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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

CDC scientists purged so no-one contradicts these clowns

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22h

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 2h

Thing is people in America get gunned down daily and this chud didn't care, because as Kirk himself said a few people getting shot is worth unbridled gun freedom.

Kirk gets killed and because chud liked Kirk's racism and misogyny he cared.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 3h

The subtext in this piece is how Facebook made boomers insane. The villain here has at earlier times in his life been thoughtful and competent, even as I don't agree with any of his views, and he's thoroughly incentivized to act like a maniac.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

"Paramilitaries, you say?" 🤔

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Pretty much

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Fritzie Hall @fritzandtheoscars.bsky.social · 21h

I always go back to this scene. Not because Diane Keaton portrays her fear so vividly but because her understated reaction to seeing Warren Beatty is able to say more about love and closeness, about feeling relaxed and secure in somone's presence, than probably any other in movie history

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Supreme Court Justice hawking her book on a media outlet that is effectively an extension of the administration she is charged with overseeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h

Wanna know how that's gonna go? The Super Bowl booked Bad Bunny for halftime and the Right countered with Kid Rock.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h

Yep. They heard "long march through the institutions" and thought: we're good at marching! Let's US march through the institutions!

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h

Instagram is still a big deal especially for youth marketing and design-reliant businesses. But I stand by my point.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 5h

Zuckerberg polls about as favorably as polio now. I predict that antipathy will push business out of the "just go to our FB/Instagram" mode.

Ofc maybe I think so because I abandoned both last year and am still able to shop and buy things.

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 6h

"No one is made to feel duty bound to engage with Facebook"... uh...

If you want to find current information about local businesses, organizations, churches, Facebook is it. _Maybe_ there's a website maintained within the past year, but it likely directs you to Facebook for more up-to-date stuff.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam @very-simple.com · 6h

They’ve daylighted the corner near me as an experiment, and in addition to being easier to cross, they put up planters and (sometimes) tables and chairs, and people seem to really like it. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 6h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

They like Trump and want to help him and reporting on this would not help him so they do not do that

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 20h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 18h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah well all the "entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos... should make them natural conservatives" Republicans died off. Now it's all "leave at gunpoint" or "oh ho ho of course we don't mean YOU"

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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