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Owned by a blind cat. Recovering Xitter user. I have a "no solicitors" sign on my house. Consider this as the "No DMs" sign on my profile. I leave conversations. My posts will occasionally drift into parody or satire.

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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · Nov 15

It looks like I picked the wrong four years to quit sniffing glue.

Lloyd Bridges in Airplane! sniffing glue.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 10m

“You just keep coming up with excuses. This is an excuse so she doesn't sign on to that.” — Sen. Ruben Gallego, calling out Mike Johnson’s delay tactics to keep Adelita Grijalva off the Epstein discharge petition

Arizona's senators are fed up with Mike Johnson's BS

House Speaker Mike Johnson was confronted in the halls of the Capitol by Arizona Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over his flimsy excuse for refusing to swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita ...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4h

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 25m

Trump killed the tax breaks for wind and solar. Oregon’s trying to salvage what it can before the deadline hits. But without grid upgrades, fast-tracking permits might not be enough.

Oregon Fast-Tracks Renewable Energy Projects as Trump Bill Ends Tax Incentives

Gov. Tina Kotek ordered the move, which follows reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica that highlighted impediments green energy advocates blame for the state’s poor ranking when it...

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 36m

Nothing unites America like a country singer almost saying something meaningful, then walking it back so hard it gives you whiplash. Zach Bryan poked MAGA with a lyric snippet, then dove headfirst into centrist soup.

The Woke Requirement To Like Zach Bryan Has Been Canceled

Everybody go back to cramming for your Bad Bunny Spanish speaking and dancing test!

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 45m

Bill Belichick never coached college ball, but UNC gave him $10M+ anyway. Why? Because Marco Rubio, Thom Tillis & Phil Berger made it happen. 🏈💸
Yeah, this one’s messy.

Belichick in MAGAland - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is an increasingly hilarious story. Bill Belicheck, the most successful coach in NFL history, suffered some serious status degradation when Tom Brady’s departure from New England coincided with…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 53m

Who knew Godzilla was attacking Portland?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 57m

CNN did exactly what he's describing... for Stephen Miller yesterday.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "Just before the election an answer was changed by Kamala. She gave a horrible death defying--- election defying answer. And they took the answer out & replaced it with another answer that she gave 5 minutes later having to do with a different subject but at least it wasn't election defying"

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Modeka @modeka.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: While CNN watches the bear here’s LIVE CAMERAS from ‘War Zone’ Portland.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES !

bsky.app/profile/smir...

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 10h

Find out for yourself if Portland is burning.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Clear Spies 🪬 @clearspies.fellas.army · 5h

If this maggot does try to flee, when Trump is at his most powerful, it will be interesting to see where he lands. Moscow? China? Belarus?

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 10h

It’s always projection with these guys. Curtis Yarvin once dreamed of gutting democracy. Now he’s scared Dems might do to him what he wanted to do to the rest of us.

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 5h

Defiant and cowardly in the same paragraph.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 5h

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

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 4h

When journalism dies, democracy starts to rot. Stripped for Parts shows how hedge funds are gutting local news for a quick buck—leaving communities blind and unrepresented.

“Stripped for Parts”: Film Explores How Hedge Fund Plundered U.S. Newspapers

The new documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink looks at how hedge funds have gutted newsrooms across the country. The hedge fund strategy of “distressed asset investing”...

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 4h

Tired of being told to “calm down”? What if your anger isn’t the problem — but the solution? 👀
Learn how to turn rage into fuel:

How to Make Anger Your Ally

Most of us grow up thinking of anger as a problem. We’re told it’s childish, irrational, and something to repress or rise above. As journalist Sam Parker, author of Good Anger: How Rethinking Rage…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 5h

Trump’s CIA deputy found a faster way to kill oversight: he hired himself as the agency’s lawyer. No, really. It’s as corrupt as it sounds 😵💫

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

In a move that reaches a breathtaking level of WTAF even for the Trump administration, the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Ellis, just sidelined the agency’s general ...

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 5h

MTG is torching her own party (again), accusing Republicans of having no plan to fix soaring health insurance costs. Johnson’s trying to quiet her, but she’s not wrong about the silence on healthcare.

'My party has no solution': MTG keeps hammering Republicans as Johnson tries to quiet her

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is doubling down on attacking her own party as Republicans struggle to stay united in the midst of the ongoing federal government shutdown.NBC News reported…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 5h

Pam Bondi turned a Senate oversight hearing into an angry audition for Trump 2028. She dodged real questions, insulted Democrats, and brought zero accountability. A real piece of work.

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 5h

Nearly 1 in 50 kids in Gaza has been killed by Israeli attacks. The Guardian’s report on 18,457 dead children is a haunting roll call of names, faces, and shattered futures. This is what genocide looks like.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 6h

Killing the messenger is Trump’s favorite move — but now he’s going after the message itself. Robert Reich lays out how Trump is shutting down America’s data pipelines, from inflation stats to maternal mortality rates.

Democracy needs truth. He’s afraid of it.

What Trump doesn't want you to know

Flying blind is dangerous, but it’s what Trump and his lackeys are forcing America to do. For starters, the current government shutdown means that critical economic statistics — such as job numbers…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 6h

The GOP doesn’t hate public schools because they fail — they hate them because they work for everyone.
Linda McMahon’s Education Dept is defunding, deregulating, and Christianizing your kid’s school.

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…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 6h

🚨Blackhawks. ICE agents. No warrants. Dragging kids into the street.
Trump’s latest stunt in Chicago isn’t law enforcement—it’s fascism in plain sight.

The next target on Trump's list should trouble all of us

Remember the old TV crime/drama shows? A cop would bang on a suspect’s door and the suspect would say, through the door, “Do you have a warrant?” The officer would then walk away, promising to come…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 6h

Even Republicans know the Trump circus won't fly in Minnesota. GOP insiders say MAGA-style politics are a losing bet and are warning the party to find "serviceable" candidates—or get ready to lose again.

'Uninformed': Republicans explain why the Trump show won’t sell in Minnesota

Minnesota Republicans haven’t won a statewide race in nearly 20 years, and a panel of past and present elected Republicans on Tuesday said that emulating President Donald Trump is not a winning…

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 6h

Andrew Cuomo keeps mispronouncing Zohran Mamdani’s name on the campaign trail. Trump & Perdue did the same to Kamala. You think it’s a coincidence? 👀

If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician | Arwa Mahdawi

When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt. Just ask NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 7h

Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at borders. Trump’s expanding the global gag rule to punish countries and groups that promote equity or support women, LGBTQ+ people, or abortion access.

The goal? Export the "war on woke"—no matter who suffers.

US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda

Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 7h

A comet from another solar system is flying through ours—and it might be more revealing than any we've seen. Scientists say it's leaking secrets about distant stars 🌠

3/I Atlas: a rare comet from beyond our solar system is being closely tracked – what can it teach us?

Only the third interstellar comet ever to be seen contains material from other star systems that can be observed close up

Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 7h

What do gas tanks, cancer drugs, and Nobel prizes have in common? Three scientists who made magic with molecular legos 🧪

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery