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Crabapple Jones
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Trad tradwife (i.e. running an illegal gin operation from the root cellar)
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If it looks like a duck…
It looks like ICE & CBP may be employing Meta Oakleys & RayBans
CBP Agent wearing glasses that look a lot like Meta Oakleys Bloomberg Article and photo of meta oakleys “ Technology Meta Plans Oakley-Branded Glasses, Explores Watches and Earbuds • Company resumes work on smartwatch and develops AirPods rival «First real AR glasses, dubbed 'Artemis, are planned for 2027 The Oakley Sphaera glasses, which Meta is looking to adapt into a smart device. Source: Oakley By Mark Gurman January 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM UTC
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Not The Paris Review!
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Sometimes I think of what Flavia & Cornelia are up to these days. Is Cornelia still laeta?

This one goes out to all the Ecce Romani-heads.
Ecce! In pictura est puella, nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana quae in Italia habitat. Etiam in pictura est villa rustica ubi Cornelia estate habitat. Cornelia est laeta quod iam in villa habitat. Cornelia iam sub arbore sedet. Etiam in pictura est altera puella, nomine Flavia. Flavia est puella Romana quae in villa vicina habitat. Dum Cornelia sedet, Flavia cantat.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We’ve got a $1 TRILLION military budget and this MAGA Congressman just introduced a bill to send our servicemembers to community diaper banks. I’m appalled.

Send money for our Military, not Elon Musk!

More pay for servicemembers, not Palantir!

@thebulwark.com @msnowreports.bsky.social
INTRODUCED IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MILITARY FAMILY DIAPER ASSISTANCE ACT U.S. Congressman Ryan Mackenzie 1@1 repmackenzie Proud to introduce the bipartisan Military Family Diaper Assistance Act today alongside @repvaleriefoushee. This legislation creates a pilot program connecting community diaper banks with military installations to help reduce diaper costs for families experiencing financial strain. Military families already have a tough job - balancing the demands of parenthood with the responsibility of protecting our nation. This bill helps ensure they can focus on their mission, not worry about whether they can afford diapers for their children.
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Israel has begun shipping Gazans to other nations.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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we’re not a nuanced people
Google search trends for “bubba,” “Venezuela,” and “Sudan” over the past 30 days in the US. “bubba” spiked in the past 7 days, exceeding a jump in Venezuela (whom Trump seems to want to declare war against) and Sudan, which is experiencing genocide, along with massive humanitarian crises
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Saw a belted kingfisher this week —they look like a teenaged boy was cursed and turned into a bird.

Heaven.
Photo of belted kingfisher from the American Bird Conservatory. Long grey beak, grey-blue tufted feathers on crown, white ne k, grey-blue robe, white breast with an ochre belt. Short little legs, tail that sticks up at an 290 degree angle. Bird.
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I guess Larry Summers isn’t a cinephile?
Movie poster for “she’s just not that into you” with a love heart which reads “call me” and Larry Summers on the phone. Also featured: Thiel, Epstein, Maxwell, Leon Black, Trump, Melania, Steve Bannon and Palantir’s Alex Karp
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I regret to inform you that the “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” guy is at it again.
Two opinion pieces from The NYT. One is by Ross Douthat, titled “What the Movies Need from Sydney Sweeney.” The other is from the Ed. Board, titled “Abortion has remained mostly acccessible. That may soon change.”
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Nancy Mace thinks that guy has protected women?

That horrible man?
5 minutes ago Robert Jimison Congressional reporter 凸 "My heart and my pain is with the Epstein victims," Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, one of the four Republicans who supported the House-led effort to release the Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, said outside the Capitol. She added that President Trump had "been so good" to survivors of sexual assault. "I've supported him because he's protected women," she said.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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If there’s one thing Larry Summers is going to do, it’s call women stupid.
Email from Larry Summers to Jeffrey E. (jeevacation@gmail.com), sent October 27, 2017 at 3:10:13 PM, marked High Importance, with subject line 'Re: Trending Now: Friends for three decades, Trump whisperer says he is 'stunned' by president's rhetoric'. Email body reads: 'Softbank deputy guy i liked and seemed aware and honest re Son. Lots of slathering to saudis. I yipped about inclusion. I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population.... Mnuchin plumbs new depths. War seems more likely than I used to think DiT is world s luckiest guy in terms of opposition, economy ete. still think his world will collapse. I'm trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can't work at a network or think tank. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT Sent from my iPad'" Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Congressman Ryan Mackenzie hasn’t worked in almost 107 days.

Does he represent President Trump and his billionaire cronies? Or the people of the Lehigh Valley?

PA07 #swingdistrict @electdemocrats.bsky.social @padems.org
Text reads “Ryan Mackenzie is for he/him. Who is for us?” Photo of Congressman Ryan Mackenzie standing in a suit, grinning next to a grinning, seated President Trump. The room is the Oval Office, but it is gilded like a den of iniquity in Game of Thrones.
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I’d rather boink a babadook, but thanks.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Cornell commencement address?
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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and we are the victims:
Photo of Americans of all ages and races, waving American flags
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Sorry - I guess he’s technically labeled himself as a Christian Nationalist.
Picture of lady in a puce cardigan in the American “The Office” - “they’re the same thing” meme
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Damn, now he‘s just the Andrew Formerly Known as Prince.

Will his new crest be this, but knob-shaped?
Symbol for the Artist Formerly Known as Prince
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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If this heist was a facking promo for a film you watch when you’ve got the flu, I will burn this place down.

#NowYouSeeMe
Screenshot from Google news scroll shows photo of Jesse Eisenberg (erstwhile star of “now you see me..” the magician heist movies) with the title for a Daily Beast article “French Police Arrest 5 More People Over Louvre Heist”
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Paul Mescal looking try hard.
Post from Complex of this Paul Mescal looking lion with photo that reads “photographer captures lion with the most gorgeous curly hair.” This lion out here posing like he’s on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Top Irish collector’s edition. When he goes down the pub, his mates ask him what it was like filming with Russell Crowe and Denzel.
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Ken Burns can do whatever he likes, as far as I’m concerned.
Daniel Kibblesmith & @kibblesmith.com Democrats watched a show 25 years ago that was literally written by a guy on crack and permanently decided it was real 27 October 2025 at 12:46
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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American Graft Pic?
The painting “American Gothic” from the Chicago Institute of Art with Scott Besssent’s face imposed on the male farmers
October 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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If only there were clues
Picture of man with woman out of his league
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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this fucking oaf

does that creep McCormick spend half his day making sure the oaf doesn’t see an open flame?
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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you only have to look at the front page of
Sunday’s paper, when this dig got more inches than the protests:
Screenshot of NYT states: DESIGN NOTEBOOK The ‘Obamalisk’ Rises on Chicago’s South Side The granite-clad museum at the Obama Presidential Center resembles a chunky obelisk that some observers call “the Obamalisk.” The museum is the centerpiece of a sprawling campus of community spaces. A look inside Barack Obama’s “living, breathing cultural and gathering space” (with an N.B.A.-size basketball court). Not everyone is cheering. Listen to this article · 13:04 min Learn more By Sam LubellVisuals by Evan Jenkins Reporting from Chicago Published Oct. 18, 2025 Updated Oct. 21, 2025
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Idk, but I think they maybe printed it in the FT?
FRom the FT: 10 'Mega Projects' for Gaza FT rendering of an image from the "Great Trust" slide deck Map of Gaza with places like “Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands”. The plan also envisages what the authors called the Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands, "world class resorts along the coastline and on small artificial islands similar to the Palm Islands in Dubai" Such islands are also mentioned in the TBI document.
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM