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Dev Petty

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · Nov 14

Possibly the single greatest moment in children’s literature.

Illustration from James Marshall’s George & Martha.

Martha, a hippo wearing a dress, is seated in an arm chair smoking a cigar.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 7h

Newsom's latest troll 😆

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 8h

THEY HAVE NAMES?!?

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 11h

It's hard to overstate how welcome it would be for just ONE TIME to hear "yeah, we're working on it." It's all such woeful gaslighting and it makes us all feel like we're losing it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

INGRAHAM: “Why are people saying they’re anxious about the economy?”

TRUMP: “The polls are fake 🤥. The economy is the strongest ever 🤥. We have $20 Trillion coming in 🤥 . Largely because of the tariffs 🤥.”

Every sentence is a lie.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 12h

What trillion dollars?

Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 14h

Whatever you choose will be great. She's got a winky kind of cleverness this one. I'm so glad she's joined you!

Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 17h

totally. I kind of sadly realize we can only pull the levers we can pull here and money is one of them.

they've so taken our votes for granted but that becomes hard to maintain when things get SO bad you feel like it's best just to hit bottom.

I hope there's a split and a progressive wing forms.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.

He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks

The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 19h

Jinxy Winx

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Ginger Cat Dusty @gingercatdusty.bsky.social · 21h

Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1d

Man

CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 1d

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Bold strategy there, Chuck, we'll see if it pays off.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Congressional Democrats are livid after a handful of their Senate colleagues voted Sunday to end the government shutdown. Chris Murphy called it a mistake. Bernie Sanders called it “a very bad night.” And Ro Khanna and Seth Moulton accused Chuck Schumer of being ineffective & called for his removal.

‘Schumer is no longer effective’: Dems outraged over shutdown deal

Congressional Democrats are furious after eight colleagues voted with Republicans.

www.politico.com

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 1d

Any time I don’t know the answer to a question, I say “the surgeon was the boy’s mother” just in case

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.

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Don Kronenberger @donkronenberger.bsky.social · 2d

Indivisible needs to break with Act Blue until Democratic leadership is changed. What will motivate millions to the next mass action with these Democrat leadership? #BoycottActBlue

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. That’s a block for me.

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1d

Except kindergarteners

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote

indivisible.org

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1d

Shut the front door.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.

A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.

When will party leadership learn this lesson?

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