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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 1h

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 2h

Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 1d

My painting COASTAL EXPLORERS

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 3h

"Busy" is the one thing that #SmarmySmile Johnson has NOT been. The House has been in session only 20 days out of the last sixteen weeks.

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 3h

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 4h

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 4h

Apropos of nothing:
I love reading Proust, especially these days. His fictional Combray is a desert island of peace, sanity, and safety. It is hack-proof, surveillance-proof, resistant to meme-ing and degradation, and closed to anyone lacking gentleness. It may prove my last refuge in this world.

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 4h

John Hamilton Farr @jhfarr.bsky.social · 13h

I never do this but oh man.

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 4h

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 4h

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h

😡😡😡😡

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 5h

Barbara Hershey @barbarahershey.bsky.social · 20h

Reposted by punk_floyd

Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 12h

Young Blue Heron #birds

6 19 270

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 5h

Pipa @pipapipia.bsky.social · 5h

The beauty of an image of the Ebro Delta. Tarragona. Catalonia.💛

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 13h

johnnynodens.bsky.social @johnnynodens.bsky.social · 15h

What was that. Jon Stewart line?
'Bring a conservative must be fun, you get to break things, whine about them being broken, then say because it's broken you should be able to sell it for scrap and pocket the difference'

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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 13h

Statutory authority for "White House budget director" to shut down a government entity established by an Act of Congress?
Asking for a friend.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 14h

Nola Wilken @restoringbikes.bsky.social · 1d

#birdoftheday is a Great Blue Heron and its reflection. #LongNeckedBirds #birds #herons🪶

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 14h

Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. AG Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”.

Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade!

punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 14h

Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 15h

Russell Vought says we need to illegally shut down the CFPB because it’s terrorizing small mom-and-pop lenders. The CFPB only regulates lenders with assets worth more than $10 billion. The amount of blatant spinning and lying in this administration is disgusting

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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 14h

New Jersey Pinelands Commission @pinescommission.bsky.social · 21h

HERON NOW: Happy Wading Bird Wednesday! Here's a new photo of a handsome great blue #heron foraging in the #NewJersey #Pinelands. 🐦

📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer

#birds #bird #birdphotography

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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 14h

And they're betting that suppression will affect the other side's voters more than theirs, which seems questionable.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.