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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 47m

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2h

#portland #satire

SATIRICAL NEWS Man Struggling To Feed His Family Just Happy His Taxes Are Funding War on Portland, Oregon

guy laughing while holding a sack of something

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h

Useful explainer from David Conn with statements from Barrowman's comms people trying to say nothing. There will be a significant public appetite to see the pursuit of criminal charges, all the more so if the attempt to get the cash back is successfully impeded
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 2h

two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other and one of them is asking the other " where do you think we are "

ALT: two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other and one of them is asking the other " where do you think we are "

media.tenor.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 18h

Reality TV accelerates the death of human decency & empathy.
Change my mind.

TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 19h

Paramount Global is shutting down a handful of MTV channels in the United Kingdom that actually air music videos; it will keep the flagship MTV channel there, which will prioritize reality shows.

Paramount to wind down some MTV channels in United Kingdom

Paramount Global is in the process of shutting down some of its ancillary MTV-branded cable networks in the United Kingdom.

thedesk.net

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2h

@c0mmandderr

looks like he's about to float towards the scent of a freshly baked pie

cjay responds: perfect posture

trump is leaning forward like he always does - like the front of a centaur - he is in front of a crowd of magats

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2h

The comment lol

I had no Alfredo sauce so cheddar cheese use mayonnaise

pic of maybe rice and noodles covered in "alfredo sauce"

someone replies: I hope this made your credit score go down.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2h

@amandachinda_ : If a woman sleeps with 10 men she's a slut, but if a a man does it... He's??

@Alex_Houseof308 replies: Gay, he's gay

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 3h

By whom though?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine that

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 4h

this is the framing of this platforming, mainstreaming interview, featured in the new york times:

tl; dr -- are all the woke prudes making him a villain, or is he right that to make American great again, we need to bring back slavery. reasonable people can disagree (nope, they can't).

The New York Times Opinion article reads, by way of introduction:

For a long time, his style seemed like a throwback, but in 2025, he’s having a moment in the cultural spotlight. Is he just being hyped by his critics as a Trump-era villain? Or does America’s religious future really lie in a recovery of its zealous Puritan past?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3h

“You have knowledge, and I have skill, and between us we have...”
“We have the Ring of Erreth-Akbe.”
“Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust...”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

thinking about this again, and (1) a damn shame (2) really depressing and (3) Ubi probably woulda whiffed the execution

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 3h

Gay Avenue Pump Station

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 3h

The only thing they can say in their defence is that if they were actual Nazis rather than just pseudo-left anti-Semites they'd at least have got their favourite tank right.

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 4h

TBF Speer would have done a better job...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 4h

Is that MEANT to be a tiger tank?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

You know what will definitely fix this? Some kind of idiotic stitch up to put Wes Streeting into Number 10

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

As far as music is concerned, Jim's taste runs largely to the less fey part of the psychedelic movement, tortured singer-songwriters and the more mellow side of stoner rock. He enjoys jazz, but finds most LPs in the genre made between 1967 and 1972 "too hectic".

Jim with Kak's phenomenal 1969 debut LP and Judee Sill's second LP.

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 4h

He actually has been sent to a farm upstate?

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