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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

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a dry sunny November @beatrix.bsky.social · 6h

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1h

shit, that's top shelf bluesky

a person I do not know and really don't care to quote tweeting over a joke about a sandwich

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 2h

pro cuomo guy outside my polling site yesterday was yelling about mamdani "giving away free shit". someone said "did you go to public school" and he went apeshit and shouted "you think public school is free" and then started arguing with a delivery driver. Also he had his six year old son with him

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

Of course, this is precisely why we expect law enforcement to wear badges and uniforms and show identification. Anyone could have foreseen (and many of us did) that this would be a serious side-effect of ICE's insistence on behaving like unaccountable thugs.

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 2h

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

www.wired.com

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andré, but scarier @838carlisle.bsky.social · 1h

this is wrong, if you are in line in kentucky to vote for andrew cuomo as mayor of new york city STAY IN LINE

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 2h

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State:

"We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

About the best thing you can say that he seemed to realize what he'd done and regret it. far too little and far too late. Still more than you say of some of his fellow travelers.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

Dick Cheney had I think the arc of a lot of republican politicians of his age, in that they assumed the foundations of liberal democracy were so rock solid they could be freely fucked with to no great cost. Then woke up one day to realize all those cracks in the foundation they wedged open mattered.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1h

Texas has a special election for Sylvester Turner's seat (TX-18), a full seven months after he died, because Abbott capriciously delayed it.

A simple, long overdue reform would be for Congress to mandate by federal law how soon after a vacancy special elections have to happen.

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Disgraziato @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1h

Dick Cheney dying on the day Bill Kristol finds himself rooting for a socialist to be elected to run America's largest city is something alright

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Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · 2h

on a momentous election day i am thinking of the guy who sent this legendary wrong number text

thank you!
I have to be at 8th st and ppw at 8p so do you think you can attend 7p sharp?? The so much !!
yes absolutely! we can shift to 6:45 if that makes it easier for u
Yes. Thanks!!
Yesterday 5:24 PM
I want to suck off governor cumo and his brother too - they can both shoot their loads all over my faget face
I'm totally mortified - I'm so so so so sorry. That was to my

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 2h

Every time someone awful but really old dies, I think of Hendrik Hertzberg's flawless take on Jesse Helms:

"Far too late for it to do anybody any good, Jesse Helms has died."

www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik...

Far too late for it to do anybody any good, Jesse Helms has died. He has done so on Independence Day, which, since he was born too late to own slaves and in too liberal an age to allow him to outlaw sedition, will forever be his only resemblance to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

It is rude to speak ill of the dead. Luckily, I did so ahead of time.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 3h

I thought “huh, that license plate is clearly defaced to avoid tolls” and sure enough, on April 7th

howsmydrivingny.nyc/t98gbszk

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rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

succinct

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

unfortunately some immigration advocacy orgs (understandably) do kind of focus on expanding legal grey areas where people can remain here with sorta-kinda legit status. I think the impulse behind this is humane but it is misguided because you're one bad election away from this right now.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

my genuinely moderate position is that legal grey areas are very bad and we should minimize the number of people in them. you shouldn't be here for literal years while your status is determined, laying down roots and making a life it's traumatic to uproot you from. need quick, definitive decisions.

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 4h

i do think Dems should moderate on immigration in the sense that Dems should redesign our immigration policy to work like people think it works: you wait for a while (but not forever) to get into the country and then you wait for a while (but not forever) to become a citizen.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.

It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline titled “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition.” The subheadline reads, “More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” The article is categorized under “U.S.” and written by Pamela Paul, published on October 31, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. ET.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know any specifically, but I know most small makers will do a custom order for a reasonable rate if you contact directly.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3h

this is not what market capitalization means. what this means is that if the US did nothing else, it could produce seven or so NVIDIAs every year.

ASTRONAUTICAL @starwards.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA is now 16% of the US economy, in case you're wondering if your labor has any remaining value

The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP

With 16% of GDP riding on a single chipmaker, the U.S. economy is dangerously over-leveraged — and Wall Street is betting blind

medium.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

wasn't really an issue in the election but low key important that with spanberger as governor D.C. will be bordered by two states whose national guards are led by democrats

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

Conservatism used to be about media and political elites who were in on the joke riling up the rubes for profit but they got displaced by people who really believe the propaganda so the entire right wing now is a human centipede of guys producing and consuming the same dreck

onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

there is one of the largest mass hysterias i’ve ever witnessed in politics with people who hate zohran mamdani and it’s all going to be so much funnier when he wins

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3h

the Virginia knowers say that rural Republicans ain't voting and suburban Dems are

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slouching towards flavortown @the-casey.bsky.social · 5h

you should only be able to wear a shirt that says "girl dad" if you are both a girl *and* a dad.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Mar 25

Finally, a clothing brand for fathers who can't cheer on their kid's soccer team without being a transphobic weirdo about it.
www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 3h

If you ever stumble upon any content featuring Dave the most striking thing is that he seems 48 going on 78.

He always sounds like my grandpa getting pissed off that the local diner is charging $8 for a garbage plate now and they won't even let you smoke cigs anymore.

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