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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 6h

I'm ready to be be emotionally damaged by the Boston Bruins again.

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 16h

“I'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.” www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 6h

As a Salt and Vinegar snack connoisseur, I will be looking for these when I head back to the UK in the Spring.

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Shana, but make her spooky @shayz0rz.bsky.social · 7h

This also applies to "well, have you also talked about these other incidents that you're not talking about right this second because I want to try to act like Jews get special treatment/have too much influence while claiming "not" antisemitic" style posts. Fuck all y'all. Seriously.

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 7h

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

the NYT's Harvard thing is genuinely weird. imagine being obsessed with the politics and social standing of a school you went to three decades ago

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 9h

That sucks so much!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 9h

CNN's Kent Brockman, I mean Jake Tapper, was quick to bend the knee and say "Gulf of America" earlier this year.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 10h

Penny & Trixie: We protect the family

Two mini dachshunds laying across mom's legs to protect her from evil aka the dog walker they see everyday. Penny, on the left, is a smooth chocolate and tan in a blue harness. Trixie, on the right, is a longhair black, white, and tan in a pink harness.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 1d

Not just "no evidence," but the fire chief has affirmatively said there's no evidence of an intentional fire -- to which some friends have responded, "yeah, but why should we believe *that*?"

At some point, we can't just assume the conspiracy and treat the absence of evidence as further proof.

Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 2d

"At this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set," Chief Keel said.

Folks, it's time to back away from all the post hoc ergo propter hoccing from the awful fire at the SC judge's home this weekend. We follow the evidence. (We are the fact-based party, right?)

WTOC 11 @wtoc.com · 2d

UPDATE: The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Chief Mark Keel has provided a statement regarding the investigation of the fire at Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein’s Colleton County home.

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Tracytastic Bitchcakes @trcytstcbitchcakes.bsky.social · 12h

What the actual fuck, indeed.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13h

Deputy CIA director has a new side gig as his own lawyer

www.dailykos.com

Deputy CIA director has a new side gig as his own lawyer

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Lily says, "F*ck you, make me" to all fascists @lily77.bsky.social · 13h

You see what he's doing here, right? He's equating brown skinned people with "illegal rabble rouser" who are here to do WHITE PEOPLE harm. Same racist shit as Nazis, the Klan, Christian Nationalists, etc. He's othering people so white people will be fine when the othered ones are murdered.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 13h

Welp....

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

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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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 1d

To be a sleepy dachshund cuddling your mini turtle stuffie.

A longhair black, white, and tan mini dachshund in a pink harness is laying down with her green turtle stuffie clasped I her front paws.

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 1d

If that is your joy then at least your brain is still getting positive endorphins.

Some folks just want to be miserable all the time and it boring as fuck.

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks have decided that the way to survive our current hellscape is to be non-stop joyless scolds.

That is not sustainable for you as a human or for us as a people.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine trying to convince the world that Portland is under siege and all we see is a man dressed up in a chicken suit & a bunch of news crews?

💀😭😂😂😂😂🫠l will never forgive this country for electing the orange demon and allowing these incompetent weirdos to take over the government.

Never

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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marina🌸 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 1d

what etsy witch do we hire to heal dolly parton

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Jenna @rillacuthbert.bsky.social · 1d

Affectionately!

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