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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 7h

1 year anniversary of this beauty

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 23h

suddenly thinking about a december message blitz from RFK, the NIH and the administration like, "this christmas, get your family the marburg virus. it literally makes you invincible"

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit i flew over it as it happened!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

The teams have stopped play and have joined each other on the field to sing Christmas carols

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1d

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

baseball is designed to make its fans feel like shit and that is what's good about it

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Glad that NYT went to some of the smartest, most clued in experts, @whitneyphillips.bsky.social who is the bomb when it comes to abusive internetting, and @shannimcg.bsky.social an expert in media and social media in politics.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with ones native to the internet while also controlling the political narrative.

Trump’s Aides and Officials Take Political Battles Online

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.

nyti.ms

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Our greatest crusader against cancel culture, Bari Weiss, will surely address this outrage with the full force of CBS News

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The preferences, they have been revealed

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll read all of them carefully and hold them in the strictest of confidence" = I will run them through chatGPT and ask the AI to pick 20% of the staff to lay off

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 1d

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson Confesses that Protests Are Getting to Him, Lying About Protestors No Longer Enough

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how embarrassing changes like this are going to look in 3-5 years

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

it is wild how much congressional republicans hate american people and how legacy media refuses to acknowledge that fact

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Tactical special ops frogs. Battletoads, if you will

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Yes nyupress.org/978147983579...

Party at the Ballot Box

How the Party at the Mailbox efforts in 2020-2024 led by Black Girls Vote used celebrations of community to increase voter turnoutBlack voters continue to tr...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

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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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 1d

guys can we do frogs everywhere? please i need a frog uprising

you know…before we croak

we need a jump in activism

a ribbit revolution

vive les grenouilles libres!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up

It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

www.oregonlive.com

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 1d

note the antisemitism of their continued use of Soros as Emmanuel Goldstein

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Is "American Smeagol" a good nickname or maybe too insulting to Gollum?

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

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