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bit.lyTropical Storm Vance has formed in the Pacific OceanTropical Storm Vance has formed in the Pacific Ocean. The National Hurricane Center says the center of the cyclone was at sea and posed no threat to land.

Couches hit hardest

The Associated Press@apnews.com

Tropical Storm Vance has formed in the Pacific Ocean.

nytimes.comIs Rabies Making a Comeback?As several states report surges in animal cases, federal officials are warning about an apparent increase in human exposures.

Is America healthy again yet? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/s...

Scariest, grossest ever

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youtu.beThe Price is Right January 17, 1978YouTube video by Game shows n weather

19 Sept

Share a television show that raised you. youtu.be/Qc_5FK6oeVE?...

Roni 🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈@roni1133.bsky.social

Share a television show that raised you.

2 Sept

f--k you, Google

MapQuest@mapquest.com

Them too.

1 Sept

I would take either one of these teenagers as SecDef over Hegseth

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

This is the future Silicon Valley techbros want

RazvenHK@razvenhk.bsky.social

Residents of an apartment complex in Hangzhou, China are now being forced to watch ads on their phones before an app unlocks the door to their home, making something that takes 2 seconds to now take up to 2 minutes.

Ok, this made me laugh my coffee out my nose

RazvenHK@razvenhk.bsky.social

That makes perfect sense if you don’t know anything about Hong Kong

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

White House official Peter Navarro agrees with Steve Bannon that Canada is now a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party" "Vancouver is now big Hong Kong," Navarro says

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A New Yorker attends a corporate Christmas party in Los Angeles.

Dan Hon@danhon.com

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

28 Aug

Americans: we can’t afford food, gas or medicine Trump:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says he might change the names of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans next

25 Aug

It’s amazing how many Americans will suffer because one supposed “business man” doesn’t understand basic trade.

25 Aug

They don’t have coherent policies, they don’t have competence, they don’t have popularity. This is all they have.

24 Aug

2024: “we will only go after dangerous criminals” 2025: “we will go after anyone who has tripped up, no matter how minor; even if they’re in the process of fixing it” 2026: LEEEROOOOY JENKINNNNNNNS

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) - US is preparing to rescind up to 200,000 business and tourism visas in largest mass visa revocation ever, officials say.

24 Aug

Using the same definitions: I get around, I guess. It’s a personality type.

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social

Stayed in more places than I thought, but also feel undertraveled 😂 My definitions – ➡️ Lived: driver license or voted there ➡️ Stayed: 3 or more nights ➡️ Visited: 0-2 nights ➡️ Passed through: airport / car only (including car rest stops) ➡️ Never been: no ground touched whereidlive.com/s/e5tn57kv

ft.trib.alThe Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 dieselThe president’s agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and America’s finances worsen

22 Aug

Waiting for the Biden “miss me?” shirts

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel ft.trib.al/yjvQxNr

stevevladeck.comBonus 244: Minnesota v. AbbottGovernor Abbott is ignoring his duty to extradite an ICE officer indicted in Minnesota. He has no viable legal claim, but may be trying to run out the clock.

20 Aug

So many of these “law and order” Republicans don’t actually like following the law

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Governor Abbott's new claim in the Minnesota/ICE extradition case is that his office is looking into whether Castro "is a fugitive." One problem: #SCOTUS has held—over and over again—that governors in the "asylum" state don't have *any* discretion to make that kind of determination for themselves:

19 Aug

The new triumphalists think that America’s leadership position is eternal due to its innate superiority and not, say, because of actual reasons that they are squandering. They are in for a real surprise.

TJ McIntyre@tjmcintyre.com

Motherless is a particularly horrible site, but the wider principle is that every .com can be arbitrarily shut down by the increasingly lawless US judicial system - whether or not it has any real connection to the US.

18 Aug

Of all the things I can never forgive Trump voters for, enabling this is definitely in the top 10.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”

18 Aug

For the $@&?!! record:

18 Aug

“President Trump is gonna save ‘Merica from COMMUNISTS, yep he is”

nytimes.comKushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza PlanThe president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.

One step closer to turning Gaza into a Club Med www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/w...

I still believe it’s something much stupider: a shift away from leaders that make Trump feel inadequate

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The United States’ shift away from democratic treaty allies and towards anti-American authoritarians continues. It is, quite explicitly, a choice.

