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Season Skye @seaskye.bsky.social · 4d

Minor correction: Sassy's Chandra was Chandra North*, who is from Texas*.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7d

Albanian PM Edi Rama mocked Trump to Macron: “You should congratulate Ilham Aliyev and me. Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan”

Earlier Trump claimed he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan. It was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12d

Pete Hegseth has ordered the Washington Generals to napalm the Harlem Globetrotters

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 26d

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27d

In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.

How to Canonize a White Supremacist

On the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk, the certain blowback, and this country’s raging gun problem.

www.thenation.com

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · Sep 3

New It Could Happen Here 🌀🌲🌀

Garrison talks with Jack from AltWatcher about a viral social media account posing as dissent Park Service employees sending coded messages on the internet.

@bishonentype.bsky.social @altwatcher.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 16

I love this website because sometimes you're replying to someone and they're like "as someone who lives in a bowling alley..."

stu @stu-lowfuel.bsky.social · Aug 16

I'm pretty sure you can buy all the old equipment sitting in storage here at the bowling alley i live in. Not even kidding.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Aug 1

Some day we’ll have a real President again. Not a madman holding the country hostage. And yes, I am an optimist.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Jul 3

also organ grinders and their monkeys

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 3

Mike Johnson touts that "bellhops" will keep their tips as a result of the Republican bill

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Season Skye @seaskye.bsky.social · Jul 2

In Las Vegas, The Center ready to step up as feds cut funding for LGBTQ youth suicide hotline

The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada is bracing for an anticipated surge in youths seeking mental health support after the Trump administration last month eliminated federal funding for the national LG...

lasvegassun.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 19

You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance.

When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 19

BREAKING: ICE agents are run off the property at Dodgers stadium.

Fans, protestors and the LA Dodgers themselves have refused ICE agents access to Dodgers stadium. Here is LAPD escorting them off the estate.

More of this! Resist.

(🎥 Kevin Takumi, Fox L.A.)

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Larry Jackson @ljlawyers.bsky.social · Jun 5

Who gets custody of Big Balls?

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Phil Spain @philenespanol.bsky.social · Jun 5

JD Vance somewhere stressfucking his couch

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

If we’ve learned anything today, it’s that the pettiest bitches are dudes.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · May 26

I like the A.I. CEOs whining about not being able to do copyright infringement for their "world-fixer" tech because the implication is that the cure for cancer is in some fucking Tom Waits lyrics somewhere or something and we've all just been too stupid to realize it

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · May 24

Still shocked at the number of people I talk to who think (rightly!) AI is a threat to digital media and are fighting to keep it out of our work and then admit to using ChatGPT for like meal planning and making funny pictures. It’s all the same shit!! Stop it!!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · May 21

The left needs a Joe Rogan who is 300 feet tall and plays a tiny little fiddle. And when he gets angry he huffs and puffs but he's calmed down by a good friend who is a regular-sized elephant but looks teeny by comparison. Just absolutely itsy bitsy. And both of them are extremely anti-circumcision.