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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4m

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 1d

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 22h

this made me giggle

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 22h

totally normal free world democracy shit

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 1d

(Buying a hot dog at the beach and releasing it into the ocean) Go on little one, you're free now

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 3d

danny nett (@dannynett) on twitter: "friendly reminder that planet earth is a dense molten core encased in a layer of solids and therefore is, technically speaking, a ravioli"

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 23h

wourds

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 23h

Methinks Cuomo may not have experienced the bus ride to LGA

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 23h

Look at these fucking assholes behind him. Every one of them knows he sounds absolutely bat shit. They’re just huffing farts back there and pretending to love it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 23h

Interested to know what level of income is the threshold to becoming a fuckin ghoul

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 23h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

they’re playing red hot chili peppers

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

I’m at the grocery store if you even care

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

What’s wild is that this kind of interoperability and coordination is typically a gargantuan effort that most companies struggle (unsuccessfully) with. But when it comes to mass, anti democratic surveillance, the industry somehow manages to overcome all the obstacles

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 15d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason to mask at protests, aside from COVID safety and protection from doxxing, is that a lot of responsible documenters don't want to publish protesters' faces (esp without their consent) right now. Your face being in a shot may prevent people from sharing a worthwhile image publicly.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 1d

Sonia is one of the countless small business owners who get insurance on the exchange. If Congress doesn’t extend critical healthcare tax credits, staying covered could become out of reach for Sonia. Republicans need to end the shutdown and keep Texans insured.

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Mioglaši @igmucikala.bsky.social · 1d

Having been & loving those who are:

The choices are systemic.

Even when a person “chooses” to be homeless, it’s between that and somehow worse alternatives where they might be actively abused or worse. No one actually wants to live in the elements unprotected, no kitchen, no bed, no bathroom etc.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

fwiw it’s tough to see where this one ranks on the list of Trump related embarrassments

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, so embarrassing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS could still declare emergency tariffs illegal — which would be a fun cherry on this sundae. 🍨

Barchart @barchart.com · 1d

BREAKING 🚨: Stock Market

We got rugged 📉📉

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

get the word out - we taking back the frogs

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 1d

privacy policies aren't real and that everyone is just playing with and selling our data constantly.

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