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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 24m

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 3h

Louisville

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 13h

[hammers the space bar to see how long it takes Bill to actually leave]

Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 13h

Tired: SEC speed
Wired: ACC speed

Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 13h

One of the fastest Votes Of Confidence in history

Matt Baker @mattbakercfb.bsky.social · 13h

On the other site.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 13h

Makes sense. It was worth a guess!

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 13h

Whether any other schools have pending @homefield.bsky.social jogger deals?

Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 13h

What about video assets produced by Disney that the school owns the copyright to? (Not sure how the contract law would work but it seems like something an enterprising athletic department would invent to try to do an end run around this very scenario)

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 14h

"I'm sorry but post-modernism mostly sucks" -- @peatandpastry.bsky.social after I read this review to her

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

Fail

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 21h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969.bsky.social · 20h

Costly reminder that vandalism is not protected speech (and cleaning/repairing public art is expensive).
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CWRU students pay $350K to end criminal case — but fallout continues

The 11 students and activists had been indicted for pro-Palestinian vandalism on campus in 2024.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 14h

The penalty is for having 5 players in the backfield, so she could get away with 6 on the line

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 19h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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 · 19h

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

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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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 14h

Of Kings

Jay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 20h

If I say “the valley” what valley do you immediately think of

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█████ [redacted] @vincenzzzo.bsky.social · 17h

How many restaurants were immediately flooded by ai spam emails for baby-eating

Scott K @phoenixperson.bsky.social · 19h

The clankers accidentally revealed phase 1 of their "Final Solution". 😱

A trailer is seen with graffiti on it that says "'They' eat babies in Denver!!" in a Facebook post. An AI prompt below the post reads "Baby-eating restaurants in Denver".

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 14h

Put this one up next to Jack P's Weimar Republic comment and see if any of them can do math

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 19h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 14h

Stupid Hitler finds another way to be stupid

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 14h

He might as well be wearing a shirt that says "I oppose the people fighting fascism"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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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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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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