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Jimmy Two Heads 👻🎃💀 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 7h

Fascists come in two flavors, either Ogre or Goblin. Ogres are big dumb meathead oafs (Mussolini, Trump) and goblins are scrawny little weasel creeps who are also dumb (Hitler, Stephen Miller). JD Vance desperately wants to be an ogre but he is absolutely a goblin.

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone that envies Chicago can just... go there. Milwaukee's greatness doesn't depend on anything but Milwaukee

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 7h

1. Sports grudges are fun
2. Milwaukee is cool as hell, and so is Chicago, and most people in both cities agree on this.

Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 8h

Now I need to hear Ludacris rapping one fish two fish red fish blue fish and also need to see Dr. Seuss style illustrations of My Chick Bad

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 8h

Ludacris could've written Dr Seuss but Dr Seuss couldn't have written "Ho"

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 11h

I get avoiding uneven sidewalks, and also roads have plenty of uneven spots and the camber is just as annoying to me. Pick your hazard, I suppose.

But particularly walking on the street when there is no sidewalk traffic...

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 11h

There's a certain segment of people that will run or walk on the street when there's a sidewalk available. But why? Why???

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 1d

Gangs Of Minneapolis Turf Wars: Wild Turkeys vs Canadian Geese

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 1d

Suddenly my weekly meal plan includes a baguette with every meal, mainly as a butter vessel

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 2d

On the one hand, it's a terrible idea that doesn't address the root problem, and on the other hand, it's a gift to your political rivals. Hard to come up with a worse idea, really.

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 2d

If our leaders are not restrained by the law, why should the rest of us be?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d

U.S. comedy, music, and culture is absolutely begging for a massive infusion of anti-authority punk sentiment to offset all this dim, hackish, opportunistic clownishness

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 6d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 6d

Follow up: are they 'crack jokes and tell stories' or 'headphones in, screens on' travelers?

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7d

Charlie Kirk's memorial was a flop.

The pundit class panicked, thinking it was going to be some huge win for Trump.

But really, it exposed why the MAGA movement can't expand past its base. The thrid rate Christian rock exposes why.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7d

Ok farm facts are back!

China is so much of the global soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries. There isn't enough soybean demand in the world to fill that dent.

And farmers... know that.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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JCP⭐Designs 👺 @jcpxdesigns.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not gonna share the AI "Walmart was cool in 2002" video, so instead as a person who worked at several Walmarts between 1998-2011 I'm gonna share stories of what it was actually like back then.

A man with a 32 oz Budweiser in his pocket tried to tickle me several times & we had to call the cops.

Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 9d

People falling for that AI nostalgia slop of propagandized versions of the past like the eighties, nineties, and 2000's is bleak as hell.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9d

Quick reminder that all governments redistribute wealth. The only question is what direction that money goes in.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9d

No, this simply cannot possibly be. I was told that large-scale, non-universal redistribution was unaffordable, unfair, rampant with moral hazard, immoral, & un-American 🤔

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

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Sol's Roles (He/They) {Accepting New Clients} @solsroles.bsky.social · 10d

A well paid freelancer with healthcare coverage

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 10d

If you could be any mythical creature what/who would you be?

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 12d

I would like a feature that blocks all videos where someone is talking into the camera

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12d

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you.

Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.

A selfie of me in a full face respirator. My childish braids are behind me and I’m holding up a peace sign with the NLG number on my arm.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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