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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1h

Time travelers there to bring an animal to the future gave you the formula for transparent plywood!

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 9h

Suspect Guilty GIF

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 23h

I dunno that chicken looks shifty

a cartoon rooster is sitting in a car with a betsmove logo behind it

ALT: a cartoon rooster is sitting in a car with a betsmove logo behind it

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure laying mulch is *better* than poll duty.

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1d

Was that the college student after the Sox world series win?

Or as my mom said "only Boston PD would be so stupid as to kill a college student with a less lethal weapon"

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1d

Stop throwing tear gas at protestors 🤷‍♀️

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't the goal to avoid the scenario where the Illinois national guard and Texas national guard are pointing guns at each other?

We do what we can to point out the administration's authoritarianism before we cross the point of no return

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1d

"we've been taught for years that the world is round. However these people believe the earth is flat. Up next on 60 minutes, meet the scientist working to prove the earth is indeed flat"

"This segment forces us to question our knowledge of the earth. It may be flat. We'll never know"

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 2d

I'm pretty sure I remember hearing some variant of "a real man owns up to his mistakes"

sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 2d

So the goods are expensive because of tariffs and now the shipping costs will be bonkers because the trucks are tariffed

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 2d

I think there was a glimmer of hope that he'd just be corrupt, get his buddies rich and play golf all the time.

Like if he did just that and nothing else, we'd be in a much better place.

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 2d

Wait there's a non shadow docket?

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 3d

The third amendment woke up and was like WTF? How did my name get called.

sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 3d

I'll take terminally online progressives over terminally online right wingers.

The former is usually operating on the facts of reality. The latter thinks Biden didn't win the election (and that's their SANEST alternative fact)

sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 3d

Also there's a difference between wanting immigration policy that keeps people from jumping the border or overwhelming checkpoints with asylum claims and treating immigrants like animals.

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 4d

It's like everyone expects reporters and editors to work for free.

We don't live in Star Trek where there is no money. Reporters need to eat too 🤷‍♀️

sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

Does God bless her involvement with Corey?

a man in a suit and tie is pointing his finger at the camera and says " don 't be a cheater "

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

@jvl.bsky.social I think this is what you're looking for from Senate leadership in these shutdown negotiations

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking.

"if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a heathen lapsed Catholic but I think Jesus just wanted us to be nice and help people

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

Sean Spicer is looking better and better these days 🫠. At least he was smart enough to hide in the bushes.

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

They're just cutting out the middleman.

Why have someone else keep tab on hate groups when you can just send an ICE recruitment table there?

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

I mean it's downward momentum 🤷‍♀️

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

@bioreconstruct.bsky.social if there was one thing I'm glad to have here, it's aerial shots of Orlando Parks and resorts construction

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

He's really just dismantling the union, isn't he?
The union I'm sure I probably had ancestors fight to preserve.

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 5d

Silly me, growing up thinking the 4th amendment mattered.

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