Your choices: “An unexpected Beatles reunion”, “JD Vance taking on a fourth wife”, or “A security mishap where the password was 4” - which was a real story in the news this week?
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Anerican voters are coming to realize that there is no candy in this van
I saw my first Halloween yard decoration of the year last night and I audibly yelled with delight.
“I don’t take sides”, says a man, who is clearly not on your side.
The father of one of my kid's classmates was taken by ICE. He is in the United States legally and has no criminal record. www.decaturish.com/news/decatur...
Community rallies to help Decatur parent taken by ICE
Angel Ivan Chavez Salas, a Decatur resident and father of two, was abruptly taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside of his home on Aug. 16. Since then, the Decatur community has bee...
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1. Nazi bar 2. Leopards, faces 3. Milkshake duck 4. Surf Dracula Concise two-word phrases that have been picked up in our lexicon and make a point.
My Pun Killed Steve Albini@texannolongerinnyc.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat would you put on the Mount Rushmore of all time Tweets? (Mount Rushmore means 4. Do not be a coward and hedge by saying more than 4. Make a decision. (Less than 4 is fine though))
"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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I have skipped the leg workout in the schedule and which you were probably expecting me to do Forgive me it looked hard and I was tired
What is a good faith concern and what is bigotry and/or stupidity? This is a great shorthand explainer.🧵⬇️
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3mo agoGood-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
Most of those businesses, rigged only to make profits, were as indifferent to the needs of the people as, say, thunderstorms. - from Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening
Talked to Mitch McConnell today for 20 minutes. He asked me if I thought hell was real and I said I don’t know. Then he asked me if oath-breakers suffer extra punishment in hell and I said that Dante seemed to think so. Then he got really quiet and sad for some reason.
City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment To Local Artists https://theonion.com/citys-beautification-initiative-hamstrung-by-commitment-to-local-artists/
If Adam Sandler had come near my wedding, I’d have chased him off with a broom.
‘Educated and compassionate public servants are almost certainly [Communist] spies.’ That’s all you are going to hear now from the semiliterate old-time crooks and spellbinders who want the government back, who think it’s rightly theirs. - from Jailbird, by Kurt Vonnegut
Every Kurt Vonnegut book contains a quote written specifically for you, specifically about today.
I am now convinced that Dr. di Sanza’s greatest strength was his utter stupidity. He was such a successful swindler because he himself could not, even after two convictions, understand what was inevitably catastrophic about a Ponzi scheme. - from Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.
Maybe American society outsourcing mental health care to libraries and transit systems was a bad idea.
Me, after watching 10 episodes of One Piece: “This show is dumb; all of the characters are idiots.” Me, after watching 350 episodes of One Piece: “I would die for these noble idiots.”
I don’t listen to a lot of rap music but I like Gucci Mane because he clearly lives near me and his lyrics are all like: Cruisin McAfee Rd, took a right on 2nd. Bought some challah at Publix, The one by the golf course
Trump to KKK: we’ve got your back
Phil Williams@philinvestigates.com · 6mo agoThe Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. I have so many questions! apnews.com/article/sout...