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Betty Cracker of Florida

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Postcards from the sedge. DMs are painfully awkward if we don’t know each other. Peace, love, gators. 🐊

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · Feb 20

I used to retweet this periodically at The Bad Place because it's the perfect timeline cleanse. Now here. You're welcome.
youtu.be/bS6KWNB5NEo?...

Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub

YouTube video by Viral Reddit

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9m

The thing about Kagan is that... if you show her your juglar, she's gonna go for it. :)

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 40m

When you’re not worried at all about a weak and pathetic press corps calling bullshit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 50m

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 1h

More Susan Collins on the MAGA Repub strategy shift:
“If we can show that we can move the appropriations bills, there’s absolutely no justification or rationale for a government shutdown,”
Completely inaccurate
They're looking everywhere but at the actual issue:
Healthcare

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 1h

Instead of using tax dollars to make healthcare more affordable, the corrupt Trump administration spends OUR money on propaganda.

Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 1h

Axios: "The most expensive political ad campaign of the year is being run by the Department of Homeland Security."

DHS has spent "at least $51 million this year on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, according to AdImpact."

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 2h

Watching “Poldark” on Netflix, and about 80% of it is this. That’s okay. 🤔

Handsome, shirtless, dark-haired man emerging from the sea.

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, mine was like that too. 🤔

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M.K.McDaniels @mkmcdaniels.bsky.social · 14h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

"I do think he needs help, and I don't think anybody around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him any help, because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity."

@jbpritzker.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 14h

Sandhill Cranes raising hell in the background! Didn’t bother the chickadee.

Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 14h

CBS News, network of Murrow and Cronkite, is a right-wing blog now. Sad.

Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 17h

Bathing ibises! #birds

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 20h

I’m a completely different Silverman, but I endorse this message! 👇🏼

Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 7d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
linktr.ee/gildedrage

Gilded Rage | Linktree

A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 3d

This week's comic: What does not belong?

FUN TIME

AMERICA: What does not belong?

APPLE PIE

INVADING US CITIES

BASEBALL

KINGS

STATUE OF LIBERTY

STATUE OF LIBERTY WITH HITLER MOUSTACHE

THE RIGHT TO VOTE

BOOT STOMPING ON HUMAN FACE FOREVER

COMEDIANS MAKING FUN OF PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT FIRING COMEDIANS

HOT DOGS

KING EATING ALL THE HOT DOGS AND APPLE PIES

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 21h

This is Zebby. He finally managed to catch his tail. Super proud of the accomplishment and would like to pretend no one saw the part right after. 12/10 (IG: zebbythegolden)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 21h

Chickadee! #birds

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 22h

Red birds enjoy the spotlight.
Northern Cardinal 🪶

A red cardinal laughs from the top of a feeder

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Jim Vandewalker @jimvan.bsky.social · 1d

After they left you they drove over to my house. Mom & dad & a teenager

Head & shoulders view of a large gray cranes with with a dark red head

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"In what city did you first experience ennui?"

Nihilistic Password Security Questions

What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 1d

Just a note of thanks to the cutest, friendliest Magnolia Warbler I've ever met. It entertained me for days in Central Park's Wildflower Meadow! 💕💕💕 #Warblers #CentralPark #birding

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 1d

Emmer is a lying piece of shit. He's also a "dignity wraith," the apt name @joshtpm.bsky.social came up with to describe GOP pols who lick Trump's tiny wingtips after he craps all over them. (Trump squashed Emmer's speaker bid by calling him a "Globalist RINO.")

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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