someone sent me"

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 15h

The thing the "Haha Mayor Adams we'll miss him what a quotable character" postmortems get wrong is that he's a jerk

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16h

Hizzoner delivers a pretty remarkable broadside against the press, claiming it was responsible for killing his reelection after a subway crime press conference, singling out reporters. We chased him out of the station.
Me: “Would you take the upgrades again?”
Adams: “I’m so glad your back”

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18h

republicans are NIMBYs who want your rents to go up

this is why I have zero time for democratic NIMBYs. We need to forcefully embrace more housing to lower the rents, increase walkability, and boost economic growth

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Ciattarelli: "We've got a severe overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities because of the Democrats' idea of social engineering."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 20h

“All four projects are underway ... It would be a tremendous cost to the city, not to mention the horrible abuses and awful conditions at Rikers, to start over.”

Cuomo’s Rikers Proposal Slammed as 'Political Scam' by Jail Advocates

With one new jail rising in Brooklyn and billions already spent, critics say Cuomo’s plan would waste money and keep New Yorkers stuck with Rikers’ abuses.

buff.ly

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the portland chicken explains

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

also wondering how many people are just gonna vote Adams anyway

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 2d

screenshot from 500 days of summer of jgl saying "i think we do a bad thing here"

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

what in the body horror is this

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

gonna get the pants sued off us (laudatory)

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's universal daylighting or restarting Mayor Adams' stalled bus lanes, Zohran Mamdani told Streetsblog he'll get his agenda done even if means fighting the DOT deep state or the big shot political bosses who just endorsed him nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/m...

Mamdani Vows To Defy DOT Insiders, Political Bosses To Pursue His Streets Agenda - Streetsblog New York City

Mamdani pledged stand up to bureaucrats and political power players who oppose his plans to make streets safer and buses faster.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

I think in a different election cycle that isn't likely SO HOSTILE to incumbency, he'd have an uphill climb. but also just seeing his Adams campaign dropout content, I think he will not be afraid to be really frankly oppositional in a way that is cathartic and effective

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

he's gonna eat him for breakfast

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if they knew the Rs were going to be so stubborn or if they got incredibly lucky. maybe it's helping that Trump doesn't really know what's going on so can't whip his guys into line.

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Booker @capnbooker.bsky.social · 2d

It's John K. Samson of The Weakerthans.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 1d

hearing Zohran wants to give me a raise. now Zohran will you also please fix my agency's filesharing system. will you please fix the [redacted] process. will you get us a coffee machine.

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