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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 2h

Ha, i thought the same thing. Ill credit david on it if i do lol

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 2h

Ive heard his take on this awhile ago, time ill never get back and its such an absurd conflation of expert w abstract authority by insistence.

The whole point is an expert is not an empty authority. Its right there. Expert - expertise. A king is not an expert, e.g.

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 6h

Im sorry but this is fucking weird

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 6h

"The show will go on. We will have rotating hosts, rotating casts, rotating people coming on"

Thats erika kirk. Idk. Thats, thats a choice. Idk. I guess there is precedent for it.

Dick Clark's new year's rockin' eve with ryan seacrest

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 6h

Neither here nor there, but i saw a chyron under the vp and i dont keep up w tpusa media but, is the charlie kirk show still called that even though...you know...

So, they're gonna just morbidly keep it going...and vance has hosted it, stepping "in his shoes"

"Assassination culture"

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 8h

I know its all whatever they get away with but im pretty sure the cfpb requires a law change to shutter but again, the mileage is varying like a post hurricane saltwater exposed used car with dubious salvage deniability and provenance

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 12h

I will say the upshot is a deluge of k-12 kids who do really funny, sassy trump impressions

Nothing brightens a day like a spontaneous 13 y.o. roasting him from down the hall

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 13h

Wildest part.

It happened today, then

October 15, 1883

calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

Oct. 15, 1883 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Civil Rights Act, Legitimating Segregation

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

calendar.eji.org

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 13h

Wildly, this happened on Oct 15th, today, then

calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

@jamellebouie.net

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 13h

Theyll radio it in with a handheld before the stop in the car with the cage obstructed rearview

Pretextual stop bonanza

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 13h

Trantifa

The nonce words will multiply until morale and clicks improve

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 14h

that little creep nick is lying his ass off again. there’s food, water, tarps, inflatable costumes, a couple grills. comfort items for people hanging out outside in the fall in the Pacific Northwest.

@MrAndyNgo
Portland - @nickshirleyy captured the moment a huge shipment of far-left, Trantifa, Antifa encampment occupation supplies were unloaded near the ICE facility. They have so much riot gear and supplies that they're moving it into a nearby storage rental.
(video of a young white man in a hoodie)

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 14h

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 14h

Janus faced, the life of a southern republican whose voters he hates

youtu.be/PLrMVf7V7kc?...

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 15h

Any achewood thoughts

Webcomics are interesting because any serial, staccato medium like that, who is the long termer who sticks with that volume for how long a webcomic can now

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 15h

Were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 16h

Domestic 9/11

Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 16h

NSPM-7 watch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that Charlie Kirk's death was a "domestic 9/11" and that he's undertaking a commensurate response at home. Treasury is "compiling lists" and looking at funding streams, he said.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 16h

In the story the GOP justices told Wed, Louisiana’s cracking and packing of black voters to decrease their electoral power isn't racial discrimination - but remedying that theft is. Against white voters. It's the central grievance of Republican politics.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 1d

These low stakes reboots are getting lazy

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

"[T]he authorities rely on the memo’s mere existence to establish their essential point, which is that everything is as it should be . . . In that way, the document is not meant to be law. . . . Rather, it is meant to look like law, and by its existence, to establish legitimacy."

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1d

“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.“

Lawyer Joseph Margulies on Trump’s weaponization of the law:

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

www.bostonreview.net

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 1d

Secure warrior masculinity

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A Facebook group that shared information on sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Chicago area was taken down by Meta following pressure from the Justice Department, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Facebook removes Chicago-area page dedicated to ICE sightings after Justice Department intervenes

The Facebook page ICE Sighting-Chicagoland amassed over 70,000 members in recent weeks as the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” has ramped up in Chicago and the suburbs.

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