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Mostly here for the cute animals and baseball.
Gentleman architect. More grey hair than sense.
YIMBY, zoning and licensing reform
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tawnimarshall.bsky.social
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
The Free Press I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. by Jamie Reed Jamie Reed: The Courage to Admit You’re Wrong When I blew the whistle on a transgender clinic, some suggested I had been ‘brainwashed by the right.’ No. I’m a progressive who follows science. by Jamie Reed I Spent 13 Years Living as a Man. But After My Spouse’s Exposé, I’m Detransitioning. When Jamie Reed revealed the dangers of gender-affirming care for minors, I felt threatened. That’s because she was right. by Roxanne Reed Why I Hope the Supreme Court Upholds the Ban on Child Transition Today, the top legal minds in the country will consider whether there’s a constitutional right to harm children. Jamie Reed asks: How did we get to this point? by Jamie Reed
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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jesus
keithboykin.bsky.social Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 17h
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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rapsheet.bsky.social
“I’d love to get into it.”

Allow Kirk Cousins to take you to school
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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josie.zone
The best part of this amazing short film is when the snow plow shows up and you're like AWW YEAH HERE COMES OUR HERO, and then it just glides into failure
jokeb0i.bsky.social 💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 5d
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
denisedwheeler.bsky.social Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 8d
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.

Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.

They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.

Another horrific story.

More details below.
ICE pepper sprayed 1 year old gil
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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jenmercieca.bsky.social
holy crap watch this
youtu.be/ROJZntCBZCc?...
Erin Morton | Creep | Radiohead Cover | CCM Musical Theatre
YouTube video by In.love.with.angels
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
The coolest ever
fraserramon.bsky.social fraser ramon @fraserramon.bsky.social · 9d
Joan Jett throwing gas??!!?!!
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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ahmedbaba.bsky.social
This is a truly remarkable moment. Simultaneously debunking Kristi Noem’s lie in real-time and elevating the story of a veteran who was deported under Trump & Noem’s dehumanizing, belligerent deportation policy.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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samthielman.com
I saw a lot of people posting their favorite cover songs and thought I’d add mine to the mix
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is incredible.
zeets.bsky.social Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 13d
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Sincerely, if I was a Dem executive and had an idea this was going to happen, I’d deploy armed officers to bar any intruders from the citizenship ceremony until it was complete. A sacred space and a sacred obligation, and letting fascist goons pick people off at the front door is an abomination
sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 17d
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
I think everybody at NPR is glad our Susan Stamberg left us an advance obit for Frank Gehry. A legend on a legend.
Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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jgbollard.bsky.social
There are many reasons to remember the life and work of Frank Gehry today but want to highlight that he was a good employer who knew how to run an office and took construction seriously.
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
I worked for Frank Gehry. Because of him, I went to The Simpsons Halloween party, had a key to the Disney Concert Hall, met amazing artists. Frank was wonderful to me. When I left his office, he said you'll do big things, just try to stay out of politics. Sorry, Frank. Your memory is a blessing ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18d
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
Pete Hegseth * G @PeteHegseth X.com Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat. Andrew Kolvet • @AndrewKolvet • 3h Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
They want us to be appalled, because caring about rules of war and human lives and the law all mark us out as inferior to them in their sick worldview.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18d
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18d
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
I would love a still photo with the names of all of every single pathetic, sycophantic jackasses standing behind Trump and going along with this
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19d
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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edsbs.bsky.social
Reminder
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM