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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 12h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 17h

Kelsey!

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 23h

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 19h

And why isn't the house in session? Bc Mike Johnson doesn't want to seat Rep Grijalva because she'd be the final vote to release the Epstein files.

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 23h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 19h

Also, at no point should we lose sight of the face that this problem could easily be solved by calling the House back into session, pass a bill for military pay, send it to the Senate, etc

Mike Johnson won't do that bc he doesn't want to seat Rep Grijalva bc she will be the final Epstein files vote

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NPR @npr.org · 22h

Photographer Katie Currid captured fans attending Chappell Roan's tour stop in Kansas City. The Missouri native said bringing joy to the Midwest's queer community is deeply meaningful to her.

Chappell Roan's fans welcome the 'Midwest Princess' to Kansas City

Photographer Katie Currid captured fans attending Chappell Roan's tour stop in Kansas City. The Missouri native said bringing joy to the Midwest's queer community is deeply meaningful to her.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 20h

I'm waiting to hear from the Senate appropriators who wouldn't let us determine on our own how to use money in the Army missiles procurement account to buy various Army missiles.

But sure lets use RDT&E - or reconciliation funds - for MILPERS.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 2d

Bob Ross created thousands of paintings on PBS’s ”The Joy of Painting.” Now, 30 of his works are being sold at auction to benefit public broadcasters suffering under President Trump’s federal funding cuts.

30 Bob Ross Paintings Head to Auction to Support Public Media

The happy little fundraiser will benefit broadcasters affected by Trump’s funding cuts.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 2d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

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Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 1d

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 1d

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe mobilized Guard members to assist ICE with "data entry, case management, and logistical support." Military experts say they also worry how these new deployments will affect recruitment and public trust. (@nprextra.bsky.social)

Trump's use of National Guard in Missouri strays from role as 'minutemen,' military experts say

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe mobilized Guard members to assist ICE with data entry, case management, and logistical support. Military experts say they also worry how these new deployments will affect recruitment and public trust.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 1d

‘This is Pynchon’s genius: what seems ridiculous at first glance might just also be a faithful rendering of earnest American culture’

Shadow Ticket — all the colours of the Pynchon rainbow

America’s best-known, least-seen writer is back with a swaggering, hard-boiled caper set in a 1930s US toying with fascism

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

it's not an airbase, just a training location. but the Qataris know how to work this White House.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

Dial A for Aunties is a much more madcap version, if that's of any interest www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

During the months when DOGE was most aggressively canceling contracts, O.M.B. was concealing how it was moving money through to agencies. Mr. Vought removed a legally required public database tracking those records. When a court forced the administration to restore it in August, the spending logs showed O.M.B. exerting unusual control over agency spending, using other documents the public can’t see.

Under a 1974 law, it’s illegal for the administration to “impound” or block money appropriated by Congress (to not spend the funds on those credit cards). But Mr. Vought has made clear he believes that law is unconstitutional and wants to test it in court.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump orders the US military to crack down on Americans who oppose his policies, will it resist? @kschake.bsky.social provides some answers, not all of them reassuring

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Politics Podcast · Updated twice weekly · Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, t...

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots who will train alongside US troops. https://cnn.it/4h95Hb6

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Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social · 4d

New mini with the brilliant @erinsikorsky.bsky.social to dig into her new book Climate Change on the Battlefield. What is the threat militaries are facing from climate change? How is it shaping the landscape they operate in? And what are they doing about it? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Climate Change on the Battlefield

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/08/2025 · 27m

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 2d

Embassy rates are so clutch. Stayed in a couple of great spots in the Nordics on one trip...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

B of A: The top 20% of wealthholders own > 10x the amount of equities vs the next 20%.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a nun who became a national sports icon for cheering on the Loyola men’s basketball teams during their NCAA Tournament runs, died Thursday, the school said. She was 106.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, beloved nun who inspired Loyola’s NCAA Tournament runs, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain of the Loyola men’s basketball team who became a national sports icon, died Thursday. She was 106.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 2d

This headline is hard to beat.

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