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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 48m

With the 2025 State Fair of Texas coming to an end, the official attendance numbers are in. About 400,000 fewer people visited this year.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 17h

#Florida man Tom Petty was born on this day in Gainesville in 1950. If you ever saw him play, you got lucky.

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thebobbygee @thebobgoodman.bsky.social · 20h

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

It’s like they fed a bunch of mobster movies into ChatGPT and then beat it with sticks until it shat out the most garbled mafia boss preening imaginable

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Harvard: "We reached a concept of a deal but it's pretty complicated bc under this deal it would be $500m, they're gonna open up trade schools. I love the idea of trade & trade schools by Harvard. You know, they get into like a vocational-type school... we may just charge them a $500m fine"

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SvSalon🦕 @svsalon.bsky.social · 6h

When Trump destroyed art deco in New York news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News

Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

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lvnvrcd.bsky.social @lvnvrcd.bsky.social · 8h

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SvSalon🦕 @svsalon.bsky.social · 6h

In my local town, the old buildings that get a tax break cannot be modified and are governed by a historical commission. I’m appalled that Trump is ruining the White House itself without permission or oversight

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 11h

so this is what old age feels like

a guardian article that says "‘Six-seven’: what does the latest slang mean (and should parents be worried)?" with a stock photo of a kid

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SvSalon🦕 @svsalon.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, is that Monica Brown? scsalon.org/index.php/20... I need to watch the movie.

Book Banner Kookery in Granbury, Initiated by Constable Scott London Who Wanted To Charge Librarians with Felonies (Hood County)

I am against local law authorities trying to criminalize librarians. If an area has an-Somervell County Salon

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Christine Anderson @christine414.bsky.social · 1d

If he can redistrict whenever he wants, why can’t we have an election when we we want? They are the ones throwing the constitution out the window.

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wizard prang @wzrdprang.bsky.social · 16h

I wish a "reporter" would ask him what day it is.

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Anthony Camilo @gargolito.bsky.social · 1d

The next no kings protest should be scheduled with his next golf outing.

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SvSalon🦕 @svsalon.bsky.social · 12h

I want the *conservative* members of the Supreme Court now to be remembered in the same way Taney is.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 13h

After Roger Taney died in 1864, Congress considered a bill to spend $1,000 to add a marble bust of Taney to the busts of all the other former chief justices. One senator objected by arguing that he'd rather spend $2,000 to hang him in effigy; another just joked that Taney was burning in hell.

Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do

Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 1d

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: SCOTUS will decide in United States v. Hemani whether the statute that bars addicts from possessing firearms violated the 2nd amendment. This is the same charge Hunter Biden faced.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 1d

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 13h

Golden age panel. A white haired man with glasses in the green suit is wiping his brow. He has a hand on the shoulder of a police officer as Batman silently watches on. Old man says, “Gentleman, the sculpture show is sponsored by a conservative patron. This unfavorable publicity would put us in a bad light… He might withdraw his support!“
The officer replies with a hand held palm up, “Don’t worry, I’ll see that this is kept out of the papers!“

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SvSalon🦕 @svsalon.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking about good person Kenny Loggins this morning reading about his request to have disgusting Trump remove the song "Danger Zone" from the obscene video Trump made in AI. Kenny Loggins is pretty wonderful (Footloose, House in Pooh Corner, Rainbow Bridge). SHAME ON DJT youtu.be/_iV4mol-Otw

Kenny Loggins - Return to Pooh Corner (from Outside: From The Redwoods)

YouTube video by KennyLogginsVEVO

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SvSalon🦕 @svsalon.bsky.social · 15h

www.thewrap.com/kenny-loggin...

Kenny Loggins Wants 'Danger Zone' Removed From AI 'King Trump' Truth Social Video

"I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us," the singer says

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Can someone on a Sunday show interviewing a Republican member of Congress please play a damn montage of Trump, Vance and Hegseth making speeches to active duty military trashing Democrats and ask them if they think that is appropriate?

Asking for a Republic.

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

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

Trump’s fantasy of having one of his apparently uncontrollable liquid shits land on the American flag

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Rubio came before Congress and said nobody was dying as a result of his foreign aid cuts. It's not true. Children are starving and dying because of this administration's cruelty.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

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