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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1m

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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 2h

Senators will vote today on whether to block Trump’s use of US Armed Forces to attack vessels in the Caribbean.

Trump may soon expand these illegal attacks into a full-on war with Venezuela.

Call your Senators and ask them to vote for the Schiff-Kaine resolution.

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 2h

That's what they've been doing, to the point that people on here constantly yell at them for being too narrowly focused on these issues.

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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すん @sunphoto12029.bsky.social · 3h

秋の始まり

#今日のマヨネーズ
#マヨネーズ
#キユーピー

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in a Make-A-Wish thing for unlikable children who are sticking around longer than expected.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

"Pikachu Actual, Jennifer 1, over"

"Go ahead Jennifer 1, over."

"[inaudible]...smashed and running low on Advil."

"Jennifer 1, can you make it to CVS?"

*static*

"Jennifer 1, respond!"

*more static*

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

Pentagon Pete Cosplays After Bizarre General Pep Talk

The Defense Secretary suited up for a new photo op with the troops.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 11h

>Trump says election is cancelled
>Republicans don't run for office
>Democrats run unopposed and win
>America renamed Democratic People's Republic of Democrats

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 4h

Threat inflation

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 11h

>Trump says election is cancelled
>Republicans don't run for office
>Democrats run unopposed and win
>America renamed Democratic People's Republic of Democrats

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 13h

that's...not how you use folders...

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 14h

Oh right they said he would do missile defense lol

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14h

We started reporting this trying to get a follow on the revelation last week that Trump / Hegseth were waging a new escalated war on leakers and whistleblowers, expecting some of the similar doom and gloom we get often— instead we got a bunch of government personnel laughing at fascists bumbling.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown

The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

zeteo.com

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 16h

what

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 16h

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former football star Herschel Walker to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

Herschel Walker confirmed as Trump's ambassador to the Bahamas

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former football star and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

cbsn.ws

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 19h

The ideological chart of presidential assassins is so funny, and it'll be a loss when you realize what it can also mean.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 19h

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 19h

*tapping the sign*

Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 20h

Anyway, like virtually every interest group in Japan Nippon Kaigi is better at blocking change -- i.e. legal changes related to imperial succession, separate surnames -- than imposing its will on the country. Unless I missed all of those changes to the Constitution.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 20h

A second caldwell has horrible defense takes

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Nippon Kaigi discourse is just in time for ~spooky season~

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

what lol

Emily @suika.bsky.social · 1d

According to Gearoid Reidy, Kishida is a "center-left figure"??

Expect to read a lot about Nippon Kaigi, a conservative advocacy group of which she is a member that some like to portray as a sinister secret organization pulling the strings of Japanese power. But it counts hundreds of lawmakers, including center-left figures such as former leader Fumio Kishida, among its ranks.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Grad student, grad student, grad student

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

idk, if gerald curtis said "lol you're doomed" I would just quit

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny implies the existence of Bad Dragon, Bad Snake, Bad Horse, Bad Goat, Bad Monkey, Bad Rooster, Bad Dog, Bad Pig, Bad Rat, Bad Ox, and Bad Tiger.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Trump 1's policy-by-tweet was bad but at least we knew he was running things. Now it's like "does he know we're sinking drug boats?" "does he know about Venezuela?" "does he know what a tomahawk is?" "is he even still alive?"

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

...pervert

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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