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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 7h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 1h

"I'm an idiot. An absolute idiot. Someone tells me something, as long as they say something nice about me, I instantly believe it. Absolutely dumb as shit."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 2h

"Accidentally" doing a lot of work here

Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

Trump keeps saying he needs to send federal agents in to protect Chicago because the Police aren't doing the job.

You know what makes it hard for our city's brave police officers to do their jobs?

Trump's agents throwing tear gas at them.

ICE accidentally tear gases Chicago police during clash with protesters

Several officers could be seen rubbing their eyes, squinting, and struggling to remain standing on October 4.

www.newsweek.com

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Shannon Not So Sharpe @coveredmywagon.blacksky.app · 12h

Also this

SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 13h

If you didn't vote for Harris, don't pretend you give a damn about healthcare.

If you didn't vote for Harris, don't pretend you give a damn about Gaza.

If you didn't vote for Harris, don't pretend you give a damn about jobs, the economy, or prices.

Because you didn't give a damn then. Clearly.

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Dan-yell Eekan: Eerie Elvenweed Era @danielaegan.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa, I’m in this bundle! You should check it out!

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 2d

Yooo! I'm in a new bundle put together by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social for under-rated books! For just $38, you can get 63 books from underrated independent authors! itch.io/b/3305/under...

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 12h

now you have the answer to your question as to how everybody else went along with fascism in Germany.

1) it's profitable 2) it removes personal accountability 3) it creates a false sense of power

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 13h

Life is fleeting. It can end in an instant.
Live it
Love it.
Enjoy it.
Don't dwell or focus on the world ending.
Be a good person.
Leave this place better than you found it.

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 2h

It's because they want a giant war there

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Shannon Not So Sharpe @coveredmywagon.blacksky.app · 14h

If only we had been warned that elections have consequences.

Craig F @cfoh.bsky.social · 18h

This administration is totally fine with more Americans getting cancer from water contaminants if it means corporations and their wealthy friends might keep a penny or two more. Insane.

The #EPA is now the Exploitation & Profiteering Agency.

www.newsweek.com/epa-drinking...

EPA moves to roll back drinking water standards

The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to roll back regulatory standards for three types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water systems.

www.newsweek.com

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 2h

Would be funny if they have it to Biden. Just because. I'm not saying he should get it. Just the humor factor

WIRED @wired.com · 14h

The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday October 10. US president Donald Trump has repeatedly touted his suitability to become a Nobel laureate, including claiming that he has “stopped seven wars.”

Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 2h

For prison? All of them

Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 15h

Who’s on the hot seat in Trump’s cabinet? I took an informal poll of the president’s advisors in Inner Loop for this week, and the results might surprise you.

“Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2.) Bondi. 3.) Bondi. 4.) Bondi. 5.) HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trumpworld's Least Favorite Cabinet Secretaries

“Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2.) Bondi. 3.) Bondi. 4.) Bondi. 5.) HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”

www.wired.com

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Blame Tag 🏷️ @blametag.bsky.social · 17h

Were retail stores really better when you were a kid or are you just old and miserable now?

We explore the topic over at The Serving Times: theservingtimes.beehiiv.com/p/walmartsuc...

Retail Nostalgia

Walmart Wasn't Better in the Past, You're Just Nostalgic for a Time When You Weren't There for Hemorrhoid Cream

theservingtimes.beehiiv.com

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isla @demomolos.bsky.social · 1d

that man has no idea he’s entered his real heartland. you are not a cowboy, you are a 1997 Bulls season ticket owner who has been unstuck in time. one polish sausage the genetic memory will kick in and his accent will correct itself from Dallas to Da Bears

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18h

Bank robbers say asking permission to loot vaults would kill the bank robbing industry

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 13h

Life is fleeting. It can end in an instant.
Live it
Love it.
Enjoy it.
Don't dwell or focus on the world ending.
Be a good person.
Leave this place better than you found it.

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 13h

So, yesterday was a light-hearted attempt to add some fun and humor to y'all.
It sucks out there. Sometimes ya gotta smile and laugh

Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 13h

2 - people who believe their time here is almost done have, let's say, interesting ideas about how they treat others and this planet. "Why take care of it for the future, when there isn't going to be a future?"

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 13h

There are A LOT of people right now that are convinced "the end" is coming literally any day now.
2 big issues with that...
1 - there are MANY people in the US who have a lot of power who believe this and want to help it along - see Gaza and our relationship with Israel...

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 14h

For thousands of years people have been predicting the end of the world. Most of these have been based on astronomical events (eclipses, certain full of new moons - holidays were often built around these), calendar changes...
Guess what. They never happened. We are still here.

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 14h

Ok.
So, I had some fun joking about yesterday being rapture day.
I want to be clear that I wasn't making fun of anyone's religious beliefs. I was making fun of people claiming God told them the rapture was happening 2 weeks ago, then, when it didn't they changed it to the last 2 days.

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Tmlinz @tmlinz.bsky.social · 20h

Back to sleep with me.
I'll get you an update with my thoughts later
#RaptureReady

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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