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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 20h
If you’re shocked by a Senator who doesn’t know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, wait until you hear about the president who only recently learned that dumb is spelled with a b. 🤣 🤪 😂
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It just keeps getting better.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/u... More than 167,000 pounds of meat are being recalled across the US after being produced without proper federal inspection. Star Meat Delivery Inc is recalling 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products that were distributed to restaurants and retailers.
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More than 167,000 pounds of meat with false inspection labels recalled nationwide | CNN
More than 167,000 pounds of meat are being recalled across the United States after being produced without proper federal inspection, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was trying to figure out why Trump banned Politico from the White House along with CNN and MSNOW. Now I get it. This fascist regime can't have media outlets in the building that reveal to voters how Trump and Hegseth gifted our military technology to the Chinese.
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Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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Proud Woke Boomer @bobinphx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How many men, rich and powerful men, are hiding in the Epstein Files? Trump is sitting on the evidence that would damn him. He’s also sitting on the evidence of many rich men who would pay ANY amount of money to stay hidden from their shame. I expect Trump gets monthly income from these men.
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
YES!! Thank you Chris Simms. We hate Ted Cruz too.
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1gypsy (🎵I/me/me/mine🎵) 🦋 @theonegypsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's pretty funny.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😬🤷🏼
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"How embarrassing to look at a place built as a memorial to someone else, filled with extraordinary gifts from nations around the world given in his memory, and think your own name belongs anywhere near it." Indeed.
As I’ve dived deeper into the history of the Kennedy Center, I keep learning things I had absolutely no idea about.
Countries from around the world gave extraordinary gifts to the Kennedy Center in memory of President John F. Kennedy.
And I’m not talking about plaques or ceremonial gifts. I’m talking about marble, chandeliers, enormous theater curtains, tapestries, sculptures, silk, porcelain and works of art.
Some of the details are incredible.
🇮🇹 Italy gave more than 3,700 tons of Carrara marble. It was quarried in Italy, cut specifically for the Kennedy Center and valued at more than $1 million at the time. Even its transportation to the United States was donated. The marble came from the same famous marble-producing region of Italy associated for centuries with artists including Michelangelo.
🇯🇵 Japan gave the enormous red and gold silk curtain for the Opera House. It measures 47 feet high and 117 feet wide, was designed in Kyoto and woven by a master weaver. Its design, “Springing Flowers,” symbolized progress.
🇸🇪 Sweden originally gave 18 crystal chandeliers for the Grand Foyer. Designed by Carl Fagerlund and made by Orrefors Glassworks, each was 15 feet long and contained 768 crystal prisms and 384 lamps.
That’s 13,824 crystal prisms in the original gift.🇳🇴 Norway originally gave 11 crystal chandeliers for the Concert Hall.
🇫🇷 France gave two Matisse tapestries and two sculptures by Henri Laurens.
🇮🇱 Israel furnished an entire Concert Hall lounge centered on Judaism and music, including 40 painted ceiling panels depicting biblical musical scenes and a monumental carved walnut work inspired by Psalm 150.
🇮🇳 India gave 20 hand-hammered brass planters for the Grand Foyer.
🇹🇭 Thailand gave Thai silk for wall coverings.
🇹🇷 Turkey gave four handmade and hand-decorated porcelain vases based on the design of a 15th-century piece in Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace.
🇨🇭 Switzerland gave a 500-pound sculpture.
🧶 Yugoslavia gave two wool tapestries, including one woven with gold thread.
🇦🇷 Argentina gave two oil paintings by Raquel Forner and a bronze sculpture by Libero Badii.
🇨🇦 Canada gave the curtain for the Eisenhower Theater.
🇮🇪 Ireland gave a chandelier for the Opera House.
🇦🇹 Austria gave chandeliers for the Opera House.
🇵🇰 Pakistan gave carpets.
🇧🇪 Belgium gave mirrors.
🇫🇮 Finland gave chinaware.
🇩🇰 Denmark contributed furnishings and artwork.
And there were more.What struck me most was why these countries gave these things.
The Congressional Record says it plainly:
“Foreign nations have also memorialized the late President.”
These weren’t simply decorations. They were pieces of art, craftsmanship and culture given by nations around the world as America created a living memorial to John F. Kennedy.
More than 3,700 tons of Italian marble. A 117-foot Japanese silk curtain. Nearly 14,000 Swedish crystal prisms. Matisse tapestries. Indian brass. Turkish porcelain. Thai silk. A tapestry woven with gold thread.
All brought together in Washington, DC, in his memory.
I’ve lived here for years and walked through the Kennedy Center countless times. I never knew this.
And after learning all of this, I keep coming back to one thought:
How embarrassing to look at a place built as a memorial to someone else, filled with extraordinary gifts from nations around the world given in his memory, and think your own name belongs anywhere near it.
