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[Ghost]🌀 @leftytheghost.bsky.social · 11h

It's actually pretty simple.

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 13h

Let me get this straight... he's not negotiating with the Greens about environmental reform?

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 14h

In Australia, we've simply made studying the humanities prohibitively expensive. We really don't want anyone reflecting on society or culture.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15h

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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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Via Safi Kaskas

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 15h

Has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of Ghislaine-Maxwell-type-women in Trump's administration?

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Jess but spooky @messyjess.bsky.social · 1d

Can we crowdfund for a tuba player to follow these guys around Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 1d

Bear please.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 1d

Mentions of "god" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 1d

What do these idiots have to be Proud of? They're the shame of the nation.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1d

@schiff.senate.gov v Bondi, and he's got all the cards, to coin a phrase. What a mess we're in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Sharon @whatsinaname220.bsky.social · 2d

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 2d

Transphobes and their friends, misogynists and racists. Same bucket of bile.

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think "stick your thoughts and prayers in your tradwife glory box" may be the funniest thing ever said.

fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm not pro gun. But it seems to me that stupid angry men are as much a common denominator in gun deaths as guns.

fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Who among us does not feel this?

Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · Aug 28

My doctor asked me yesterday how things were going.

With a sigh I said fucking depressing watching this Coalition government destroy my home town, bully my Mayor and financially cripple the rest of Aotearoa.

He said no drugs can save that issue.
#nzpol

fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is exactly how people living tourist towns across Australia feel too. Thanks for expressing it Spain. AirBnB is destroying communities and making the wealthy, wealthier.
iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2510...

Foreign Correspondent: S2025 Spain's Toxic Tourism

In Spain protests against mass tourism have erupted across the nation. Angry locals demand action to stop hordes of tourists from occupying their cities. Tourism is being blamed for a housing crisis t...

iview.abc.net.au

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · Aug 26

Snowtown: bodies in barrels.

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · Aug 26

How anyone could possibly see an alternate side to this atrocity and inhumanity is truly beyond me
#SanctionIsraelNow

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