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Agent: Buyer will change to "SlumlordzFTW LLC" plz fix your docs, Seller wants to close 8am b4 fleeing country
Me: ok who is signing for the LLC?
A: Um
*Waiting, checks Bsky
Bsky: Gov says swastikas no longer hate symbols
A: OK Buyer is now Bigballs Trust, signer is me but w/ LLC as POA
M: sureπŸ˜‘

20.11.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a beard is talking into a microphone while another man in a suit stands behind him . ALT: a man with a beard is talking into a microphone while another man in a suit stands behind him .
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TEN MONTHS IN:

The national debt is higher.

The trade deficit is wider.

The inflation rate has worsened.

The unemployment rate is up.

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She's claiming that Trump murdering fishermen in the open ocean is supported by the Supreme Court. How does that legacy feel now, Roberts?

20.11.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.

Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.

But some tongues were made for the boot.

20.11.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1715    πŸ” 279    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 15
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items β€œpotentially divisive.”

I mean...how much more evidence do you need?

wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

20.11.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like, no one would do this if they didn't think their story was plausible, Right? They thought it was believable because they could imagine doing it themselves if the situation was reversed. Right?

20.11.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NJ GOP congressman's former staffer indicted in staged MAGA attack Natalie Greene worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew and had body modifications to make it appear she'd been assaulted.

NEW from me β€”

20.11.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1385    πŸ” 344    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 90
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This kid just got market corrected hard

20.11.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always refreshing to learn I'm still capable of being utterly gobsmacked like watdfaq!

20.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The Dunning Kruger Effect does not cause autism" is also not an evidence-based claim, ya fucking doorknobs

20.11.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like β€œthe ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”

20.11.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3938    πŸ” 668    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 89

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford β€œBuzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safeβ€”and make federal agents uncomfortable.

β€œI want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

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Suspicious that Gavin Newsom was also a cartoonist I asked google image search who the artist's signature belonged to. Google AI said it was Bsky user jbroomer. Based on my prompt this response is bananas! I replied that's obviously wrong WTF is wrong with you and the AI broke. Hopefully I killed it

20.11.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no accounting for taste

20.11.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?

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Look at these pedophile protectors. The only new information is Trump made a post online demanding new investigations, which is just an excuse to redact his name out of the Epstein files.

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Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.

People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

19.11.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 692    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 43

Does...does she not know?

18.11.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

18.11.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4484    πŸ” 1425    πŸ’¬ 232    πŸ“Œ 50

idk if it helps to think of it this way, but capital is not just in opposition to labor but fully radicalized against labor. they'll suffer if they think labor will suffer more. it's not about money. it's about winning.

18.11.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

There are two types of academic journals. Those that won't use AI and those whose choices are suspect.

18.11.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A good reminder for myself and others with ADHD: when you are struggling with it, the first step is ALWAYS forgiving yourself.

So much of why we get trapped and find ourselves unable to act or change is that we get trapped in our shame and guilt spirals...

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Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.

(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)

newrepublic.com/article/2030...

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From the NYT reporting on Epstein emails about Trump:
Mr. Wolff was also involved in a third email exchange, which began on Dec. 15, 2015, the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary. Mr. Wolff emailed Mr. Epstein and warned him that CNN was β€œplanning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you β€” either on air or in scrum afterwards.”

Mr. Epstein wrote back, β€œIf we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”

Mr. Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that Mr. Trump might try to deny a close association with Mr. Epstein. β€œI think you should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Mr. Trump. β€œIf he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency” that could be used to β€œhang him” later or β€œsave him, generating a debt.”

Mr. Trump never received a question about the matter in that debate, according to a transcript. It was unclear if he was asked about it separately.

From the NYT reporting on Epstein emails about Trump: Mr. Wolff was also involved in a third email exchange, which began on Dec. 15, 2015, the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary. Mr. Wolff emailed Mr. Epstein and warned him that CNN was β€œplanning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you β€” either on air or in scrum afterwards.” Mr. Epstein wrote back, β€œIf we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Mr. Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that Mr. Trump might try to deny a close association with Mr. Epstein. β€œI think you should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Mr. Trump. β€œIf he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency” that could be used to β€œhang him” later or β€œsave him, generating a debt.” Mr. Trump never received a question about the matter in that debate, according to a transcript. It was unclear if he was asked about it separately.

My favorite bit, pretty much says it all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

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Vote Democratic all the way
Vote Democratic all the way
Vote Democratic all the way

09.11.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 29

So nice to see something from the government that isn't fascist bullshit

10.11.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This, among other reasons, is why people who say poor people shouldn't have *blank* are wrong, as well as crappy.

10.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

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