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Then: Co-Founder Togga | All right, we did not die today! I call that an unqualified success.

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Rick Steves' Iran (2009)
Rick Steves' Iran (2009) YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

Tried watching @ricksteves.bsky.social Iran episode and only made it 30 seconds before getting choked up at the sight of darling Iranian school girls.

If only everyone could see their humanity. ❤️‍🩹 A must watch.

youtu.be/CYoa9hI3CXg?...

10.03.2026 01:34 👍 324 🔁 74 💬 4 📌 2

20/20 in Vision Impaired biathlon damn dude

08.03.2026 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My goodness, just watch this cut of Darell Hernaiz's walk-off and the ensuing chaos in San Juan

08.03.2026 03:07 👍 132 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 10

#pigeonsky #art

08.03.2026 01:01 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

do it on hard mode: use the 10 miles to run between 24 different taco spots and have a beer and taco at each.

27.02.2026 16:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

MERRY POWERPOINT DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

you'll find the streaming link here around 7:30 EST / 4:30 PST, and it will be up until midnight tomorrow for anyone who misses it or is in another time zone

we'll give you all this info again tonight, but here's how to donate!

24.02.2026 21:57 👍 44 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 4
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Dad, 99, and son, 80, hold Wintzell's Oyster House to their promise of free oysters Jimmy Rush has a constant craving... for oysters.Always has, at least for most of his 99 years.

"We have literally been talking about this for decades," says Carl, proudly. "That's why some many people have come down to be a part of it. Some of my friends were glad it happened today, so they could quit hearing about it!"

24.02.2026 22:38 👍 1540 🔁 351 💬 20 📌 37

Rick Steves is still very alive. In times of crises i will naturally revert to “this nice person on PBS said…” see also: cooking, crap in familial storage spaces, the best recording of Les Mis

24.02.2026 22:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Complain all you want, but after you win a gold medal in hockey it is an honor and a privilege to travel to the White House and shake the hand of a lunatic pedophile who has spent the last few months absolutely terrorizing people who live in the state that cares the most about hockey.

24.02.2026 18:45 👍 493 🔁 58 💬 10 📌 3
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The Olympics, Finale: Team USA's Best Winter Games Ever Team USA capped off its best Winter Olympics ever with DOUBLE GOLD IN HOCKEY. It was such a joy to watch these Winter Olympics with you.

THE FINAL SPORTS! NEWSLETTER OF THE OLYMPICS

Team USA had its best Winter Olympics ever.

I wrote about why we can never let the worst things about America keep us from celebrating the best things about America.

Also, bobsled and cross-country skiing results!

24.02.2026 02:35 👍 385 🔁 58 💬 25 📌 25
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A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

24.02.2026 16:53 👍 17118 🔁 3836 💬 12 📌 1

a 2:1 shot deficit against one of
the greatest collection of goal scorers ever assembled, silly Canucks playing right into the US hands

22.02.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What if all those years of life were not just an investment in capital growth but were actually the entire point of all of it, what then.

22.02.2026 13:10 👍 1165 🔁 206 💬 34 📌 8
Lea Meier with her Olympic diploma

Lea Meier with her Olympic diploma

Did you know - all top 8 finishers at an Olympic medal event get an Olympic diploma?

21.02.2026 14:57 👍 150 🔁 8 💬 9 📌 5
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 👍 12165 🔁 6994 💬 324 📌 831

same answer for both: Very Bad Things.

Second place: Once Upon a Time In Mexico

18.02.2026 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

in a world of scoop of vanilla, scoop of chocolate, be a rum raisin.

18.02.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

$100 on him playing 162 this season. let’s make that $200.

16.02.2026 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

please check in on all your nonagenarian filmmaker neighbors

16.02.2026 21:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I want to unload some of these pigeon paintings so all the ones in this thread are available for best offer prices (min $50) in donations MN mutual funds, the Immigrant Defense Project, or AABB.

DM if interested!

14.02.2026 00:28 👍 62 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 4

everyone loving Sweden curling shirts need to just invest in their hockey sweaters instead. elite gear.

14.02.2026 01:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.

Our conversation:

13.02.2026 23:40 👍 2983 🔁 731 💬 28 📌 49

the league minimum for that one dinger goes down as the best ROI on an MLB contract in history

13.02.2026 17:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych is the most important athlete at the Olympics right now | CBC The International Olympic Committee is not an organization that generally begs, but they are begging Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych not to compete in a customized helmet showing the ...

NEW COLUMN FOR CBC Olympics:

Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych is the most important athlete at the Olympics right now

Here's why: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

11.02.2026 22:38 👍 81 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 7
A photo of figure skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito. Above them, text reads “Alt, Gay, and from New Jersey”: The “Babes of Glory” are TikTok Fancam Fuel. The post was made by Them.

A photo of figure skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito. Above them, text reads “Alt, Gay, and from New Jersey”: The “Babes of Glory” are TikTok Fancam Fuel. The post was made by Them.

I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”

10.02.2026 22:58 👍 3254 🔁 533 💬 75 📌 192
Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

10.02.2026 09:55 👍 7466 🔁 3337 💬 50 📌 157

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

10.02.2026 22:12 👍 3884 🔁 1029 💬 30 📌 27
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

10.02.2026 17:11 👍 53366 🔁 16905 💬 1153 📌 1341
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“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

09.02.2026 18:19 👍 3425 🔁 1935 💬 138 📌 249

in a game dominated by defense, he scored the most points AND had a solo tackle 💪

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