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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 23m

Ok tall folks, best workout shirts that are long enough?

I had a few old Nikes that were great but I've nearly worn them to threads.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 38m

Oh shit. He said it out loud. This shutdown is specifically about the Epstein Files. He fucking admitted it.

By the way if you think he's gonna seat her after they stop the shutdown, he won't. She will never be seated. Ever. This is shutdown is entirely about the Epstein Files for Trump and Mike

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 44m

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 40m

All kids are OUR kids.

Ones in your kids class. Ones on the wrong side of the tracks. Ones in cities. Ones in the boonies. ones whose parents vote like idiots. Kids in Palestine, & Kenya, & Europe.

And we should do everything we can to protect them, to feed them, to give them a better world.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 44m

Thought the same thing about the interstate going right across the lakes in Albert Lea.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 46m

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

Red Green in front of the possum Lodge van that is painted like a possum.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 52m

Pretty sure it's illegal for ICE to intentionally ram residents' vehicles, damaging government property and endangering multiple lives in the process

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 3h

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 51m

Price increases for "things" under Donald Trump:

Coffee is up 26%
Baby strollers are up 25%
Beef is up 14%
School supplies are up 7%
Electricity is up 5%

Car prices are at a RECORD high.

And thanks to Republicans in Congress, health insurance premiums are about to DOUBLE.

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Senator "boogers.com" Meatlord @hontdog.bsky.social · 1h

The moment that the people who actually created the work are all dead, that work should enter the public domain.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 1h

Line cutting is a sign of moral weakness and poor character that presages additional ethical shortcomings.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 1h

Gambling should be confined to actual casinos. Sports-betting should be banned outright.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 1h

Hobbies make you a better person.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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Boba Fête but a Werewolf @theodinspire.com · 1h

Suburbs should pay tribute to the cities from which they derive and extract their wealth

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1h

That is incredible.

Storytelling, whether via music, movies, or the written word, really is humanity's superpower.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1h

To an extent but it seems Bernie is still well outpacing her in the young folks dept

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1h

I hate lotteries and think they should be illegal

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1h

not returning your shopping cart is a sign of moral decay. if you abandon your shopping cart in the parking lot, seek therapy or perhaps jesus

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1h

Told my wife a few years back that I'm going to make a list of books/movies/music I want to re-experience for the first time if I ever have memory loss.

I need to make that list.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1h

If Bernie dies while still in office without a real successor to the movement, that's a lot of young voters who are gonna be wild cards.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
01
25
50
Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
40000
30000
20000
10000
Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
75
Donor Age

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h

I am late doing my birthday reflection because the fascism & my powerlifting, tbh. But I have one after %#!? years on earth:

Some people make you feel good. Some people don’t. If you work hard to spend time with the former and little to none with the latter, about 70% of your problems go away.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1h

I was thinking about that the other day.

The post AI crash might be a good time to buy, assuming any of us are working.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 2h

No children? Then how did they get to be parents I wonder.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2h

glad to see the chat described accurately

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be remov...

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

A mysterious group *tricked* them into hanging swastikas.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss”

The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder.

Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo.

One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.”

Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera.

It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 2h

This seems like the kind of thing our GOP gov, senators, and reps wouldn't want to see happen.

But we always get run over bc they know those idiots will fall in line.

h'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social · 4h

Specifically: spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

San Antonio to lose 2 Army command centers to North Carolina

The two command centers will move from Fort Sam Houston to Fort Bragg as the Army consolidates.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 2h

It has always bewildered me since I was little, heading out for back to school shopping and the majority of the stuff was winter based for winters we don't even have.

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