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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2h

Uline's owners "have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme RW politicians & mvmts... contributed $144 million to conservative groups in the 2024 election cycle... donated $4+ million to bankroll anti-abortion groups who pushed to overturn Roe v Wade."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 1h

after several minutes of laughing, we asked him what he expected from the funeral service
kid: i dunno, maybe that maybe we'd all sit in a circle and talk about granddad tim

you know what
fair

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 1h

asked the kids what they thought about their first time at church today
kid: it was ... okay
us: just okay?
kid: could they just stop talking about jesus maybe for JUST ONE MINUTE????

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1h

lol some of us don’t have time to discern the (rumored) different flavors of conservatives. They all sit together anyway. Like. Be for serious.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

if there's an overarching theme of the last decade, (with obvious antecedents in 2009, 2000, 1994, and earlier) it's that one political faction believes governance to be a tool of warfare against their domestic enemies, and the other is surprised they keep getting attacked seemingly out of nowhere.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Trump's future presidential library.

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 3h

What a 2025 sentence.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 4h

I found an alien in my garden this morning here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

I think this is Membracis dorsata, a species of leafhopper.

#invertebrates #insects #nature

Close-up macro of a small white, waxy, spiny insect nymph clinging to a smooth green stem against a soft olive background.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · May 17

We are so close to Trump implementing price controls out of anger, I can feel it

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · May 17

The pivot to blaming companies for the obvious consequence of your tariffs has begun

Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT THE TARIFFS,” and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 5h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 8h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 4h

Adulthood is just tracking down the books that changed the shape of your brain as a child and devouring them all over again

The author holding the omnibus volume 1 of Angelic Layer by CLAMP

The author holding a hardback collectors edition of Clover by CLAMP

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 7h

Tired: Blurbs from your author friends about how good your book is.

Wired: Blurbs from your non-author friends about how good you are and how much you need your book to sell, eg “Alicia is a dynamite person, she never screens my calls even after 9:00pm. She is also DROWNING in student loan debt.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops.

There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done."

And no, he isn't.

LINDSEY BOYLAN: People who abuse women abuse every kind of power they have.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 4h

And if such demolitions and renovations do not get done, then it will demonstrate that Number Forty-Eight is perfectly fine with living in the House That Fascism Changed.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 4h

It will be petty optics; that is exactly the point.

It will demonstrate the seriousness with which the 2029 President will take the task of utterly dismantling American fascism and all that it has done. From the top down and the bottom up and the middle out. Physical annihilation of their works.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 4h

The next President should prioritize two things. Maybe not Week One, maybe even not Month One, but do them by Spring of 2029.

1. Replant the Rose Garden.
2. Bulldoze the Ballroom.

In so doing, they will demonstrate that fascists in this country do not get to keep one goddamn thing they built.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 7h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 7h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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E.B. Hutchins @ebhutchins.bsky.social · 6h

Look at these pages rates. There's money for better.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 14h

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 6h

(It's a Death Stranding joke. @katietiedrich.bsky.social understands.)

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Awkward Zombie

Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.

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