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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 26m

I didn't believe that until I actually heard it. "DeTROYut" it's WILD.

My southern mother says "detrawyht" which I also find quite endearing

Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 3h

A Neuralyzer but it makes Americans collectively forget things that happened more than 2 years ago

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 3h

and tech bros, can't forget them

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 9h

A journalist for Jewish Currents, Emily Wilder, was reporting from one of the Gaza flotillas. She is now detained in Israel. Please call her reps to help her get home:

Jireh Deng @bokchoy-baobei.bsky.social · 17h

My friend and Jewish American reporter Emily Wilder was detained by the Israeli military last night while sailing with the Gaza flotilla reporting for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Please help our friend get home safely and call her US reps. bit.ly/ReleaseEm

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 4h

1995 Windstar. Damnit.

Anyway, some Canadians also aspirate the T, but real ones know that it sounds more like "tur-ronno"

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 4h

When Michigan people say they're going on a weekend trip to "tuh-RAHN-to" in Canada, and they aspirate that T harder than a head gasket blowing in a 3.0L Vulcan V6 in a 1994 Ford Windstar

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 9h

how it feels to be mid-career

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 19h

GenX: we are the way we are because the TV we consumed was made by adults who were all CLEARLY tripping balls.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 16h

“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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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, I am, of course, a foreign terrorist organization because I oppose fascism.

Come at me, bro.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump says ‘we took the freedom of speech away’ as officials compare Antifa to Hamas

Right-wing media figures demand forceful action against militant antifascist groups

www.independent.co.uk

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 15h

antifer? I hardly know her!

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 19h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 15h

drivers, especially!

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah I think one of the original saw comments I saw was talking about an E bike rider going 30 miles an hour down the sidewalk. I can deal with slow speed on the sidewalk. It's not legal here, though, but nobody really cares, of course

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 15h

Star Trek VOY: "Remember"

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 15h

that episode had me SHOOK. it is BONKERS. star trek hitting these deep subjects (like, a willful, inter-generational, collective misremembrance about nation-birth narrative?!) so hard.

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 15h

i am very much in favor of people not doing dangerous things, wherever they are,

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 16h

I love it how they're just like, "oh yeah that law we were told to stop breaking-- oh. yeah."

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19h

Oh this is not great

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 16h

dang,

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson only wants Lee Greenwood to perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl because Lawrence Welk is dead and therefore unavailable.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

PRESS: "What do you think about Emperor Caligula naming his horse as a Senator?"

SPEAKER JOHNSON: "I didn't see that. i don't have time to follow every news story or social media post."

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 19h

MSU is now requiring us to submit disclosures of "paid and unpaid" activities we're involved in outside of work, in accordance with the Most Exalted and Wise Presidential Decree In Pursuit of Glorious National Agenda of NSPM-33.

"Paid" isn't new. "Unpaid," and with such a broad category, is.

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Nat in Great Lakes Fall Color @nzorach.bsky.social · 19h

they could save a lot of money by just having two lanes on each side and a shoulder and each lane is all of 10' wide. and then spend all of the savings on high-speed rail.

*drops mic, leaves*

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

Stargate: SVU

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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