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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 7h

Eggs are $1.99 again, so I guess this was all worth it.

We'll just ignore that they're the only affordable thing in the grocery store.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13h

Get bent w the phrase “purity test” ffs. Do people not get what they’re saying is “do not have standards”? “Do not change your mind when you learn new facts that are v troubling — & stfu when a person’s actions & explanations around those facts are shifty, hostile & display a lack of maturity?” 🤡

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 8h

Quick question for my city: we're not seriously thinking about electing a Republican mayor, are we? You're really going to stand there with an Abolish ICE sign and vote GOP as if city politics are entirely disconnected from national?

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 8h

Oh. Yay. Grayson appears to have an eye infection.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously, I was ecstatic when I found out my watch stores music. I feel like they don't really advertise that because they assume you're going to buy their streaming service, but it was just like, "Hey. I put some of your songs on me."

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, my phone and my watch both do that, but I would still take an iPod again

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Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · 11h

Bring back portable mp3 players.

Seriously, I would rather purchase, download, & keep copies of my music than pay a subscription to stream from Spotify or Apple Music.

Microsoft Zune mp3 player

iPod Classic mp3 player

Creative Labs Zen Vision: M mp3 player

Creative Labs Zen Micro mp3 player

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 11h

I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?

Trump Is Demolishing the Entire East Wing to Make Way for His Ballroom
President Trump initially said the construction at the White House would not touch the East Wing or "interfere with the current building."
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h

This season on The East Wing...

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 12h

(I really am considering cashing out my credit card points for this thing if I can find a place to put it.)

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 12h

I'm wondering how they send the coffee out through the little tube thing...

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 12h

Can someone loan me $80 because I need to buy a highland cow statue. The $160 one is gauche but the $80 one is perfect.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 12h

I'm in a different part of town and there is a bank that is also a coffee shop. Like you can get coffee at the drive up window. Sure, why not.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 12h

Her birth name is too different from her current legal name, which is funny because her last name is now her middle name and her first name is a common shortening of her first name, but the name just isn't common anymore.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 12h

My mother asked at the DMV if she could get a Real ID and they were like lol no you probably can't even get a passport with your name situation.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like this is really it

Declaring that someone is unfit to run for a public office is not the same thing as declaring that they should be banished from human society forever or publicly executed. No one is owed a Senate nomination

Let's keep this simple. This is not about whether Platner is an irredeemable person, or whether he can be forgiven. This is not about whether people were wrong to find him an intruging candidate in his initial appearances — I agree that he was. It's about who will be the Democratic candidate in a critical Senate in Maine, and "got a Nazi tattoo and still has it" is transparently disqualifying. You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent who has consistently punched above her party's weight in the state. His allies are not doing him any favors if they allow him to believe otherwise, and if you don't like Mills you need to find someone else to challenge her.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 1d

Looked at Twitter because I wanted to know what was up with Chriska without having to watch a video, saw a tweet about how it was worth listening to Rahm about the shutdown, closed Twitter and threw my laptop into the river.

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WalkingTaako, But Spooky🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 1d

What a fucking hill for Bernie Sanders to die on.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie about Platner,

“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"

When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."

Bernie: "Ok"

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 1d

That's so exciting! And the picture of Maybelle Blair and Mo'ne Davis at the top of the article is just 🥲

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I'm sure this baby in the subway incident will be an SVU episode by February. 😩

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Beth Dahlman @bethdahlman.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like you could fully fund the eventual restoration of the people's house by raffling off sledgehammer swings at the new ballroom.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 1d

I took my pool down over the weekend and found a worm about ten inches long under it.

...what, I thought we were sharing bait?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The antidote to our polarized politics “is a creative, re-energized political center,” the Times editorial board writes.

Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning

The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.

sarken @sarken.bsky.social · 1d

"They're not worth fixing, they're cheap crap." Okay, they're $150 crap I got on sale for $89, which isn't cheap to me, and I hadn't even worn them before the cat peed on them and put a big-ass bleached out spot in the leather. So yeah, a brand new shoe I can't replace is kind of worth fixing.