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Darin Self @darinself.com · 10h

I just want every person to consider this in its distilled form.

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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

President Trump said that he is raising tariffs on Canadian imports, citing a TV ad in the U.S. that features President Reagan criticizing tariffs. https://wapo.st/431CadI

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 11h

ABA never called me or any of my colleagues. 🤔 But we didn’t go to Harvard.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13h

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely

elly belle @literElly
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hey full offense can people from out of state stop saying they'll move to new york immediately if zohran wins? I know a lot of you are joking but people whose families have been here for generations are already constantly being priced out, we don't need more mass gentrification
11:05 AM • 10/25/25 • 69 Views

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

"reimagines"? read the book for god's sake

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

after Fetterman and Polis, it’s hard to think of a Dem politician who has torched their own career as much as Whitmer has over the past year

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 21h

This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 2d

Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 1d

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon

(Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · Sep 12

Pan's Labrador (2006)

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The Founders anticipated the possibility of a corrupt, venal, lawbreaking, wannabe monarch president.

What they did not expect is numerous people achieving prominent national office and not wanting to guard their own power. The combo of ego to run but pathetic absence of ego in office stands out.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Whoaaaaa

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe appreciation post: A Lady Playing the Piano, Sunshine in the Sitting Room, Sunlit interior with a commode, Reflections

a woman at the piano (probably Holsøe's wife) wearing a dress with lace around the shoulders and her hair up, seen from behind. there are paintings behind the piano, and on top of the piano: a Japanese figurine, vases, and candlesticks. a single candle illuminates the painting.

home interior with hardwood floor and rug in foreground, an empty chair slightly off center to the right with soft light streaming through the tall rectangular window behind the chair over it onto the floor. the window is left of center, edged with sheer white curtains. there's a mirror on the wall on the left, a painting on the wall on the right. 2 little tables with lamps, vases, candlesticks. little plants are everywhere, including on the left side of the window, on the windowsill, and hanging from the top of the window. a gold-white door is open on the far right edge of the frame.

another interior: a wall covered in gold-framed paintings, subjects blurry and unclear. a rug in the foreground, two little tables against the wall. on the right edge of the frame is a plant standing against a window covered in a sheer curtain, soft light filtering through.

Holsøe's wife sitting on front of a huge window that takes up most of the painting. she sits right of center, looking away from us, in a long white dress, her hair up. a parrot in a cage sits on top of a table behind her on the far right. the window has a short lacy curtain at the top, and it looks out onto a pure green garden full of trees. at the bottom of the window are little plants and flowers. sunlight streams through the panes of glass onto the floor at her feet.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Oct 27

Timeline cleanse

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

1) No, and …
2) … if this is the quality of education happening at Yale Law School, disaccredit that place already.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

Christ

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

www.cnn.com

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Derek Faraci @whwoolhat.bsky.social · 1d

How it started and how it ended.

Man dressed as Nazi arrested for assault in downtown Athens share.google/m0SMzbCNlWKS...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Just curious, how many units of housing are going to be in this ballroom?

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

Washington Post editorial:
In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jul 19

It's Friday night baby

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.

"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.

"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.

Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2d

btw there's that NRSC poll floating around that says voters are more likely to support Platner after hearing about his tattoo

here's how the question was phrased lol

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge for manslaughter.

A different DA then got elected and dropped it, but that was after the Ninth Circuit said he didn't have sovereign immunity and could be tried on state charges. It's a high bar to clear but it's not impossible.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t understand why our colleagues have been so reluctant to address the looming problem.”

Democrats are such cowardly little babies that they can’t just say “They don’t care.”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Shaheen: What’s ironic about this is that 57% of people who identify as MAGA Republicans benefit from those tax credits. 76% of people who receive premium tax credits are in states that Trump won. I don’t understand why our colleagues have been so reluctant to address this looming problem.