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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t really know what other Oscar bait is coming this fall/winter tbh but I’ll be pissed if it doesn’t win

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 2h

Ok yep one battle after another completely slaps

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 1d

Zelda Williams: “And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line”

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Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’

Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 5d

As aid trickles into Gaza, famine-related deaths keep rising. The Gaza Health Ministry warns that “mass death” will soon be seen among infants, as mothers feed them “water instead of baby formula.”

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#Palestine #Israel

‘Our children are wasting away before our eyes’: starvation deaths on the rise in Gaza as famine continues

As aid trickles into Gaza, famine-related deaths keep rising. The Gaza Health Ministry warns that “mass death” will soon be seen among infants, as mothers feed them “water instead of baby formula.”

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Choose your fighter:

WaPo: Why America should legalize horse slaughter

The Onion: I Have a Dream: To Eat a Kentucky Derby-Winning Horse

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it.

Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.

He's now charged with murder.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7zB...

LA Metro's K Line Extension to Torrance

YouTube video by nandert

www.youtube.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Literally the Mr Burn’s school of business

FAMILY, RELIGION
FRIENDSHIP. THESE ARE THE THREE DEMONS YOU MUST SLAY IF YOU WISH TO
SUCCEED IN BUSINESS.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been offered a ton of money to do a comedy set aboard the Borg Cube

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

A sex offender registry but for people with loud motorcycles and instead of going door to door to announce they live there they have to have a giant air horn pointing at their house that neighbors are allowed to trigger once a day.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 4d

thinking about "everyone is twelve now"

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 5d

no! NO!!

a chyron reads "FORMER ANTIFA MEMBER SPEAKS OUT". the interviewee is grimace

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Weeks before his death, you say?

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 5d

Every person I know is raving about. Even people with like diametrically opposed film tastes

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 5d

Becoming increasingly convinced we need to get a babysitter next week so we can see one battle after another

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 5d

If I understand the plot of next week’s slow horses right, the refinery explosion may just be some very dedicated marketing from Apple

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