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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 5h

MLB presents The Torment Nexus

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 5h

ONE INNING AFTER ANOTHER

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 5h

What mad portal have we passed through.

Corey the Scary Street @cstrable.bsky.social · 5h

Skubal last pitched 8 innings ago

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Robyn Shepherd @robyniwitz.bsky.social · 5h

[people who do not like baseball]: 162 games for six months and it's so slow no thanks
[everyone else who sticks it out until postseason]: hell yeah now that it's just us perverts time for that unhinged shit that sends you to the ER it's the worst experience of your life u luv it

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Vernors Herzog @vernorsherzog.bsky.social · 5h

after the 13th inning they should have to pitch with their non-dominant hand

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 9h

Booming inflatable frog costume industry the only thing keeping our economy afloat 🙏🏻🇺🇸

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 13h

this is the kind of thing that usually leads to international alerts from press advocacy orgs

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

trib.al

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16h

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Yeah, you’re not supposed to do that.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

It's time to say:

What. An. Idiot.

I am being polite.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 1d

Wife’s out on the town, time to catch up on HBO’s Task starring Mark Ruffalo as Detective John Task.

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 1d

What if...The Bone Farmer actually deserves the Not Stealing People's Skeletons Prize?

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 1d

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 1d

They shouldn't have been allowed to do this imho

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who seems to be setting the GOP shutdown position, Russ Vought, promised to put federal employees in trauma, and to use the shutdown to fire them and block their backpay.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

This is bananas. The republicans ALREADY VOTED to cut health care benefits. Trump ALREADY SIGNED THE BILL. It's the law of the land to ditch ACA subsidies and make the biggest cuts in history to medicaid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 1d

Bass intro to Evil >>>

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Jill Geisler @jillgeisler.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic:
www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Utterly impossible to argue otherwise.

Even if you laughably believed Trump wasn’t in the files, Johnson is protecting everyone in them!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 2d

On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”

That, Taher says, “is a lie.”

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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