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Julia M. Rohrer

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.

www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

www.givingwhatwecan.org

December 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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Roystoncartoons

@roystoncartoons.bsky.social

This is the @privateeyenews.bsky.social card I drew this year. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all xx

Snowman has multiple arms, stick for nose, carrot on top of head, hat on hip, generally looks insane ... girl says "I designed it using AI"

December 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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Casey Michel

@cjcmichel.bsky.social

Trump's absolutely correct that a new golden age is upon us—for white-collar criminals.

My essay in @theguardian.com on how white-collar criminals just had the best year they've ever seen:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals

Why would the Trump administration choose to set aside consequences from criminals whose actions threaten the stability of the broader American economy?

www.theguardian.com

December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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Christine Riter

@criterdee.bsky.social

Article courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com

After reading this article, I get the sense that Utah politicians underestimated the Ute Tribe.
#utpol

#utpol
Lawsuit alleges House speaker led effort to shut out Ute Tribe from ancestral land
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Lawsuit alleges House speaker led effort to shut out Ute Tribe from ancestral land - The Salt Lake Tribune

edition.pagesuite.com

December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃

@smotus.bsky.social

My claim that this administration was a cesspool of drunken Nazi pedophiles was taken out of context

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

We often spoke on Sundays after church.
Wiles, an Episcopalian, calls herself
"Catholic lite." One time we spoke while she was doing her laundry in her Washington, DC, rental. Trump, she told me, "has an alcoholic's personality." Vance's conversion from Never Trumper to MAGA acolyte, she said, has been "sort of political." The vice president, she added, has been "a conspiracy theorist for a decade." Russell Vought, architect of the notorious Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management and Budget, is "a right-wing absolute zealot." When I asked her what she thought of Musk reposting a tweet about public sector workers killing millions under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, she replied: "I think that's when he's microdosing." (She says she doesn't have first-hand knowledge.)

Susie Wiles @SusieWiles
X.com
The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.
Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.
The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade.
None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!

December 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Well, some stars.

December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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Banx

@banxtoons.bsky.social

Looking for something exciting to do on a grey, wet Sunday? Then vote in the Political Cartoon Awards at www.ellwoodatfield.com/cartoon-of-t...
You could even vote for this⬇️

December 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM

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tOad

@toadscroak.bsky.social

Steve Witkoff, négociateur US
www.unsitesurinternet.fr/Week48-2025....

November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM

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Dr Crom

@doccrom.bsky.social

#OnThisDay - 23 November - in 1963 'An Unearthly Child', the first episode of Doctor Who, was broadcast on BBC television, ushering in a new epoch of adventures in time and space that all began at 76 Totter's Lane. #DoctorWho

November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

Wondering if Trump has the same fetish as the 13th Earl of Gurney.

Scene from movie The Ruling Class where the 13th Earl of Gurney wears a tutu while hanging himself.

November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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Steven T. Dennis

@steventdennis.bsky.social

Schumer acknowledged to reporters he was involved in negotiations with Thune on the CR, and specifically the provision entitling senators to millions in compensation. 1/

November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM

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Jesse Duquette

@jesseduquette.bsky.social

Wild how I drew this 4 years ago as satire and now it’s the average tweet from a sitting president

November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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Kathryn Tewson

@kathryntewson.bsky.social

Political compass test results by dog whistle numbers

November 15, 2024 at 11:23 PM

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Jen Bendery

@jbendery.bsky.social

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.

Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate

Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

couriernewsroom.com

November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

Who knows what evil lurks ... in the hearts of appellate judges and independent federal commissioners?

The Shadow Docket knows!! BWA HA HA HA!

Shadow Docket Comix by Ferky McFrog!

WTF The Shadow??? archive.org/details/the-...

Shadow Docket Comix by Ferky McFrog Nov 8 2025

Frame 1:
A judge looks at a document.

NARRATOR: "Who knows what evil lurks ... in the hearts of appellate judges and independent
federal commissioners?"

JUDGE: "Why this executive order is clearly unconstitutional!!"

Frame 2:
A cloaked figure with a black hat and red kerchief covering their face hits the judge with a gavel.

GAVEL: "SPLAT!"

NARRATOR: "The shadow docket knows !!"

MYSTERIOUS FIGURE: "Kavanaugh Stop! Heh heh!"

Frame 3:
The Mysterious Figure runs up the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building. A policeman like shadow chases after, drops of sweat flying behind him.

NARRATOR: "Using hypnotic powers from unsupported emergency rulings and the opaque concept of the
unitary executive, the shadow docket clouds american minds and renders articles i and iii of the constitution
invisible!!"

MYSTERIOUS FIGURE: "BWA HA HA"!

POLICEMAN: "Stop! In the name of the..."

Frame 4:
The policeman stops in confusion staring at the members of the Supreme Court of the United States. Six are wearing...a black hat and red kerchief!!!!

POLICEMAN: "Law???"

ONE OF THE MASK WEARING JUSTICES: "I AM the law! Heh heh!"

ANOTHER MASK WEARING JUSTICE: "Shut up, Sam!"

YOU: Har har har, what?

The Shadow radio:
https://archive.org/details/the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow

November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

So, Ronald Reagan is some kind of lefty now?

On the LEFT: Lenin, Mao, Karl Marx, and...Ronald Reagan???

On the extreme RIGHT: some kind of Cheeto.

Amusing banner: "Political Spectrum 2025"

November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

Yf thou see thys, quote wyth a vampyre that ys not Dracula

October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

We are redeemed, brothers.

October 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM

Ferky McFrog

@ferkymcfrog.bsky.social

He probably didn’t mention #Earle-Sears name because he either forgot it or never bothered to learn it in the first place. #Spanberger #TrumpAlzheimers

Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · Oct 20

President Donald Trump, speaking with reporters on Air Force One, did not mention Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears by name, but said "the Republican candidate is very good" and should win.

Trump urges Virginians to vote for Earle-Sears

President Donald Trump, speaking with reporters on Air Force One, did not mention Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears by name, but said "the Republican candidate is very good" and should win.

richmond.com

October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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Dale Denwalt

@denwalt.bsky.social

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM

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Martin Rowson

@martinrowson.bsky.social

And hey! My website's just gone through a completely redesign. Go have a look! www.martinrowson.com

Martin Rowson

www.martinrowson.com

October 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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John (repeat1968) Buss

@johnbuss.bsky.social

A hurry the fuck up and get well cartoon for my friend and fellow editorial cartoonist Clay Jones as he recovers from his recent stroke. If you’ve enjoyed his fabulous work over the years and are so inclined, drop a buck or two to help him out at gofund.me/abe906548