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Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike🪶
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Post by Susan Hopkins: photo of a tabby cat in a Queen Anne chair with a guitar on the seat as well. Caption: When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you will see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -- Khalil Gibran.
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Photo of Grey cat wearing collar with name tag that says “Buddy”.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Woman in winter outdoor clothes, including furry hat with black & white cartoon animal face, snowshoeing hauling bin of ice fishing gear.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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@chistery1.bsky.social this one almost has a Karen haircut.
An elderly blonde woman with a Karen haircut: angled down in the front to meet the jaw bone & tapered higher to the back.
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Cornell also agreed to hand over a trove of admissions data to the federal government "broken down by Cornell's individual colleges and schools, race, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests," it states. The university also reaffirmed its commitment to train its staff on a Department of Justice memo that instructs universities to disavow DEI programs.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Happy with Maine election results:
Portland Press Herald 2025 Maine Election Results BALLOT MEASURE Absentee and Voter ID Restrictions No 308,921 63.6% Yes 176,422 36.4% Updated Nov 5, 2025, 4:28 PM QUESTION 2 - TEMPORARY RESTRICTION ON DANGEROUS WEAPONS POSSESSION OR "RED FLAG LAW" BALLOT MEASURE Yes 304,285 62.9% No 179,491. 37.1%
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Grrrr. Just reported a fake George Hahn account.
Fake George Hahn Bluesky account
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an election and hold power. Once that stage is reached, however, the change is extremely difficult to reverse. And aspiring authoritarians use other excesses, like a cowed legislature and judiciary, to lock in their power. The United States is not an autocracy today. It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary, and millions of Americans recently attended the "No Kings" protests. But it has started down an anti-democratic path, and many Americans - including people in positions of power - remain far too complacent about the threat.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Portland Press Herald Photo of a sign that says: WE ACCEPT: • Food Stamps • EBT Card Headline: Maine joins 24 states suing Trump administration over expected lapse in SNAP benefits by Rachel Ohm 3 hours ago Text: The federal food assistance benefits are expected to be suspended starting Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Blavity BATY Blavity Food Stamps/SNAP Benefits To Stop In November As Trump Admin Says It Won't Use $6B Contingency Fund Story by Christopher Rhodes • 15h Experts and organizations like the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) do not accept the administration's rationale for not funding SNAP. Calling out U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins' stance, former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official and current CBPP president Sharon Parrott said in a statement that "Secretary Rollins' claim that the Trump administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false." On the contrary, Parrott argues that "in fact, the administration is legally required to use contingency reserves — billions of dollars that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate that remain available during the shutdown — to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill." The CBPP that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate that remain available during the shutdown — to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill." The CBPP also posted a screenshot from a USDA memo, now deleted, that shows a plan to use the contingency funds to pay for SNAP benefits in the event of a budget interruption.
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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More photos of the East Wing:
President Obama greeting Tuskegee Airmen. PC Pete Souza. President Obama greeting school children in the East Wing. PC Pete Souza Easter Egg Roll by the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, 1967. PC Robert Knudsen Post by. petesouza Christmas has officially been canceled in the East Wing of the White House. Gone forever. No more Frosties. No more decorations. No more snowflakes. No more Christmas cards. No more presents. Photo of snowpeople & pine trees with tiny white lights outside East Wing of the White House
October 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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More photography of events in the East Wing by Pete Souza:
Photo of President Obama & First Lady Michelle Obama & guests wearing 3-D glasses in the now demolished White House Family Theater. President Obama greeting Rachel Robinson, widow of Jackie Robinson, in the now demolished Family Theater. President Obama greeting cast & crew of Lincoln to the Family Theater.
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Post by a Black woman Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsk... • 2d Important THREAD. Really important. The Editoria... @ed... • 3d 1. Graham Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who's running for the United States Senate in Maine. He's trying to knock off Susan Collins. He's presented himself as a common-man candidate who stands against oligarchy, genocide and the oppression of the little Posts by 2 Black women. Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.b... • 5d Yep and this man is a Democrat from Maine ® Roxane Gay @roxa... • 5d What I find so curious is why white men have such a bottomless font of forgiveness for other white men. And why pundits consistently tell us we are being too rigid to expect the BARE MINIMUM. If you think this guy is the future of the Democratic Party you have no imagination. Post by a Black man named jamelle • @jamellebouie... • 9h support whomever you'd like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue - the thing critics have identified as the problem - isn't the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it. Charles Я. D... @c... • 9h I think political writers actually should have an opinion about a guy in his 40s having a Nazi tattoo. The decision to keep it on their body may tell us n than their website. Post by a Black woman whose handle is Barred and Boujee• @au... • 5d They just straight up resent the idea that a literal Nazi tattoo can be a dealbreaker for someone whose aesthetic they like Plus if other people are drawing a line in the sand, they must be looking sideways at the Nazi tat defenders for their lack of standards and moral compass. That too is no good @ southpaw @nycso... • 5d The Democratic primary in this race will be held fully eight months from now C June 2026, there are nu
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I doubt it.
