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Mikepole @michaeldrummey.bsky.social · 1h

So you agree. Republicans, especially conservative men are infantile and underdeveloped, and not qualified for their positions nor their roles in government, making them a DEI hire per your own definition of “unqualified”.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 6h

Therapist: what should you do when you’re feeling depressed?
Me: get drunk?
T: no
M: get high?
T:No….
M: eat my feelings?
T: … …
Me: go to bed early?
T: I guess that’s a little better
Me: read?
T: you know what, I’ll take it
Me: all the above?
T: *throws notebook and leaves*

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 6h

I wanna join in!

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 19h

Oh this is gonna be so bad. I’ll be sat!

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 1d

The sequel to ‘RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE’ has officially been titled ‘RED, WHITE & ROYAL WEDDING’

Starring Taylor Zakhar Perez & Nicholas Galitzine.

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 19h

My coworkers were talking about fed reducing rates like it just happened today. I was thinking “guys, that was last month”

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 19h

I did the proper millennial thing. I told him to email me the details instead of a phone call.

Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

This recruiter is dogged in trying to contact me

Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 7d

A recruiter is calling me about a job. I do like my current job and pay, but would like better location. Should I call him back?

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 22h

Hoping to hear my republican coworkers talk about their kids being upset for not getting a lot of Halloween candy

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Tax, surcharge, you can call it what you want, but tariffs are still the government willfully making things more expensive. And in this case, the decision is made by one guy

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. TSY SECY BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

😁

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

But a 6’5” man is fine

a close up of elmo from sesame street with big eyes and a yellow beak .

ALT: a close up of elmo from sesame street with big eyes and a yellow beak .

media.tenor.com

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Husband too

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately I was too dumb to think of that today

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

I have had that. Also applies to hangovers/oaths to never drink again

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I know it! No one looks at me and say I’m obese, but bmi practically has me on my deathbed. But if it lets me get vaxxed for Covid 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Probably true. But I’m an engineer. I’m methodical 😬

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

I’m more focused on foods, not supplements. I know plants based food sometimes suffer from lacking all amino acids needed to count as a full protein, and I want a tabular reference to combo right

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Would having an obese BMI count as a risk category?

Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Got my flu vaccine. Couldn’t get the Covid one though.

Now that I think of it, I think the pharmacist was trying to lead me to a loophole condition so I could get it, and I didn’t catch on…

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Turning Point, I have a really important name to add to your list of people to get fired for mocking Charlie Kirk

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

The matrix was right. The 90s were the peak of human civilization.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Does anybody have a good reference for plant based food amino acids content? I’m not going full vegetarian but I want to reduce meat consumption, but still want to get complete proteins

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that. Of course the “worst of the worst” aren’t walking the streets going to average workaday jobs, like the ICE thugs are targeting

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

When you lose Fox News, as one of its former employees…

This could be funny. I imagine Hegseth and Fox know a lot about each other…

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

News organizations, including Hegseth's former employer Fox, reject new Pentagon reporting rules

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

bit.ly

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Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

But what if they asked what condition? I didn’t have that prepared!

Brandton 🏳️‍🌈 @brandtonwithad.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know enough about the politics and personalities of the Maine senate candidates to weigh in much. But running a candidate that makes Susan Collins seem young in comparison after the party in general ran off a president for being old might not be the best look.

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