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Russ Bengtson

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really needed biden to say, "you know george, I could have seal team 6 take you out right now"

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i think he should have asked it four or five more times, maybe 10

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i hate to agree with you but I agree with you

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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Taylor vocally came out against Marsha Blackburn during that evil lady’s last senate race and Blackburn still won. I think we need to give up the (understandable) fantasy that pop stars can swoop in and save the day. This is very much just my opinion, I know. But I’m right.

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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andy™'s avatar andy™ @andylevy.net
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what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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fuck these gobshites, in fact if this election win happens with individual average citizens support over theirs it is actually way better, kill what clout they think they have, ruin their robber baron fantasies

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Miles Grant's avatar Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social
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Are cities for their actual residents, or for wealthy suburban business owners/political donors? With folks like Eric Adams & Providence's Brett Smiley, if journalists pretend not to know the answer, they're revealing they ALSO think they work for the latter.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal

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alcaraz/tiafoe AND the first TdF time trial, what a morning

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I'm livin' off of grass and the drippings from the ceilin'

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can't be sure but judging from the sounds the neighbors up the block tried to take omaha beach tonight and the germans put up one hell of a fight

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮's avatar Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
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I think an enterprising journalist should name the donors who are willing to throw the country into fascism because they didn’t get their ego massaged on their birthday.

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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

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Aubrey Gilleran's avatar Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social
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It is actually not great when wealthy elites try to have this much influence on the nominee, whether or not you think Biden is fit to serve.

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and the war for suburbia begins, godspeed all

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i saw one with 2DAMOON plates the other day

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Pete, Pal To Quite A Few's avatar Pete, Pal To Quite A Few @petegain.es
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weird that a dipshit tradcath Hillsdale doofus with an editorial in the NYT could have a big ol Victorian in Michigan when his wife just wrote a big editorial for his zine about how he had no money wonder if maybe his family had something to do wi

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”

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Res Ipsa Pedicure's avatar Res Ipsa Pedicure @resipsamanicure.bsky.social
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Good thing they didn’t build the original wording into the illustration.

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*biden invokes defense production act to increase werthers butterscotch production*

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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haha right? dude travels everywhere in a private jet or this huge limo too! ridiculous!

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thank you, you too! grilling might be in my future too idk.

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i wish any of the plethora of local drive-ins that used to be around were still here

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Pyramead Head's avatar Pyramead Head @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online
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Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there 🫡

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nope, I am a non-streamer (sorry, bike racing)

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pretty sure I have it on DVD but that would mean having to FIND it

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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58 hot dogs, pathetic, turning my flag upside down

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i dunno, starting to think it's bad having a president who crossed the brimley/cocoon line before cocoon even came out

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how is 'jaws' not on a single cable channel right now, america is so washed

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CJ Fogler's avatar CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social
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Nick Castellanos homering on the 4th of July is ominous

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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someone tell the economist about FDR

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i mean also your parasocial relationships with nonfamous people for that matter lol, but yeah

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