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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s the trailer for the film:

youtu.be/MOWlPV26yCk?...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink – Official Trailer

YouTube video by Stripped for Parts

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 21h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Vesperlynd24 @mws4.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

...but if you go check the video on TikTok (search the username visible on the screen and scroll through until you find the video) it also has an annotation that explains it's AI.

Screenshot that reads "contains AI-generated media"

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Ben aka The Ghost of Ryan Grubb @bseahawk14.bsky.social · 1d

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 1d

IF YOU HAVE A CLEARANCE CALL A NATSEC LAWYER BEFORE YOU CALL THE TIP LINE

My info is in my profile. Or call @bradmossesq.bsky.social if you can't reach me.

Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 1d

TO ALL FEDERAL WORKERS: if you were illegally fired today and have information of wrongdoing or abuse of power by the Trump Administration, our whistleblower tip line is open.

We want to hear from you. All whistleblowers are federally protected.

Report Potential Wrongdoing Under the Trump Administration

Whistleblowers play a vital role in helping Congress conduct our constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities. If you have knowledge of corporate or government corruption and abuses of power; insights into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates; or information regarding potential wrongdoing or waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars, your disclosure can make a difference.

oversightdemocrats.house.gov

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social · 1d

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King Mohammed VI set to speak as Gen Z protesters demand reforms in Morocco

Morocco’s elusive King Mohammed VI is inaugurating parliament in a speech with far higher stakes than his annual addresses as anti-government protests have swept the nation’s cities and questioned the...

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it also has a Sora watermark, but I didn't notice that until after figuring it out

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Have recognized two people from Twitter on Tinder and I think I'm legally obligated to throw myself into a well

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been A Week so I think we all deserve a little dose of The Goblin

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 1d

ENOUGH!!!!!!

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1d

A throughline in every federal worker I've talked to this year is how they feel like a total mark for their service and work over the years up to this point, and the ones that don't are retiring soon

“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity to the feds out there, shit's rough

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Andy Hall @maritimetexas.bsky.social · 1d

I had a chance to get in on the ground floor of inflatable frog suit futures, and I didn’t. Damn.

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Bob Hamilton @bobham.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder that China is not the “they” paying these new tariffs, we (US importers and consumers) are the “they” paying these new tariffs.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/e...

Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back | CNN Business

President Donald Trump announced he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China, on top of the 30% tariffs already in effect, starting November 1 or sooner. The threat is a massive escal...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

Live the kind of life that doesn’t make you think that not being able to hide your money is Armageddon

He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power.
The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 1d

It's not the Bonus Army.

"Washington" in that post isn't being used as the usual synecdoche for the United States government. It's literally referring to George Washington.