Post by a Black woman named Ashley Ford: A lot of people think it's perfectly normal for white boys and men to go through a racist or nazi phase. They think it's just part of the coming-of-age process, and that eventually, these boys will learn to hide or change those beliefs enough to participate in polite (not kind) society. 61 59 Ashley C. Ford @smash... • 5d The expectation is not that they realize they're wrong, the expectation is that they stop talking about it out loud, and the rest of us pretend it never happened. You know, boys will be boys. Post by Black man named Saeed Jones: Saeed Jones @theferoci... • 1d White people are a trip. Nathan Ber... @nat... • 3d New Maine Senate race poll shows Platner with 46% and Mills at only 25%. The tattoo and Reddit controversies made 45% of those polled more likely to support Platner. Absolutely wild. Post by Black man who’s handle is called Unknown: Unknown @unknownsol... • 2d This segment of the Left is proving the stereo types to be true. That the Far Left is ambivalent to racism and bigotry. • Jacobin @jacobin... • 3d Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be "woke." But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to tryin cancel someone over internet posts. Post by Imani Gandy Co... @ang...•2 Please do not defend Nazi tattoos in the mentions of Black people. Or Jewish people. Or in my case, Black Jewish people. Enough is enough. Honestly
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Massive Shadow of cat’s head on ceiling
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Anthony Bourdain X post from 2/9/17 Photo of a ruddy, red eyed Stephen Bannon. Caption: Tertiary syphillus is no joke people! Get tested today!
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Maybe something spooky, please?
Med hair black cat lying like a loaf & looking at the camera
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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I found 3 State Dinners hosted by the Obamas indoors & none outdoors after a super quick search.
Obamas’ last State Dinner inside elegant room. October 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with dinner guests during the State Dinner for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House March 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. This is the first state visit by a Canadian Prime Minister in 20-years. January 19, 2011: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a State Dinner in honor of the President of China, Hu Jintao, during his final trip to Washington as the Chinese leader. President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao of China toast during the State Dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House, Jan. 19, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Guests attend the State Dinner honoring President Hu Jintao of China in State Dining Room of the White House, Jan. 19, 2011.
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Original East Wing constructed in 1902… Here’s another photo taken by Pete Souza, the official WH photographer for Presidents Reagan & Obama.
B&W photo of President Ronald Reagan & FLOTUS Nancy Reagan sitting with their feet up in the East Wing movie theater. Caption: petesouza RIP to the People’s House.
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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TRUMP'S WRECKING BALL: The diggers and the heavy machinery will be back at work at the White House this morning - and within a matter of days (per the NYT), the East Wing will be gone for good. D.C. is obsessed with this ballroom. The story makes the front pages of the Times and the Post today. The number of cable news minutes devoted to this topic have been unimaginably high. At every D.C. drinks party, conversation turns to demolition. It's going to dominate more of the discourse through the day. WE HEAR YOU, KAROLINE LEAVITT: Presidents have refurbished the White House many times before. The taxpayer isn't paying. An events space would be kind of handy. We all read the press release back in July.
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I wonder which cartoonist came out with their drawing first, or whether the comics just happen to resemble each other.
Cartoon by Jesse Duquette of long list of very expensive non-essential spending, next to 2 men in MAGA hats with one saying, “FOOD STAMPS ARE DEFINITELY THE PROBLEM”
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Jess Behrens post: Stephen Miller is that guy who injures himself in a masturbating accident. Don Cochrane post: B&W photo of Stephen Miller’s head on a spread winged bat’s body, larger than the 2 men standing beside it. Looks like it’s from the late 1800s. Caption: a rare photo of Stephen Miller shortly after he hatched Sundaedivine post: menacing photo of Miller. Caption: Stephen Miller got into politics because his arms were too weak to strangle prostitutes Cartoon & post by misterjesseduquette: Kudos to cadaver-eyed hate ghoul and aspirational human @stephen miller for proving that MAGA sees Nazi comparisons as aspirational, not aberrational. Comic: portrait of Milller consisting of tiny Swastikas
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Lettter from Chellie Pingree to Trump Dear Mr. President, I write to demand that you immediately cease construction activities related to a new ballroom at the White House. You have brazenly begun demolition without the legally required approval of several government agencies. Your actions are irreparably destroying a historic portion of one of America's most recognizable landmarks and a symbol of our democracy. The White House is a National Historic Landmark and a National Park Site. Any project of this scale and importance must be approached with careful interagency coordination among the National Park Service, National Capital Planning Commission, and Commission of Fine Arts. Your disregard for the oversight and transparency requirements that protect our nation's most revered sites is shocking. Despite previous assurances that no changes would be made to the existing structure, the project's scope is clearly well beyond what was initially publicly proposed. And, according to reports, the White House has not yet even submitted plans for the project to initiate the review process. Furthermore, other than certain essential functions, the agencies with jurisdiction are all closed during the government shutdown and key staff are furloughed. It is appalling that you are pursuing a vanity project during a government shutdown. You are clearly prioritizing an entertainment space over the American people at a time when basic needs like health care and groceries are increasingly unaffordable. All demolition activities must stop at once, and the site must be secured until the reviews and approvals required by law are complete. By failing to ensure that historic preservation is appropriately considered, you are endangering a priceless historical American landmark. Such a cavalier undertaking all but guarantees that future Presidents will afford your contributions the same reverence. Signed Chellie Pingree
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Polltracker2024 X post Photos of Platner looking at his new tattoo & a close up of Celtic dog & knots “Graham Platner shows off cover-up tattoo of Nazi symbol in interview with local Maine news outlet:”
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM