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Can't do that X thing anymore, suddenly most of my friends are here. What makes me happy: cats books fiber arts music pens The Repair Shop.

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Screenshot of an X post by Justin Macmahan criticizing Trump for discussing interior decorating during a press conference on Iran. The quoted post includes Trump describing drapes and a future ballroom. Below is a video still of Trump speaking at a podium in a formal room with gold drapes behind him.

Screenshot of an X post by Justin Macmahan criticizing Trump for discussing interior decorating during a press conference on Iran. The quoted post includes Trump describing drapes and a future ballroom. Below is a video still of Trump speaking at a podium in a formal room with gold drapes behind him.

It’s like Kamala Harris said. An unserious man in a very serious position.

03.03.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1529    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 7

or anything else, really

03.03.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 403    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

Dang, there ought to be a cabinet-level government department with a secretary whose job it is to take care of that

03.03.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 924    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

03.03.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6298    πŸ” 2680    πŸ’¬ 635    πŸ“Œ 272
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β€œThe Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

03.03.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6108    πŸ” 2628    πŸ’¬ 235    πŸ“Œ 136

Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.

@davidpintod.bsky.social

02.03.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

"I support whatever it is that's happening, which I don't know."

02.03.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And it's not just cervical cancer it can prevent. It can also prevent oral cancer, which is often caused by HPV.

01.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 722    πŸ” 283    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 5

So they have no plan. Got it.

01.03.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8793    πŸ” 2379    πŸ’¬ 895    πŸ“Œ 171

It’s truly amateur hour.

01.03.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1627    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 15

The β€˜Board of Peace’ started World War 3 so fast.

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Let them eat liver. bsky.app/profile/fact...

27.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1378    πŸ” 358    πŸ’¬ 410    πŸ“Œ 44

β€œYou can bring down the cost of your groceries if you start buying cheap foods you don’t like. Or eating whales and bears you find during the day!”

RFK Jr can always be counted on to bring the stupidity.

27.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3719    πŸ” 962    πŸ’¬ 841    πŸ“Œ 123

Michelle Obama suggested people eat vegetables and conservatives lost their minds.

27.02.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1179    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 11
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From Award Shows to Basketball Games, Caucasians Keep Shouting the N-Word The obsession with uttering the one word that should never be said is peak white rage.

Another Black person had the N-word shouted at him.

Happy Black History Month. (Insert sarcasm.)

@carronjphillips.bsky.social

27.02.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

And the reason for that, to be clear, is that Nazis have very intentionally co-opted it as such.

They literally name their terror orgs using it

26.02.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student.

"It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

26.02.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1077    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 50
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here β€” where he should have been safe.

The cruelty is endless.

26.02.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6203    πŸ” 2689    πŸ’¬ 342    πŸ“Œ 222

Cowards they be to not show this on TV

26.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Foreign.
Countries.
Don't.
Pay.
Tariffs.

25.02.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I dumped them years ago because I was sick of seeing articles by Ross A$$hat every month, clearly they are not better.

24.02.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Members of Congress are elected to serve their constituents, not to do β€˜whatever the president wants.’

24.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1056    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 5

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is β€œfeared.”

24.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5229    πŸ” 997    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 47

Yay! Now do Elkridge MD! Even though the county revoked the permit Project Saltbox volunteers find money is still being spent on the building by the fed.

24.02.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

24.02.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 17078    πŸ” 3835    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1

"It is not a coincidence that Epstein was also interested in crypto, in AI, in right-wing populism, in trad Cath extremists, and anti-trans ideology, ... Epstein gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality."

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Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor' Researchers say Meta’s patent for simulating dead users could be a β€œturning point” in β€œAI resurrections.”

This reads like a headline that would scroll by in the background of a sci fi horror movie at the beginning of act one to establish the dystopian tone and setting

23.02.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1