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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
screenshot of an email exchange between Tom Barrack and Jeffrey Epstein. On March 9 2016 Tom Barrack said "Hope ur good. Let's catch up" to which Epstein replied a few days later "send photos of you and child. -- make me smile"
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
The Dodgers told me Yesavage keeps striking out their batters so I asked how many batters they have and they said they just go to the dugout and get a new batter afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding batters to Yesavage and then Jason Bateman started crying.
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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chetom.bsky.social
pumpkin patch 🎃🐸 #frogart
tiny cute frogs walking around a pumpkin patch having fun cute autumn cozy vibes illustration by chetom
October 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
woophda.bsky.social
He's got a whole ass youtube channel of shit like this. Started out as dating advice by a self described 8/10 who totally gets a lot of women but decided to stop doing that to give dating advice on the internet internet and talk about how successful he was

www.youtube.com/@hoe_math
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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rincewind.run
worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries

we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24d
Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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editorialboard.bsky.social
1. The president says he has the power to pay members of the military even though the government’s fiscal year ended on September 30.

That may seem acceptable. After all, why should those who serve the country suffer while partisans blame each other for the shutdown?

It isn’t acceptable.
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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emilyhare.co.uk
meme text: 'me trying not to interrupt someone when they get a minor fact wrong in my hyper-focused area of expertise' (line drawing of an awkward looking thing)
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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pantspants.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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chetom.bsky.social
happy frog Friday! 🐸🍁🍄 #frogart
cute tiny frogs playing with autumn leaves in the forest art Ferdinand frog by chetom
September 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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madisonkittay.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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junlper.beer
so donald trump had a stroke right
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The men who are calling for civil war, for the military to attack their enemies, for summary execution of liberals or Democrats - THEY DO NOT ABHOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE. They were not pushed into this. They WANT violence, and are seizing every opportunity to agitate for violence.
September 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
doubt it convinces anyone but i like the pro-solar framing that it's better at converting energy than corn. fuck corn, we're kicking corn's ass now
We can and should produce a good deal of our energy from rooftop solar panels and solar canopies over parking lots—but there aren’t enough of them to produce everything we need, and it’s considerably cheaper to use cleared land. Like, for example, some of the fields where we currently grow corn, the most widespread crop in America. And here—as someone who lives in a corn-growing county—is where I want to make an argument that may seem at first blush unlikely: Converting some of these fields to solar panels makes enormous ecological sense. That’s because one way to look at a field of corn (or any other crop) is that it’s already an array of solar panels. A plant is a way to convert sunshine into energy through photosynthesis, which is an enormous miracle—the chlorophyll in the leaves absorbs energy from the red and blue parts of the spectrum, which energizes electrons, moving them to a higher energy state. A miracle—but not a very efficient one. Somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of the sunlight falling on a leaf actually becomes energy. The photovoltaic panel works considerably better: As we’ve seen, the average panel is about 20 percent efficient, and we’re on a course that might someday soon get us to 40 percent efficient. Which means that, say, if you want to use corn to power a car, it takes a lot of it. About 40 percent of America’s corn crop is turned to ethanol—in Iowa, on the richest topsoil in the world, that number is over 60 percent. If you spent a day driving past Midwestern corn fields, mostly you’d be seeing gasoline plants. But, again, inefficient ones: A few years ago, 200 scientists at 31 colleges and universities across Iowa signed a statement noting that a “one-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of ethanol.” Or, to do the math in reverse, an acre of corn will produce enough ethanol every year to drive a Ford F-150 pickup about 25,000 miles. But cover that same acre in solar panels and you will produce enough juice to drive the electric version of the same truck—the F-150 Lightning—about 750,000 miles. Or to do the math one more way, you could supply all the energy the US currently uses by covering 30 One truth is, we actually don’t need very much land to provide the energy we need. At the moment, according to Stanford’s Mark Jacobson, fossil fuel infrastructure takes up about 1.3 percent of America’s land area—this includes active and abandoned oil and gas wells and coal mines (since, unlike the sun, these play out, you need new ones every year) and deforested strips for pipelines, power plants, and tank farms. By his calculation, converting entirely to clean energy would use less of the landscape. It depends on how you count it, of course—when Jacobson looks at the acreage of a wind farm, for instance, he includes just the pads for mounting the turbines and the paved roads between them, since everything else can still be farmed. His numbers, across 145 countries: “The total new land area for footprint required . . . is about 0.17 percent” of their territory. By contrast, at the moment the US devotes about 41 percent of its land—both pasture and cropland—to feeding cows. We devote two million acres to golf courses and three million to airports.
September 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Another Niels cartoon, not about debunking fake history this time, but too lovely not to share.
We can all use a shieldwall now and then.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
August 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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minda33.bsky.social
The greatest crime reporting in the history of the Omaha World-Herald.
9 years ago As police were at the house, one of the couple's sons arrived and told officers the brownies belonged to his siblings. He told them he was "pretty sure it was just marijuana in the brownies," accordi to a police report. Paramedics called to the scene who checked the man found his vital signs to be normal. But they noted he was displaying odd behavior -- crawling around on the floor, randomly using profanities, and calling the family cat "a bitch."
August 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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yrie.bsky.social
A little doodle based on someone else's joke. 💜
August 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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cooperlund.online
I have been saying for a long time that Dubai is a bug light for dumb guys and I'm glad people are coming around on it
In a 2024 essay, the jazz critic and music historian Ted Gioia described this pattern as “dopamine culture,” the idea that our online life has been engineered to induce stimulation above all else. “Its most striking feature is the absence of Culture (with a capital C) or even mindless entertainment—both get replaced by compulsive activity,” he writes. Audiences who become inured to the constant buzz want more of it and in more extreme forms, Gioia argues, to stave off the boredom and dread that quickly sweep in without it. You can’t just watch your favorite football team play anymore. Now, to really feel something, you need to bet on the game too. That one of the biggest trends going has Dubai in the name is almost too perfect; Dubai, in its role as a global brand, has been engineered to be devoid of meaning or a sense of place or a particular cultural tradition. It’s a signifier that signifies nothing but gold G-Wagons and get-rich-quick schemes and indoor ski slopes in the desert. If dopamine culture were a place on the map, Dubai and Las Vegas would have to duke it out for the title, but I know where my Polymarket bet is going.
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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theonion.com
Heartfelt Apology Robs Man Of Cherished Grudge theonion.com/heartfe...
Heartfelt Apology Robs Man Of Cherished Grudge
August 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
unironically, this is the song of the summer. it's been in my head for three days straight.
August 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Apparently, inflation is bad, but we must impose tariffs to raise the cost of cheap imports so people buy expensive American goods. We can re-shore manufacturing, but to be cost competitive, we have to fully automate factories, replacing American workers with robots.
July 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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sarafoss.bsky.social
Read this essay this morning in my hotel, then spent the day exploring the Bay of Fundy. Every once in awhile, my thoughts returned to this essay.

It’s that good.

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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davechen.bsky.social
It does what now
A review by @frickyuu on twitter reads: FantasticFour Is a masterpiece. the visual effects and the score are a HUGE stand out. Galactus Is huge In IMAX. It’s emotional and gives you hope. It beats you off and doesn’t stop. STAY Until the END CREDITS.
July 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "He has these think tanks. They build buildings for people that think."
July 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
you're gonna wanna see this
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM