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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2026

Horrified Guests Begin Gagging As Dinner Host Reveals They’ve Been Eating USDA Beef theonion.com/horrified-guests-begin…

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Mary Ranta @maredog1125.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Best thing about him being on 60 Minutes is that I don’t have to ignore his op-eds in the NYT.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Who doesn't love a snappy comeback? #November3rdWe8647

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That picture…

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Mary Ranta @maredog1125.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So proud of their cause they mask their identities

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/07/2026

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/06/2026

Just before market open, very nice

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Michelle Obama: "No one — and I mean no one — has the right to sit in judgment of who's American enough."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Michelle Obama: "We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent. To ring our hands in despair. To wait for someone else to fix the problem. Y'all, hope is all we have. Because hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change…"

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is why they didn't record it.

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Neil Vigdor @gettingviggy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The roller coaster, one of the oldest in the country, was idle last summer but it is set to reopen on Memorial Day weekend after a major restoration. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

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Playland’s Dragon Coaster, Nearing 100, Roars Back From Its Slumber

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2026

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/05/2026

I keep telling y’all, he’s never leaving. The symbolism here is crazy work! A glowing golden shield protecting the White House like a king’s palace. Satellites, missiles, crosses, heavenly light from the sky, all centered around one man who sees himself as the seat of devine power.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Look folks I agree this is in bad taste but I don't think Lindsey should be indicted for it as he's merely threatening the President of the United States with an extremely unpleasant time for both of them

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Mary Ranta @maredog1125.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I get the skepticism but the alternative is Susan Collins.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Good breakdown of the background and bottom line: "If you paid 2023 federal income taxes in the state of Connecticut, $3 out of every $100 you paid is now set aside for reimbursing people who a committee of people allied with the president decide were treated unfairly by government actions."

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Lol and 😔

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Where we are in a nutshell.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Holy shit this hellspawned post is actually real I just confirmed it

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 27/04/2026

This is Tango. She wants you to know this isn't what it looks like. Doesn't know what else it could be yet, but she's working on that. 12/10 obviously innocent (IG: eyes_on_tango)

a labrador puppy with red fur and a braided collar is sitting upright between a gray sofa and a dark coffee table. the dog has one front paw on the side of the table, and her mouth is clamped on the table’s corner. she has just noticed that she’s being watched, and her eyes are frozen in panic while she tries to play it cool. her back feet are tucked in front of her, touching at the hocks and then splaying out.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/04/2026

Weird that they would fire the navy secretary who’s been overseeing a war we’ve won at least five times.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

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The Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Who Died And Made The Pope The Boss Of The Catholic Church, Anyway?

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If there was a really a fair and balanced corporate media - the reporters would be following up all Catholic Churches in America who denied Biden communion or shunned him any way for his support for abortion rights - after how Vance has attacked the Pope.

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Biden was denied communion at Catholic church in South Carolina | CNN Politics

Former Vice President Joe Biden was denied communion Sunday at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his support for abortion rights.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I can't believe there was a group photo and I somehow missed it. Congrats to everyone in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula who made it in the photo.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

the defense secretary who was plucked off a couch at fox news is arguing about jesus with the fucking POPE in case you’re wondering how things are going

Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.
In sharp contrast to the Trump administration's calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is "entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ."
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Pope Leo, during the Holy Thursday Mass in Rome, said the Christian mission had often been "distorted by a desire for domination." Vincenzo Livieri/Reuters

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/04/2026

Donald Trump attended the Supreme Court hearing today. @petridishes.bsky.social imagines his thoughts during the oral arguments: “I am a big fan of the law. I like the faint, wheezing sound it makes as I trample on it, and the mountains of litigation that result.”

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I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way

Can’t a president go watch his justices?

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Convicted Felon Donald Trump attending today’s birthright citizenship arguments at SCOTUS is such a transparent attempt to intimidate the justices. But it just makes him look WEAK and PATHETIC. Trump reeks of desperation.

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Mary Ranta @maredog1125.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“It’s a new world; it’s the same Constitution”

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

With oil prices spiking again over the weekend, we are due for another late Sunday/early Monday post from Trump about significant progress with the “peace talks.”

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This. This is what happens when you let the @nytimes.com and Bari Weiss make decisions about what "news" should be.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

ICYMI: The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

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Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams

An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The thing about dementia? A total lack of filter will keep manifesting.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Oil is heading to $200 a barrel and our troops are now deploying to the Middle East while Congress vacations and Trump plays golf for his 110th golf day out of the pathetic 425 days he's been in office. He is barely even mailing it in at this point...who pays? Just us losers who aren't billionaires.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Families across the country are emptying out retirement funds, putting off home repairs, and going without groceries just to afford healthcare. This shouldn’t happen in the richest country in the world. @AFTHealthcare.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/03/21/n...

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When health insurance costs $2,500 per month, families make tough choices

A self-employed couple already had to dip into retirement savings for health costs. Now, they are skipping vacations and canceling streaming to afford health insurance.

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Whistleblower Aid @wbaidlaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

An ex ICE lawyer says deploying ICE at TSA checkpoints "forces the public to submit to a criminal checkpoint system if they wish to exercise their freedom of travel. At best, this forces Americans to accept the kind of ...systems" used in the Soviet Union. David Kligerman ow.ly/BlfA50YxQ3x

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So we're invading after the market closes on Friday? Is that what I'm gathering here?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026

"This weekend, Senate Republicans thrashed about like rotting, mildly electrocuted trout as they attempted to pass the SAVE America Act — a bill that would disenfranchise millions of Americans in the name of preventing voter fraud that doesn’t exist." — @nberlat.bsky.social

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The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA

It's a half-baked attempt at election rigging.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Damn, Gerry Baker. 👀

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026

less than three months out from the World Cup, Trump touts the presence of ICE agents at airports and says they're "very fertile territory" for arresting foreigners

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