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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10h

my taxes are paying for this, unreal

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 4h

Really good blog musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 4h

don't be obtuse. she was having relations with someone she was reporting on. that's not slut shaming. that is bad journalist shaming

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4h

You realize they are two sides of the same coin: an astonishing lack of ethics which they will monetize to the highest bidder?

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 4h

A group of House Democrats marched to Speaker Mike Johnson’s office to demand the swearing in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Grijalva won a special election in Arizona in September but has yet to be sworn in.

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 4h

This is bullshit, but also, yet another example of attempts to rely on technology to give supposed “objective” pain ratings while denying the most useful way to get that information: ask the person (or in the case of babies/toddlers, their parents), and actually believe them.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15h

This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · 15h

Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. The Mayor of Atlanta's communications office sure knows how to do some off-the-rails ad hominem attack on Linked-In. Absolutely devoid of substantive response. (See reponse below)

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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 18h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 18h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16h

Independent of this statement, a good way of describing a huge chunk of the internet is “rapists running content and bot farms to make their pet issues seem more important”, that’s basically half the traffic on X at this point.

Peter Fobian @peterfobian.bsky.social · 16h

Notably the 3 people leading the charge on this are a guy who spends all his time trying to sue and deplatform pro-palestinian creators and 2 rapists who all run content farms of out of context clips but y'know maybe this time it's not a cynical attempt to get rid of their self-proclaimed #1 op.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 17h

I can't believe we're still talking about this

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Brian Lee @jackstraw62.bsky.social · 16h

Trump continues to be President of MAGA nation, the rest of us be damned.

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Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 16h

He just sounds sane and smart (and what he’s saying here is true)

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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M S Burton @frommsb.bsky.social · 16h

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

At a press conference today, the mayor of Everett said there was a knife found in the child’s possession but *no* gun. I followed up with ICE and asked if they stand by the screenshot shared yesterday. Spokesperson said DHS was working on a response. Five hours later, still nothing.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17h

Yep another U.S. attorney who Trump HANDPICKED this time around who team trump quickly determined: nope sorry not authoritarian enough, next

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 18h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

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Margaret Manto @margaretmanto.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: Mental health workers supporting CDC employees after the August shooting at the agency's headquarters were among those laid off last week.

Read the story here:

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‘A Kick in the Mouth’: Trump Administration Makes Staffing Cuts to CDC’s Safety Office Months After Shooting

The cuts were made to an office whose role includes providing mental health support for employees affected by the August shooting at CDC headquarters.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16h

He means that it felt threatening to his “chaste eyes, no porn” pact with his kid, right?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 18h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h

Welp.

Insurance commissioner says Coloradans are about to make “scary” choices if Congress doesn’t act on healthcare

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