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jonbois.bsky.social
the most cursed nfl franchise is pretty obviously the diamondbacks, who in 1998 were transformed into an arizona baseball team by an evil wizard. i'm surprised this is ever debated
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Personally I hope Space Force has a terrible, sad birthday. I hope it catches swine flu.
kaine.senate.gov Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 1d
Happy birthday, Space Force! As a member of the Armed Services Committee, I'll keep working to support our Guardians, so they can continue defending American interests in space.
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Return of the Antebellum Constitution
The Supreme Court and the president are undermining the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
HAPPY SOLSTICE! VOLUME WAY WAY UP.
(if you can do it without alienating people nearby but honestly, they need this too)
dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d
I’d blast this if I didn’t want to stay on my neighbors’ good sides

It’s a banger though youtu.be/puUW_3mj5lE?...
Hail Smiling Morn!
YouTube video by Nowell Sing We Clear - Topic
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December 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
was not expecting a Jerry cameo
Guess the Real Trump ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ Plaque
Get all 25 right and I will send you a presidential bonus of $1,776!
www.theatlantic.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
oblio.bsky.social
Having a “yelling at clouds moment”. I recently saw a Walmart commercial in which the Whos down in Whoville are talking about all the crap they can buy for Xmas…

…which is kinda the exact opposite of the message of the Grinch, no?
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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theatlantic.com
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
theonion.com/trump-announ...
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
theonion.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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alannawrites.bsky.social
Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
This is worth reading.

It applies to the military, but not only the military:

www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
www.realcleardefense.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
It's an always-winter-but-never-Christmas miracle! Part 1 of the Eleanor & Alasdair Read That Xmas special is out now. Listen to me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social re-cap the story of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe with, frankly, too much enthusiasm.

linktr.ee/readthat
December 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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gibsonia.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Won’t take their own side in a fight, etc bsky.app/profile/dail...
dailytrix.bsky.social Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 6d
I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.
Opinion | America Mourns Charlie Kirk by the NY Times Editorial Board
December 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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sallyjenx.bsky.social
Me to the spouse: "What do you want to do today?"
Spouse: "I want to be snowbound."
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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scalzi.com
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
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December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
Some More Font Upgrades, After Yesterday’s Calibri News www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Some further updates to our font preferences: The Justice Department will be switching to Comic Sans because current fonts have a veneer of professionalism that feels out of place in communications written by Lindsey Halligan. Now all "fundamental misstatements of law" (a judge's words, not ours!) will be in a font where they will feel more at home. The Department of Transportation is switching to Goudy Old Style to fix everyone's biggest problem with air travel: pajamas The fonts aren't square enough! It will also be phasing out Clearview on road signs, on the grounds that this typeface is entirely too legible. Legibility is DEIA at work. People should struggle to read. This is also why we are dismantling the Department of Education.
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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eleanormorton.bsky.social
JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis Discuss the appropriate amount of women for a fantasy book

youtube.com/shorts/KuLc6...
JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis Discuss the appropriate amount of women for a fantasy book
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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dadakim.bsky.social
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Powerful, important piece in @washingtonmonthly.com by my friend @jamesnorth7.bsky.social , on what a recovering alcoholic sees in Pete Hegseth. And an example that might help Hegseth. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/p...
What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Ulysses S. Grant
Hegseth said he’d stop drinking if confirmed. A former alcoholic on why the first year of sobriety is so hard and how Grant got clean.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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pbump.com
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
when trump's senility finally gets too big to ignore, all the political reporters who are covering up for him now will laugh and say "everybody knew"
July 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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theonion.com
American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
oblio.bsky.social
You will be visited by three spirits…
December 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM