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if u own a deep fryer the first fry for double fried french fries is at 325 degrees fahrenheit and the second fry is at 375 degrees fahrenheit but what if u owned two deep fryers

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

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Melissa @mzmullerz.bsky.social · 6h

Bank teller. I did one day of training and never went back. Not for me.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

A Scaramucci is ten days (july 21-31). Zacharia was appointed on Oct 9 and lasted till October 16. So a Zacharia is seven days, or 7/10ths of a Scaramucci.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If an amendment to your constitution results in children routinely being shot in school then it's time to amend it again.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New fundraising report from James Talarico has some eye popping numbers $64 million raised. Enormous total 97% of contributions to the campaign were $100 or less That's a broad base of support

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2026

Jake Bauers went back to baseball for healthcare coverage for his pregnant wife. Don’t get me wrong, I love sports. But having to return so you won’t go bankrupt for having a baby is insane.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I was pulled aside by my creative writing professor before class and asked if (1) I actually wrote my story and (2) if I knew that "burnished" wasn't a word (it was).

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrat: 51% 🔴Republican: 40% YouGov / Oct 12, 2026

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Bill Day @billdayart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

DeSANTIS HEALTHCARE FRAUD

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...

A woman in a wheelchair with a brown suit that has zippers on the leg openings

A woman in a wheelchair with a grey marbled dress

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

oh boy. Mike Collins is in trouble

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026

The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.

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Melissa @mzmullerz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How many Scaramucci's...

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You absolutely need to watch this.

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Melissa @mzmullerz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Brewers are locked in and they are so much fun to watch.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Grateful for slow progress on this fundraiser. Any and all amounts welcome and so are shares. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Evidently the self owns are also bigger in Texas

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Read the whole thread and pass it on.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is the most articulate and impactful piece I've read regarding the Pentagon's planned livestreamed execution of Nidel Hasan. Please read it.

The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.

He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.

We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.

Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.

If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives.

We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance.

We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach.

Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.

Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.

On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.

They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

CBS News @CBSNews

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.

Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you can donate to your local food bank now is the time

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

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WNBA @wnba.com · 10/10/2026

THE ATLANTA DREAM ARE HEADED TO THE FINALS 🅰️ The Dream defeat the Liberty 3-0 in the Semis to advance to the Finals for the first time since 2013! #WNBASeason30

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nauseating. A grotesque betrayal of the US, our values and our allies. The United States has no greater enemy than Donald Trump.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias

Screenshot of a FB post by meteorologist Greg Dee showing Waffle House locations closed in the panhandle

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

Trump admin wants to televise an execution

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m starting to believe that Pete Hegseth is the violent sociopath his mom says he is.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is nothing that will remedy the harm this nation continues to do to human beings and their families. FREE THEM ALL.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Florida Your expenses are up a third. Costs of living is climbing 5x faster than a decade ago. That didn't just happen-policies protected corporate profits while you got squeezed. Angie Nixon's Working Families Guarantee puts you 1st: Medicare for All, free childcare, rent freeze. #ResistanceUnited

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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