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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1m

He’s at stage 5 (acceptance)

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5m

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26m

I feel like they should be handing these bad boys out in Chicago and Portland

BobbyBless219 @bobbybless219.bsky.social · 8d

Would it make me a terrible person if I were to get an Aztec Death Whistle & used it while everyone was sitting down for coffee & dessert during Christmas???

Everyone is winding down, and then they hear this...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=x12h...

Aztec Death Whistle: The Sound That Terrifies

YouTube video by Aztec Death Whistle

m.youtube.com

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29m

Welcome back, Lucio Fulci

don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 16h

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 36m

How much money do you think DHS has expended so far on punishing this one man

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 37m

Happy Thanksgiving or as we say in Canada, "Canadian Thanksgiving"

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 38m

“I thought they were mad at a vending machine like I am”

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 38m

I will always be amused by lunkheads who discover decades later that Rage Against The Machine’s politics are to the left of their own

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 40m

He must know what he’s doing, let him cook

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 46m

Hegseth’s “No Fatties” decree is in effect

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 47m

Solarass

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 50m

WokeAF leftist

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 50m

A great way to dodge mandatory military service has opened up if you play your carbs right (see what I did there?)

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 53m

It depends

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 55m

They were already gutting the federal workforce so how is this any different

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stalemate in Congress.

Vance warns 'deeper' cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

bit.ly

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 56m

“a culture of ideas” lol

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1h

I love how Caitlin’s main example of Bari Weiss speaking truth to power is a piece about NPR that just goes through the same right-wing tropes about liberal media that we’ve heard a thousand times before.

That she will somehow denigrate the storied
CBS News—it has been reported that some staff members have delivered minatory instructions to not "mess with the Golden Goose(s) of '60 Minutes' and 'CBS News Sunday Morning," as though West 57th Street were the O.K. Corral—is a complete misreading of her and her vision, which is to bring the traditional methods of American journalism back to the news, and also to build a culture of ideas. This is exactly what she's done at The Free Press, which covers a variety of stories, the most popular of which
—Uri Berliner's explanation of NPR's decline, for example—are those that hold powerful institutions to account.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

videos of American citizens being picked off the street by armed state sanctioned thugs are there to be viewed once you are done defending Bari Weiss against any form of criticism

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

You are a living joke if you are more concerned about “the thought-police” than the secret police

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

Sounds good

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

Bingewatching all of Jay Kelly’s movies to get ready for the biopic

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

Is this supposed to be a threat or a promise?

New York Post @nypost.com · 1h

NYPD cops will flee the force if Mamdani is elected, Ray Kelly warns

"He is a problem. He is antisemitic. He is someone who has a lot of crazy ideas," Kelly told Cats, describing the NYPD as a "target" for Mamdani.

nypost.com

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

The ultimate “three tickets for Challengers please” photo

Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in REDS

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

Cue Fanfare: the long-threatened @junkfilterpod.bsky.social series on Prefab Sprout is underway.
Part one is about their origins and their Galaxy Brained debut “Swoon”.
Rob Stammitti (@wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social) and I go track-by-track!

Here’s a preview

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...

Martin McAloon, Wendy Smith and Paddy McAloon, publicity photo from “Swoon”, 1984

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

Oooooeeee there are a lot of people with gags in their hands on this site. Used to be a nice open space for idea exchange.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2h

Spooky Szn

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