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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · 2d

In a weird bit of history repeating itself, Mussolini impeachment also started with people in Portland protesting dressed in frog costumes. There's hope!

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · 3d

The belt is made of quahog shells

Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · 3d

My middle school AV room

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 8d

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 8d

The lawlessness of this administration is stunning.

Ignoring budgets passed by Congress.

Going after opponents.

Political purges at the Pentagon.

Federal agents abusing Americans.

If Republicans think I’m going to fund that, they’re out of their god damn minds.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 8d

I keep going back to Karoline Leavitt citing hospitals having to cover the cost of uncompensated care in the ER not as a reason to increase reimbusement for uncompensated care but as a reason to let people die.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 10d

Please, take it from a Californian born and bred: you cannot trust Gavin Newsom. I don’t care if he has Good Posters working for him; he’ll sell vulnerable people down the river without blinking an eye.

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 11d

$4 joker in Balatro

Hatin’ Ass Brian @hatinassbrian.bsky.social · 11d

just enjoying being a Normal Shaped Person

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Albumism @albumism.com · 16d

Souls of Mischief released their debut album ‘93 ‘til Infinity’ 32 years ago on September 28, 1993 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/SOM93til

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · 19d

So, not great?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21d

It's insane that we have a president who is so disconnected from truth and reality that he just repeats ridiculous rumors during his press conference and doesn't think anything of it. And equally insane that we have a press corp that just ignores it.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21d

Trump: There's a rumor and I don't know if it's so or not—that Cuba, they don't have tylenol because they don't have the money for tylenol, and they have virtually no autism

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21d

Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent…

Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · 23d

Bong rips and coffee. PPR Questionable JSN or Devonta Smith. Is it the sniffles or does JSN have the plague?

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 25d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25d

Tough week for me, a guy who always confuses "jawboning" with "scrimshaw."

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ACLU @aclu.org · 26d

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr putting pressure on ABC affiliates to suspend Jimmy Kimmel over his comments on Charlie Kirk is beyond McCarthyism.

Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to silence ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke.

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · 26d

If some American placed an order on Monday, will it still be shipped?

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Snopes @snopes.com · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk said some gun deaths are "worth it" in order to have the Second Amendment, years before he was shot and killed in Utah. www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Charlie Kirk once said some gun deaths 'worth it' in order to have Second Amendment

The Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder made the remarks while answering a question during a TPUSA Faith event in April 2023.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wild how normalized the words "safe parking lot for unhoused schoolchildren" have become in this country.

Safe parking lot for unhoused schoolchildren appears to have new lease on life

San Diego leaders move forward with a plan to help homeless students and their families with secure overnight parking at a former school in City Heights.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Sep 8

"I don't consider domestic abuse a crime," is a pretty core tenet of conservative ideology, tbh.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Was that Jefferson book any good?

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Pat Dunn @dunner.bsky.social · Sep 7

...CTE. I hate that I love this sport so much