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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 1h

If you have to make a vehicle your entire personality, this would be one of the stronger choices.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

women don’t like the vehicle

A picture of the Mad Max flamethrower guitar guy on his massive speaker platform as other cars pass by in the distance

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 17h

Losing over 3 minutes of sunlight a day since mid August surely has had no impact on my mental health and well-being.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21h

Solidarity is the only way

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™”

He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits.

But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 1d

The stock market is not "the economy". Especially when all the gains are concentrated in all of 10 companies.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 1d

Someone out did the bat / rabies story from a few weeks back.

Jake @jake.sooscreek.productions · 2d

Someone apparently found a backpack IED in Kent today and decided the best thing to do was drive it to Kent PD

It’s wild that it needs saying but don’t pick the weird backpack on the side of the river up. Particularly if you suspect it might explode

KENT POLICE
Kent Police Department
EXPLOSIVE DEVICE NEAR POLICE STATION NEUTRALIZED
BY PORT OF SEATTLE BOMB SQUAD
KENT, WA-October 14, 2025-This morning at 10:58 a.m.
Kent Police were notified that a backpack containing a suspected explosive device was driven to the Police Department. The backpack was originally located by the river, placed into a private vehicle, and driven to the Police Department by a private individual.
The Police Station was immediately evacuated, and local streets and businesses were advised to either evacuate or shelter in place depending on their location. The Port of Seattle Bomb Squad responded to the location and were able to quickly determine that the device was homemade and potentially active. They used their specialized training and equipment to neutralize the device and handled its disposal. The roads surrounding the Police Department were closed during this process.
The Kent Police Department is very thankful for the assistance of Port of Seattle Bomb Squad and for the Kent community that cooperated with the directives of the Police Department during this incident.
Although the device was brought to the station by a concerned citizen, the Kent Police conducted a sweep of the City Hall Campus as a precautionary measure. No other devices were found or are suspected to be on campus.
Police are now conducting an investigation of the incident and may rely on law enforcement partners for support.
Kent Police want to stress that it is never appropriate to pick up, move or otherwise handle a suspected explosive device.
It is extremely dangerous to move explosives and should only be done by highly trained professionals. Improvised explosive devices are especially unstable.
Media Contact
Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner
jkasner@kentwa.gov

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Jake @jake.sooscreek.productions · 2d

Someone apparently found a backpack IED in Kent today and decided the best thing to do was drive it to Kent PD

It’s wild that it needs saying but don’t pick the weird backpack on the side of the river up. Particularly if you suspect it might explode

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Cato Young @youngocato.bsky.social · 2d

By the time this is over animal costumes from overseas will have 1000 percent tariffs on them. For “national security” purposes of course.

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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 2d

This is fairly new and no small part of the speculation about his health. Trump is acting like he's had news he's unlikely to survive this term or possibly even 2026 and is grasping at straws of salvation.

lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 2d

The interesting thing is that Trump himself seems to understand that he’s not good enough to go to heaven and is afraid. He’s the only one in his circle that’s even coming close to understanding the gravity of the situation according to traditional Christianity

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 2d

fantasy story idea: Noble Evacuation Squad, nobles dungeon-diving buy insurance, and when they're outta mana, they can summon them. The NES then secures the area in the most heavy-handed way, draws a magic circle, and saves the principal, and only them. Everyone else, expendable

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ceej @ceej.online · Aug 30

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 3d

get the impression that the answer to "if 'AI' can never flip burgers, sew a t-shirt, pick strawberries or wipe an old person's ass, does that mean that is the critical work that defines humanity and everyone who has that kind of job deserves to be compensated extremely well?" is "also, somehow: no"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

These people really don't grasp the connection between "gleefully forcing a bunch of highly educated and highly motivated people out of their jobs" and "those people now have a lot of free time and hate you even more than they did before," do they

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 3d

The original post has been deleted or I've been blocked, so my recreation of the greatest political compass of all time.

Y Axis: Good Faith / Bad Faith
X Axis: Can Read / Can't Read

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 3d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 3d

Given that anyone with a brain ought to recognise how many “national dishes” were impossible pre-Columbian Exchange, it’s nice to finally see pushback on the inherently ethnonationalist/racist claim that some cultures have “authentic dishes” and other “parasitic” cultures only “steal” them

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