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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1h

Content creators who exploit oppression to create AI videos and promote themselves are just trash.

Generally speaking, there's no need to lie when talking about authoritarian regimes, and it's especially important not to do so. The truth must prevail.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, that happened in recent memory.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20h

I remember when the GOP & right-wing hacks accused all Muslims of being Qatari agents & anyone who worked at Al Jazeera English or AJAM of being terrorists and extremists.

So, what does that make Donald Trump, who accepted a $400 million jet from them & now is letting them build a base on US soil?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

As they should be.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22h

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S
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Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 20h

We will see you in court.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

Newsom signed SB79! So, so huge. Enormous props to all the people who worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen, above all @scottwiener.bsky.social. It's going to change California, and the country.

Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Landmark Law To Build More Homes Near Public Transit

Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

sd11.senate.ca.gov

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 19h

To be fair, it’s possible they thought Alfred Nobel established the prize to celebrate the use of explosives.

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 19h

Why are they spending money on this? Such narcissism!

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 19h

Petty garbage www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 19h

Wild bird populations would be severely affected. This would be ecological malpractice.

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 19h

What a lovely poem. Thank you

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

JUST IN: The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It’s not clear how many workers are affected.

White House says 'substantial' layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details

The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It’s not clear how many workers are affected.

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 20h

Aw, man. Time is a terrible thing

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Todd Stashwick @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social · 21h

If you love, Dungeons & Dragons, if you love Star Trek, and you love helping fight, pediatric cancer this might just be for you! www.pablove.org/roll

Todd Stashwick @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social · 3d

You can be part of the game! Join me and some of my Star Trek family as we play #Dungeons&Dragons to fight childhood cancer with the Pablove Foundation on Nov 9th. Go to www.pablove.org/roll to donate and enter to be one of two players at a virtual table with these amazing folks. Go now!

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 21h

So grateful to @ctsalazar.bsky.social for vouching for Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best.
If you're disposed to take his word for things, as I am, please pre-order (or nudge your buddies).
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/7HFw4ReVpSr6...

cover of Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, featuring Joseph Cornell's L'Humeur Vagabonde, a 4 by 4 shelf with glass & cardboard & seashell curiosities.

Endorsement of Oddest & Oldest & Safest & Best by C.T. Salazar, also in more accessible version here:
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books https://share.google/7HFw4ReVpSr6yUgke

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you, Donald Trump, for allowing Muslims to take over America.

We appreciate it. You have helped us skip 7 steps in the Muslim Plan.

Enjoy your jet :)

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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 21h

We're now accepting longform poetry in addition to prose for our fall issues! We define longform poetry as a single long poem, variations on the epic poem, or a sequential poem such as a crown of sonnets or numbered series. Find out more and submit by November 15: https://pshares.org/submit/journal/

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 22h

The rare still fee-free submission opportunity, opening 1 November (@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social)

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 23h

Authors, start your engines!

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22h

I know we all think of George W. Bush as ancient history, now that news cycles last mere minutes.

But George W. Bush is still the immediately preceding Republican administration to Trump’s. Trump is Bush’s immediate Republican successor.

This was no evolution.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22h

The direct descendant of George W. bush’s “either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists” rhetoric, in case you thought he was blameless because he’s retired into painting and silence, or you thought the Cheneys were good now because it has come back to bite them, personally, in the ass.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h

No Kings is Hamas is quite a claim to make. I mean, we knew this was coming, but it’s still shocking to hear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23h

hey um @democrats.org you need to make noise about this asap

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23h

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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