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The Jolene

@thejolene.bsky.social

You want to compare brainpans? I won the Westinghouse prize when I was 12. Published at 19, double doctorate from MIT at 22. Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, ok? NO DMs.

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Jeff Tiedrich@jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 4h ago

every one of Donny's rallies becomes the worst version of Groundhog Day ever, as he repeats the same stupid shit, over and over — but yesterday, he added something new: he called someone a 'shylock.' antisemitic much? thank you for your attention to today's post. link is here: bit.ly/47uIhZU

Shylock! Now there’s an antisemitic deep cut. Shylock, of course, is the Jewish moneylender invented by William Shakespeare in 1596 — which we all know was an awesome time to be a Jew in Europe. By the early 20th century in America, to call someone a ‘Shylock’ was to imply that they were as greedy and dishonest as one of them-there Jewish types. No doubt, it’s a slur that Donny learned from his tyrant Klansman father. Thing is, nobody’s hurled that term as in insult in probably forty or fifty years. It’s gone out of fashion — but Donny’s too decrepit to remember that we don’t say that any more, in polite company. I’m still waiting for Donny to blurt the n-word into an open microphone. You know it’s only a matter of time.
Uncle Duke@uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 3h ago

“Regardless of what Newton said, gravity is just a theory that you humans choose to accept as fact. If you simply refuse to take it as a given, then the whole paradigm shifts. Anyway Janice, when you’ve got a minute, the litter in my box could really stand a change.”

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Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · yesterday

“When I was getting pulled out of my truck by federal agents, I asked them, ‘Hey, is this about the songs?’ And they told me, ‘No, it’s about resisting ICE’.” “I told them, ‘Well, you’re going to have to arrest all of Minneapolis if you want to hit me for that'...” stateline.org/2026/10/17/n...

No Kings shifts strategy from streets to ballot boxes with early voting day of action • Stateline

Organizers launched more than 2,500 No Kings events across all 50 states and the District of Columbia Saturday, this time focusing their efforts on the midterm elections.From roadside rallies to lette...

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