JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
A New Yorker retired to Denver to hike mountains and have adventures
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Internet is laughing at all the bitcoin bros.
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“Yeah, but we have the CDC, so…”
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“I think someone should get a Nobel prize for bringing these guys, who have had very tough relations in the past, together in peace…”
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Two of Adolf Hitler’s most prominent campaign promises — using stormtroopers to remake Europe’s borders and ending the Jews — have been stymied as his ambitious goals meet harsh reality.
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“The American negotiator looked pleased by the announcement…”
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“The American negotiator has been difficult to pin down on the terms of the agreement, according to South Korean officials…”
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
“Okay, guys…Which one of you did this?”
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All the short buses must have been in use elsewhere…
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
“And, when that didn’t work out, I became a freestyle rapper on the Senior entertainment circuit…”
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
“And, then what happened to the EV market, grandpa?”
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Congress. They have the Constitutional powers to levy taxes and tariffs.
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“We’re going to set up a new External Revenue Service…”
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“Everything is still in effect!!!”
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“The tariffs are illegal?!? Like, did someone check that?!?”
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“Fortify the church windows?”
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“Bovine pharmaceuticals have gone far into the future…”
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Is it just me, or is this what everyone thinks about when they think about Charlie Kirk and breeding…
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Evergreen…
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Are you saying dumb, rich people will be incinerated?
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“What if the baby is a game winning coach, though?”
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“Bubboos…”
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
In the Battle of the Logo, Cracker Barrel honored its Confederate past by retreating.
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If you think that’s bad, you should check out China’s “local” extralegal “police departments” www.brookings.edu/articles/chi...
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“Just leave a few minutes earlier…”
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‘Murica!”
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Das ist gut! 🤣
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John Roberts, in 2028, after much deliberation…
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TBH, for the longest time, I thought he was doing a bit like @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Then, at some point, I realized it wasn’t a bit…
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“You can see in their eyes that their endoplasmic reticulum’s are clogged…”
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“Yeehaw!”
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“A tiara, maybe? Other than that, I can’t really think of a single thing that I would change…”
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“So, we’re getting twice the juice?”
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My favorite is still Land of the Snods! “Long gone, but their remains are still dug up from time to time…”
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Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) reposted
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
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“America:Top producer of trash…”
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Mole rats have been talking about this for a while…
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“What did you write when Fascism crept through the door?”
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“How much physical inactivity?”
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All of a sudden, no concerns?
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😂
Thomas A. Nguyen DO (@tom.medsky.social) reposted
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Hard to argue. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Evangeline Gallagher (@egallagher.bsky.social) reposted
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
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“I have no idea” - Megan McArdle
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“Very comprehensible…” - Every sentient American
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Shoot all the kids to reunite them with their creator!”
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I’m more of a brunch person…
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I got prior approval. 😂
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Dude! I always forget that! I used to own the physical copy and haven’t been able to find it! I started to think I had dreamed it. Thanks!
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* checks Razzies.com *
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If you follow the trail far enough…
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It still haunts me that National Geographic published an entire issue called “Gone With the Water” predicting everything that happened during Hurricane Katrina about a year before it happened. It’s paywalled now.
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Economists around the world:
Jay Rosen (@jayrosen.bsky.social) reposted
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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“For what country?”
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“The troops are cleaning up D.C.!”
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A modest proposal from the far right…
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“Flagshagger” My new favorite word!
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
“But, they’ve got the racism argument spot on!”
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“Chancellor Adolph Hitler is gradually testing, stretching and gutting the independence of Germany's major institutions, leaving few stones unturned in his pursuit of unchecked power.” - Axios 1933 edition
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Anyone still banking with a criminal organization gets what’s coming to them…
Ei McDonough (@life-of-ei.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Straight out of the 1930s Nazi playbook. "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." --John Stuart Mill, 1867
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
“I wonder what Berlin was like in the `30’s…” has now been asked and answered…
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“For what country?”
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
Upton Sinclair understood… “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his (portfolio management fee) depends on his not understanding it.”
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Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
If a president can fire a Fed governor on accusation, not cause, monetary policy shifts from the Fed to the White House. Goodbye independent Fed; hello maga Fed, and watch decades of hard-won credibility turns to dust. Posting the entire interview on youtube as an experiment. youtu.be/DpSqbqQde3Y
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“How can you tell if people are racist?”
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The unequivocal signs of authoritarianism are on display everywhere.
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Can the president break the law and destroy the independence of the Fed?
JimfromNY (@dissentinator.bsky.social) reply parent
“Would you suck a dick for a billion dollars, Steve?”
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“Have we arrived at fascism, yet?”
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“Living in a data center?!?”
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“They never thought to ask the most important question…”
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Trump’s Gaza plan…
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“I can tariff Mars and any colonies there because Spacex, capeesh?”
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“The one that got away…”
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“A lot of people don’t understand that we’re not funding the war in Ukraine…”
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“I learned so much watching you think!”
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Good thing the administration is trying to ban the vaccines…
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“This is a situation very near and dear to the First Ladies heart and I’m appointing her to look into this…
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Times are a changing…
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Highly recommend Jenny Lake, first thing in the morning…
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I prefer the slur Italians use to describe the vice president…