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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4h

> "How long do you want these messages to remain secret?" Randy asked … "Five years? Ten years? Twenty-five years?"
After he got to the hotel this afternoon, Randy decrypted and read Avi's answer…
I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

worth reading vought's 2022 essay where he lays this out, focusing on his complaint that congress can shape policy against the wishes of the president americanmind.org/salvo/renewi...

Renewing American Purpose

Statesmanship in a post-Constitutional moment

americanmind.org

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 7h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 9h

When the ones you love speak of their calm acceptance of the approach of death, be kind to them in the face of your fears. Do not ask them to sit in their mortality alone. Do not insist more life remains. Remind them you love them and cherish the time you have. Tell them they've prepared you well.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 2d

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social

From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

capitalbnews.org

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 1d

You're thinking of Dufresne.

A duvet is a cryptically horny actor who plays an FBI agent on X Files.

Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking of Strangé.

A duvet is the dude who escaped from prison in Shawhank Redemption

Lumpia Nyong'o @creolebabybritt.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking of croquet.

A duvet is the character that Grace Jones plays in Boomerang

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Cecily “Boo, Bitch!” W. @skeskali.ca · 2d

Y’all, pottery bloopers are so satisfying to watch

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Pottery Wheel Throwing Bloopers and Fails (#Shorts)

YouTube video by Florian Gadsby

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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 2d

The trouble with Youtube Premium is that there's no suffering. You just get what you want. Too easy.

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Master 👻 Cortez @masterxcortez.bsky.social · 2d

That’s Croquet

A duvet is that thing that happens when something hits another thing and then another thing after that.

✨Your Seaside Oracle✨ @chanti227.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of Poussey.

A duvet is the sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops

Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 2d

You're thinking of Chalamet

A duvet is the character who shouldn't have died in OITNB

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Haze! @luxelifehaze.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of croquet.

A duvet is a shiny fabric that contains golden threads. It’s typically used for evening gowns and costumes because of its luxurious and glamorous look

✨Your Seaside Oracle✨ @chanti227.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of Poussey.

A duvet is the sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops

Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 2d

You're thinking of Chalamet

A duvet is the character who shouldn't have died in OITNB

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 2d

You're thinking of Chalamet

A duvet is the character who shouldn't have died in OITNB

steve harrington’s hair swoop @uxalchemist.blacksky.app · 2d

You’re thinking of Le Creuset

A duvet is that guy who raps and stars in the new Dune movies.

Last Name Penman @percivalpenman.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of ballet.

A duvet is a popular cooking pot, particularly known for coming in a variety of aesthetically pleasing colors.

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✨Your Seaside Oracle✨ @chanti227.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of Poussey.

A duvet is the sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops

Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 2d

You're thinking of Chalamet

A duvet is the character who shouldn't have died in OITNB

steve harrington’s hair swoop @uxalchemist.blacksky.app · 2d

You’re thinking of Le Creuset

A duvet is that guy who raps and stars in the new Dune movies.

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Lumpia Nyong'o @creolebabybritt.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking of croquet.

A duvet is the character that Grace Jones plays in Boomerang

✨Your Seaside Oracle✨ @chanti227.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of Poussey.

A duvet is the sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops

Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 2d

You're thinking of Chalamet

A duvet is the character who shouldn't have died in OITNB

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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking of Strangé.

A duvet is the dude who escaped from prison in Shawhank Redemption

Lumpia Nyong'o @creolebabybritt.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking of croquet.

A duvet is the character that Grace Jones plays in Boomerang

✨Your Seaside Oracle✨ @chanti227.bsky.social · 2d

You’re thinking of Poussey.

A duvet is the sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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The Bean Goblin 👹 @oniwar.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all remember Will slapped mans? I was there

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

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demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon
X.com
sending tweets that pissed me off to the group chat like an ant taking poison bait back to its colony
11:57 AM • 10/8/25 • 208K Views

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

What? The former lawyer for Andrew Tate who also would tweet out glowing praise for Andrew Tate... is reported to have done an extremely creepy thing regarding a woman?

How surprising.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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POLITICO
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2d

Yes some of y'all are mad whiteness is no longer enough to protect you. The denial and exceptionalism that erases the embrace of anti-Black racial terror that got us here in the first place.

Gotta block and treat you like the quicksand you are and stay focused on where the REAL solidarity is.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 2d

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 2d

Excuse me, I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude but that's Couvet.

Duvet is what them classy French ladies say when you tell them you're pleased to make their acquaintance.

MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 2d

Nah cousin that’s a boule.

Duvet is a picturesque village in the Val-de-Travers district of the Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net · 2d

No kinfolk that’s flambé.

Duvet is the convention held every two years by the Black Greek sorority wearing pink and green

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

(I guess a thing about being a Black ADHD-haver living through an era of fascism which has been enabled by the exact things you've spent years studying and trying to warn about is at least maybe occasionally your brain might turn the persistent horror into decent comedy)

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 2d

A thing I recommend you do tonight is take a nice shower, then do your whole skincare routine, exfoliation and all, give yourself a good lotioning (don't forget the elbows and heels!), put on your coziest pajamas, and tuck yourself right into bed. You deserve it.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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