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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 9m

And I haven’t even finished the shopping. I swear it comes earlier every year.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 10h

BRB, trademarking AIForce real quick.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 12h

New “My fellow New Yorkers are so literary” just dropped.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 12h

They’re re-Coupang their investment

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SRtwofourfour @srtwofourfour.bsky.social · 13h

Old Heurich’s Senate Maerzen (recreated by Right Proper) is excellent and local and #notanIPA #drinklocal reduce beer miles

Orange beer label matches beer and background

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Leif (sic) Eriksen (sic) Day to those who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?si=EJw...

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The Muppet Show - In the Navy

YouTube video by Scooterpiety

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 13h

Listening to the teacher’s union on education: captured by interest groups Drafting policies to benefit your millionaire donors: responsive to constituents

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 14h

That doesn’t make it less illegal. It would be just as illegal if they were standing around a drop box in Idaho.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14h

i think this gets at the crux of it. It doesn't matter if they are actively preventing people from dropping ballots off, or if they're there by accident, or what--their presence could still be viewed as intimidating, and the solution is for them not to be *anywhere*

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 14h

Saw a “The National Guard isn’t performing election interference because DC doesn’t have Congressional representation” take in the wild from a big account and… It’s a good thing it’s almost quitting time on a Friday because I’d be getting an involuntary Bluesky vacation otherwise.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14h

they don't have to for it to be intimidation

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 15h

Will use this an excuse to plug this:

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 14h

Prayers up for James Talarico, safely detained by the Marshall of the Psych Ward.

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15h

can't drop off my ballot in the mail due to USPS fuckery can't drop off my ballot in a ballot box because national guard are blocking access can't tell them to leave because we don't have statehood great fucking country we're in

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 15h

I kept it together up to “I’ve been nothing but loyal to this brand for over 8 months.”

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 17h

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

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Jessica Sidman @jessicasidman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

DC needs more fun, original bars. Enter Astro Zombie, a tiki bar with pu pu platters and "spaceship diner" vibes in the former home of Little Serow... washingtonian.com/2026/10/08/a...

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Astro Zombie Tiki Bar Will Have Pu Pu Platters and a "Spaceship Diner" Vibe

The Astoria cocktail bar team is bringing tiki to the former home of Little Serow near Dupont Circle.

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Mummy Molly @mollymarie03.bsky.social · 17h

Does anyone need or know someone who needs girl clothes, 18m-2T? I have a lot to pass along to a good home.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 17h

Ten years ago we had Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Now we just have thugs.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 17h

Crews hits like his bat is fungible

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 17h

You might say she’s functioning less as a judge and more as a mascot. (I’ll see myself out.)

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 18h

I would have settled for impeachment, but I can respect his wishes.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 18h

1. This piece is great, Fionn is a great coffee writer 2. I know I just talked about how I don't need hope to move forward, but "hope for coffee" might be the exception, lol 3. This is the kind of work that a robust dose of government funding can help along, we should do that

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 19h

Soldiers positioned at voting locations is not legal behavior. These are Mississippi National Guard troops at a DC ballot dropbox yesterday. We demand the governors of Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia get your soldiers OUT NOW.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 19h

In their defense, they do have a Target on their backs.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 19h

You may be unfairly underestimating the odds that all three are true.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 20h

A narrow victory over his challenger Stalin Mao.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 20h

What do you know, the cops were right, there is a shoplifting epidemic.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 09/10/2026

FYI DC folks ⬇️

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hokie on 29 @joshcvt.on29.net · 22h

Buddy, I have news for you about how basically every non-English first language immigrant group has initially established itself in this country and continues to do so as they find their way here. (Which most Lutherans were.) (I also don't think that's quite true of the modern Thrivent.)

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The phrase “lost the Mandate of Heaven” springs to mind.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

excuse me?

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tom Emmer has a bona fide opponent in @chapinforcongress.bsky.social who in addition to being a good guy just by virtue of not being Tom Emmer, is a legitimately good guy.

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 09/10/2026

2023 ACC Champion Brock Glenn leading Western Kentucky to an opening touchdown against Missouri State.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think it’s great that we’re going to take a guy 99% of the world forgot about and make him a martyr on live TV.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026

Breaking news: Arlington County sued to block construction of President Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch, arguing that the administration failed to adequately evaluate potential environmental impacts of the project as required by federal law.

washingtonpost.com

Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch

Arlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)

Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“You know that building next to the memorial for a famine that killed millions? It’s a TCBY now.”

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...

What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.

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