Defective Cook
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Defective Cook
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Every day in the regime
Also, John Carpenter was teaching us about the absurd
Also, John Carpenter was teaching us about the absurd
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This is coming out as the hardest own in the history of social media.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is coming out as the hardest own in the history of social media.
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Direct stimulus and price controls. Sounds like a midterm year.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Direct stimulus and price controls. Sounds like a midterm year.
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Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
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The hero of the working class.
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The hero of the working class.
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This reminds me of his pitch for Trump’s miracle cure “signature” vitamin supplements in 2009, which were available for a bargain price if you signed up for a membership with the Trump Network and submitted a urine test because they customized them to your needs. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This reminds me of his pitch for Trump’s miracle cure “signature” vitamin supplements in 2009, which were available for a bargain price if you signed up for a membership with the Trump Network and submitted a urine test because they customized them to your needs. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
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Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father.
If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father.
If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
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In the UK this week? Join Bellingcat contributor Dr. Ollie Ballinger at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for a talk this Friday as he unpacks our investigations into, and the open source tools we built to track suspicious ships operating in international waters. events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
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November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
In the UK this week? Join Bellingcat contributor Dr. Ollie Ballinger at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for a talk this Friday as he unpacks our investigations into, and the open source tools we built to track suspicious ships operating in international waters. events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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I picked the right year to lose 60 pounds… they will be denaturalizing fatties in 2026. But they won’t get me that way. They need to subpoena my Bluesky posts.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I picked the right year to lose 60 pounds… they will be denaturalizing fatties in 2026. But they won’t get me that way. They need to subpoena my Bluesky posts.
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Today the Supreme Court heard a very, very technical case about whether a government contractors (in this case, private prison company GEO Group) should get essentially qualified immunity for contractors (I'm oversimplifying). The answer, it seems, will be no.
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Justices Doubt Timing of Immunity Appeal in GEO Wage Case (1)
Several US Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of GEO Group Inc.’s argument that it can immediately appeal a lower court’s rejection of its immunity defense to escape forced labor claims from im...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today the Supreme Court heard a very, very technical case about whether a government contractors (in this case, private prison company GEO Group) should get essentially qualified immunity for contractors (I'm oversimplifying). The answer, it seems, will be no.
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I know this is an obvious and old point, but it still shocks me how quickly the culture of the GOP has come to defined by the absurd personality type of the "toad-licking, ass kissing alpha." Amazing that they've built an audience that finds such deportment appealing, rather than disqualifying.
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I know this is an obvious and old point, but it still shocks me how quickly the culture of the GOP has come to defined by the absurd personality type of the "toad-licking, ass kissing alpha." Amazing that they've built an audience that finds such deportment appealing, rather than disqualifying.
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I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.
On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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It's cool when a member of Congress says there's no point in standing up to the bully who is literally taking our tax money.
We do not have a federal government.
We do not have a federal government.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's cool when a member of Congress says there's no point in standing up to the bully who is literally taking our tax money.
We do not have a federal government.
We do not have a federal government.
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Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."
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Last night was only a test vote. *The actual vote hasn’t happened.* But they want us confused so we stop calling.
CALL the #HatefulEight NOW and don’t stop.
20 million lives depend on it.
CALL the #HatefulEight NOW and don’t stop.
20 million lives depend on it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Last night was only a test vote. *The actual vote hasn’t happened.* But they want us confused so we stop calling.
CALL the #HatefulEight NOW and don’t stop.
20 million lives depend on it.
CALL the #HatefulEight NOW and don’t stop.
20 million lives depend on it.
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Woah I missed Sam just quadrupled his 2028 cash burn estimate to $45 Billion. Dude about to burn through Iceland’s GDP every five months.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Woah I missed Sam just quadrupled his 2028 cash burn estimate to $45 Billion. Dude about to burn through Iceland’s GDP every five months.
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I just checked Kaine's largest donors and Altria (Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Parliament, etc) is pretty damn high on that list.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I just checked Kaine's largest donors and Altria (Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Parliament, etc) is pretty damn high on that list.
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Dei er virvellause blautdyr
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dei er virvellause blautdyr
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“.. Solairus Aviation CEO Dan Drohan called the situation a ‘total sh*tshow.’”
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November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“.. Solairus Aviation CEO Dan Drohan called the situation a ‘total sh*tshow.’”
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UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
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Ro Khanna, who has called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced, says the only reason other Democrats aren't calling for it is because it would "offend a lot of donors."
"Are we gonna be beholden to the donors that have gotten us two terms of Donald Trump, or are we gonna listen to people?"
"Are we gonna be beholden to the donors that have gotten us two terms of Donald Trump, or are we gonna listen to people?"
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ro Khanna, who has called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced, says the only reason other Democrats aren't calling for it is because it would "offend a lot of donors."
"Are we gonna be beholden to the donors that have gotten us two terms of Donald Trump, or are we gonna listen to people?"
"Are we gonna be beholden to the donors that have gotten us two terms of Donald Trump, or are we gonna listen to people?"