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🕷TarantulaMask🎃 @octopusmask.bsky.social · 6d

Ambassadorship to be announced when convenient for the trump admin?

He always said New York City was the Tiranë of America.

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 6d

Around 11:30 p.m. last night, Mayor Adams' office announced he's going to Albania this week.

On "day one" of his trip, Adams is meeting with the country's prime minister and will also "visit local businesses and factories."

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 9d

This left me gasping for air at the end. Magnificent and crushing. Thanks for sharing, @enaselimo.bsky.social

Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 10d

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

"According to Bosnian documents, he is a traitor. According to Turkish documents, he is a spy. According to American documents, he is an alien. According to them all, he is to be put in no position to help others or himself."
Ena Selimović: Airborne
Illustration: gray and black embroidery of B-2 bomber patent drawings on a blue background

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 13d

Check this man’s couch cushions for bars of gold, Turkish Airlines tickets, etc

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13d

What a pathetic and disgraceful statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 14d

youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 14d

Since it’s not listed on Letterboxd, I have to proselytize for it here: LISTERS (2025) is a birding road trip movie that belongs squarely in the dudes rock 🤘 pantheon. It’s down to earth, frequently hilarious, and packed with beautiful birds. + free to watch on YouTube! slate.com/culture/2025...

One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube

Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.

slate.com

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 17d

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17d

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends.

Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.”

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The ICE Shooter’s Motive

Joshua Jahn's friends speak

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 18d

Isaac please don't put in the newspaper that I loved Henry Kissinger

RiderToast, fumbler of the First Bag @ridertoast.bsky.social · 18d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 21d

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 23d

NOTUS:
Dem House Rep Steven Horsford:
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me. These are the same people that I’m supposed to call to coordinate security or to do support when I have a town hall.”
www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 24d

Mehdi Hasan has been standing in front of a Dallas-area megachurch with a walkie talkie for 5 years, waiting for Team Biden to radio in with the go ahead

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 24d

‘There is a basic dissonance here. You can sell your event as a unifying force, a tool for peace. Or you can allow it to become an advertising space for a regime that has (according to a United Nations commission) committed a genocide. But you can’t do both’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew

Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for power

www.theguardian.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26d

Today, it’s the defenders of privatisation who are clinging to an out-of-date ideology. They’re out of touch & out of time.

Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future.

Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.

www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

Who Owns Britain?

How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.

www.common-wealth.org

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26d

The privateers promised a miracle: competition, lower bills & better services.

Instead we got inefficient monopolies, rising costs & worsening outcomes as ordinary people struggle to afford essentials.

The dream of privatisation has turned into the nightmare of Rip-Off Britain.

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 26d

Did a double take and had to consult ishenrykissingerdead.com just in case

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 26d

Oh hey, it’s Hard Pass by WTF and Nope with a foreword by That Fucking Guy

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HOPE,
AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
GENESIS
HENRY A. KISSINGER
CRAIG MUNDIE
ERIC SCHMIDT
FOREWORD BY NIALL FERGUSON

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 28d

This was my first thought lmao

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 28d

These people are calling for violence against Starmer and not a peep out of him so far.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28d

Christiane Amanpour, "How do we allow 150,000 far right protestors who punch officers, broken noses, broken teeth, and concussions, spew hate speech?"

Worse, why hasn't Keir Starmer said anything about our police being attacked by the far right?

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 29d

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · Sep 12

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was.

But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts

Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.

www.denverpost.com

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is my personal fantasy of the promise of liberal democracy and no one can take it away from me

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · Sep 10

if you’re in line to examine the cultural politics of technology, STAY IN LINE

Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · Sep 8

traffic calming measures at the intersection of technology, power, and culture

Dino @dinok.bsky.social · Sep 10

Holding on to a shred of hope that she will get prosecuted for this one day. I will fly home to AZ and get in line at midnight in front of the courthouse to watch.

shawshankexemption.bsky.social @shawshankexemption.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sinema left office but her campaign continues to spend lavishly

Former US Senator Kyrsten Sinema buys $2M Cave Creek estate
www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news...

Sinema left office but her campaign continues to spend lavishly - Roll Call

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent from Arizona, continues to spend campaign funds lavishly six months after leaving office.

rollcall.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 9

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

www.nytimes.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · Sep 9

US doctrine is that nobody but Israel is sovereign in MENA.

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · Sep 7

The ‘we live in hell’ extended universe is expanding in infinite directions and dimensions

vlado @mmjs86.bsky.social · Sep 7

Kill me now

croatian politician with lindsey graham and john fetterman

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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · Aug 28

This sounds like a joke or a burn (but it’s actually true)