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it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before

To match our son the screaming hairy armadillo, I went as a cactus (stuffed fabric hat with canvas flower & wire spines)! Here we are with out jumping spider jack-o-lantern.

I learned that you should keep the weight of hats down to less than this but we had a lot of fun and gathered so much candy!

Trump moves to block public servants from loan forgiveness based on ideology Those who work with undocumented immigrants, provide gender transition care for minors or publicly protest could be blocked from student loan forgiveness under a new rule.

No, Mr. President.

You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.

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There is no way to win this game. There is no behavior that will satisfy them.

You are either failing to live within your means, i.e., swearing off all frivolities like some sort of financial anchorite, or you are ruining the economy by not buying things.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

A cat wearing a decorative necklace around its neck, sitting gracefully and looking towards the camera.

A cat wearing a decorative necklace around its neck, sitting gracefully and looking towards the camera.

A cat wearing a decorative necklace around its neck, sitting gracefully and looking towards the camera.

Pharaoh Enzo wishes you a glorious 🐾 #caturday! #CatsfromBlueSky #sphinxcat

The NDP could be doing this as well in Canada...

But they aren't.

@ndp.ca how about it?

The Democratic Party should be in every major city and small rural area running food drives and registering people to vote right now.

But they wont. Because “at least we’re not Trump” doesnt require any thoughts or demands. It’s just “shut up and vote for us.”

And that is a losing strategy

I think these people are convinced that Mamdani is only popular because of slick graphics and it can’t be THAT hard to get them because HE did it.

"It can't be genuine, it must be a trick!" is the ultimate "every accusation is a confession" political revelation.

SCHOENING's testimony, at a federal trial on the legality of Trump's guard deployment in Portland, describes federal officails as repeatedly using "indiscriminate" force against protesters despite no signs of threat from protesters.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people

That’s called burying the lead

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Don't engage with trolls, including the Republican party as it currently exists. You can't placate terrorists holding the sociopolitical equivalent of a thermobaric bomb. The more air you give them, the more you are responsible for enabling their existence.

Remember the Bluesky mantra: Just block.

Also as requested for citizen media not sure of how to be responsible:

I am Media media, by which I mean people know or should that I am recording. Ergo I do not need to be careful about it.

You do. If someone is hiding their face from me drop your camera please. Don't rock up on tight groups.

Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday

The Marines are going to fire 155-millimeter artillery shells over the extremely busy 5 freeway on Saturday.

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1) Trump says he wants peace in Ukraine, makes some noises about maybe doing something that pressures Russia to really negotiate

2) Trump gets positive press for it despite not doing anything

3) Trump talks to Putin, backs off any real pressure, parrots BS that Russia wants peace

4) Repeat step 1

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

They've been working towards this for a while now. They will absolutely keep doing it

Imagine risking your life as a British trader to sail across treacherous seas to procure black pepper and cloves, only for your dipshit great great great great grandson to call it anti-british in between rounds of call of duty on the xbox.

The top 20 accounts blocked in the last 24 hours. They're almost entirely US government accounts. And they're catching block numbers that would easily put them in the all-time top blocked list, just in the first day.

lol. lmao, even.

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

Why would you admit this?
Also, British food has been spicy forever - The Forme of Cury was written in the 14th century!

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Yes. The 70somethings I know are super mad. If you’re a boomer whose parents fought in WWII, you fought in and/or protested war in 1960s-70s but either way repped the US, then did okay in American Dream (could afford college & house) a lot of this is a betrayal of what you thought America was about