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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 5h

My house went with a similar vibe this year.

3 ghosts and a spooky wreath displayed in front windows of a house.

bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 15h

IDK, it’s pretty hard to get past the project 2025 debacle, which was hardly the only disastrous media failure that year.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 17h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 1d

Alaska Community Foundation is the link. Donate if you can; re-post helps, too. Thank you. #Alaska #AlaskaFlooding

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

good afternoon

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 3d

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t give them any ideas! 😉

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe someone saw those good articles, or maybe they only glanced at this disgusting headline/phot juxtaposition (the only part most people read) and got the impression that the president isn’t completely insane (the opposite of the truth). bsky.app/profile/cnn....

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 5d

This is a good paragraph, but I think the larger point is that if any other president were constantly ranting about things that were utterly delusional, it would (rightly) dominate news coverage in a way that it currently isn’t and that represents a catastrophic failure in media.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing but respect for this level of hating.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 5d

a poster for a movie called salty shows a girl in a yellow dress

ALT: a poster for a movie called salty shows a girl in a yellow dress

media.tenor.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 6d

I’m just asking. I could be remembering it wrong.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll always have a soft spot for MGD.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 6d

Was he the guy who said that baseball can’t be that hard because Dominicans are good at it?

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 6d

Where do you see the governors race in nj?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 7d

Igor Stravinsky died AFTER Jimi Hendrix.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 7d

Very classy of Georgia tech to take their foot off the gas and only score 7 touchdowns in the 4th quarter.

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bknox.bsky.social @bknox.bsky.social · 7d

Nobody in human history has ever had more than 12 friends.

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