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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 3d

Reading and reviewing for the #100smallpress project was a thrill. I already knew small presses were publishing interesting, adventurous, important books, but this project solidified that. Watch for the list of 100 Notable Small Press Books on Dec 1st in Lithub.

image announcing the 100 Notable Small Press Books will be published in Lithub on December 1

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe air controllers too. But I’m okay if Congress loses its pay.

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 11h

It is insane to not pay our troops.

Democrats are here. Republicans need to come back from their vacation, work with us, and we need to pay our troops.

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 7h

Okay I laughed...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

Senator, it used to be called a jumpoline before yo momma got on it. I am a serious person doing an important job.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Tammy Golden @tammygolden.bsky.social · 9h

hi just a reminder that Mike Johnson isn't needed for this.

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 10h

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 8h

What have we become?

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 8h

Wait. Anarchists get paid? Are there benefits? What's the Anarchist 401k match percentage? Healthcare?

Are there openings available?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 8h

Should be on every Democratic ad and speech every day starting now.

Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 8h

Patience , Parker. Patience...

Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 8h

Lil Mike is also a body language expert? Is there anything that twerp can't do?

Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 8h

Is his girlfriend in on this or has he ditched her already too?

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 9h

Holy shit this thread bsky.app/profile/olli...

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 9h

The number of journalists who will ask Trump or any White House spokesperson about this deranged fantasy is zero.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h

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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

I have never ever ever understood why TV/pool reporters let people get away with this. Why is not there a follow of: you haven't followed the biggest story of the day, really? WTF are you doing? and...I'm going to interview your CoS/press people to see if they talked to you about it?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 9h

What a fucking joke these people are...

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

Trump hints that he's going to give Andy Ngo, Pizzagate Jack, and others at the antifa roundtable the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"You have been amazing, you have been brave. You are real patriots. At some point, we will look into rewarding you with very important medals and honors."

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

From here on out every member of our military will be in shape and clean-shaven. And have granite jaws and the highest cheekbones. And legs that go on for days and shapely calves and an ass that just won’t…

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 9h

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 14h

QOTD from Joe Tessitore on @cnbc.com just now.

"There's just not enough capital out there to finance this {the growth of AI}, so you have to do it with debt."

Remember that when this bubble bursts...which will happen.

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 14h

Lee never misses the opportunity to make a bad decision...