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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 7h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

OH MY GOD SOMEBODY TEACH HIM MATH!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Drug prices went down for the year by 1/8 of 1 percent. Now I'm getting them down, Maria, 500, 600, 800 percent. In some cases even more than that. It's hard to believe."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Mark my words, within a year or two we will have the original unedited version of Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started" playing at a white house function lol

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Been ranting for 2 years about how this song was going to come back, incredibly sad to see it finally has.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 1d

I read somewhere that up until like 200 yrs ago it ran east-west then randomly one year completely re-routed to its present orientation. Must have been terrifying/catastrophic for the locals at the time

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 1d

It would be cool to have a normal river that isn't a concrete eyesore 90% of the time but here's a great demonstration of why we don't.
youtube.com/shorts/hnSlO...

LA River before and after first storm of fall season

YouTube video by NBCLA

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Citizen Shane (spooky) @shanesheehy.bsky.social · 2d

RIP to Drew Struzan, creator of some of the best poster art that film has ever seen.

Poster for The Thing (1982) by Drew Struzan

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

if nothing else, take a little time to read the wikipedia article, which has a graphic that somehow always makes me think of the "trade offer" meme

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbi...

graphic from the wikipedia article on the Columbian Exchange, which shows corn, turkey, syphilis, and smoking being exchanged from the new world to the old, with wheat, cattle, smallpox, and Christianity going the other way

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 4d

They’re so mad that there’s food getting into Gaza

Israeli Telegram @israeligram.observer · 4d

Source

Telegram post from News on time on Telegram - the largest news group in Israel, translated from Hebrew:

Egyptian television:
Today, about 400 humanitarian aid trucks are expected to enter the Gaza Strip

https://t.me/newsil2022

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 4d

One of the greatest scenes in all of cinema
youtu.be/_mrNhIxOGzw?...

The Sting | Paul Newman Cons a Con Man in a High-Stakes Poker Game in 4K HDR

YouTube video by Universal Pictures

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 4d

Dudes have rarely ever rocked this hard

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 5d

this is maybe the most insane editing i've ever seen. the fact that this is a basic lib and not some esoteric leftist operating under seven layers of irony has me shook.

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 5d

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 6d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6d

Pretending every huge peaceful protest is worse than January 6th while also pretending January 6th never happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 7d

All the “let’s just concede trans stuff” Democrats can get well and truly bent

Almost every person who answered The News' survey said they'd had more trouble sleeping and felt less safe in public spaces since November. Over two-thirds said they'd been thinking more about suicide.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 8d

that isn't a "saying" it's an official saudi tourism slogan lmao

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump is fighting for his life to stay awake during Andy Ngo's speech

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TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 8d

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 8d

Democratic Party turboloyalists are often some of the most toxic people I've ever encountered. Whereas the Right are generally honest about all the vile things they think and believe, this group of centrists adds the additional insult of pretending to have some sort of morality and knowledge. Vile.

Tony Moonbeam II @moonbeamii.bsky.social · 9d

Why do I have to learn about some hippies' shitty little boat on the second anniversary of the most deadly act of antisemitic violence since the Holocaust? I will never forgive these idiots for this.

Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 9d

You don't trust the Israeli Foreign Ministry. I don't trust a bunch of Swedish Hippies on a racing boat.

I'm going to go with the Israeli Foreign Ministry:

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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