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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

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official nikk account @nikk.ca · 19h

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Karishma Manzur, Ph.D. @karishmaforsenate.bsky.social · 7h

Coronation or Election? If we are asking Americans to trust the Democratic Party to defend democracy, we must model that commitment within our own party.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 9h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Joe Cavanaugh @joecavanaugh.bsky.social · 9h

Balanced the budget eight times during his time as mayor of Springfield.

David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 3d

I hope people aren’t tired of me drawing Hans Moleman with a sword. It’s just fun for me to draw Hans Moleman with a sword.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 2d

I'm 3 decades into professionally observing, interacting with, and critiquing the news media. I've heard every alternate explanation there is for their behavior and while some contain some truth none of them, nor all collectively, explain way the basic fact that elite media favors the Right.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 18h

the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary”

just look outside your window 😅

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 19h

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

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Ian Euk Ianrauk @ianrauk.bsky.social · 4d

Nice to see #Testement in the Guardian national newspaper today.
Their new album Para Bellum is absolutely top notch.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

‘Chuck was breaking beer bottles over his own head’: thrash metal legends Testament on 40 years of mayhem

After their lead singer shed his glam rock spandex, the band became rivals to thrash’s Big Four. Still releasing potent high-octane riffage, they retread their path through cancer scares and jazz detours

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Freaksworth @proffreakzworth.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Beverly Crusher quoting the original post

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

The Framers: We have published a gigantic collection of essays entitled "Don't Elect That Guy"

Modern America: We have successfully elected "That Guy" from the famous publication "Don't Elect That Guy"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

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Joe Cavanaugh @joecavanaugh.bsky.social · 1d

The Bobcat and Don Rickles episode!

Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 1d

There should be new Tales from the Crypt.

And the original series should be streamable somewhere.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Mrs.Megan Heise @meganheise77.bsky.social · 2d

Portsmouth NH 10/18/25

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

We’re gonna get “I haven’t seen the video”s this week like you’ve never seen

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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Paul @bingowings14.bsky.social · 1d

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I really need people to understand that refusing to seat fascists is an antifascist act that protects democracy & is not the same as fascists refusing to seat antifascists to destroy democracy—in the same way that finding a guilty person guilty isn't the same as finding an innocent person guilty.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Martinez Julian 🌹🌻 @yahoo201027.bsky.social · 1d

Now Playing: Episode 21 (Episode 386 Overall) of Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War on Toonami on Adult Swim. #Bleach #Toonami #BlogAllTheTime

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

(shouting to the press secretary) Can you confirm whether the diarrhea was pre-loaded onto the aircraft or was it coming directly from the president's Ass?

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