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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 44m

World's tiniest violin...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 47m

From @theathletic.com: A year after the Dodgers embarrassed them in the World Series, the Yankees came up even smaller in the 2025 MLB Playoffs. This was supposed to be their time. Instead, it will be a golden opportunity missed, our columnist writes.

Why the Yankees just wasted a golden opportunity they’ll never get back

A year after the Dodgers embarrassed them in the World Series, seizing upon their flaws, the Yankees came up even smaller vs. the Blue Jays.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 49m

I'm so old I remember when a former President having a quick chat with the AG on an airport tarmac was a month-long scandal.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 11h

FUCK THE FUCKING YANKEES!

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 11h

Game over
Series over
The @BlueJays punch their ticket to the #ALCS 🔥

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Jeff in Texas 🥃 @jts65.bsky.social · 11h

Their girlfriends all got arrested, too.

Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 11h

By eliminating the Yankees from the postseason, the Blue Jays have become honorary founding members of Antifa.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 11h

By eliminating the Yankees from the postseason, the Blue Jays have become honorary founding members of Antifa.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 12h

I hereby declare my horse pastures to be heron sanctuary.

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actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · 12h

me every time they show Yankees fans despondent as their team trails in an elimination game

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 12h

a thing to keep in mind, moving forward, is that if you're ditching this shithole, don't tell us about it on social media until you're safely on the other side

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

Mark Bray wrote a book on antifascism and was trying to leave the country with his family after being targeted by right-wing operatives and receiving death threats:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 13h

I assume his first name is Schladolf?

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13h

Pouring one out for Joe Davis who has to say the name Schlittler on air for a national audience 400 times tonight. 🫡

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 13h

Escalation continues.

This is beyond the pale.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 14h

Is Trump going to have Americans extrajudicially executed in their homes?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 15h

The mushroom is now a giant zucchini!

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

Trump keeps saying he needs to send federal agents in to protect Chicago because the Police aren't doing the job.

You know what makes it hard for our city's brave police officers to do their jobs?

Trump's agents throwing tear gas at them.

ICE accidentally tear gases Chicago police during clash with protesters

Several officers could be seen rubbing their eyes, squinting, and struggling to remain standing on October 4.

www.newsweek.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 22h

Just a couple of weeks ago, I was haltering one of our horses to bring him in to be fed. While my arm was over his head, he gave a very sudden jerk away from me (horsefly?), making me think he had torn what was then a sore rotator cuff.

Ironically, it fixed what must have been a partial dislocation

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Have you done this experiment, @petetoemmes.bsky.social ?

Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 3d

this is what you get when you soak a german shepherd in mountain dew

Smiling chihuahua with black and tan shepherd coloring, bug eyes and missing front tooth.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy!

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Ping @larosalind.bsky.social

And he’s now wearing “Dump 62 Here”.

Just awesome. Hope Raleigh signs those shirts for him.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Big Dumper hits a 2 run shot into the bullpen that bounces to a guy wearing a "Dump 61 Here" shirt

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rcjhawk @rcjhawk.bsky.social · 1d

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Yoda, Star Wars: “Quiet in the Bronx, it is.

Made with Pinata Farms — Thanks, guys.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let Hegseth see this!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Truth. (But don’t tell Lisa)

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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the daily betting cards in the White House break room:

Who will tell the biggest lie?
Who will make the most corrupt move?
Who will break the most laws?
Whose mistake will cost the most money?
Who will get a judge attacked?

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