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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 14d

“Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am….”
“And a middle finger goes for all you punk MC's”

Check the Rhime by Tribe Called Quest
#dailyearworm

A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhime (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by TribeCalledQuestVEVO

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Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 15d

“I Just Can’t Get Enough” Depeche Mode
#dailyearworm
Love this old video

Depeche Mode "Just can't get enough" | Archive INA

YouTube video by Ina Chansons

youtu.be

Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 17d

#dailyearworm All My Days by Alexi Murdoch

(I misremembered this as a Nick Drake song, but can you blame me?)

All My Days

open.spotify.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 18d

Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"

looks like state capitalism to me

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pfizer Gets Three-Year Reprieve From Trump Pharma Tariffs

Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some o...

www.bloomberg.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20d

As I was saying…

futurism.com/billionaires...

Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement "Corporate Dictatorship"

A consortium of the world's most powerful moguls are plotting to rule the world by oligopoly, according to tech industry analyst Gil Duran.

futurism.com

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 20d

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24d

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

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Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 23d

Sending a fax…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 24d

Isn’t this kidnapping?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24d

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

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Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 24d

To educate the public, we should go about armed with stickers or a red Sharpie and edit these errors.

Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 26d

“Can’t Explain” The Who at Shoreline 💕 #Dailyearworm

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 28d

Ok, so like, everyone does realize that his brain confused “seeking asylum” for “insane asylum” and he just stuck with it, right?

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Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · 29d

#dailyearworm
“Feet don't fail me now
Here's my chance to dance my way
Out of my constrictions
Feet don't fail me now”
—One Nation Under a Groove-Funkadelic

Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

YouTube video by GeorgeClinton

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 18

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Sep 18

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · Sep 18

Covering stair with big floof hair

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 18

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Sep 18

Free speech?
Really?
It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Sep 18

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Lynne R @lynnerob.bsky.social · Sep 18

#dailyearworm
“…Can you sense the fear and the hatred
Growing in the hearts of its population
And youth, oh youth, are being seduced
by the greedy hands of politics and half truths
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information”

The The - The Beat(en) Generation (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheTheVEVO

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 17

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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