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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 1h

This Northern Leaf-Footed Bug (Leproglossus oppositus) has been hanging out near my front sillcock (water spigot) for a few days now. First I’ve ever seen. Not moving too quickly in the chilly weather. 🌱 #bugs

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

As SNAP funds froze, mayors and governors have pledged to supplement the missing federal assistance, while federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration should use contingency funds to keep food aid running despite the government shutdown.

Uncertainty hits after vulnerable Americans woke up to a SNAP freeze

Amid a benefits pause, nonprofit groups plan to work extra hours to get food out to vulnerable residents, and local community members are also stepping up.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Feb 6

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Feb 6

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Tennessee Secretary of Voter Suppression Tre Hargett thanks Trump for his helping in finding 42 “POSSIBLE” non-citizen voters… out of 4.3 MILLION.

IF true (big if) that would amount to .0001% of TN voters.

Even more proof this is not a real issue.
tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/03/t...

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Hey guys the Nazi group chat people think they can block Zohran from becoming mayor

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “He has never been to NYC, has he?”

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how they keep getting away with this embarrassing show of idiotic white supremacy.

chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 1d

lauren boebert is gross & racist. if you want to be gross & racist on halloween, you do you, but colorado's 4th congressional district deserves better.

lauren boebert being racist on halloween

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

AP: “A U.S. Senate investigation report released by @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide…” apnews.com/article/immi...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

www.propublica.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“If the markets end up investing hundreds of billions of debt in rapidly depreciating assets that may not have sufficient returns, the risk could become systemic.” 💀

Credit market hit with $200bn ‘flood’ of AI-related issuance

Jumbo debt sales to fund huge artificial intelligence capex threaten to store up new risks for investors

www.ft.com

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 1d

Was talking about these with my sisters the other day. Told them that I’m glad that in my old age I’m aware of my frailty enough that I no longer start any shit, because if I were still in my youth and some guy approached me wearing a pair of these I’d slap them right off his face.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 2d

if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.

trib.al

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

These seem to be the three legs to the Trump regime's political stool, if you consider Trump, Vought, and Miller as the three centers of power:

Corruption (Trump)
Extreme conservative ideology (Vought)
Fascism (Miller)

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

"Dictatorship to protect corruption" is a plausible master narrative for Trump; it squares well with J6 in particular.

But it's not the same story for Vought, who supports dictatorship to deliver on a hideously unpopular conservative ideological agenda, or Miller, who wants it to do legit fascism.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

This is part of the war over How We Remember the Pandemic

Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 3d

we have now reached the point where Astead is dunking on libs for… getting vaccinated during a global pandemic

seriously what is wrong with him?

Astead
@AsteadWH
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Libs now know they were annoying af during the pandemic but I'd like to clarify that it was wholly clear at the time
Astead
@AsteadWH • 29 Jul 21
id get a third dose if I could

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case

Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to do a follow-up on this post about more of Epstein's threats to the media and journalists.

The head of a dead cat was left outside Graydon Carter's NYC home.

Plus the threat of an actual bullet.

All to silence Epstein's child rape.

Same as Trump is doing now.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

🧵For those who don't know, Vanity Fair could have exposed Epstein and his child raping back in 2003.

Graydon Carter was editor then, and Vicky Ward did this article on Epstein.

But they wouldn't publish the sexual-abuse allegations because of threats from Epstein.

The Talented Mr. Epstein

Lately, Jeffrey Epstein’s high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New York’s largest private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies...

vanityfair.com

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3d

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Letters to the editor and call-ins to live radio were screened, selected, curated. But not comment sections on news stories. Thus began our internet-fueled epistemological decline.

I haven’t heard it put that way before, and I like thinking about it.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 3d

My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The era of “you’re all under a moral obligation to elevate the worst stances and treat them as acceptable” has not produced good results, but if we do it even more, maybe the positives will start to appear.

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 3d

#ETTD

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Remember earlier this year when the Trump admin made grandiose claims about stopping the Houthis, spent about two months dropping over a billion dollars worth of bombs on Yemen, accomplished little, stopped, and declared victory?

You know, the one where they leaked war plans on Signal? Anyway...

Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 3d

no one asked but: I think the most likely coa for military action against venezuela as ordered by this administration is...

... tlams, big explosions, nothing changes, victory declared.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Such a good point here from @davekarpf.bsky.social: If Dems don't engage forcefully enough on Trump's terror raids, Trump/MAGA propaganda filters down to the "inattentive public" and risks persuading people this is normal and acceptable.

Check out our full exchange:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the dumb Trump apologetics, sanewashing, and support for a fantasy version that diverges from the real thing, "no new wars" might be the single dumbest.
He was already president! To know it's BS, just look at what he repeatedly says and already did.
And yet, some really wanted to believe it.

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime

The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

www.miamiherald.com

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