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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 2h

As much as I love Last Week Tonight, may I never have an episode dedicated to me like this. I literally said "oh my god" when it popped up on my YouTube

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 7h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Feb 27

Irs agent says fuck the rules take my ledger and badge before commandeering one of the many IRS apache helicopters to chase after a billionaire’s yacht headed towards international waters

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Veldrin @veldrin.bsky.social · 7h

They finished it! 😊

A town CBD traffic intersection with a large unity pride flag painted on the ground in the centre.

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MplsShLee @shannaleehorvik.com · 7h

Do you have room in your heart for a great big chonky cat?

This big boi is Frogger. He's so soft, cuddly and chatty.

He's looking for his forever home and will be available for adoption later this month in North Saint Paul at Caring for Cats.

A woman holds a very fluffy, large tabby cat with a white belly, face, and legs, the cat is as large as the woman's upper body

A gorgeous large tabby cat white legs, face and belly lays on the ground looking chunky and perfect. Frogger is written on the photo.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, shit. That's me!

Zohran Mamdani is the best thing the Democrats have going right now, and gruesome Gavin Newsom sucks ass.

Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 10h

Asking everyone with over 10k followers to make an official statement about a random current event

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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 8h

Damn wish that was Quarry House in Silver Spring

🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 8h

It’s gotta be the inflatable Trex right?

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 8h

On the contrary, many if them won't shut up about the 2024 campaign

Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 10h

Democrats usually lose when they move to the right but they keep doing it. Perhaps it is more about establishment Democrats being conservatives, or about selling out to donors, than it is about looking for a winning strategy.
prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

If you try to quote dunk on someone and then they ether you in the replies and get more interaction than you, well, you gotta pack it in

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

what if glenn greenswald were a neo brandeis trust fund baby with a much more sucessful brother he’s jealous of

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

above all, poster bushido demands that you should not cry foul about a fight you started.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

PSA: if you quote post me first, you have formally invited me in

i abide by poster’s vampire rules

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Chris Calogero @realchriscal.bsky.social · 3d

Oooooh it’s the Uncle who by surface appearance looks like he’s gonna complain about people taking down statues of Christopher Columbus but then bada-boom he flips that script. America wants Sunday gravy with this character!

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8h

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the cannibal murderer Jeffrey dahmer. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 1d

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 15h

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 8h

Y'all better get that shit in writing because something like 1000 pigs said they'd quit when Johnson won in Chicago and they're still wearing a badge.

Talk is cheap

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 12h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 14h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 14h

I went down the rabbit hole. It’s from a song that got referenced in the opening of a highlights video but it doesn’t actually /mean/ anything for 99% of people who say it nor are they actually referencing this origin.

It’s like 1738, has a meaning but is more just fun to say.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14h

also the economy was not at all even, and the areas where it wasn’t doing great i think are industries whose workers are going to be overrepresented in online culture generation. tech, art, sw, musicIans, academia, media/journalists, authors, game dev, etc and thats a not small part of it

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 17h

"vibes voters get vibes from traditional and social media" - sure, ok
"media made the Biden economy seem very bad" - sure, ok
"inflation isn't what people were mad about, just vibes" - now hold on there..

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