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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 16h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10h

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5h

Captain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 7h

This weekend's unprecedented coastal storm resulted in at least one fatality and displaced more than 1,400 people. Troopers have suspended the active search for two men missing from the village of Kwigillingok.

‘No home to go to’: Hundreds of evacuees need shelter as catastrophic Western Alaska storm empties inundated villages

Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday that they have suspended the active search for two men missing from Kwigillingok, one of the hardest-hit communities. The men are related to the storm’s lone confirm...

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 15h

@laureldavilacpa.bsky.social

"I'VE LIVED 82 YEARS ON THIS EARTH, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER WITNESSED PEOPLE DELIGHTING IN THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS SO OPENLY, SO PROUDLY, AND EVEN RECORDING IT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE."
- Mick Jagger

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 5h

Well, that was duly and legally appropriated funding from Congress and what you’re talking about is straight up Impoundment, you effing cretin.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7h

Disasters in remote Alaska are not like disasters anywhere in the lower 48 states..While East Coast homeowners recovering from a nor’easter..can run to Home Depot for supplies or drive to a hotel if their home floods, none of that exists in remote Native villages" theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience

‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

theconversation.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Come for their stupid right-wing polices that bankrupt their countries, stay for their inability to do hair.

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 7h

The more you know…

I like administrations that support keeping flesh eating worms at bay.

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How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

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“Screwworm is dangerously close”: Flesh-eating parasites just 70 miles from US

The detection was along a heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfare, USDA says.

arstechnica.com

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 16h

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 8h

Now you all know what to get me for Christmas

Thanks @oliverdarcy.bsky.social 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 8h

Breaking: Ewic says Daddums owns the government - so I guess he owns the shutdown too

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Rainwalker @rainwalkerak.bsky.social · 8h

The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up.

The Angry Beavers.

“My ankle!” “My other ankle!” ~ Toluca Lake

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d

This is brilliant. I wonder how many frogs are going to show up on October 18th.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18h

Sad, but true. 💥

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 15h

Trump Administration now censoring Facebook:

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 16h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17h

i’m sorry what does this mean. is he calling off the peace deal because he thinks they’re hoarding corpses

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Boomer @boomer1956.bsky.social · 19h

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

Uh... so he's openly trying to rig a foreign election for a friend of his and a friend of his top donor—Musk—by saying that Argentinians will only get $20 billion dollars in American aid if they vote for Milei?

So this money Trump is stealing from US taxpayers is not to help Argentina, but his pal?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses on.ft.com/3L8Y0Wi

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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