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Jennifer Meyer
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thegodpodcast.com
MSNBC is covering the No Kings protests in NYC.

CNN is covering Minnesota assassinations and urging you not to march.

Fox News is covering Trump’s birthday parade.
June 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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skiles.blue
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
I still cannot get over this photo.
ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · Feb 28
This shot. I mean holy shit.
Screengrab from the NYT of Trump screaming at Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, with the following: NE Doug Mills/The New York Times 33 minutes ago Peter Baker White House reporter 凸 Never has an American president lectured the leader of an ally in public like this, much less the leader of a country that is fighting off invaders. 34 minutes ago Peter Baker White House reporter 凸 I have covered the White House since 1996. There has never been an Oval Office meeting in front of cameras like this in all that time.
February 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
it’s true the grotesque spectacle Trump & Vance performed in the Oval Office today was unprecedented — but it’s false to say they revealed themselves in any new way: these are the abominable characters & positions & attitudes & allegiances they have always proclaimed & embodied
February 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black. “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote. Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. However, it does not include key assignments that were identified in law as prerequisites for the job, with an exemption for the president to waive them if necessary in times of national interest.
February 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
February 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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atrupar.com
this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
February 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."
Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Now is a good time to have an indoor cat, please.
covidsafenz.bsky.social Living Safely With Covid @covidsafenz.bsky.social · Feb 7
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

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February 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
the five love languages are cats, cakes, a stately manor home in the English countryside, teaming up to catch the murderer and putting down my book so I can talk to you.
February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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drwendyrocks.bsky.social
NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.
Link to an article on Wendy Bohon on the NASA website. 404 message
February 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
At least Jim Jones got his start with a free restaurant and a home that provided real care for the elderly. Musk got his start getting pushed out of PayPal because he was too fucking stupid to run it.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.

So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.
February 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
If the news/world is getting to you today, just understand you’re not alone. Do your best and know you are loved. Make friends and find community wherever you can ❤️
January 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.
Hey friends! We're seeing a lot of terrible things. We're not able to cover all of them, but we felt this latest one is a really big deal and needs much more awareness. Our summary is this: It's an administrative coup. Trump has ordered tens of billions (maybe up to $3 trillion) of budget halted indefinitely in a blatantly illegal move. He's claiming power to halt and potentially redirect funding that's already been authorized by Congress — a classic authoritarian move. Here's what we know. And we're doing our best to catch up with this story, because it's moving fast. There's a memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget. (That's the same government entity who set-up the DEI "snitch" line, that's now been spammed by tens of thousands of our fellow residents.) In typical Trump-style, the memo gets its facts wrong. It claims in FY2024 the US government spent $10 trillion (actually it was $6.8 trillion). It says money should be used for the administration's priorities — "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve." (Again, it's very fact deficient.) The memo says a pause will begin at 5pm on January 28th where, "Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal." Anyone promised federal grants might have their money at risk, even states. This is Congressional directed spending and Trump is ordering people to not do it. This funding includes universities for education and research programs, nonprofits, local and tribal governments, disaster relief aid, e… So what can we do? It's been a lot. And the shock approach of this administration is to overwhelm us with nonsense and a state of paralysis. We continue to believe the best thing is to stay grounded and keep yourself sane amidst insanity. At this juncture, three actions we suggest that make sense to us: 1) Urge media to cover this story properly This is not "possibly illegal" — it's "patently illegal." You can read notes on that here. It's not "temporary" — it's "indefinite." There's no timetable for ending it. It's not just a memo — it's an administrative coup. 2) Urge your Representatives to act like this is a big deal If you know us, this isn't a knee-jerk action we suggest. We think this is a strategic because it's Congress that's being violated — their power is being directly undermined. 3) Continue to support ACLU and Democracy Forward These groups have been preparing litigation for some time. Unless Trump revokes this, this will certainly make its way through the courts. Our read is even the biased courts will have trouble swallowing this — so it may end up being shut down. Keep breathing. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again," Nelson Mandela. Warmly, - Choose Democracy
January 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
January 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
You get what the billionaires tell you to pay for. Maybe LAPD can arrest the fires? That’s how they’ve prioritized their budgets.
January 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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karynmoy.bsky.social
I wish conspiracy theories would go back to being fun things like cryptids and men in black and ufos rather than “vaccines are bad and also women”
January 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
I ❤️ kitten bros. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
Black and white photo of a muscular young white man with dark, slicked back hair, staring at the camera and holding up a shorthaired tuxedo tabby kitten. An older white man behind him props another kitten up on his shoulder.
December 14, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
The weather forecast today called for exactly five clouds. I thought that seemed weird but there they are! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.
Black and white photo of five fluffy white kittens sitting up in a row on a decorative garden wall - but I think it is a studio prop, not actually outside. The kittens almost look like they’re glowing!
December 14, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
America is going to learn very fast that the historic corruption of the incoming administration will kill people. American innocents will die because Trump and Musk and Thiel and Vance have designs on this country that have everything to do with their own enrichment and nothing to do with Americans.
December 14, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Sometimes in life you just need to stop and yell in a basket on the sidewalk. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby kitten sitting inside an overturned basket that is lying on a sidewalk in the sun. The kitten is meowing.
December 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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definitelyvita.bsky.social
Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning
A two panel comic strip. Panel 1: A light gray human shape (like a thicc stick figure) labelled "THE WEALTHY ELITE" reaches greedily, mouth open in excitement, towards a large floating yellow ball that is labelled "A SECOND GILDED AGE" Panel 2: same as above, but behind the gray figure (who now has a sweat drop to indicate nervousness on its head) is a VERY large pink blob labelled "THE RETURN OF OUTLAW FOLL HEROES" with one arm wrapped around the gray figure, expression quietly threatening
December 13, 2024 at 4:31 PM