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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 18m

I mean who isn't avoiding America right now

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30m

Was there a memo to all Atlantic tropical cyclones this year or something where they were all told to avoid the US

National Hurricane Center map of the Atlantic showing Tropical Storm Jerry to the east of the lesser Antilles with a projected path skirting the islands to the north before swinging further north and then east out to sea

Map of the Atlantic showing all tropical cyclone paths for 2025, with most of them following the same general path where they appear scared to come anywhere near the US

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 37m

Stow House of Pizza had a crust that was almost like an extra crispy sourdough and it's fantastic*

*something i have a lot of nostalgia for

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 40m

grew up in eastern MA, really miss greek pizza and every small town having a "<town name> house of pizza"

Roy G Biv @plunkettprime.bsky.social · 1h

good read on the same

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www.vice.com/en/article/g...

Greek Pizza Is the Best Mediocre Food You’ve Never Eaten

This staple of Greater Boston cuisine is just OK, but those who grew up with it love it anyway.

www.vice.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 11h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James.

They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air.

Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations

Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

www.arcdigital.media

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1h

I did not, that looks cool, nvidia really is the new sgi arent they

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 2h

my parents have an ioniq 5 they've put about 80,000 miles on and the maintenance so far has been:

* tire rotations
* changed the coolant once

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 3h

These goons have zero discipline and are motivated by a personal desire to hurt people. They’re going to kill someone eventually

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 2d

It's all "logistics are gay" until your paycheck is late or rations are low.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 4h

Kash Patel is 45

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 4h

I’m gonna have a dgx in my basement soon I can feel it

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

Do you know how happy I would be if the AI ”bubble” collapsed? My god yes give me cheap GPUs to snatch up

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 9h

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, this is good!

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

That's not just a breakdown of airy political philosophy about the nature of state sovereignty, it's torching the unity of the armed forces. Chain of command being ripped apart not from below but from above. It's saying your unit is from the wrong state so we don't trust you, you're not one of us.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Aside from shattering core state sovereignty, it's saying one state's Guard (TX) is somehow more loyal to the national authority than another's (IL). It's treating the latter as something bordering on hostile, or at least alien. One part of the country and its soldiers are more America than another.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 15h

Just because Pete Hegseth decided to be fatphobic doesn't mean you have to be! Thanks!

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah you can’t safely put anything proprietary or private in the model if you’re ever going to distribute it

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 16h

That guy does not have the facial expression of someone who is calm cool and collected and thinking clearly about use of force

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18h

This is not going to end well. Sooner or later an American citizen is going to get killed.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 23h

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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