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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 3d

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26d

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christags.bsky.social @christags.bsky.social · 8d

Truffle dusted lost and found salad.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19d

“I don’t know what’s going on and nobody does” is such a telling thing to throw in there. I think everyone knows exactly what’s going on? Also why would your dad send you a hundred texts saying the same thing

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19d

Here’s how Jimmy Fallon responded to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air:

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d

The fascists have assessed that they have nothing to worry about from National Democratic elected politicians. In fact, if they were ever to retake nominal power, many of them will do what they can to destroy their own voters who insist on action against the fascists.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25d

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · 28d

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Sep 8

Said it before and I'll say it again: I do not think a legal profession that venerates the Supreme Court has a clear way of dealing with a Supreme Court justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh. This is the jurisprudential equivalent of him writing his name at the top in crayon with the "E" backwards.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 7

“We are not as divided as we seem.”

- Barack Obama

Deborah L Williams @mannahattamamma.bsky.social · Sep 7

My husband (who never watches American football) just turned on the Jets “because I want to see Rodgers fail” 😂

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · Aug 21

The idea that this was anything but a campaign of extermination was a pretense held up by governments and people who wanted to give themselves an escape route while justifying the unjustifiable

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Aug 19

How fortunate we are that the United States is so bereft of serious crimes that we can afford to have FBI agents standing around the Metro all day watching for turnstile-jumpers.

rachelweiner.bsky.social @rachelweiner.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unidentified federal officers were doing fare enforcement at 7th and H Street NW last night, per my colleague Jonathan Edwards:

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · Aug 6

This really feels like a defining post of our time

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Jul 22

I want you to imagine a world where Chuck Schumer looked for the most disgusting single location in South Dakota, a yard, a garage, an abandoned building, and posted “This is how these people live 🤢 “ and imagine the national response. This is what 100s of conservative leaders do every day to cities

Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · Jul 22

Here’s the RNC asking its donors if they’ve ever been to the big city, which it calls “rat and feces infested gang headquarters for illegal immigrants.” (Many of its donors live in big cities.)

Debbie, have you ever been to the big city?

Maybe it was New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago. When we were growing up, our cities were beacons of American exceptionalism.

But thanks to Democrat politicians, they’re now rat and feces infested gang headquarters for illegal immigrants.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Jul 12

this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · Jul 10

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.

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drew @adrew.dadguy.help · Jun 22

Iran, whatever you do, don't hit the Texas governors mansion in retaliation!

I AM SUPER SERIOUS!

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · Jun 17

it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 15

One important difference being that the Republicans know how to harness the energy of their ultra-ideological flank, while the Democrats spend incredible amounts of energy and money trying to neutralize theirs.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 15

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · May 17

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christags.bsky.social @christags.bsky.social · May 10

In case anyone was wondering what Steve Fulop was up to yesterday

NJ gubernatorial candidate Steve Fulop celebrating his 400 day Duolingo streak on his instagram story, the same day Ras Baraka was arrested at an ICE facility.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · May 8

The Knicks are 2-0 in the playoffs against the Celtics since Tracy Morgan puked on the court at MSG

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christags.bsky.social @christags.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Apr 15

Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Apr 14

The next step for Trump is to send a US citizen convicted of something like child murder and rape to CECOT in El Salvador. It'll set the precedent to send citizens there while neutralizing outrage over it because of the heinous nature of their crimes. Then it'll any felony and then protestors.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Apr 14

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world.

A better world is possible.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 14

Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah

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T-Paine @t-paine.bsky.social · Apr 7

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Apr 4

It's been noted that the last time stocks fell this sharply, we were in the midst of a global health pandemic. To which I say, please be patient.

by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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