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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Sports Fact Lover @lovesportsfacts.bsky.social · 1h

There are two types of Cubs fans:

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 58m

i hope this guy is ok but also this imagery is perfect to undermine the fascists

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 6h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16h

Madness. In jail, in another state, since Sunday, clarinetist Oriana Korol is a 38-year-old child and family therapist, a U.S. citizen and mom with a 3 y.o.

Sound dangerous?

The Sheriff says she is being held on suspicion of assault on a federal officer. But, not charged yet?

Habeas corpus, kids!

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 18h

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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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats

www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for:

a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it!

b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

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Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first @joshstein.bsky.social · 11h

"Vice President JD Vance had a different view and broke with Republicans who broadly condemned the comments within the chat." Yes, because he likes these people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies

POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

www.politico.com

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 11h

From Pam Bondi's Senate hearing - Does she think it's illegal to wear goggles or a gas mask? Does she think Americans are trying to prohibit ICE agents from using goggles or gas masks? Maybe they just don't want a secret police force that won't identify themselves.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

thoughts:

a) Kaepernick already won the war he was fighting and these people are coping and seething about it, and taking advantage of that the fighting's still going on to pretend they can still win

b) this really elucidates what God, Christ, and their own genders really MEAN to these ppl, huh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11h

You didn't have the deals.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

US Trade Rep Greer gets asked: whatever happened to “90 trade deals in 90 days?” — on Fox.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 11h

Although Fox News covered the Israel-Hamas war when it first started the network hasn't dedicated much airtime to it for at least a year. It's fairly obvious in this clip the cast of "Fox & Friends" haven't seen many images from Gaza. Fox rarely featured anything from Gaza.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Vance, miserable liar that he is, referred to these bigoted, Nazi-flavored Young Republican posts as a "college group chat."

But most of the quoted in the Politico article are GROWN ADULTS with JOBS.

ADULT REPUBLICANS RUNNING A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Filth.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 11h

Brian "kill all the homeless people" Kilmeade lectured air traffic controllers about working without pay. Kilmeade is paid millions. He could probably go without pay for a while and not feel it. Most Americans can't do that.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11h

I visited the magnificent Porta Nigra in Trier yesterday! It’s the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps! 🤩

I’m here for a few days with my museum buddy @drnwillburger.bsky.social Today we’re going to the State Exhibition ‘Marcus Aurelius’.

#Archaeology

A photo of me standing in front of the huge Roman city gate known as the ‘Porta Nigra’ in Trier yesterday. The afternoon sun is shining through an upper window.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 11h

Fox News paid $787.5 million in a defamation settlement to Dominion Voting Systems for knowingly promoting false stories about the 2020 election. Someone might tell Jesse Watters that Fox News is still facing a $2 billion lawsuit from Smartmatic for the same reason.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 23h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 10h

Greg Gutfeld identifies as a comedian. He compared a podcast that featured Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) to a woman asking for a loan. He insisted he wasn't racist. I think this was supposed to be a joke. I'd love to help him but it's not my call. 🤷‍♀️

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 10h

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 10h

Died #OTD 1811, Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Before entering Parliament, Dance-Holland was a founding member of the Royal Academy and successful portrait artist. He was commissioned to paint, among others, Lord North, Queen Charlotte and Captain James Cook.
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A half-length painted portrait of Nathaniel Dance. Standing side on looking over his shoulder, he is wearing a velvet-esque red jacket with a furred lapel, a green waistcoat can just be seen, as well as a white tied scarf wide on his neck. He is clean shaven with pushed back thick medium length brown hair.

Portrait of Queen Charlotte, stood in front of stone pillars and a red curtain. She has one hand on a red chair. A table is behind her, with a crown on top. She has pale skin, a grey wig and is wearing a white dress with flowers all over it and gold braid detail on the bust, cuffs and hem.

portrait of Captain Cook wearing captain's uniform, consisting of a blue jacket, white waistcoat with gold braid and gold buttons and white breeches. He has grey hair. He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it. His left thumb and finger lightly hold the other edge of the chart over his knee. His hat sits on the table behind him.

Portrait of Lord North sat in a red chair, with a red curtain backdrop. He wears a grey wig tied with a black ribbon at the nape of his neck. He is wearing a white shirt with lace collar and cuffs, a red jacket and breeches, a blue sash over his chest, and black robes with heavy gold braiding.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 11h

Dr. Fairbrother did breakfast with us, a very good-natured man he is, and told us how the room we were in was the room where Cromwell and his associated officers did begin to plot and act their mischiefs in these counties.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 10h

This is one of the most exciting developments I can think of.
Imagine have a whole library from a list city, and if only you try to open a book, it dissolves into dust. Not anymore!
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky
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www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

www.newscientist.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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