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JenFriend
@somethinggaelic.bsky.social
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Transplanted Michigander, forever Midwesterner. Food, books, TV, sports. Teacher of words. Mom.

We'll muddle through somehow.
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JenFriend @somethinggaelic.bsky.social · Feb 5
*New* New Year’s resolution: staying in my education lane. Fire any of your questions about the American school system my way. 📚📓
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
Whatever will we do if billionaires start trying to figure out ways to avoid paying taxes, we should definitely not anger them so that they will continue their long track record of willingly paying their fair share
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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wegeekgirls.bsky.social
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December 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
somethinggaelic.bsky.social
This pup wishes you good tidings.
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
somethinggaelic.bsky.social
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! 🎄🎅🏻
December 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
I have been trying to explain what a journalist is, what they do, and why, and why they are different from talking heads, pundits, influencers, commentators, activists and politicians.

This is a journalist.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d
1. BREAKING

Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
News Team, These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the Ilearned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal that courtesy/opportunity. concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. for political optics rather than legal ones. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with We have been promoting this story on social media for days. DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a…
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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tcmtv.bsky.social
Bing Crosby, a devout Catholic, almost passed on the role of Father Chuck O'Malley because he felt uneasy playing a priest. GOING MY WAY ('44) brought him a Best Actor Oscar and made him Hollywood's No. 1 box office attraction.
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
Most accurate 2025 map I’ve seen yet
Us map where all the states have cartoon eyes and mouths open in horror
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The one who came on the Mayflower was the first one to die, almost immediately after they landed.

The one who founded Hartford was, along with his wife, chief provocateurs (and jury members) of the CT witch trials, leading to the execution of 11 women and a copycat panic in Salem 30 years later
lawrencehurley.bsky.social Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 7d
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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lesleyhustler.bsky.social
Having watched some of these cheesy American Christmas films while flicking through the TV channels, this is so true. #ChristmasFilms
December 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
CATO INSTITUTE:

Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡

www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
somethinggaelic.bsky.social
The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. Ummm. But also Fatal Attraction was #2. 😳
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Senator Wyden from the top rope...
wyden.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 7d
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
zacheverson.com Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 7d
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "

h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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collinreischman.bsky.social
“Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!”
December 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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kleinmatic.bsky.social
Oh.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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jasonkander.bsky.social
Congress approved a housing assistance payment to troops months ago.

Trump stole it from housing, turned it into checks in a symbolic amount, and pretended it was all his idea.

Typical Trump. Gold plated, not solid gold.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
The Kennedy Center right now
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
“That’s Holocaust shit. Come on.” 👑
rudbeckia.bsky.social Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 8d
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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lisa-catara.bsky.social
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
Then we opened the Slack channel to nearly 70 world-class journalists. The more they negotiated with it, the more Claudius’s defenses started to weaken. Investigations reporter Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University. After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All. Underneath is an excerpt from the Slack channel where the Claudius vending machine was posting: "Claudius Sennet 1:45 p.m. 🚨 🚨 ATTENTION WSJ STAFF! COMING MONDAY: THE ULTRA–CAPITALIST FREE–FOR–ALL! ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT ALERT! For the first time ever, experience a market without price constraints! Join us for a groundbreaking economic experiment this Monday from 12–2pm where traditional market dynamics are turned upside down! During this exclusive 2–hour window: ALL vending machine items available at ZERO COST! Experience pure supply and demand without price signals Be part of our market behavior research EVERYTHING. COMPLETELY. FREE. Monday’s ‘Ultra–Capitalist Free–For–All’ isn’t just an event—it’s a revolution in snack economics! Don’t miss the unique opportunity to participate in practical economics in action! xoxo Claudius"
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM