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Clackamas Town Center is a huge mall in a Portland, Oregon suburb. Some of you need to settle down.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Guy can’t even put together a cool military parade

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Easily a couple of thousand people at the Clackamas Town Center, everyone in good spirits and cheer. No counter-protesters.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I ran into and knocked over Donald Sutherland when I was rushing to the bathroom at the Princeton graduation when I was about 14. He was very nice about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“US Marines deployed to Los Angeles” is an insane lede that would have seemed impossible a very short time ago.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Newsom needs to call up the rest of the Guard.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Whoa

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I just heard someone say “Gavin Newsom will protect you from everyone but himself” and that’s both funny AND accurate.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is garbage. Counterpoint:

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Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

submitted 2 days ago • 350 comments

Because if they tried to sleep outside, Gavin Newsom would single-handedly destroy them.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Remember that? That was easily one my favorite things that ever happened Online.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Glad to see the democrats are continuing their strategy of keeping anyone under the age of 80 from a leadership role. Success breeds success.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Panel members include literal strains of measles and polio.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

hey that’s not great

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Will Brian Wilson’s estate release the Manson recordings, is all I want to know today.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Get the Marines out of LA and have them occupy the offices of the NYT Connections staff.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t want to say “I called it,” but I remember watching Home Alone 2 as a kid and saying to my mom during the Trump cameo, “that guy is going to end up destroying American democracy.”

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9% don’t like the fascism but like the idea of a military parade

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments