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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 2h

I just rewatched Annie Hall a week ago for the first time in years. One of the greatest performances ever put to film, full stop. RIP to one of the best.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, my sister has told me stories about parents totally losing their minds during ARDs or after they're told about a services adjustment. Like, these people are already oppressed by a system that they have to depend on for everything for their kids. These staffing cuts will NOT be well received.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4h

I am not exaggerating or being facetious in the slightest, my mom and sister are both in SpEd, and these parents are going to become dangerously radicalized to the point of real violence if services begin to falter. Schools provide *everything* for disabled kids.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4h

I said this when he was sworn in for this term, but the parents of SpEd children whose funding is at risk of cuts are 100% going to be braying for blood if and when that money disappears. This is literally a matter of life & death for them. This *absolutely* risks political violence.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4h

Every Metroidvania freak I know shares this opinion, and every normie gamer I know LOVES it, which is a very strange dynamic. It's a mv built for non-mv people, I think?

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4h

I consider myself nothing less than a Metroidvania gourmet, and I simply cannot figure out why folks are so crazy about Hollow Knight. Very, very pretty art direction & soundtrack... but srsly lackluster platforming and incredibly uneven map / level design.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

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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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 7h

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 8h

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 9h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 22h

This is extremely harsh but 100% what we all need. Yet even with this, we of proper internet-using age need SEVERE restrictions—like using desktop computers only, no phones, no laptops, and no internet after dinnertime.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Ed @ed3d.net · 23h

accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.

I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 23h

For those who don't know, soybean sales also significantly supplement those expensive-to-grow green leafy & vine-grown vegetables everyone loves, so I hope everybody is ready for every good veggie to permanently increase in price.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 23h

Very, very good chance that Trump has just permanently destroyed the second most important cash crop in the country, and nobody is going to like the downstream effects of what happens after almost a full fifth of the agriculture industry loses the only bulk buyer in the world that actually matters.

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 1d

Dawg the farmers are never exporting another soybean

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

This is like, involuntary commitment-level crazy. I don't think he's faking this at all, I legitimately believe this man needs psychiatric intervention.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Had to gift this article because it's just so batshit insane that it NEEDS to be shared. If your dad or your brother started talking like this, you'd begin the process of secretly trying to get them help—even if it's the kind of 'help' they try to refuse. Just *batshit* lunacy on display here.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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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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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

“we are reneging on previous deals you’ve made with us until you make another deal with us” wow l can’t think of any reason this strategy ain’t working

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 1d

You know, "Refusing to pay the troops, signaling that you intend to keep the government shut down indefinitely, and then trying to fight a trade war you literally cannot fight with the government shut down" is the stuff regimes do when they're pretty deep in a death spiral.

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

This is what dooms him in the end. Politics is a repeated game. Even under authoritarian conditions. People need to know that your behavior is going to be predictable in certain ways. Interests that would happily off on mass graves will eventually stop tolerating unreliability.

Steven S Smith @profstevensmith.bsky.social · 1d

Credible commitments are the essence of dealmaking. Trump & Repubs cannot make credible commitments.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2d

I did the most peaceful undertale run by not playing it

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 1d

More and more people are saying that the Dems won the shutdown AND have used it to point out that OBBB stole American healthcare in a way that broke containment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Very likely a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. Unions will act pretty much immediately in court, I would think.

Also, if I were a Congressional Republican, I would be throwing all the ketchup on all the walls. The White House is fully committed to torching all good faith negotiations.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Lolol. Trump will never learn the incredibly important life lesson that shutting the fuck up is always free. This man will 100% talk us into a Black Tuesday-level event if shit continues on like this.

spOOKY tadpole 🍄 oooOooooOoo @spacefrog.dev · 1d

oh www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/s...

Dow drops 400 points after Trump says China becoming 'hostile' over rare earth metals, cancels Xi meeting

The Trump post sparked a rapid sell-off in stocks Friday.

www.cnbc.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so funny that everything she does will leak immediately

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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