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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 5h

while I’m not specifically aware of it’s use in Italy it’s one of the oldest common spices in the Mediterranean.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Hard to estimate any of these crowd sizes other than “bigger than Trump’s crowds.”

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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 9h

It's traditional after all.

kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 10h

Serious people who think there is a better way to do it are quietly looking for ways to channel that energy. Non serious people are posting bullshit.

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MODoubtingThomas @modoubtingthomas.bsky.social · 13h

No trial for them ... bc it'd look really bad. They are killing the story this time instead of the Venezuelans.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 12h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12h

Fuck yeah. Americas cities are amazing and they represent the best of the promise of this country. We need to stop apologizing for their existence.

Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 13h

Michelle Wu’s address at No Kings was basically “We are actually awesome, cities like this and LA and Chicago are what make America great and that bothers some people” lol

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 16h

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 14h

There is a solution to that
bsky.app/profile/josh...

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

For those who want to block everyone who follows a certain account or likes or reposts a certain post, here's a powerful tool: Blockenheimer (newly reborn).

Use it thoughtfully, because as with blocklists, it's all too easy to accidentally block friends! block.alxtratrstrl.xyz/index.html

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14h

Same energy

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

To call it 'the most corrupt administration in US history' does not do it justice; that so understates the degree of corruption as to be almost false.

They have in fact instituted a new regime in which officeholders treat the public's thing—the republic—as their personal property...like kings do.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 15h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 23h

I’m guessing a lot of their followers got blocks.

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Geek Grammy @geekgrammy.com · 1d

A significant number of those accounts have violated the law, not just one or two.

I'm willing to bet that @safety.bsky.app won't bother to ban them for posting illegal content.

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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I missed the *and back* part. No way in hell I'm going both ways.

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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 1d

There was time when I'd have a shot at. But I was doing 60 to 70 mile rides every week and a couple of centuries with a long more hills than long island. I wouldn't *dream* of trying to lead the pack.

The only person I'm aware of successfully pulling a similar stunt is JJ Watt.

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kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 1d

It's probably a sign that Twitter is cratering harder than I realized.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

For those who want to block everyone who follows a certain account or likes or reposts a certain post, here's a powerful tool: Blockenheimer (newly reborn).

Use it thoughtfully, because as with blocklists, it's all too easy to accidentally block friends! block.alxtratrstrl.xyz/index.html