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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 19h

I want to punish rural counties and all red states after all this ngl.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 21h

This guy goes Fetterman I'm going to freak the fuck out

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Maine’s upstart Senate candidate @grahamformaine.bsky.social tells @lauren-egan.bsky.social he is a different breed of Democrat than Gov. Janet Mills—but not a progressive. Subscribe and watch it here:

Exclusive: Graham Platner Makes the Case for Doing ‘Something Different’

Watch now | Maine’s upstart Senate candidate tells The Bulwark he is a different breed of Democrat than Gov. Janet Mills—but not a progressive.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

See this for what it is:
*Trump wants to make the military/FBI loyal to him
*GOP refuses bipartisan legislation to pay the military
*Trump creates a new executive power: that he and he alone decides if the military/FBI is paid during shutdown

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Also fucking gross. Because RFK jr is an extremely gross human being and also he's very gross looking and sounding I hate him.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Lol yep.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get the sense she fucked RFK for the story, I get the sense that she did the story so she could fuck RFK

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Nothing wrong but nothing to celebrate as virtue either!

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

A whole lot of people, most of them on the Right, were just never ready for the internet like at all their little weird pea brains just scrambled eggs since at least 2016.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

remarkable

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Elon Musk,

You’ve become genuinely evil. I’m incredibly grateful for that day I backed out. Fuck you.

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This is not emotionally lashing out at you. This is how I feel in complete sincerity after evaluating both the good and the bad about you.

You’re not who you used to be. You’ve become a form of yourself that disgusts me. I will never have your babies.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Bro we been taxiing around for 20 mins now taking rights taking lefts speeding up slowing down wtf is going on here lol.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Taxiing around at Chicago OHare always always takes as long as the flight it took to get here.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Literally wall the cities off and let these freaks fend for themselves for once.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Fuck them rurals tbh.

NPR @npr.org · 23h

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometimes hostile. n.pr/4nRqsdT

In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometimes hostile.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Also the owner of In and Out (inherited it) is a total Nazi bitchkunt

The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

The fries are so superior at Shake Shack it's not even close In and Out has awful fries tbh.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Also
Shake Shack >>>>> In and Out

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Most airports seem to have a Shake Shack in them and this is the only good thing about America rn.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Every time I'm in rural America I think to myself "you know what would look really cool here is a bunch of A-10s and Spectre gunships overhead just turning this shithole town full of shithole people into dust"

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

This person will just radicalize further rather than become a better person by updating any priors. Anyways I'm glad people are tossing her out of their lives she's a bad person like the rest of them.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23h

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Muh Dollar Store

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 22h

Lol uh huh

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 1d

In better news I'm flying to Chicago to pick up a 2024 Chevy Colorado ZR2 with all the cool options today will be a fun drive back to Bozeman.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 1d

I'm talkin Nazi mountain heaven over there

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"It's very bad that military paychecks depend upon the willingness of the President politicizing the military to dig into the treasury, as opposed to it being a bipartisan matter of law"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Newsom the only one doing this holy crap

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom calls for a congressional investigation into GOP groups after leaked messages exposed antisemitic and racist comments in a Young Republicans group chat.

Gavin Newsom calls for congressional investigation into GOP chat messages

The California governor’s formal request to the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to open an investigation comes a day after POLITICO's bombshell report revealed explicit messages f...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

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