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Handsome Ralph

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Oh boy, social media! That's where I'm a viking! Semi-lapsed historian, current network engineer. Consumer of beer, caffeine, history, sports, stats, sci-fi, and video games. Mod and contributor w/ @askhistorians.bsky.social

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Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · Oct 27

This is the future liberals want.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · 19h

This and "Let's just bring our personal phones into the SCIF. As a treat."

Okay I'm lying, there's a ton of shit wrong with this movie but I'm mid-Battlefield session so my complaining will have to wait for another time.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

Watching A House of Dynamite and really enjoying it so far, but the scene in which the Deputy National Security Advisor takes a call about a likely nuclear strike while wearing AirPods amid a crowd of tourists is too much.

Might as well Signal chat a journalist about it at that point

NSC - Dep NSA Baerington
I'm sorry, sir. I just, um...
I'm almost at the White House.

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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 21h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

from people magazine

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for
'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps.
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson |
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine

Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42
Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire
The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown
By Bailey Richards
Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

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Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · 1d

I need a time machine or a fax machine capable of sending faxes to 1942.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆

He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

two frames:
- first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?"
- second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

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Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · 1d

Eat shit, Ryan.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 2d

THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

buying giant skeletons this weekend

trading places movie where Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy are buying frozen concentrated orange juice futures on a trading floor for a very low price

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Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social · 3d

we’re out of the country this Halloween so here’s our couple costume from last year (previously a Twitter exclusive)

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 2d

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friggin_dingus @friggin-dingus.bsky.social · 3d

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

i strongly encourage the white house to make vance the face of their shutdown defense, i cannot think of a better man for the job, this defense is flawlessly persuasive, keep it up

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Mainstream pundits repeatedly scolded Dems, telling their viewers and readers that the polling would turn and Dems would get blamed. Didn't happen. The pundits are living in an alternate reality mediated by Twitter and have lost touch with reality.

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 4d

👀 NEW: Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, per new @washingtonpost.com poll.

Independents blame Trump and Republicans more than Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin, 46% to 23%.

More: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · 4d

The bit about the Gulf War is annoying too, not that he's wrong, but acting like the defense industry and DoD were unaware that China saw the Gulf War as a wakeup call.

It's basic knowledge at this point.

Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · 4d

Journalists when you threaten them.

Screencap of blurb from a Wikipedia article on the Korean Axe Murder Incident describing how South Korean commandos put M18 Claymore mines on their chests and held the firing mechanisms while daring North Korean soldiers to engage them.

Handsome Ralph @handsomeralph.bsky.social · 4d

David Cicilline, come on down!

Combo as a former congresscritter and former mayor of a large city.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4d

We need at least one obscure former Senator/congresscreature that makes you go "oh yeah they exist!", a weird business guy no one has ever heard of with delusions of grandeur, a former mayor of a large city, an absolute woo weirdo and John Delaney

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?

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jolly jas 🎄🎀 @jazzybean.bsky.social · 5d

Oh Ms. Rachelllllll

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Brandi, #1 Louvre Ladder Salesperson 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 4d

Canada:

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🥧 Hot Apple Pie Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 5d

Alternately:

155% tax rates for billionaires at home, 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad, and 155 SEC investigations into Ticketmaster

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

i'm a classical social democrat. i think we should raise tax on the upper tax brackets, increase broad-based tax enforcement, and provide universal programs on transit, housing, and healthcare. this apparently is viewed as neoliberalism

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

you get the feeling that half of the people involved want like, Dubai/Saudi style taxation but leftistly

Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, you will pay more taxes. I will pay more taxes. In exchange, no one will ever have to worry about going bankrupt because of medical bills again.

I am in favor of that trade-off.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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