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Ray Butler
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Security focused seasoned IT Pro, Husband, Father, Dog Dad, regular guy who loves technology 💻, movies 🎞️ ,astronomy 🔭 and Star Trek. No DMs.
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browneyedsusan.bsky.social
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September 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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fightingliberal.bsky.social
Reflecting Pool saga seemed like it couldn’t get stupider—until now
Reflecting Pool saga seemed like it couldn’t get stupider—until now
The Reflecting Pool has served as a highly visible record of Trump’s grifty, lazy defacement of our nation’s capital, and that doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon.
www.dailykos.com
September 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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dworkin.bsky.social
Trump spent the week insisting his regime was above the law and untouchable. From stolen land and illegal loyalty oaths to military censorship, the four massive federal court smackdowns that just shattered his agenda:
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-just...
September 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
When you are totally for sale, people buy you. Cheap.

The entire family is a national security hazard.

www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
www.propublica.org
September 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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therickydavila.bsky.social
There’s nothing stopping the orange felon from giving Americans $5,000 checks right now considering he gave $40B to Argentina without blinking an eye. It’s called a lie, the same lie that feeds his rabid idiotic MAGA cult.
September 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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realtexaspaul.com
Trump believes people are stupid enough to blame Ukraine and not him and Netanyahu for record high diesel prices!
September 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
Preznit Fuckwit wasted millions of dollars on a stupid Irish playdate with Natalie. if he wants to play patty-cake with his weird, braying diaper nurse, let him do so at home. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I go ballistic. link is here: bit.ly/3TyRxZr
so, who pays for all that? you and me, that’s who. all so Donny and Natty can play patty-cake in a different time zone. fuck that. if Dear Leader wants to hang with the Carrier of the Royal Diaper Bag, and watch her bray like some love-smitten hyena, let him do it at home. if he’s so horny to be at one of his golf motels, he’s got plenty of them right here in the good old US of A.
September 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran.

Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in … What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
September 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously:

404media.co/cops-search-...
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
404media.co
September 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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hesherman.bsky.social
Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.
September 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham: I think Americans have absolutely had it. And I think their question, certainly mine, is, why the people around him don’t take his crayons and markers away like you do for toddlers right before bedtime or naps.
September 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."
September 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff calls Mike Collins "a crumbling little bigot"
September 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."
September 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff: "While the world burns & you pay more for everything, your tax dollars become royal family's wealth. Bc it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook. Half a billion from the Emirati spy chief... the Mar-a-Lago mafia really has taken corruption to new heights"
September 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff: "Last week the broken old man threw a two day party in Texas while it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, and power your home ... they spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"
September 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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sassysister27.bsky.social
❤️ Sweet Leopard!

He’s the forgotten dog, lost in the shuffle and not getting any attention!

This precious boy arrived with multiple injuries that are now healing but he remains fearful.
With a slow approach, he’s social
w/handlers, enjoys pets and being outside.

❤️Save🐶Leopard!

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September 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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rogerzenaf.bsky.social
He has absolutely had a stroke or strokes. I guarantee it - I've had one. It's why one side of his face does that, it's why he taps his leg when he walks, it's why one leg drags, etc. He has EVERY sign of it and it's being covered up - has been for years.
September 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
September 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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meidastouch.com
Raskin: “You don’t see any MAGA hats anywhere in the country anymore. The support for the Republicans is melting away.” Trump “pulled the plug on Medicaid” and ACA tax credits, leaving rural hospitals and three maternity clinics in one Michigan district shut down.
September 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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youwerewarned.bsky.social
One last meme. I’m done for today
September 11, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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sundaedivine.lol
When the moment calls for dignity but your body calls for a recliner.
The king at rest
September 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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momcjl.bsky.social
Here’s a handy reference.
September 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath."

If only . . .
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
September 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM