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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 17m

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22m

The scale of this week’s crypto crash is stunning. $16.6B in losses due to margin calls on 1.6M accounts averages to $10,000 lost per person betting on crypto always going up.

A lesson for many on the downside of borrowing money to gamble.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22m

The scale of this week’s crypto crash is stunning. $16.6B in losses due to margin calls on 1.6M accounts averages to $10,000 lost per person betting on crypto always going up.

A lesson for many on the downside of borrowing money to gamble.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 19m

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20m

Is illegally moving a bunch of money around to pay the troops good for Trump’s brand? Probably. Will it keep the government shut down even longer? Almost certainly.

Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 38m

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Alt: a drawing of a girl with white hair and ears

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Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 5h

Everyday Chicagoans are proving that they’re the first line of defense against this extraordinary federal incursion into this city. They're organizing against it, not just for the benefit of our city, but for the entire country.

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 1h

Even if I hate hockey?

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CaptChesapeake @chesbaycapt.bsky.social · 6d

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 1h

[email protected] - @TonyStark I have been through three rounds of "course I'd vote for a woman, just not *this* woman" and I think it is past time for some leftists to admit they would not, in fact, vote for a woman.

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 16h

How in the world can this absorbing third party funds for official military purposes be legal?

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t you dare ruin their prom. Where will they going to get photos of themselves delivering wisdom on a panel? Where else will journalists flirt with PAOs and swing helicopter rides? Dudes have job interviews and mistresses lines up! Now they have to wait until Army-Navy for their next prom!

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 23h

What??! Why?!

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US Army accepting roughly $1 million donation to bring senior leaders to DC conference as troops brace for missed paycheck | CNN Politics

The US Army is accepting a donation of roughly $1 million for the travel and lodging of senior leaders to a professional development conference in Washington, DC, next week, as active duty forces are ...

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

I don’t know about a world cyberwar but there is definitely an ongoing world information war and the US government, in collusion with US businesses and under the direction of US billionaires, are the ones waging it

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 3h

Tell Congress to Undo Trump's Most Dangerous Yet "National Security Memorandum" (NSPM7) rootsaction.org/undo-trumps-...

Tell Congress to Undo Trump's Most Dangerous Yet

Trump's NSPM7 is a blatant attack on one of the core principles of our democracy, the freedom of speech. This rhetoric and action undermines the lifesaving work of millions of nonprofit staff and volu...

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 4h

On Roblox, extremists are turning games into propaganda tools. The teen-led “Blueshirts” stage virtual neo-Nazi protests, recruit children, and use Discord to coordinate harassment and radicalization campaigns.

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Online Neo-Nazi Group Using Children’s Video Games For Recruiting And Propaganda

A disturbing trend is emerging on Roblox, a platform with tens of millions of young users: online white supremacist groups are using children’s video games to recruit and spread propaganda. The “Blues...

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Céu Azul means Blue Sky @ceu---azul.bsky.social · 13h

"no I'm not racist, I just thought drugs always come labeled with their name"

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 20h

Even as IDF units halt their combat operations, the ceasefire doesn't prohibit them from continuing demolition operations in the areas they still control. So within the roughly 55 percent of the strip they still control, we can expect the razing of Khan Younis, for example, to continue.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 21h

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 21h

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 21h

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 21h

23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises truthout.org/articles/23-...

23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises

Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 22h

I love my city. www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

Philadelphia to open one of the country’s first LGBTQ+ visitor centers

Scheduled to open in January 2026, right in the heart of the Gayborhood, the Philly Pride Visitor Center is billed as a legacy project of the Semiquincentennial.

www.inquirer.com

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 22h

Aberdeen Proving Ground - again? "They hit him so hard that they knocked him unconscious, he said, but not before threatening him with further harm if he snitched."

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Teen Cadet Says He Was Beaten, Concussed at Camp at Aberdeen Proving Ground

In early August 2022, 17-year-old Nathanael Royal called his parents and begged them to bring him home before he got attacked.

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AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 23h

#ThisIsNotADemocracy😶:

Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 1d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 23h

Stopped clock is right twice a day

Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 23h

Paquito Dela Cruz 🇵🇭🇩🇪🇦🇹🇳🇱🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇳🇮🇳(🇺🇸) @quitodelacruz.bsky.social · 23h

It makes sense for allies to set up bases in places like White Supremacist Fascist Idaho ahead of a civil war... Qatar is a logical choice, b/c Trump-Kushner ally Netanyahu also collaborated w/ Qatar to prop up Hamas & play them like a fiddle for so many years:

www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne...

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