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The ORIGINAL Queen of Potatoes She/Her Paul Hollywood Hate Account I am an old potatah

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1h
"Jailed for violating banking laws", much like Hitler met his end after losing a battle with suicidal ideation.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1h
Today in “Imagine if Joe Biden had said this…” we bring to you:
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 2h
Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."
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Megyn Kelly on Cornell's Jane Doe: "I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs."
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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 1h
It explains why he thought Melania’s $75 million budget was a good investment.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 8h
This is a community note for the ages.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING: The Trump White House has blocked Politico from accessing Air Force One on Monday to carry out its pool responsibilities.
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One
The news outlet was supposed to travel with the president to Nebraska on Monday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1h
Megyn is the kind of woman who'd hold another woman's arms down.
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 4h
BREAKING: Donald Trump's new rule weakening fuel economy standards will raise your gas prices even higher. While Massachusetts residents are crushed by prices at the gas pump, Trump continues prioritizing the profits of fossil fuel companies. I'm suing to protect consumers and the planet.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 3h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 2h
May he hold open the door for some more to follow.
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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 2h
Well that is some bullshit.
Bright can have his case expunged, which would remove it from the public record, but only if he agrees not to sue. His family is therefore still weighing its options.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 6h
atlantablackstar.com/2026/10/05/b...
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‘I’m a Victim of Prejudice’: Black Teen Arrested for Carjacking Despite School Alibi, Wore Ankle Monitor for 7 Months Until Reporter Questioned Case
Baltimore prosecutors kept an innocent 17-year-old Black high school student on house arrest for seven months with an ankle monitor after falsely accusing
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2h
I hope someone has been able to do an oral history with her. Born in Georgia in 1910, Whitehead spent part of her childhood on a family farm, where she helped with the cotton and tobacco harvest. In 1930, she married Sylvester Whitehead and had three children. www.mundoamerica.com/entertainmen...
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Salty Mom @thesaltyinkslinger.bsky.social · 2h
He’s incompetent AND wants us dead. I don’t think it’s wrong to be freaked out.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4h
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 6h
Dennis Hastert, the former Republican House speaker whose political legacy was fouled by allegations that he molested high school athletes, has died.
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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who later went to prison, has died - The Boston Globe
Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 until 2007, died Saturday of natural causes at his home while receiving hospice care.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 6h
Unfuckingbelievable.... violates every canon of good, independent pro-democracy journalism www.contrariannews.org/p/you-can-he...
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You Can Help Improve Legacy Media
🚨33 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 6h
There's a case to be made against impeachment, but the alternative should be a scorched-earth effort to destroy and discredit the Trump administration and everything the Republican Party stands for. If you think "passing an ethics reform package" is the answer, my god what is wrong with you?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6h
This obit lists a remarkable number of lucky breaks in his career. One opponent gets sick, then another, another suddenly resigns, etc. and he continued to rise. You have to assume as all of this happened, he was always asking himself: “Will they ever find out?”
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h
QT if you've ever had a piece stolen by the Times It's a long, long list, I bet The most galling part of this account is the Times editor refusing to acknowledge the reporting they regurgitated, but offering a pity link
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h
Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6h
I'll be tuning in to the Supreme Court's oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County this morning--the case that Alito just belatedly recused from--which will determine whether communities can sue polluters to make em pay for the harms they caused to the climate www.lcv.org/blog/suncor-...
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Suncor v. Boulder: the Supreme Court climate lawsuit against Big Polluters, and what it means for you
Polluter-caused climate change costs all of us money. This case will decide whether the American people can sue Big Polluters to make them pay their share.
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 6h
I've seen a lot of small businesses move away from setting up their own websites because they can save money by just using Facebook instead and well it's probably not great we gave Zuck all that power.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 6h
Rattlesnakes
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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Potato Queen @sullivanpack.bsky.social · 6h
I am the Queen of Potatoes and I approve this message (chick-a-wow-wow)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
So we needed to start another war in Middle East because of a fictitious claim that a country possessed a weapon of mass destruction? At least we’ve never made that mistake before. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 6h
“Octavio” and his coworkers are planting lettuce in Oxnard CA. "Some sit in the machine and drop the young seedlings through the funnel where they're rapidly planted. Others are walking behind the machine to replant the seedlings that don’t make it in the dirt right." #WeFeedYou
A lettuce planting machine at the side of the field where workers are about to begin working
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 6h
“Horror as final post of banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s ties to Epstein resurfaces”
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Horror as final post of banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s ties to Epstein resurfaces
The final online post of a British banker who reportedly died by suicide shortly after outing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein left several critics speechless on Su...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 23h
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6h
Bovino left and many people stopped giving a shit.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h
This guy just kind of being erased from popular US political history is still wild to me.
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Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
The Illinois Republican, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after leaving Congress for scheming to cover up child molestation accusations.
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quaithe of the shadow asshai @clarkconquers.bsky.social · 6h
Shoot his uglass from a cannon
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The Onion @theonion.com · 6h
Toddler Scientists Finally Determine Number Of Peas That Fit Into Ear Canal theonion.com/toddler-scientists-fin…
Toddler Scientists Finally Determine Number Of Peas That Fit Into Ear Canal
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 6h
@rcfp.org — joined by a coalition of 77 media organizations — filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO's challenge to the ongoing White House press ban.
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Media coalition: White House press ban targeting CNN, MS NOW, Politico is ‘illegal and unconstitutional’
Dozens of media outlets joined Reporters Committee in urging a court to restore White House access to the news outlets.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 6h
How much should records related to a single police officer’s misconduct file cost? $2.5 million, according to the city of Eugene, Ore. Read about this story and more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.
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A $2.5 million FOIA bill for one cop’s files
Plus: Is Trump serious about declassifying UFO information?
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 19h
It'd be interesting if someone there had a self aware moment and asked "So if Democrats win, it's just fuck us, huh?"
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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 21h
I’m not the first one to make this suggestion, but if I were a Dem in a congressional hearing with this dude I would spend my entire five minutes or whatever just reading as many of these off to him as I could fit in.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h
who on his what
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/10/2026
Boulder, Colo., is hoping its novel lawsuit will be the environmental equivalent of the landmark litigation that produced billions in damages and settlements against Big Tobacco and opioid makers. The Supreme Court will take it up Monday.
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Should Big Oil pay for climate change? A Supreme Court case will help decide.
Boulder, Colo., is hoping its novel lawsuit will be the environmental equivalent of the landmark litigation that produced billions in damages and settlements against Big Tobacco and opioid makers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
“The ultimate goal was to create chaos and doubt in the vote-by-mail process,” said the American Postal Workers Union president. “You’re creating a rule to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Guy who just woke up from a 10-year coma: Whoa, hey! So what's been going on? Doctor: Uh...
bluesky trending topics

trump forms super intelligence force
chris rock compares woke culture to salem
plague death reported in siberia
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That this is *not* the trust that has been broken astounds me. I gave feedback earlier this year on some restoring trust projects. I mentioned Cornell's president hitting a student and alum with apparently little regret as the type of damage these projects need to care about. Elite impunity matters.
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Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net · 04/10/2026
~ 647 gallons (2,451 liters). ~ 4,339 lbs (1,968 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $4,959 cost of fuel. ~ 7 tons of CO2 emissions.
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