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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 2h

...maybe

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 2h

*sighs, cringes, and raises hand*

i have actually done this.
more than once.

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 3h

mmmm...corporate media, pretending some news doesn't exist, in order to fluff the administration. again.

hey, @cnn.com , do you ever miss the days when you had integrity?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 3h

i will not vote for anyone who thinks my friends and family don't deserve the same rights and protections as any other citizen of this country.

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 3h

yes, but not ALL humans, only those deemed worthy of having equal protections and rights. sub out the word 'trans' and see if you feel the same. what other people should we fail to defend? uneducated? racial minorities? people without homes? with physical or mental handicaps?

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 7h

just...wow

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump administration is considering selling parts of its $1.6 trillion portfolio of student loan debt to the private market, according to a new report—an unprecedented move that would build on its efforts to dismantle the Department of Education and curtail the federal student loan program.

Trump Administration Considers Selling Federal Student Loan Debt, Report Says: Here’s What To Know

Some critics say the move could cost taxpayers.

www.forbes.com

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The Hi Nay Podcast @hinaypod.bsky.social · 17h

15%! We're just about to clear 15%! Let's keep that momentum going and make this horror comic happen!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mot...

#horrorcomic #indiecomic

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 1d

There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found.

That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 2d

and also, as always, eternal gratitude and love for @muellershewrote.com, @dgcomedy.bsky.social, and the whole crew @dailybeanspod.com

Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 2d

a very speedy smack down for The Orange Thing. love this so much

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

JUDGE: Again, this is an emergency hearing with limited briefing. No new information has been provided about issues in Portland, so for all of the reasons stated in my prior opinion, I GRANT plaintiffs second motion for a TRO. 16/

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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 3d

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 4d

yessssssss!

Motzie Dapul @motzied.bsky.social · 21d

🦇🎃😈🌈LAUNCHING ON OCTOBER 1 🌈😈🎃🦇

A 100 page horror anthology comic with elements of folklore, mythology, dark fantasy, romance, and terrifying Filipino monsters.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mot...

Follow The Pinoy Monster Horror Anthology by hitting "NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH"

#horrorcomic

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Matt Gaetz’ 🐀 Naǔgħtý Phonė @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 4d

Oops!

They did it again.

Stephen Millers goon, Anthony Salisbury was in Minnesota last week. Reportedly messaging plans on Signal to bring in the Army’s 82nd airborne division, who specialize in “parachute assaults and forcible entry operations”, to “war ravaged Portland” per Donald Trump.

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

www.theguardian.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 5d

feedback button now appears to be blocked.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7d

Public Citizen filed a Hatch Act complaint over the HUD website
www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

www.citizen.org

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · 6d

my friend sent us this for Inktober

ink cartoon drawing on yellow paper. two people. one on the right sporting a ginormous mustache that reaches their hips. one on the left is pointing to mustache and says "the weight of that thing hanging on your lip must ache!". person on the right is nodding.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 6d

Excellence has no GENDER or RACE attached to it.....💙💙💙

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 7d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7d

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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