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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 1h

No one would get any candy

MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 2h

The movie "Presence" answers the question "what if instead of scared, a ghost story made you really pissed off?"

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 3h

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 4h

I have family there. I try to talk them into changing the pronunciation but it's too late. 🤣

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 4h

That and taking a European town name and pronouncing it poorly.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 4h

This is why making the shutdown about healthcare was always risky.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 13h

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Even then . . .

MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 5h

That was my reaction too. "gee that was a clever commercial, do you want to go to Dairy Queen?"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

Texas has invaded Illinois and Dick Durbin can’t be assed.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 6h

They're not interested

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 7h

For the evening crowd:

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 16h

Conservatives have dreamed of taking control of CBS News for the better part of 80 years. They've finally done it.

My latest for Time's Made By History series:

time.com/7318570/cbs-...

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

time.com

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 7h

He's really just so nice isn't he?

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Great episode of #factually with @adamconover.net if you have some time.
youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Found her at Niagara Falls.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

Noem: “One of the individuals we arrested recently was the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Lullz

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 8h

Worse than worthless. Dangerously worthless.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 8h

I saw Antifa in Portland making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

these fascists practiced an Gazans and Venezuelan fishermen. they want to kill Americans.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 10h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

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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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 10h

This wall of names will be right next to the room full of shoes

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 10h

Loretta Guzman, cited in the White House press release below, has been on Fox at least 3 times incl April 24 2024 and early 2023 after her shop's "Coffee with a Cop" event ended in vandalism

www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/po...

www.foxnews.com/media/portla...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Nooooo. Lmaoooo. Cuts like a fucking knife.

Every time I see shit like this I realize they're gonna lose and we're gonna win.

TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 13h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 10h

also even if you don't care about any of that other stuff, it was in robocop!

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING ME

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 11h

Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But they’re a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Here’s how.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-libra...

A Librarian’s Guide to Fighting Book Bans

Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But they’re a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Here’s how.

www.currentaffairs.org

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