if Covid never happened, Ted Lasso would have lasted two seasons tops
Feels like the walls are closing in on Trump realizing that everyone around him is constantly lying to him
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2h agoIran, Oman agree on shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz, as Houthis attack Saudi tankers and Israel bombs Lebanon.
a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 11h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
"i thought i knew what he meant by slinging webs, but i was profoundly mistaken"
Carrie Bradshaw Typing
ALT: Carrie Bradshaw Typing
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I remember watching the Staten Island Ferry episode and getting a real kick out of them visiting the island like it was a foreign country
who hasn't been there
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d agoin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
scouting SATC episodes for the pod. if you have any recs let me know
THIS WEEK, @jondauthor.work is walking Drag Performance as they bring HBO's ill-fated ballroom reality show LEGENDARY. Will @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social give it a perfect 10, or will @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social chop this one before it brings shame to its house? An all new Tasting Menu out now!
this feels somehow inevitable tbh
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
oh my god i thought my tv was broken but it turns out we have a power light switch i didn't know about
this is the cargo cult the kids formed to try to summon their parents back from wherever the lights in the sky took them away to
it’s so weird that this was clearly pulled from some art crossing them all over with Winnie the Pooh characters, since the matchups are largely pretty good and that can’t have been an accident
I honestly don't know which type of dash to use when. This is probably why I didn't make our main law review
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 4d agoThe AI overlords can pry the em dash from my cold dead hands—I’m not giving it up!
RT if you were covidposting with a 16% ef
Dr Duncan Robertson@duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 5d agoEverybody who is reading this survived Covid. Not everyone did.
I don't know all the particulars but I'm certain the beans deserved it
this is like my favorite genre of twitter screenshots if you have any good ones, PLEASE post below. we could all use a good laugh 🙏
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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we put pokemon on for the kids at a cookout and my friend was like "wait. so there's just a pokemon that can talk? and has a new york accent? and no one mentions it?"
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is really funny that Meowth has the most heartbreaking backstory in Pokémon where he learned to speak like a human to impress a very fancy cat who then rejected him as a freak, it’s like everyone else is bugs bunny and he’s a Dickensian crime cat struggling against the world which made him
NEW poll in 18 toss-up districts (with a sample that voted Trump 48-45) shows independents & moderates are *not* looking for the archetypical Moderate candidate — and are not dissuaded if outsiders are labeled too far left. Strong support for Israel was the *least* appealing quality in a candidate.
EXCLUSIVE: New Poll Shows Swing District Voters Prefer 'Outsiders' to Boring Centrists
Survey shared with Zeteo has a sample skewed towards Trump voters but shows strong support for Israel is the least appealing candidate trait. Plus, is Trump about to pull his controversial AG nominee?
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I do think that the funniest part of this is that Vivek is 40 (a millennial!) which is absolutely not old enough to be thrown clear of any kind of economic wreckage
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 6d agoVivek Ramaswamy tells a crowd of young Libertarians in Ohio "The truth of the matter is, people in my generation have already made it. We're gonna be fine." He is then booed off of the stage
Vivek Ramaswamy tells a crowd of young Libertarians in Ohio "The truth of the matter is, people in my generation have already made it. We're gonna be fine." He is then booed off of the stage
7. Erick Detweiler of Progressive Caucus did not mince words: I was forced to abandon hope of rationalizing the original act and recognized it for what it was: intentional targeted suppression of minorities; a preview into a future Acton administration. Drunk with power, unbeholden to the people"
Amy Acton's comments about Trans Athletes and the subsequent "Discussion with ODP and Team Acton"
Team Acton zoom meeting with LGBTQIA+ allies and advocates may have done even more damage than repairs to her strenuous relationship with the queer community.
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