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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 1d

guys stop being mean to mike johnson, they lock him in a windowless room all day and don't let him use his phone. He can't even get porn updates from his son!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 2d

they have yuri chips at homegoods

A bag of vegetable chips that evokes the feeling of a YA fantasy romance novel

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 5d

real love is my cat clawing at me when I try to rub her belly but not when I put my entire face in her belly like she is a pillow. ❤️

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 5d

I would love a 24 hour "yell at Mike Johnson" hotline, at least until the shutdown ends.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d

Caller: Hearing you say that everyone is smiling in the cities where troops and the National Guard have been deployed feels dystopian and insane

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 5d

Despite myself I looked at the comments of Hasan's video about it and it was the same 3 dudes in every reply thread telling people Hasan was up into the night altering the shock collar, desperate to hide his lies. Wtf are sloptubers doing to people's brains?

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans are doing everything they can to punish Americans for the shutdown they caused & I fear dem leadership is so weak they will just let it happen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 8d

My kingdom for a primary challenger 😞

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 8d

Just passing along the news. #kysen

Amy McGrath is Running for Senate

YouTube video by Amy McGrath

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 8d

I don't see openly maga dudes out in the wild very often but when I do they're always acting weird. why are you kneeling in the grocery store to take pictures of the food on the shelves for over 5 minutes and then leave without buying anything?? Snacks too woke??

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 11d

Spirit Halloween has what you need if anyone wants to do a Steven Miller display this year.

Pale & vacant looking prop dummy being sold at spirit halloween for 79.99.

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 13d

saying "I don't understand why I'm supposed to care about that" when someone comes at you with a stupid culture war grievance makes me feel so powerful

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 14d

are we at the part of the movie where people start defying orders they know are immoral yet

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 14d

one of the best things about neopets to me was each pet having its own unique html page you could edit like baby's first geocities.

(Semi-related but the in universe NEWSPAPER was also so cool 😭. So much weirdo preteen art & writing in that bad boy)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15d

A couple folks have called today and said they got through to people, which means we are not crashing the lines nearly enough.

Call, y'all. Even if you're never called before. Especially if you have a democratic senator who you don't trust to hold the line.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 28d

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown.

[you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt.

[you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it.

[you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 15d

played Hades II for too long today and actually wore down the thumb stick so bad the controller was covered in rubber shavings. I have a problem ❤️

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 20d

My mother is offline (news-wise) and she had no idea who he was. After finding out the things he had said she was very confused why people were being expected to drop to their knees for a white supremacist. I do have to wonder how many normal folks out there are feeling like my mom did.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 20d

Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 20d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

line———

Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 20d

Oh no I think I understand labubus now. This is my son.

A plush from the Twinkle Twinkle collectible series. He is a little yellow fluffy star themed guy with a pink face, holding a little blue book.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 21d

oh my goodness!! He is adorable, also that is the highest quality costume I've ever seen on a toddler! He looks ready for the high seas!

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 21d

Common sense is so often just "I did not think very hard about this or consult any experts" + 'vibes' disguised as a logical argument.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 21d

Gonna take some Tylenol to make my autism stronger & more powerful.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 23d

shocking: 32 y/o homeowner realizes that they should probably enrich their life with hobbies instead of smoking weed and playing video games all day. tragic!!

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 25d

kat rocks and is braver than anyone in office right now.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 25d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 25d

imagining some guy in 1940 saying this to the census dork just to get him off his damn porch

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 25d

Peculiar Johnson

United States, Census, 1940

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 26d

talking to a coworker and slowly realizing your news consumption choices mean you live in completely separate realities...

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 26d

"Got any book recommendations about the lives of German citizens in, say, the 1930s? haha, no reason" I say to the government agent stationed at my local books-a-million.

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