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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 4h

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

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

sting? fucking STING? who in 2025 wants to see solo sting? this has to be a joke

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

NFL Succumbs To Bad Bunny Criticism And Announces Special Super Bowl Concert With Sting

In an unexpected bid to calm the frenzy over Bad Bunny headlining the 2026 Super Bowl show, the NFL has introduced a special feature.

www.yahoo.com

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Congressman Dwight Evans @repdwightevans.bsky.social · 1h

“Funds are available for [SNAP] program operations even in the event of a government shutdown"- This was DIRECTLY from Trump's USDA- but they deleted it from the website.

Trump isn't trying to “mitigate harm.” He's illegally choosing not to pay November SNAP benefits & covering it up!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: In the last Trump shutdown, he made sure SNAP benefits went out. Why do you think he shouldn't do that this time?

MIKE JOHNSON: The president has done exactly what he did in the first term, and that is bend over backward to make sure we mitigate the harm. The money doesn't exist to do it.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14h

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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Mark Pullen @mlpullen.bsky.social · 14h

I feel the same way about our collective reaction to the crash of 2008.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 15h

Bondi's DOJ:

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons in court, angrily declaring "I should be able to run over as many kids as I want!"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

hmm really not a good time psychologically to be reading “nuclear war: a scenario”

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16h

Damn it, he's gotten around to nuclear weapons.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So, an "equal basis" of testing nuclear weapons with Russia and China is probably about what we're doing now with some advantages (eg, access to fusion burn)...

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Trump directs Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing US nuclear weapons

US president references China and Russia in Truth Social post shortly before meeting with President Xi Jinping

www.theguardian.com

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Chellybreeze @chellybreeze.bsky.social · 1d

A sitting president opening a betting market on his own website taking bets on things he influences.
Wild times.

mfjeeb.bsky.social @mfjeeb.bsky.social · 1d

"Truth Social users will be able to trade prediction contracts related to major events and milestones, such as political elections, interest and inflation rate changes, commodity prices on gold and crude oil, events across all major sports leagues"

What the bloody hell?

crypto.com/us/company-n...

Truth Social to Become World’s First Social Media Platform Offering Prediction Markets via Exclusive Partnership with Crypto.com

Trump Media Expansion Now Includes Strategic Push into Prediction Markets

crypto.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when certain people were really weird about how Obama pronounced Pakistan. The right-wing urge to crudely mispronounce the names of countries and people they look down on continues apace.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana
Studies Major at Bowdoin
The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.
Listen to this article • 12:37 min Learn more

By Jeremy W. Peters
Oct. 28, 2025
Updated 3:17 p.m. ET
It wasn't so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it.
"We're going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!" the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary.
Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation's name "AH-ee-tee" - near-perfect Creole elocution.
"When I heard him say that, I smiled," recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani's former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani's reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti's status as the first republic founded by former slaves.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 1d

Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.

Read more:

The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world | PNAS

Global warming increases available sensible and latent heat energy, increasing the thermodynamic potential wind intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs...

www.pnas.org

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 2d

THE ORGANIST IS PLAYING NEVERENDING STORY

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Dan Casey @dancasey.bsky.social · 2d

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2d

They’re cooking over on /r/baseball right now

Can a Dodgers hitter just charge the mound to start a brawl and end the game for them?

A Dodgers batter charges the mound after the Blue Jays have used all their pinch hitters and pitchers. If they get enough people ejected by starting a brawl the game is over and the Dodgers win.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

This is brutal, and Amazon is making *$86 BILLION* this year — with $20 billion of that in profit. This may well be the first domino that reveals what so many already know, which is that everyone but the wealthy are already in a recession. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

Who knew witnessing a murder could make you laugh

AOC to Riley Gaines: Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2d

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Gaines: I want to challenge AOC to a debate.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

nude is a curious pant color for a contact sport

New Steelers uniform. It shows a yellow top with black stripes and nude colored pants. Also a yellow helmet with black stripes.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

COWARDS.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s orders unnerved many in the industry and appear to have discouraged some large firms from taking on cases they would otherwise have backed, lawyers say. That has dried up a formerly reliable supply of help from large law offices for people and institutions challenging government policies.

The American Bar Association, which joined or filed four lawsuits against the Trump administration, “has experienced difficulty finding previously willing law firms to represent it,” its attorneys wrote in court papers. In one case, the organization said, it was unable to join a lawsuit challenging the administration because it could not get attorneys in time.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 3d

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Mark Pullen @mlpullen.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

complete batshit insanity

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

complete batshit insanity

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

1) "The govt is inventing exigencies that do not exist to justify its actions."

2) "The govt is perpetrating extreme violence against peaceful and innocent American civilians in order to provoke a reaction ... [to use] as an after-the-fact justification for the violence it has already used."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d

Lawyers in the case before Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago respond today to this DHS statement about Greg Bovino’s use of tear gas:

“The statement is a lie,” they say.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.

(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

What’s worse, the NBA Players cheating at cards, and probably much else, or the Democrats cheating on Elections. The 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen, is a far bigger SCANDAL. Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our “President!” We now know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much “gusto” as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history! If not, it will happen again, including the upcoming Midterms. No mail-in or “Early” Voting, Yes to Voter ID! Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop Vote is! Millions of Ballots being “shipped.” GET SMART REPUBLICANS, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

WELKER: Why is the president setting trade policy based on a TV ad he doesn't like?

BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops

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