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Previously known as JohnM15 on the bird site. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaaggrgfgbb7k

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John @johncnj.bsky.social · Nov 9

Somehow I always thought that being on the right side of history would probably feel better than this.

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John @johncnj.bsky.social · 36m

On occasion I think of making a list of all the failed technology I’ve embraced just for shits and giggles. Honestly, I never anticipated that I’d have to add Twitter and TiVo to this list.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2h

The great thing about insomnia is the vivid recollection of all of the troubling things that ever happened to you.

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Bar Mageddon @barmageddon.bsky.social · 16h

"it's never too early for christmas music" yes it is

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12h

One of the best things you can do for yourself is embrace the fact that some things you like aren't very good and may even be trash

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 4h

the whole point of social media is to look at someone else's opinion on a massive global catastrophe and immediately think: wow, they should have just kept that one in drafts.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1h

If you can’t sleep at hotels, you might have Holiday Innsomnia.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

This is the guy who wets himself at the thought of riding the 6 train.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 1h

Does anybody have an extra set of guard rails? Asking for an abused country that is being pounded into the ground harder than Ivanka on Fathers Day.

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 1h

The 400 richest Americans have more money than the bottom 175 million Americans.

That is THE problem.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 2h

Now in week 3 of the Republican engineered shutdown and @SpeakerJohnson is leading this by keeping his members home on a paid vacation while government workers are not paid. They started this and they can end this by putting the interests of Americans first and ahead of Trump.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 2h

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job

The still-employed man performs no identifiable function, Americans noted.

open.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

New in PN: Republicans are totally full of it on healthcare.

It becomes more obvious every time they talk about it. And it's a big reason the shutdown is turning out to be such a disaster for them.

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

John Oliver is good at his job

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1h

We need work requirements for Congress.

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John @johncnj.bsky.social · 1h

Fair to say, pretty hairy.

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Canadian Bacon @tashaneedshelp.bsky.social · 1d

No, I’m not calm. I’ve just given up.

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 7h

Supplier: Our blowdryers have 2 settings—screaming banshee or old man wheezing

Hotelier: I'll take your whole inventory

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Marc @runoldman.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not scared I'll end up in an asylum after a breakdown. I'm scared someone will record it on their phone and I'll end up on a GIF.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9h

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2h

Ideally, this would open some discussion about wtf is up with this tactic in general.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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