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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1h

Contains Al-generated media
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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Everything is Al generated these days. It doesn't mean it's fake. I'm still not convinced.

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wikihowtologout.bsky.social @wikihowtol... • 6h
Get a grip. Three arms and a watermark telling you it's Al and you are still doubling down?

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Well if it's Al, it's at least true. They ARE arresting journalists. Compare that to Trump's lying record. This doesn't hold a candle to that.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

A lot of the blame here falls on the Democratic Party, which is (to use a technical term) mad up of pathetic lily-livered cowards who tremble uncontrollably in fear at the idea of any kind of public confrontation with the Trump administration on any issue beyond a self-selected Dull Policy Dispute.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 10h

"Laura described the blocker ban as ‘forced detransition’ and ‘inhumane’. The impact of the ban on her child has been severe."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21h

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 21h

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 7h

One user on Facebook asked Alexandra how she liked an Italian restaurant across the street from where she lives in New York City, a sign that someone had tracked down her address and possibly other personal information.

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

www.npr.org

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

Weird right wing people are not interesting because they’re mainly just stupid or racist. Weird left wing people are insane in interesting ways. This is why we will wins

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 15h

one thing that's funny is the weirdo canadians/nazis on x the everything app increasingly have to monitor this place to get their rage fix now. you won! enjoy your cool app with your cool friends

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

The most interesting insane deranged right wing discourse you get is like “are Finns just snow Jews?” meanwhile “does ACAB include Ms.Frizzle?” is like a replacement level topic in lefty circles

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 15h

if he dies in the next week jd vance is gonna fuck our shit up

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15h

This is fascinating because the subtext of playing this at the airport is "we've fully consolidated power and your oppressed ass just has to take it" but the text that it's directly in conflict with is "we're powerless in the face of the minority party"

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 15h

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 16h

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2d

At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 16h

I was on two gummies when I read this and I nearly shit myself

NPR @npr.org · 23h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"Depicting Kendrick Lamar playing hopscotch while singing the 'A-minor' lyric is not suggestive of objective reporting."

The figurative imagery accompanying the music video also constitutes protected opinion. Plaintiff alleges, for example, that the “Video depicts a prolonged shot of a live owl in a cage,” projecting the message that “Drake belongs behind bars.” Am. Compl. ¶ 110. An image of a caged owl cannot reasonably be understood to convey a factual message. Similarly, depicting Kendrick Lamar playing hopscotch while singing the “A-minor” lyric is not suggestive of objective reporting. Id. ¶ 107.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"No reasonable person would view the ["Not Like Us" cover art] and believe that in fact law enforcement had designated thirteen residents in Drake’s home as sex offenders."

To the extent that Plaintiff alleges that the Image and Video are independently actionable, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 7, 8, 65-66, 105-112, the Court holds that they too constitute opinion. The Image is the album cover art for “Not Like Us.” It thus shares the same overall context as the Recording itself. The Image is “designed to reinforce” the message of the Recording. Am. Compl., ¶ 7. And as the Court has already found, that message is protected opinion. Additionally, the Image itself, with its overlay of more than a dozen sex offender markers, is obviously exaggerated and doctored. No reasonable person would view the Image and believe that in fact law enforcement had designated thirteen residents in Drake’s home as sex offenders.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 19h

did you ask her about her first job working for Tucker Carlson where she wrote about, among other things, ranking Syrian refugees by how hot they were

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

Just wrapped a great conversation with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social. Watch tonight at 9pm on @cnn.com.

Zohran and Kaitlan Collins on set at CNN sitting next to each other and smiling.

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 20h

jingle all the way 2025 remake gonna be crazy

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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