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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

Kavanaugh Stops

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Bill @twoandseven.bsky.social · 19h

We were told "Come home when the streetlights turn on".

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 19h

Not only were we allowed, it was expected. My mother would routinely tell me to go outside to "blow the stink off you."

It's routinely allowed in other cultures now, too. America is a fear-driven surveillance state.

Paul Davidson @elementalpaul.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure how I feel about these kinds of questions on Reddit. Already a few decades ago is becoming some kind of mythical time that people aren't sure was real.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 21h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 20h

This #ttrpg of analog horror is now available on a PWYW scale. All I'm going to say about it is that it's great. It's the only game I could ever follow on a "Let's Play" for more than two episodes. Check it out.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 21h

Chilling

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

As the excellent @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social always reminds us, to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Punishing officials who lie in court and on documents is desperately needed to drag us out of the legitimacy of bullshit the Trump era has created.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

DHS spending its newly massive budget keeping America safe from [... checks notes...] nail salons and swim moms.

Cross country flights & 5 months of detention based on "officials made a number of false and misleading claims"
www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

www.thebanner.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23h

Tobias is an award-winning writer, a tech nerd and a professor, ie, a veritable font of information, so yes, ask him a bunch of stuff

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23h

Okay, it's Fall Break, and I'm working on some boring stuff that'll be cool later, so I'm doing an AMA (ask me anything) on BlueSky until 3:10pm ish. I'll keep checking in here and answering.

Craft, software, hardware, whatever...

AMA:

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Extremely satisfying and fact-filled takedown.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 2d

MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

www.politico.com

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

I could swear I just heard thunder.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 12d

My big sale for the month is live! Ghosts both real and imagined feature this month--save on tons of books when buying direct, including print and audio:
payhip.com/skyladawncam...

A promo graphic that says "October Scares" against a night sky and leafless tree branches. Stories of hauntings and horror on sale all month long including audio, print, and bundles." There are several book covers for some of the included titles.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

I watched Tron with my son when he was quite young. He absolutely loved it. He had no idea what exactly was going on, but he really loved it. When he was older, not so much.

If they want to exploit the Tron IP, they should introduce another animated series.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

Tron is such an 80s thing, it's hard to make relevant for the 21st century. It's all about arcade games and mainframes, and software that was written primarily by a single coder. The actual story of Tron is silly AF, which is one of its main joys.

But it should never have been revived.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 2d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Demagogue Watch @demagoguewatch.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

www.nytimes.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 3d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

omg this whole thread

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

People just don't realize how many layers of "irony" and cloaking are used to launder white supremacist propaganda into greater public acceptance and just *how many* things, about US culture in general and internet culture in particular, have white supremacy at the core of their rotten heart!

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not saying it has to be rational, only that it doesn't have to be irrational.

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