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Lee Richardson
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It’s a beautiful day in Cape Town ☀️ See for yourself! https://tablemountain.panomax.com/ ~ They’re both still alive 🫩
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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 16h
terminator 2 movie woman holding military style rifle with silencer and scope dressed in all black at night under plant shadows looking focused.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 18h
One of the new members of the Pentagon press corps has collaborated with neo-Nazis and spread Russian misinformation on multiple occasions. He also wrote a book about crushing the left that bears very eerie parallels to overt white supremacist literature that World War II-era Nazis praised.
hannahgais.bsky.social hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · Feb 6
I wrote about Jack Posobiec, the intellectual emptiness of the pro-Trump right, and their bizarre—and disingenuous—attempts to co-opt white nationalist thought.

My latest for @thebaffler.com: thebaffler.com/latest/unhum...
Unhuman Resources | Hannah Gais
Jack Posobiec’s career exemplifies how the Republican Party has leveraged a network of influencers to appeal to the far right.
thebaffler.com
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Lee Richardson @leeincapetown.bsky.social · 15h
He’s the prison ball-and-chain that’s surely going to drown the company. I don’t get it AT ALL
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Lee Richardson @leeincapetown.bsky.social · 15h
The system was really only honour-based. Unprepared, toothless and cowardly in the face of dishonour. It’s delicate existence was a symptom of its naïveté
katieharbath.bsky.social Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 17h
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19h
All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20h
Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.

The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.

Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19h
Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court, and MORE in today's newsletter
Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon
+ Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, and inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court
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xsfleabaggage.bsky.social @xsfleabaggage.bsky.social · 16h
Living the van life across Europe and North Africa,
I get to see a LOT of Tick Tock couples.
Park up, 1 hour setting food table, 1 hour rehearsing spontaneous hilarity, evening spent staring at phones farming likes. 6:30 am packed and moved on
They are more on the clock than an office worker lol
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 20h
We are going to try and launch something that operates on 5000 dogs and stops 100,000 dogs being born into suffering.

We've shared budgets, planning, targets and data here.

Hopefully will be able to pull off the impossible!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rqZ...
Insane 30 Day Marathon Challenge for Street Dogs in Thailand
YouTube video by Happy Doggo
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d
It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 23h
That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d
A new free piece released. The Trump "harsh" sanctions on Russia last night were anything but. They actually provide protection for Russia's biggest oil customers to transact business for at least the next 4 weeks--and have no automatic sanction after that. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The New US Sanctions Move Actually Protects Russia For Now
Think Four Weeks, Not Two
open.substack.com
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thepokeuk.bsky.social @thepokeuk.bsky.social · 1d
This influencer launched ‘Hot Girls for Cuomo’ without buying the URL, and whoever bagged it and turned it into a list of Cuomo allegations – take the rest of the week off.
www.thepoke.com/2025/10/23/i...
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 2d
"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds."

A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow.

youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...
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Lee Richardson @leeincapetown.bsky.social · 1d
The damage this bridge troll has wrought on the US..
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d
US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
www.independent.co.uk
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d
I thought we nuked our own government, ended science, and left millions of people around the world to suffer & starve for “efficiency”?

Oh right, that was some BS cover for just spending however the president wants outside the law. Got it.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d
Genuine Democratic outrage at real scandals never gets the press saturation of performative Republican outrage at fake scandals.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
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Lee Richardson @leeincapetown.bsky.social · 1d
I’m pretty sure he could bulldoze the whole entire White House without pushback or consequence. The 4th estate is bought and paid for
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d
Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing

The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
Polluting and costly: growing gap between PHEV claims and reality The gap between real world and official PHEV emissions is widening WLTP emissions Real-world emissions PHEV models emissions gCO2/km 2021 50 35 0 38 3.5 times 134 2022 33 4 times 137 2023 28 5 times 100 120 139 140 In the real world, PHEVs have similar emissions than conventional hybrids and combustion vehicles WLTP emissions Real-world emissions 150 139 135 166 100 PHEV ICE and HEV PHEV ICE and HEV +500€ 0 20 40 60 80 PHEVs operating cost are 500€ larger than what carmakers data suggest Source: T&E analysis of 2021-22-23 OBFCM data collected by the European Environment Agency, EEA car registrations 2021-23, EAFO, Weekly Oil Bulletin T&E
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings

But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d
Licensed hair stylists receive more training than most law enforcement officers. Yet, when they make a mistake, you only get a bad haircut. When law enforcement officers make a mistake, someone gets shot.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace

"After discovering — too late! — that you have to tell reporters beforehand if you want conversations to be off the record, Halligan now finds herself attempting to prosecute 2 high profile cases on the 'rocket docket.' It’s not going well."
Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace
She's bad at media, and even worse at law.
www.publicnotice.co
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d
Mamdani hasn’t been elected yet and he’s already driving criminals out of New York.
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