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Jane Thurber

@thurberteam.bsky.social

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Strongly pro Carrot Cake. This account is mostly paintings, plants, birds & jokes. The U.S. should use the metric system. The UK should drive on the right side of the road. I made a Starter Pack that is just for fun, no politics, no culture wars.

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · Mar 21

'NO' is a complete sentence.

Jasper Johns @jasperjohns.bsky.social · Mar 21

No http://www.moma.org/collection/works/90693

Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky

Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 6m

Pay attention.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1h

Browser Fingerprinting: What Your Browser Is Telling Everyone About You www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You

Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.

www.wired.com

Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 10m

Please primary Mark Warner

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1h

BTW, Sen. Mark Warner actually raised $3.1 million in 3Q25 ($2.25 million to him directly, plus $100k in other receipts and $772k in transfers from authorized committees) bluevirginia.us/2025/10/virg...

FEC summary page for Sen. Mark Warner's fundraising in 3Q25

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00438713/1920271/

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 45m

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 27m

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

www.theverge.com

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TheIneptBirder @theineptbirder.bsky.social · 24m

Protest flyer: NO KINGS, October 18, First Locally: Bexley, Cambridge, Clintonville, Delaware, German Village, Grandview, Grove City, Hilliard, Lancaster, London, Marion, Mount Vernon, New Albany, Newark, Pickerington, Reynoldsburg, Springfield, Sunbury, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Zanesville; FIND YOUR LOCAL EVENT: nokings.org/#map
Then join us at the OHIO STATEHOUSE, 4-5:30PM

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 20m

praying mantis statue at second time around, route 30, boswell, pennsylvania, 1984

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 24m

Gavin Newsome is still slimy, skeevy, & untrustworthy, part 5739.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1h

Carbon Lifeforms is back! chuffed to be on their ep on waste and recycling. My first proper job was in the waste management dept of a local authority, I worked there for years and I know a lot about the market we have in the country for source separated glass

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Carbon Lifeforms - Next on

Upcoming episodes of Carbon Lifeforms

www.bbc.co.uk

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 56m

The growth of Santander Consumer, a company created by Portland Trail Blazers buyer Tom Dundon, was fueled by subprime borrowers.

Filings show the average credit score on its loans was below 540, and two-thirds of its loans had interest rates over 20%.

Portland Trail Blazers Buyer Tom Dundon Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans

In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.

www.propublica.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 2h

Oh look

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

Page One.

@wsj.com

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SRtwofourfour @srtwofourfour.bsky.social · 2h

Pie line is gonna be crazy this year winding around the Pike-opalypse … #columbiapike

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 2h

Next year, in Virginia, with Governor Spanberger

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2h

All signs point to the government shutdown continuing on with no end in sight. Much more in today's 'Regular Order' from Capitol Hill. jamiedupree.substack.com/p/shutdown-l...

Shutdown likely to extend into next week

Most reporters out as Pentagon confiscates press badges

jamiedupree.substack.com

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 2h

Evergreen 🌲

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 3h

Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025

the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data

www.ft.com/content/5392...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 3h

plot twist

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3h

tldr - the third witness statement shows the government was providing relevant evidence and was not seeking to spike the prosecution.

The CPS decision to drop the prosecution seems perverse.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.

Prescription drug coverage options are shrinking for Medicare shoppers

Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.

bit.ly

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

hello consider this a reminder, in case people missed it last week, that I've launched a new quarterly night in London called the Outsiders Arts Club where people will be able to buy great affordable art and ask dumb questions to an art professional: outsidersartsclub.com

thanks, bye

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 2h

He is fabulous & this show only goes thru the late 1960s. He lived to be 100, there is so much more Thiebaud to see. He's a very California-centered painter.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

Nigel Farage wants to:

- dismantle the NHS as it currently exists
- stop 'low skill/low wage' health workers from coming in.
- deport some existing health workers

And yet quite a lot of people now trust him on the NHS. FFS.

His ratings on this must surely be very vulnerable in a general election.

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 4h

Public trust in Labour as being the strongest party on the NHS is waning, with Reform only three percentage points behind, according to research shared with PolHome

It shows that the NHS is "wide open" as an issue, the Health Foundation think tank told @zoecrowther.bsky.social

The NHS Is Now 'Wide Open' As An Issue As Narrows Labour's Lead

Public trust in Labour as being the strongest party on the NHS is waning, with Reform UK only three percentage points behind, according to research...

www.politicshome.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 3h

clicked this to check it was not, in fact, The Onion. It's not.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3h

Neo-Confederacy planning moves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 4h

The Lecornu government squeaks past the censure motion thanks to the Socialists. But at some point, their leader, recently re-elected with just 50.9% of the vote, will have to break with the gvmnt, barring big policy concessions, or he’ll be toast.

Yes, I’m saying this could be Faure’s Requiem.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 3h

This has sold out, but anyone around Marylebone Lane tomorrow is welcome to join the after party at the Modernist Book Fair in the Vitsoe showrooms from 6.30pm -- free and open to all. In celebration of The Modernist mag issue 55.

No need to book -- just turn up. There may even be drinks.

Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 26d

I'm doing another tour of modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia for the @themodernist.bsky.social at their marvellous book fair. Quite possibly the only walking tour with an after party. Sign up here:

the-modernist.org/products/mod...

Modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia - walk Friday 17/10/25

An architectural walking tour around Marylebone and Fitzrovia with journalist and founder of London Mondern, Helen Barrett. Part of The Modernist Book fair 2024.

the-modernist.org

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 3h

To mark #WorldFoodDay, 10% of all our sales go to Bookbanks 16-19 October. Snap up a book and you'll be supporting indie bookshops AND helping to get books into foodbanks with us: uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...

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