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Jolene

@easyread.bsky.social
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"A nice person to sit in front of"

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Look they wrote an article about me.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/10/2026
I don't think the Supreme Court is going to get rid of same-sex marriage tomorrow, but when the justice who says that overturning a landmark case is "not realistic" is the *same guy who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade*, you should not take anything he says seriously
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Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works
Activists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was not aware any rando could just buy plutonium from Russia. That seems bad. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Hadley man admits to selling Russian plutonium, mailing it through postal service, feds say - The Boston Globe
Jacob D. Miller had an online business called "Collect the Periodic Table" that he ran out of his home in South Hadley, federal prosecutors said.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pats beat the Bills, just like everyone predicted.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Low on the list of dumb/bad things this admin. is doing, but what is the point of this? Sure, let's force low-paid workers to stand all day for no reason all. www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/u...
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TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs | CNN
Airport security employees checking boarding passes and IDs will no longer be allowed to sit down while working, the Transportation Security Administration confirmed Tuesday.
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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Actually didn't know that he'd been cosplaying here as humble Maine fishing village guy. That Times piece might lead to more protesters.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, actually, I will not.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow you don’t say
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even *I* know the difference between the Hawks and the Hawkeyes and I don't even watch college sports. Though to be fair, that might only be because of @dweeze.bsky.social. (On the other hand, I can read, so I can see that Hawkeyes has a different number of letters than Hawks.)
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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great nugget from Boog Sciambi on Marquee Sports today Cubs-Red Sox attendance at the Trop: 20,411… Which outdrew 58 of 81 Rays home games at the Trop
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am going to the Pats-Jets game in three weeks with my brother and the Patriots had better clean up their act before then or we are going to have a problem. (The problem is I will sad and/or mad.)
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you're looking for some bad football to watch, may I suggest Pats-Jags?
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry @dweeze.bsky.social about your impending fantasy footbal loss.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well fuck, I thought I’d almost made it through this storm without losing power. Nope!
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now this is my kind of foreshadowing
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan
newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Saw Asante Samuel in the game and was like, wow, I can't believe he's still in the league. And then I googled him and found out it's his son. Didn't make me feel old at all.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This seems like such an obvious question. They created it, they should be able to control it. (Related: I don't actually understand how AI really works, nor do I wish to.)
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FBI: While it may be detrimental to agency morale the threat facing immigration enforcement is of such a serious nature we must inform you that, yes, you are all unfuckable losers.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Man the algorithms here are real prudes if this is what they consider “adult content”.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They're going to spend the next 2 days trying to paint Democrats as extremists based on some interviews the DSA gave Fox News. But here's the proof that, when they actually get enough power, Republicans are the ones with the radical vision that would destroy society.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Banning electric cars, abortion, gay marriage, fluoridation, chemtrails and vaccines, promoting the gold standard, corrupt giveaways, water pollution, tax cuts for the rich, quack medicine and child labor - this is the GOP vision for the country based on the legislation they've actually proposed
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have no love for the Sununu family, but it is very funny to see Scott Brown get his ass handed to him. Maybe in a few years he can find yet another state to lose in.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hell yeah, let’s use the thing that routinely fucks up to make life-and-death decisions!! Sign me up!
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026
openai engineers are currently gathered around the office, taking it in turns to shout “HOW DO I FIX YOU?” and crying when there’s no answer
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Getting irrationally mad that my town still has not reported any results yet.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congrats to the wealthy white guy who tried to buy the congressional primary in my district for winning his hometown by a whopping 2%. Gonna go out on a limb and say that is probably not going to be enough once the rest of the district is counted.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Left unsaid is that they only mean white babies. Several possible explanations: 1. They need teens to be baby factories for adoption by white couples; 2. They need as many white babies as possible to keep whites from becoming a minority; 3. They want to fuck teenagers.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
you know things are going well when “isn’t there a Hannah Arendt quote about this?” is a thing you text casually to a friend
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Re previous repost: the other consideration is whether the challenger sucks. (Seth Moulton sucks.)
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 30/08/2026
i remain deeply skeptical that people actually care about whether politicians are old when they don’t have other issues with said politicians.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/08/2026
Awed by this DOJ filing in the "can Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center" litigation in which the DOJ lawyer uses the phrase "conflicts of interest" to refer to, like, the fact that parties to a case have different goals. Borderline illiterate stuff. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
An order blocking the Board from appropriately recognizing President Trump will cause
donors to flee, financial contributions to dry up, and structural rehabilitation to stop. There will
simply not be the expertise or funding necessary to rebuild and renovate this decimated structure.
The Trump Administration is ready to go but, without it, the Kennedy Center cannot be saved.
There are many conflicts of interest having to do with the Kennedy Center, and it would be a shame
if those conflicts of interest would destroy the very thing that we are all trying to save. In short,
without appropriate recognition, the Kennedy Center will be back where it was at the beginning
— A financially insolvent facility, housed in a decrepit, dilapidated, crumbling building, that is
bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and continues to race toward physical and
financial ruin.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Congrats to them for doing the absolute, bottom of the barrel, bare minimum, I guess?
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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You’d think more people with means would want to do the sorts of things that make you beloved forever.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The same story repeats itself everywhere in the culture: dumb rich guys who don't know what anything is or does, who are too lazy/smug to learn and ideologically committed to the idea that everything they don't control is Woke Bullshit, wrecking stuff on principle. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh god I hated Love, Actually. Also I wouldn't say I despise the Star Wars movies, but I've seen exactly one of them (was bullied into seeing it) and was bored out of my skull. I remember nothing about it other than that I was very annoyed by the main character's nonsensical wardrobe choices.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I did not know this, but it is very funny. (Could they not find anyone in this state willing to debase themselves for him? Or maybe they didn't even try, seeing as how they probably think actual people from Mass. aren't really American.)
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Something there hasn't been nearly enough of is promises of specific consequences like this, as a way of deterring present corrupt behavior. Let's at least make them consider the possibility that we might have a real government again someday
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How long before one of these untrained morons tases himself in the balls after forgetting he’s wearing them and scratches himself?
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh no no no no
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Republicans are bad people who want people to die. That's just an objective fact, which is why a Republican Member of Congress can go on TV, make up a total lie about vaccines, and nothing happens within their party--the rest of the party is telling the same lies because they too want people to die.
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Jolene @easyread.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Up in Maine for the weekend. Power got knocked out last night during dinner by a thunderstorm, so we couldn’t do the dishes (well water pump is electric). Power just got restored and now my mother is doing the dishes at 1:30 am. Crazy idea but I think that could wait till the morning??
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