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Noah Samsen

@nsamsen.bsky.social

never kill yourself

May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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NPR

@npr.org

A federal judge has sentenced former Congressman George Santos to 87 months in prison over multiple wire fraud and identity theft charges in connection with his 2022 run for Congress. (via @wshupublicradio.bsky.social)

Former Congressman George Santos to serve 7 years in federal prison

A federal judge in Central Islip sentenced the ex-congressman Friday to the maximum sentence of 87 months in prison over multiple wire fraud and identity theft charges in connection with his 2022 run ...

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April 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Apr 20

Sunday morning April 20, 2025

Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen

NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen

CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen

CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen

ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen

@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw

April 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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Elizabeth Harper

@cadaverformosus.bsky.social

YOU GUYS.

A miniature train yard with working streetlights, industrial buildings in the background and parked train cars with graffiti and a train on the track, also with graffiti train cars

A close up of the previous scene with a little red car in the parking lot portion of the train yard. there’s a blue crate train car with white bubble tagging that says stash. In the background there’s a white train car with kos tagged on it with a red background

Miniature tagged train cars on a light wood display shelf.

April 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM

bike

@jitensha.bsky.social

BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · Mar 20

The question being asked of every Democrat right now

March 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM

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soul nate

@mnateshyamalan.bsky.social

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory

democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

March 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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e.w. niedermeyer

@niedermeyer.online

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 3

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

X post:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

i'm sensing some broader parallels

February 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

@theserfstv.bsky.social

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM

bike

@jitensha.bsky.social

this app rules I love XHS

January 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM

bike

@jitensha.bsky.social

once you’re absurdly wealthy and can do pretty much whatever you want without real consequence i assume regular life gets boring very quickly. which is why, i believe, celebs tend to develop all-encompassing humiliation fetishes.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jan 3

Drake calls out those who switched sides on him during the Kendrick Lamar beef on new “Fighting Irish” freestyle

Drake Calls Out Those Who Switched Sides on Him During Kendrick Lamar Beef on ‘Fighting Irish’

A Drake freestyle calls out people who switched sides during the Kendrick Lamar feud. The "Fighting Irish" track was posted by Conductor Williams.

www.billboard.com

January 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM

bike

@jitensha.bsky.social

twerked for twenty straight minutes trying to shake out my gas pains yes it worked no i am not okay

January 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM

bike

@jitensha.bsky.social

Quite sincerely the only thing on my mind rn is ritualistic homicide.

December 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM

bike

@jitensha.bsky.social

I think Bluey and Blue from Blues Clues should have a slumber party with clues that lead to a s’mores campfire and playing grannies what kind of granny would Blue be I wonder. Can Magenta be there.

December 20, 2024 at 6:41 PM