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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 3h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 3h

Wow yesssss this is the way….ICE Nazis were about to kidnap some brown folk in Wheeling, IL until a hero emerged and they ran away like the masked cowards that they all are

"I'll Venmo you some cash you broke bitch!"

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 11h

turn this up

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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 21h

Anybody but the Dodgers

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wick @litwick.net · 21h

in hindsight we should have been rootin' for Canada all along

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An Old Gremlin (she/her) @an-old-gremlin.bsky.social · 21h

*slowly dawning dread*

Presidential Emergency Operations Center

Multilevel bunker-like structures underneath the East Wing and North Lawn of the White House

The Presidential Emergency Operations Center is a bunker underneath the East Wing of the White House. It serves as a secure shelter and communications center for the president of the United States and others in case of an emergency. Wikipedia

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wick @litwick.net · 21h

oh you've got to be shitting me

wick @litwick.net · 23h

I appreciate the hell out of how the Mariners get to play the role of plucky lifelong underdog again while also (again) having like seven superstars on their roster.

Just like the 90's all over again!

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

weird, it's working for me!

(but yeah, it's exactly the way I remember it)

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

never has there ever been a better soundbite

mooncrew.substack.com/p/the-story-...

The story of a tree falling in Houston

Behold: journalism.

mooncrew.substack.com

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

only if you listen to it backwards!

wick @litwick.net · 22h

"OHHHH GOD DAMMIIIIIIIT"

@edsbs.bsky.social

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 23h

Still mad at that Progressive commercial because gathering around to watch your neighbor's tree get cut down is about as good as it gets. It's the very best shit.

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

plucky Cal and his 90 dinger season strikes again!!!!

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wick @litwick.net · 23h

PS I am very much rootin' for these Mariners, go Mariners

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wick @litwick.net · 23h

I appreciate the hell out of how the Mariners get to play the role of plucky lifelong underdog again while also (again) having like seven superstars on their roster.

Just like the 90's all over again!

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Just look at this

Karoline Leavitt v
@PressSec • 2h
For context, S.V. Date of the Huffington Post is not a journalist interested in the facts. He is a left-wing hack who has consistently attacked President Trump for years and constantly bombards my phone with Democrat talking points.
Just take a look at @svdate's feed, it reads like an anti-Trump personal diary.
Here is my full response to his "inquiry."
Activists who masquerade as real reporters do a disservice to the profession.

Is the president aware of the significance of Budapest? In 1994, Russia promised, in Budapest, not to invade Ukraine if it gave up the nuclear weapons it inherited when the Soviet Union dissolved.
Does he not see why Ukraine might object to that site?
Who suggested Budapest?
Thanks.

Your mom did.

Is this funny to you?

It's funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don't tell you

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 1d

To my friends who live in other blue cities:

This ICE madness is likely coming your way. Everything you'll read about in this story was a reaction. Get proactive. Learn from this, organize your neighborhood, and be ready for day 1.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

WHISTLEMANIA: Whistles take over Chicago as the small, inexpensive device becomes popular way to alert of ICE activity. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/w...

Whistles take over Chicago as the small, inexpensive device becomes popular way to alert of ICE activity

From coffee shops to bars to adult stores, businesses and other volunteers have handed out thousands of whistles across the city.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it would've been too much to expect any of the so-called journalists onboard AF1 to note that these were not "very small" demonstrations, and were in fact the largest demonstrations in 50+ years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on No Kings: "It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."

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wick @litwick.net · 2d

OH MY GOD THE BRONCOS

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 2d

I think I'm in favor of disbanding the University of Kentucky football team. Would make my life a lot simpler, I know that

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wick @litwick.net · 2d

oh my god Kentucky that’s so incredibly hilarisad

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wick @litwick.net · 2d

Butter Coley

wick @litwick.net · 3d

how did Sacramento tackle the No Kings protests

like was there an asterisk?

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wick @litwick.net · 3d

We've got a Dyson, and when it's working properly it works pretty damn well.

Only problem is you have to take it apart, clean it, unclog it, and put it back together like every third time you use it, which is pretty goddamn ridiculous.

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wick @litwick.net · 3d

few things scarier than having lived in the same house for years and one day coming across a 'new' place to vacuum

like ope, definitely haven't ever thought to suck up the dust and crud under here before

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