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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 1m

Charlie Kirk's saving him a seat.

We just won't say where.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 10m

At this point, anyone who is participating in this administration as a masked agent is to be considered a fully-complicit co-conspirator and deserves no respect for their "actual mission."

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 17m

He's 93??

Are they trying to make Trump look young and spry?

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 27m

We need Ben Wittes to project Jesus looking disapproving on a wall Trump can see looking out his bedroom window at 2 a.m.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 34m

Whoops -- that prize just slipped out of his fingers again.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 38m

Now do your jobs and start doing some Woodward/Bernstein-level reporting and blow this administration wide open.

Start with Trump's health.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 9h

Sue him, and once the House reconvenes, throw him out.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 9h

I'm starting to believe that redistricting games may not be necessary and that a fair number of Republican seats could be lost because more and more people are starting to wake up and realize they've been backing the wrong horse and are on the wrong side of history.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing Hegseth and Trump tried for war crimes would make an otherwise awful year infinitely better.

Heck, let's throw in Kristi Noem for good measure.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 20h

*after their first five-week vacation less than two months ago.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 21h

But we do have a trans woman in the House who represents more people than any other single representative (an entire state, as a matter of fact), and try as you might, she's not going anywhere, Pasty Boy.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 22h

Time to do Reconstruction right this time.

No mercy.

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 22h

Money can be clawed back.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 22h

He was the choice on one of the other days I posted.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 22h

The Count of Mostly Crisco says what?

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 22h

Didn't then-governor Kristi Noem talk tough on just that topic last year?

Maybe dig up that clip and run it on a loop.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 22h

Hegseth removed the only leverage over journalists he might have had.

He can't re-remove the credentials of journalists, so while they'll now have to work a bit harder to gather information, they no longer need to clutter their stories with the official party line of lies.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 23h

Barely. They just announced that the Jet Propulsion Labratory in California is laying off 500 people today.

That's after laying off 900 already.

www.reuters.com/business/wor...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 23h

I've been saying this since the shutdown started.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 23h

Fortunately, a treason conviction usually comes with the death penalty.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 23h

Cool.

Now maybe they can do some real reporting using leaks from the inside without having to spew the official party line in their stories.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I'd teach my son something interesting by sending him this article.

Turns out he's been using this video to help him sleep for years.

youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM?...

5 Hours of The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4!

YouTube video by icannotgetafreename

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 1d

Because indoctrinating kids is far more important to their social development than attending school with kids from their own neighborhood and community. 🙄

Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 1d

I think it would have taken a bit more than that for her to win -- like maybe not rigging the election.

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Holy Guacamole! @holeeguacamole.bsky.social · 1d

So, short answer: It's complicated.

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