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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 4h

Jake & Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers, are sitting in their car, stuck in traffic, looking annoyed. A speech balloon is coming out of Jake's mouth as though he is saying the text in the quoted post.

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It’s perversely funny that he literally talks about “small, mom-and-pop lenders” as if that’s a thing, and that thing is not called loansharking.

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

Young Republicans group chat.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15h

18th century ghostbusters used to say “bursting makes me feel grand.” I am an historianist.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

"You will only get paid if you kiss His Majesty's ring" is an interesting hill to die on, but I say go for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · 1d

Mods are asleep, post Whoopi Goldberg as an old white businessman in The Associate (1996).

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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