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Photography. Wildlife. Birding.
Liverpool. Football. Club.
Pinned
Five years ago today in my suburban Chicago yard.
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Sounds like Comey is indictment is annulled.
Lindsey, the insurance lawyer, blew it big time.
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center

we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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“404: Christmas Not Found” only on Hallmark
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In normaler times, this is front page, above the fold, all caps behavior by an American president
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"

As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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It’s the hottest economy in history with $21 trillion coming in.

Also: we need the Fed to cut rates and “prop up this economy.” 🤪

@atrupar.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Sex pest : i am retiring from public life

public : good fuck off

sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions

public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Is Larry Summers Ruining the Workplace? Yes
- By Elizabeth Warren
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.

In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Called a bunch of dentists in my area for a quote to have a crown replaced. All point blank refused to quote a price. The notion that Americans will get a check and individually negotiate their own healthcare costs is laughable.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Engineers monitoring the RTE Player during this crucial #HUNIRE 🇮🇪 World Cup qualifier.
a person is pressing a button that says auxiliary nuclear on it
Alt: a person is pressing a button that says auxiliary nuclear on it
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Someone said to Hegseth: "Do you need a screwdriver?" and he said "Yes, but hold the orange juice."
Meanwhile, Hegseth…
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Read a few of those leaked emails between illiterate billionaires and the first paragraph of the NYT glazing Nuzzi and you will be inoculated against impostor syndrome for the next 10 years. Do you have a halfway functioning brain? Congratulations you are a golden god
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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“you can be disappeared”

this is actually happening to people irl in this country, getting a temporary suspension from Bluesky is not the same thing. grow up
BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is the same logic as "I, a Congressman, was elected in a fair election. But Biden, on the same ballot, was not."
“records show these men need to be investigated!!! but those same records about me are a hoax.”
he’s crashing out
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Chicago's getting chilly. On to New Orleans.
Greg Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, along with his agents, are planning to leave Chicago as early as this week as they eye other locations to ramp up arrests.
Gregory Bovino and his Border Patrol agents are planning to leave Chicago as early as this week | CNN
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, along with his agents, are planning to leave Chicago as early as this w...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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WE WEREN'T THE ONES WHO STOPPED FIGHTING
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM