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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20h

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Saltypepper @saltypepper.bsky.social · 11h

My teaching bestie has a Donors Choose fundraiser going for classroom supplies. If you are able to help, we'd be so grateful.

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Magnificent Minds: Building, Creating, and Organizing for Success!, a project from Mr. Castellar

Help me give my students reusable materials and The Most Magnificent Thing to stay organized, practice sustainably, and design their own magnificent creations. This year, I am teaching 20 first gra...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

this is exactly what's happening

Department of Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 11h

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

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Tom Taylor @tomtaylormade.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, Throk off.

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They showing tatts in the racial chatrooms?!? @bankuei.bsky.social · 12h

My favorite part of this is where he figures out how to block the telemetry and a few days later the vacuum gets "updated" with a command to stop working.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

Roomba should have been a warning.

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

futurism.com

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Saltypepper @saltypepper.bsky.social · 15h

Even if he only gets one of his promises done, that's one thing we get that his opponents would never have even considered.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity.

Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

trib.al

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember our elites intoning portentously on TV about how Saddam Hussein "used chemical weapons against his OWN PEOPLE."

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.

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akalink🏳️‍⚧️🎸 @mcphersonsound.bsky.social · 1d

I am of the opinion that if you run a media company that owns such well beloved IPs such as Batman, Loony Tunes, Mythbusters, HBO, and Cartoon Network... and you can't manage to make money? You are exceedingly bad at your job.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

And I’m kind of obsessed with the stories of what turned them. The woman who laughed at his gamer name at that roundtable. The rich guy who used the wrong word in front of a poor smartass. Etc etc

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 1d

Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump

Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This guy is Andrew Mellon’s grandson, so you know those bootstraps were made for walking: Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Black men and Black men only:

If in 2025 you are still losing money to fashy VCs by buying monkey jpegs with nazi iconography to use as your avis, simianizing yourself and cashing in your own fans,

then you don't deserve those fans or money. But at least give them to people that don't hate you?

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback — as a metaverse

Its crypto-themed metaverse, Otherside, has been a long time coming.

buff.ly

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 1d

#JoyScrolling

A mesmerizing bit of hand-drawn animation on paper, using a rotating table (ASRM)

「登って降りる人(潜らないバージョン)」メイキング動画

YouTube video by 木佐貫洋平 LimbaTrip (プロカリンバ奏者)

www.youtube.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning to everyone who said six years ago that it was wrong to call these concentration camps.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

I firmly believe that they are plotting their strategies as if Black votes don’t matter . Not saying it’s smart but they truly feel no real urgency for protecting Black votes and this aren’t planning for them

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

I refuse to take this seriously. You can't be the president of the United States on the Democratic ticket if Black people don't like you. I've gone over the math so many times. It never works.

But him running does serve an important purpose: He could be an important centrist donor money sink.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile my friends in government don’t have their paychecks and there’s moms in the local Buy Nothing group asking for formula and diapers because their WIC stopped

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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Saltypepper @saltypepper.bsky.social · 3d

And one hopes those contractors have been vetted to hell and back or the plywood and plastic will be full of SO much spyware.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

He is talking about executing civilians

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 3d

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

www.curbed.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d

Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million

(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Not even a danger but a certainty given how liberals are OBSESSED with training... see cops.

glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

Another danger lies in Dems championing a “trained ICE” as somehow better than what we have now.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 4d

The Platner stuff reminds me of the Kavanaugh confirmation, because of the sneering at the idea that we should have high standards for a man who wants to be one of the most powerful people in the country.

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