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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 7h

Would you do some body language analysis of Mike?

I miss when you did more of that!

And what about the conservative SCOTUS contingent?

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 14h

"Puritanical pixie"?!
👏🏆👏🥇👏

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 14h

"On September 25, the White House released "NSPM-7," a sweeping order targeting "anti-fascist," "anti-Christian,"
"anti-capitalist," and "anti-American" speech..."

mind boggling - they're explicitly saying "pro-fascist" is the good thing

It gets worse, though. Read on.

[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 In case there was any #ambiguity about which enemies Trump is intent on targeting, a national security directive published last week spelled it out:

*Anyone who is not with him will be considered against him — and against the United States.*

The Terrifying New Memo Trump Could Use to Go After His Opposition

Donald Trump is upping his rhetoric about cracking down on anyone who opposes him, and his new NPSM-7 memo is a terrifying look at how he could do it.

rollingstone.com

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 15h

Haven for *Evil*, not bad.
EVIL people.

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 22h

Yet another reason to *despise* AI and ChatGPT: helping to destroy not only our thinking capacity and creativity, but the planet, too.

🔥Peter🌍✊Antifaschist @peterru.bsky.social · 22h

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers. - DeSmog Oct 13, 2025

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23h

"In what city did you first experience ennui?"

Nihilistic Password Security Questions

What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds right up Trump's alley. Where Putin goes, Trump is sure yo follow

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

(PS - love your user name 👏)

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

Time for some good old-fashioned TRUSTBUSTING

a black and white photo of a person wearing a shirt that says ' x ' on the sleeve

Alt: a black and white gif of a person smashing a chain

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ok.

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

AND show face!

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, there she is! Enjoy your beautiful breakfast w foxy!✌️

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 1d

I really wish Hop was smiling in this image! That angry face just doesn't seem to convey his spirit. Hey, anonymous! Can we get a Hop of Mockery? Or a Hop of Joy?

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 2d

Wait! Where's the little fox??

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 2d

I 💜 Phil!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

we need to abolish this shit

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 3d

This not-so-little lady making herself at home on the pylon next to my car.

Black widow making herself presence known on the base of a streetlight right next to my parked care.

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 4d

I'm wish you did, too, Amy. We all do.

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ - that aspect of Manhattan involving Mariel Hemingway disgusted/pissed me off at the time. Maybe bc I was about her age at the time?🤔
Very much of a head scratcher to me at the time that this was deemed acceptable.

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 4d

Once upon a time in a country that's fading from our minds...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧 @thegreatsipper.bsky.social · 4d

Who needs someone else to take their drivers' test for them? Why not just learn how to drive??? So weird.

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