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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 1h

white supremacist

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 1h

I don't blame working class people for wanting our dollars to stay in this country because they've been screwed by republican (and democratic) austerity for decades, but it's fucking disgusting that this admin has condemned millions to death because instead of cutting our war budget, we cut aid.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 1h

for sure, except the city connects stink

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 1h

It is truly astonishing how quickly Steve King-style racist rants become the norm in top GOP circles.

"Some illegal rabble rouser from South America"???

Good lord.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 3h

They are not Trump's enemies. They are critics and opponents. He sees them as enemies, because that's how autocrats perceive their critics. NYT should not repeat and normalize authoritarian discourse.

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies

President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.

www.nytimes.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 1h

I think it’s abstract and it’s far more helpful to show people visceral images vs decry the violation of some statute no one gives a shit about

honestly we would benefit from talking about fascism in the plain terms we talk about eggs and healthcare

a fascism version of “you’re getting screwed”

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 2h

fully agree and we need electeds who don’t disregard one for the other —

working class folks who can’t afford anything include brown people living in suburbs and swing districts who are scared that ICE is gonna raid their workplace

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 2h

INHALE HIM LIKE KIRBY

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 2h

just one more reichstag bro

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 2h

the new aesthetic of fascism

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 8h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 14h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 2h

maybe the country’s journalists would like to call this what it is instead of sanitizing it with euphemism

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 2h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12h

Firing David Frum would be praxis over evil

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 12h

POSTSEASON WHEEEEEEE!!

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Daniel Bond @dwbond.bsky.social · 12h

there's something cathartic in seeing someone appropriately mad about a bad thing, this is the opposite of 2009 Rick Santelli yapping about "losers' mortgages"

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

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James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 12h

Yankees Biggest Comeback Wins in Postseason
6 1996 WS Gm 4 at ATL
(6-0 in 6th, won 8-6 in 10)
5 1997 ALDS Gm 1 vs CLE
(5-0 in 2nd, won 8-6)
5 2010 ALCS Gm 1 at TEX
(5-0 in 7th, won 6-5)
5 2025 ALDS Gm 3 vs TOR
(6-1 in 3rd, won 9-6)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

yanks to the jays:

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12h

Still alive!

a group of new york yankees baseball players are standing next to each other on a field .

ALT: a group of new york yankees baseball players are standing next to each other on a field .

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 12h

The @Yankees score EIGHT unanswered runs to force a Game 4! #ALDS

2025 ALDS presented by Booking.com
Final: Blue Jays 6, Yankees 9
TOR leads series 2-1
Pictured: Aaron Judge flips his bat after hitting a game-tying home run. He is wearing a home pinstriped Yankees uniform.

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Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 12h

FINAL: Yankees 9, Blue Jays 6

Toronto was 39-0 this year in games it led by five or more runs. After Aaron Judge paced New York’s rousing, season-saving come-from-behind win with a three-run HR off the foul pole, it's 39-1. Tremendous fortitude from Yankees, awful loss for Jays.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 12h

START SPREADING THE NEWS YOU FUCKS