At his point someone probably need to create a meme of a guy saying “wait….are we the goodies?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

Ok, I’ll play: fav film from each year of the 1980s: 1980- Airplane! 1981 - Stripes 1982 - Blade Runner 1983 - a Christmas Story 1984 - This is Spinal Tap 1985 - Better Off Dead 1986 - Hoosiers 1987 - The Untouchables 1988 - Die Hard 1989 - Do the Right Thing NOT an assertion of *best* films

Liberal Buddhist@liberalbuddhist.bsky.social

My fav film from each year of the 1980s: 1980- Empire Strikes Back 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982 - Tootsie 1983 - Terms of Endearment 1984 - The Terminator tie Ghostbusters 1985 - The Breakfast Club 1986 - Aliens 1987 - Raising Arizona 1988 - Mississippi Burning 1989 - When Harry Met Sally

nytimes.comAs Army Fails to Protect Palestinians, Israeli Leaders Sympathize With SettlersDefense Minister Katz called for the military to turn over to the police the responsibility for protecting Palestinians after two West Bank families were besieged by violent settlers.

15 Aug

At a time when Israel’s standing has never been lower, its leaders seem intent on finding ways to destroy it further. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...

15 Aug

You wouldn’t know her, she’s famous in Canada

River_Tam@rivertam.bsky.social

Who's the most famous person whose phone number you currently do not have but could get in 24 hours.

politico.comBBC seeks to subpoena Trump family members in defamation suitThe British broadcaster says Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have relevant knowledge about the president’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

15 Aug

This is what it looks like when powerful institutions fight back. So why did so many of them cave?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: The BBC is seeking to subpoena Don Jr., Ivanka, and Jared Kushner in connection with Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. Lawyers say Trump's family "without question have personal knowledge" about Trump's intentions with the speech at the heart of the case.

14 Aug

Everything perfectly normal at the Bad Place. The amazing thing is that the responses are even more racist than this.

13 Aug

“Republicans are the fiscally conservative party” has gone the way of “Republicans are the party of Lincoln and civil rights”

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

BREAKING: The U.S. posted a record $432 billion budget deficit for July, above the $346 billion expected. The fiscal-year deficit has reached $1.8 trillion, while interest costs have topped $1 trillion, per Treasury.

13 Aug

“I don’t have cancer but underwent chemo -this is the terrifying effect it had on me”

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That aged well

If Democrats can’t defeat the Party of Goons With Electric Shock Gloves, they should call it a day and step aside for a new party.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Say what now? 🤔😳🇺🇸 www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...

12 Aug

Hegseth for Prison www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Given my mood lately, I'm not sure which one is me

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11 Aug

Fantasy versus reality

11 Aug

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In Ankara, Trump .. was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane — an Air Force C-32A — via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals .. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

bit.lyThe dark underbelly of “Paw Patrol”Why a debate over a hit cartoon is more than culture-war madness

11 Aug

“The dark underbelly of Paw Patrol” is what we deserve for letting things get this far.

The Economist@economist.com

They may look like a pack of cutesy anthropomorphised dogs. Don’t be fooled: some say the cartoon heroes of “Paw Patrol” are covert outriders for authoritarian capitalism

10 Aug

Anyone trusting this lecherous old pedophile with their children’s health and safety should be investigated for child abuse.

9 Aug

What the f@ck do these people think the job of the President of the United States is?

9 Aug

Who the f@ck do these morons think is Commander in Chief?

arstechnica.comReport: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autismTrump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.

10 Aug

How the f@ck do these morons think science works? bsky.app/profile/jenl...

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

9 Aug

Probably just seen as typical behavior for Ohio State football players

nytimes.comInsults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and LeftThe vice president has dispensed with the decorum and restraint of his predecessors to directly take on opponents and journalists on social media with sometimes profane and often personal jabs.

7 Aug

"JD Vance is fat-shaming other people" was not on my bingo card. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

5 Aug

Cosplaying valor-stealing draft-dodging bonespur-sucking cowardly MOTHERFUCKER

4 Aug

Me when I look out the window and it’s not raining in Hong Kong

3 Aug

I’ve been laughing for 10 minutes

Maj@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

scmp.comFake ICE raids and kidnapping drills: how Chinese teens prepare for US collegeAs Trump’s toughening rules spark anxiety, Chinese parents pay for camps teaching how to survive being seized by gunmen or ‘hidden dangers’.

2 Aug

This is how the world sees America now. www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

yahoo.comBoy George splits from label manager over pro-Israel songBoy George has split from the manager of his record label after he refused to release his controversial pro-Israel song.

2 Aug

They’re fighting over the Jews, the guy washing his hands of the Jews is named “Pontius,” it also involves role in “Jesus Christ Superstar” and I THINK THE MATRIX IS GLITCHING www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...