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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, when I saw this earlier today, I misread it as being from KaSh. A fellow scarer-of-sheep if there ever was one.

twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

It would be better yet if one or 100 of those 100 people got a spine now and signed the discharge petition, do an end run around Johnson's bullshit.

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 10h

Someone should tell him Ghislane Maxwell founded Antifa, and releasing the Epstein files will prove it.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 15h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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."

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 11h

He'll go for the guns, too, once there's an actual leftist shooting.

twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Be sure to use a macro lens so that you can actually point out their peen.

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Lower population growth as the president presses ahead with mass deportations will knock between 0.5 and one percentage points off America’s GDP growth between mid-2025 and mid-2026, according to S&P Global Ratings.”

@telegraphnews.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

If Chicago were an actual war zone, Trump Tower wouldn't be standing.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Does it though? If they are growing crops that nobody wants or buys, it seems like nobody is getting fed. Corn for auto fuel, soy for foreign markets, neither protects food security in the US.

twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

"Actually boot treads are really, really good for your skin."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

They have something like a 10pm noise curfew on flights due to being in such a heavily populated area, so some of those later flights are likely being cancelled.

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this will start to motivate the media companies, as the Burbank airport is key to their execs and talent getting around.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Whoever on your team, @moderation.bsky.app who has marked images of a disabled person attaching prosthetics as “Explicit Sexual Images” appears to be admitting to acrotomophilia …

that person should perhaps be removed from the role of Moderation …

Because disability isn’t “Explicit Sexual Images”

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

According To your own account @moderation.bsky.app “Adult Content” is
“Explicit sexual images”

A clothed person who is missing an eye and a leg is not “Explicit Sexual Images”

A clothed disabled person who is putting on their prosthetics is not “Explicit Sexual Images”

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Can Elon control where they touch down? Just asking for a friend.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected?
Circular graph showing over half answered: much more than I expected, about a quarter: more than I expected, about an eighth: similar threat to what I expected, small sliver: much less threat than I expected.

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe next year they could hire Matt Stone and Trey Parker to do the halftime show, stage a mini-musical.

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky about to pull a Target.

Look, if your core is known to lean left, and you yank the wheel hard right, you know what happens? You lose your user base AND the people who mocked you as a left wing bubble aren’t gonna come on board.

Twitter exists already. Techies out here reinventing Twitter

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twistmeyer.bsky.social @twistmeyer.bsky.social · 3d

It's customary for an invading army to handle its own logistics. ICE can dine on MREs, or eat the food they are offering at their detention centers along with their prisoners.

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