Billy Pilgrim

Billy Pilgrim

@granfalloonx.bsky.social

Indulgent wastrel

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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (since it's the second I'll do two today) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

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MacFarlane: You have a smell that's emanating now that is reminiscent of a high school locker room. You have a police force and National Guard presence that is profound. It's like a jewel heist from the muppet caper is going to happen. It seems to be a misappropriation of resources.

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“you’re a world historic mass murderer” is getting to him, huh maybe he shouldn’t have chosen to be a world historic mass murderer

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social

his excuse is they wouldn’t put the starving children on the phone with him.

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This is bombshell stuff.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

#facebook It's a telling sign that everyone's first thought is that it is THEY who've been kicked off. I think that demonstrates the level of abuse places like FB and others inflict on their users.

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This gentleman is correct. Trump has LOST his catastrophic war of choice against Iran. He just hasn't figured out yet how to spin and gaslight the LOSS to the American people.

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BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ajc.comThe airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soonDelta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

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It's a cognitive issue, but my brain keeps defaulting to "the Strait of Hormuz CAN'T be closed, because if it were closed the markets would be freaking out, and Trump CAN'T have started bombing without figuring out a way to keep it open" (Bibi doesn't GAF about oil prices so he's not a factor)

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey. It is at redshift 0.10 (lookback time 1.35 billion years) with coordinates (53.19144, -27.96260). 131 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

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Trump has launched a war in the Middle East without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear idea about where it leads or how it ends. He has no clue what he’s doing in Iran. [Cartoon by Brendan Loper]

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Trump's declining cognitive function has to be playing at least some role in the administration's inability to articulate a coherent justification for attacking Iran. With Trump unable to do it, the job is up to whichever official has a mic in their face at any moment - and none of them can agree.

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"10 days after his speech about trust & openness, HHS rescinded a 54yo policy of soliciting public comments for new regulations, silencing the voices the stakeholders he pledged to serve..." And MUCH more. Powerful rundown of RFK Jr damages @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

thelancet.comRobert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failureIn his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

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Well, I found an article on the effects of sleeping two hours a night

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tommy Tuberville: "We got the hardest working president ever. President Trump sleeps about 2 hours a day."

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According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep. PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.

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some asshole idiot just broke our window. for what it is worth, i am in the epstein files as a fucking victim, like the others they are trying to intimidate.

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Conway: If you want your lives to be better and you want this country to persevere for your kids, we need to impeach and remove this fascist fucker now, as soon as possible. And I know that language is tough, but that’s where we are.

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Searching through the Epstein files, and slowly realizing that he was no sideshow, that Russia and the PayPal Mafia were effectively *working for him* is the worst mindfuck I’ve ever experienced. The Big Reveal is that it was Epstein’s psyop all along. www.mind-war.com/p/the-big-re...

mind-war.comThe Big Reveal: It Was Epstein’s Psyop All AlongTrump’s paranoia about the files is not about his sexual deviance. It’s because they prove he’s a loser.

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Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

MinnMax@minnmax.com

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

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New planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡 Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

science.orgEarth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbitLong-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look

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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

newrepublic.comDonald Trump Is FrightenedTrump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

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Every syllable of this but with one friendly amendment: The political press still doesn't understand Project 2025 and they still don't understand what is going on in front of their own faces. It defies the entire tidy political narrative that has been their roadmap for decades. Now they are lost.

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Everyone should be putting up NO ICE NO CPB NO FEDERAL AGENTS GET A JUDICIAL WARRANT OR STAY OUT signs everywhere.

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