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Steve Nesbitt @70dbz.bsky.social · 5h

He’s also cancelled grants to protect Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore from flooding (one was ours), so time to bookmark this one.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 5h

didn't realize Taylor Lorenz changed her username

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weather geohell @fruitbasketnews.bsky.social · 14h

dear liberals,

if you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice and fighting fascism, please wear a paper bag over your head with a frowny face drawn on the outside. it's one small act of solidarity with millions of longtime new york jets fans

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely hilarious that the guy who basically singlehandedly invented overmanaging the bullpen is now the only guy who doesn't do it, because he has a starting rotation literally worth a billion dollars and a bullpen that would give up 5 runs to a beer league team in Quebec.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h

oh good I was worried the utterly unearned Vanity Fair editor job was all she got for violating the most basic rules of journalism

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 7h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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monty @montyburns77893.bsky.social · 12h

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 11h

Saving God and Christianity and bringing church back into people’s lives by saying things like “no longer woke as hell”

Amazing grift machine.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 11h

35+ million women voted for these guys.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 12h

These tornado sirens, big beefy things, came to me tears in their lights and said 'sir, thanks for making us blare out the r word again. Our noise was becoming too woke.' Can you believe that these big beefy sirens would say that? Incredible really.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 13h

"I am currently incorporating day drinking into 8 dimensions simultaneously, thank u for asking."

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 13h

News Analysis | Young Republican operatives expressed their love for Hitler, genocide, and gas chambers 1467 times in leaked Telegram chats. But whether they're truly neo-Nazis remains unclear.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 13h

oh COME ON

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 13h

“I’M NOT CONCERNED” - Susan Collins to me just now about facing Janet Mills or Graham Platner.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 14h

Really stunned to hear this about the Hitler Youth wing of the party.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 18h

It’s amazing how much utter bullshit they learned directly from 1980s televangelism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Eric Trump: "If he wasn't heaven-bound, he wouldn't have been alive after Butler. If he wasn't heaven-bound, that flag wouldn't have folded up like a perfect angel right above his head. If he wasn't heaven-bound, if he wasn't meant for this purpose, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary."

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 18h

Let’s get weird

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 19h

Worst of All Time (WOAT)

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 1d

Just the most insufferable piece of shit.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old af now and I still will never understand "rite of passage" people whose entire M/O is "I suffered so you also have to." Being a decent empathetic person remains free of charge, even in this neverending "tomorrow will be worse" hellscape.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about this rules, lol

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 1d

The Lamar-East Texas A&M 'Bad Beats' segment was an instant classic on SportsCenter with SVP. 🏈📺🎙️💸😂

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.