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Best way to read the news without doomscrolling into a deep depression
✨ Today Then: Yesterday's News, Today ✨

Three years ago today: "Strange."
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Four years ago today: "We stand for democracy."
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Day 450
“Strange.”
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April 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
More of this please. Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for your continued service.

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I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work
We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Aurora has the best outlook on living:
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February 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I think the words he was looking for was "totally preventable"
February 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”

Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”

History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🙃 (Hostile Government Takeover song from TikTok)
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February 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@garrisonhayes.bsky.social Thank you for the insightful explanation and call to action.
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DEI and the Rise of the Modern Slur
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February 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A very real example of what can happen when uninformed politicians decide to just stop stuff. I'm all for efficiencies and government accountability. But choosing to stop work that they don't understand has real life and death consequences

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What's at Stake
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February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I have a real fondness for truth
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What Trump's Doing
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February 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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February: I'm the shortest month.
February 2025: I SHALL LAST FOR 10,000 YEARS.
February 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I don't think I've ever felt more proud to be an Episcopalian.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jan 22
At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.
Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service
At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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January 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The marginal details of the David Lynch memorial at the Burbank Bob’s Big Boy are what make it.
January 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Americans should not be trying to buy Greenland when their own country is up for sale.
January 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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🇮🇹 New guidelines from Italian bishops, approved by the Vatican, permit gay men to become priests if they remain celibate.
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January 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Wow!! Only a few hours after making my account, I have 19 year olds following me and linking their Only Fans accounts. It has to be real, right?
January 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM