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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
sorry west coast, i hope things work out for you too but i already stayed up for 18 innings of baseball this month and that's all i've got in me
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Enjoying an unhurried and delightful meal at The Table Of Success. My waiters keep bringing me off-menu amuse bouches "from the chef." Ah here comes another crudo. Sublime.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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poseur.bsky.social
True fact: There is no publicly displayed portrait or likeness on campus of LSU's first president.

And let the record show he was undefeated against Georgia and South Carolina
andrewhateselon.bsky.social Gang of Four Meets the Stooges but Woke @andrewhateselon.bsky.social · 29d
Reminder to LSU: when the CFB Hall of Fame puts Brian Kelly in for his time at Notre Dame and Cincinnati, they will mail you a plaque with his face on it. There is no law, guideline, or incentive for you to display it anywhere. You can absolutely just not put it up!
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
rmccarthy.bsky.social
I saw Vladimir Guerrero 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙧 walking with the Queen…
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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edsbs.bsky.social
These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago
wesleymorgan.bsky.social Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · Oct 7
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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artologica.net
Morning walk
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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junlper.beer
the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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annaghughes.bsky.social
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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actioncookbook.com
ME: two of my most hated enemies are going to drag each other down
YOU: right, the Trump-Musk thing
ME: the what
espn.com ESPN @espn.com · Jun 5
Breaking: Aaron Rodgers plans to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers, sources told Adam Schefter.

This ends the months of uncertainty around his future and unites the future Hall of Famer with a team that desperately needs a quarterback.
Rodgers plans to sign with Steelers, sources say
Aaron Rodgers plans to sign with the Steelers, sources told ESPN, uniting the future Hall of Famer with a team that desperately needs a QB.
spr.ly
June 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
Roses are red
Orchids are white
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 30
Report: Elon Used So Much Ketamine He Couldn’t Pee Right

The New York Times reports that the billionaire experienced some negative effects from frequent drug use while stumping for Trump last year
Elon Used So Much Ketamine He Couldn't Pee Right: Report
Elon Musk's frequent use of ketamine during the 2024 campaign caused him to experience bladder problems, according to The New York Times.
rollingstone.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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drewmagary.bsky.social
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
May 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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emilyherring.bsky.social
I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE
Laura Loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
May 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
It's cool, and feels amazing, to realize that we're going to have a recession because the president thinks that kids have too many dolls now. It's obviously very stupid, but feeling like you should/do have the right to discipline other people's kids is also a core conservative value.
May 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
You don't have to care about the Founders. We should have as little reverence for them as they themselves had for all the hallowed things they left behind. Less actually, because they are dead. We are here. They are not. What kind of America do we, the living, want to have?
April 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
But we're going to have beautiful empty shelves and it's something I think you'll be seeing very soon. We won't be the country of clutter anymore. [doing accordion hands] it's called minimalism. Ok?
April 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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rotopat.bsky.social
Me five minutes after drafting Dillon Gabriel: Alright, yeah, that's my bad
April 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
can’t really be overstated how important it was that in an era where almost every single institution we have is being dragged towards fascism, one little old man devoted his life to shoving the world’s oldest institution towards more charity, grace and inclusivism.
April 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Honestly this is like hearing that Stephen Miller got arrested for fucking a corpse. I’m like “huh, yeah, okay, that makes sense.”
April 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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theonion.com
Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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drewmagary.bsky.social
Somehow writing this cured (some of) my newsphobia. Regaining my strength a bit. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
America lived fast and is now dying young
Threats to U.S. passport holders. Compromised news outlets. Constant cuts and layoffs. Drew Magary writes on his life under President Donald Trump.
www.sfgate.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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artologica.net
Holy hell, the kicker on this NYer article about the Irish potato famine www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Above all, “Rot” reminds us that the Great Hunger was a very modern event, and one shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendant. The poor are the authors of their own misery. The warning signs of impending environmental disaster can be ignored. Gross inequalities are natural, and God-given. The market must be obeyed at all costs. There is only one thing about the Irish famine that now seems truly anachronistic—millions of refugees were saved because other countries took them in. That, at least, would not happen now.
April 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM