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Donald Trump looking the happiest I’ve ever seen him talking to Mamdani, with a Reagan portrait hanging in the wall behind them

Crying at Ronald Reagan bearing silent witness

We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.

It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.

All I'm going to say is if anyone famous or powerful has some bad news, put it RIGHT NOW. Tonight is optimal for a Friday night news drop.

I feel completely incapable of even guessing what is real anymore.

DOH. HUGE NEWS in the tariff wars!

(Point Roberts is a tiny sliver of America you can basically only reach from Canada.)

Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.

DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces.

Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.

Yet another example of total incompetence.

Serious question, what does this mean? It sounds like "all your bases are belong to us."

Sometimes upholding your oath involves doing things that by design will never make the news. Feds understand government and bureaucracy better than the public and politicians and how to use that to protect the country.

The vast majority of career civil servants know exactly what their oath is and honor it daily.

That really should not have made me laugh.

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

A Marmot’s Guide to Yawning. Your yawn should start at the hind end, traveling up to your head and culminating in a dramatic silent scream. Complete with lip smacking to communicate how deeply satisfying this was. Strike a dramatic pose while receiving yawning admiration from onlookers.

The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke

Oh very cool, that would explain the photos I have seen on his wall in interviews.

Photo of television screen with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse speaking from his office to Lawrence O’Donnell with a large photo of a shark in the ocean in the background

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Per your interests, Senator Whitehouse’s office

The foreperson presumably doesn't have a legal background, but could he/she face any legal problems with all this?

It's the "(to scale)" that makes it art.

I grow frustrated with local news-- by focusing so much on stories of violence, they inadvertently promote the idea that the world is more violent than it is (leading voters to candidates who promise security at all costs).

But holding up a mic to a cow is incredible

www.10tv.com/article/news...

Laura Loomer tweet saying GOP has a Nazi problem.

I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.

One of those times when I am really happy I have no idea what is going on.

Cloudflare outage destroys all human communication except Bluesky, this is the weirdest sci-fi scenario I’ve ever seen

Picture of a rock squirrel on a bird-feeding platform made of a saguaro skeleton that was struck by lightning at our place. He sits to right of a quail seed-block, cheeks CRAMMED to at least 10xs their size. Comical! Blue skies and train trestle in background.

I'm not kidding. This is not photoshopped! Rock #squirrel filled to the BRIM.

"What? Who, me?"

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Thing that rattles around in my head:

Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."

I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.

I really feel there is a large segment of the population that has been deprived (or blessed) by not seeing Disney original films.

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

@mluther I’ve been doing a bit of research on my own and I think the church is getting some things wrong. long thread so buckle up. 1/95

I reported a no parking sign detached from its pole to @arlingtondes.bsky.social, and they fixed it in less than 24 hours. Well done.

Oxford researchers say octopuses 'likely to take over the world' Oxford University boffins say the octopuses are likely to take over the world after humans.

I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...

This is the thread you need today.