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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 10h

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Painting of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg, as they begin to charge against an opposing line of Confederates. The text, in various 19th century wood type, with a pastel gradient overlay: "THEY DO NOT BREAK US / THEY BREAK UPON US"

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10h

Frum has been collaborating with Douglas Murray recently??

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10h

There's nothing Republicans can do to stop the midterms. They will however refuse to seat Democratic winners and stuff like that.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 12h

I stopped playing GI Joe when I was like 10 years old.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 12h

Just loser shit.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13h

Pete Hegseth put on his military fatigues for a new photo op a week after yelling at top brass about grooming and DEI.

Pentagon Pete Cosplays After Bizarre General Pep Talk

The Defense Secretary suited up for a new photo op with the troops.

trib.al

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 14h

Once again the comments are full of people accusing this farmer of voting for Trump. He didn't and he has plenty to say about it.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

Wish her the best but I'd say less than a month.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

Sykes newest has Ed Luce and it's really good but I could listen to Luce speak all day.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 22h

Democrats should be politicizing the fact that a Charlie Kirk fan murdered 2 teenage girls but they think its beneath them. Do you actually think Republicans wouldn't be leveraging that all over social media and fucking Congress right now if the shoe was on the other foot?

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

Yes.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

He's been hanging with Syke s newest podcast I tried one once didn't last more than 5 mins

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

This is what Swift has always been and always will be tho.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14h

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

Ya I just don't think Latino men are coming back to the Dems any time soon anyways.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 14h

I went to Truth Social to see a recent Trump post and was interrupted by this modal ad of Trump's post about Univision, brought to you by Univision. Dear lord.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

Ooof

The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

I worked in one of these places during my early 20s in Minneapolis and it was one of the funnest jobs of my life.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Suspicious that Death is creeping behind me with his fatal dart, I am communing with God...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

Sanctimonious Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest “joke” in the United States Senate, is at it again! “Dick” lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great “War Hero” who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years “fight for freedom” while in Vietnam. He stated that “the battles were violent and long, but there was no going back” - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called “platoon” came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldn’t even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

@ej23.bsky.social I told you they'd be hitting that tourist trap!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 14h

My law partner @bradmossesq.bsky.social weighs in on the newly ordered polygraphs. Pure show.

www.cbsnews.com/news/dni-tul...

DNI Tulsi Gabbard orders U.S. intel agency leaders to stem leaks

DNI Tulsi Gabbard issued a directive to review polygraph policies and curb press leaks, echoing actions taken by the Bush and Obama administrations.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder that hockey is superior to football basketball and baseball.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

NHL opener betches!

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

I want to see hundreds, thousands, millions of frog costumes out in protest and confrontation to the fascist menace.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

Of course a coup would be unimaginably dangerous and bad and could lead to all sorts of unforeseen outcomes. But also I think everything Trump and the GOP is doing, has done and will eventually do is far worse in both the near and short terms. But whatever I'm a peon.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 14h

A lot of people here don't like hearing this but I'm not one of them.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

Mark Milley take what is yours, no jury will convict

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