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#edsheeran #macklemore #sides That's really all I would say to @edsheeranbr.bsky.social
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The most dangerous time on an abusive relationship is when the victim is leaving the abuser. #midterms
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Winning over the Texas big truck owners!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
Look outside. Do you see snow? No?  Well, you will soon. You might also see $30/hr more in your pocket if you become an emergency snow shoveler.  Registration begins Saturday, September 19th. Sign up by November 30th for access to paid orientation and expedited payment processing.
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Emergency Snow Shovelers - DSNY
Emergency Snow Shovelers are called on after heavy snowfalls to remove snow and ice citywide from public areas like bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WSJ editorial board FOIAs emails showing Sen. Katie Britt’s office privately seeking Trump tariff exemptions for Alabama — while she’s publicly praising the tariffs. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
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Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks
How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just checked the price of a pound of ground beef in St. Cloud, MN (Emmer's district) -- $5.29/lb at ALDI, $7.23/lb at Walmart. Not sure where "less than $2/lb" is happening there?
https://info.aldi.us/stores/l/mn/waite-park/256-2nd-street-south/l517https://www.walmart.com/search?q=ground+beef&facet=fulfillment_method%3APickup
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Married twice over, with kids involved with Russian mafia and the Tate brothers, involved with illegal wars in the Middle East and a stupid trade war with Canada. And you're kissing a woman openly. You are 80 and she is 38! Sue his butt Mel Setting an example for all good Americans to follow my ass!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A pastor for Michael Whatley, the North Carolina GOP Senate nominee, opened with a prayer asking God to bestow "integrity and honesty." It was delivered by Pastor Daimon King, a registered sex offender twice imprisoned for convictions involving children. apnews.com/article/what...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Burns.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Susan Klepp was a real one. And she knew what mattered. web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamerica...
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Roundtable – “Women Matter: Remembering and Reading Susan Klepp”– Karin Wulf – EAS Miscellany
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The son of Cuban refugees who was born in Canada supports the persecution and deportation to Africa of his own Cuban community while proclaiming that White Nationalist Evangelism must replace our democracy. www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cr...
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Ted Cruz’s GOP Convention Speech Interrupted By Chilling Call From The Crowd
Lawmakers slammed the incident as “disturbing” and described it as an example of “clear hate.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks to Trump's war:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Funny how that works, huh?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
NEWSNATION: Why should we believe that now all of the sudden prices will come down after the election? KELLY LOEFFLER: We've done it before and he'll do it again. The Biden administration ... NEWSNATION: Why do you guys keep talking about the Biden administration?
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AT KING TRUMP'S NEXT PRESSER He will tell of his selfless work trying to save Titanic victims: “I saved more people than anybody ever, a bigly amount of people, the best people. I said, ‘Turn left, Cap. Very simple. Very easy.’ He didn’t listen. I know icebergs. Nobody knows icebergs better than me”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump called for a national boycott of a Canadian company that employs hundreds of Americans at plants in Kansas and Indiana, which pays their bills and feeds their families. Which would put them all out of work if successful. On Labor Day. Because he’s mad at Mark Carney.
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Feed The Opposition @kitchenquarantine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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This Labor Day You Paid $4.15 a Gallon. He Made $1.4 Billion
This Labor Day you paid $4.15 a gallon so the man in the Oval Office could pull $1.4 billion from crypto and sell Wall Street his next move for $100 grand a month, milliseconds before you ever see it.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/08/2026
New York, here’s how you can save a life: 1. Go to nyc.gov/naloxone to get free overdose-reversal medication, also known as Narcan®. 2. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance use, call 988 for confidential recovery resources.
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Naloxone - NYC Health
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southerngirlraven7.bsky.social @southerngirlraven7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Imagine standing next to Jeffrey Epstein and still looking like the worst guy in the picture.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/08/2026
Trump has been rigging polls in his favor for at least 11 years with the help of Michael Cohen. A brief trip down memory lane, with receipts: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Been Rigging Polls for Over a Decade
A new Truth Social post from Donald Trump has everyone talking about Trump using the FCC to rig polls in his favor. But this isn’t the first time he’s rigged the polls.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remember they screamed about the price of eggs? Then it turned out major producers were manipulating the market, with emails, texts, and calls showing they coordinated to drive prices higher. Now you’re paying way more for everything else. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Justice Department Requires Egg Producers to End Coordinated Benchmark Manipulation that Artificially Inflated Prices Across the Country
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, together with 17 State Attorneys General, filed a civil lawsuit against Cal-Maine Foods Inc. (Cal-Maine); Hickman’s Egg Ranch Inc. (Hickman’s); and Centrum...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In a world full of the destructive kookiness of people like RFK Jr, strive to fill it with a little of the restorative kindness of Dolly Parton.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
Paychopath
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