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The Volatile Mermaid

@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social

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Eldest Sister. Childless Cat Lady. Italian Jew. Witchy Woman. I’m from N-E-W Jerz

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · Nov 14

Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 58m

ARE YOU HABEAS CORPUS?

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents shooting an unarmed priest feels like a metaphor.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

He’s Ellis from Die Hard without the charisma

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Don Jr on Democrats: "We're not playing the same game. These guys -- they want you and your kids dead."

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

If only someone could have predicted this

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

Transgender Windmills would be a cool band name.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Flanders: Oh, let's go dear. I expect that type of language at Denny's but not here.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

I’d rather be face to face with Jason Voorhees than an ICE agent.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween is going to be weird now that there are scary masked people on the streets all year long.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 6d

yes i post about politics and taylor swift and sports and muppets. get you a girl who’s a human junk drawer.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

Here’s what I find funny about the MAGA freak-out over the NFL booking Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl: they think it’s a culture-war battle, when it’s just business. The Super Bowl isn’t for America alone anymore: it’s a global brand they’re trying to sell.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 4d

That’s the joke

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

are these stories about reading trump administration officials phones in public just a consequence of iphones having amazing cameras now or are these guys just particularly incompetent with opsec

purrfectlyfrank.bsky.social @purrfectlyfrank.bsky.social · 5d

According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...

Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties

“This is highly unfortunate,” the text said. “Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”

finance.yahoo.com

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday mornings are perfect for backing the hottest project on Kickstarter*

*if you ignore projects that are not compilations of Tom Tomorrow cartoons

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5d

The new compilation has five years worth of cartoons because over the past five years no publisher I approached was interested. Admittedly I mostly gave up, I had some other stuff I was dealing with. Still, I do love waking up in the morning and seeing all the support this thing is getting.

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 5d

“Can I use your bathroom?”

(Worker releases all the dogs)

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 5d

She should try the local animal shelter next time.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 6d

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d

My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post.

My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 6d

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 6d

What in the actual fuck

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 6d

Mentally ill? What makes you think that?

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 6d

a reminder that this is Tyler Cowen

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 6d

Here to give a female perspective and it’s ew

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 6d

Uh if this guy wants to see "a virgin on screen" he should just put his phone in selfie mode

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

New article from The Free Press

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

“Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen.

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.
By Tyler Cowen
10.02.25

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14d

Coworker: Do you fast for Rosh Hashanah?

Me: No that’s Yom Kippur. We start fasting at sundown.

Coworker: I thought it was at midnight.

Me: No, we’re Jews. You’re thinking of Mogwai.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 7d

I met her once when she spoke to my class at Rutgers in 2000. She was nice enough to chuckle when I joked that I was disappointed she didn’t bring a chimp with her.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly glad Jane Goodall passed away before she had to watch the planet die.

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