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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1h

What you gotta understand about the lawsuit attack was that it was only a sophisticated master plan in the sense that a squirrel has a sophisticated master plan to get into the bird feeder

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8h

Peter Thiel turning out to be this stupid honestly messes with my idea of him as the eminence grise behind the Gawker lawsuit, maybe Hogan pitched him on it and kept having to explain like “a lawsuit is like when they blew up the Death Star brother”

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 7h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 4h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 3h

Well, that’s how you spell “holocaust” in Arabic I guess so I think should be my cue to stop scrolling for a bit

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 10h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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Richard @sirlariato.bsky.social · 4h

Literally cannot remember the last time a software update added anything actually useful, same goes for Windows; here's some AI bullshit you didn't ask for and, as a lil' extra treat, we've reset all your file associations again!! Isn't that great? Isn't the future great?!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 4h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 6h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 5h

Is it still a thing where PG-13 movies are allowed just one? Because this would be a good use

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

i believe i said "fuck" on a comic con stage for the first time today.

the full quote:

"Fuck 'A.i.'"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 5h

No honey, we criticize you for free because you lie.

From MAHA Action, "Dr. Eric Berg just REVEALED the real reason behind the sudden wave of anti-RFK Jr. and MAHA content online.

Big Pharma is literally paying influencers $1,000 per post to attack the MAHA movement.

(Video from MAHA ACTION Weekly Media Hub)"

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 5h

Man, if I was just going to be completely useless for a Sunday afternoon I should have at least gotten high

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

any cop who walks because mamdani gets elected is almost certainly a cop who fears accountability and should never have been hired in the first place

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

I have been working on and writing about civilian drone regulations for a long time, and I have learned many people genuinely have *no clue* that stuff like “shining lasers at aircraft” is incredibly illegal and dangerous.

Which is why I think it’s very important to repeatedly explain this stuff.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 5h

This is also one of those, if someone is suggesting you or your group do this, and might even have some lasers... He's probably a fed.

And if someone in a group starts doing this, probably a time to leave the area.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t like the set of feelings I got reading this post. It’s a real chaotic pile and pretty much all bad but from several different direction. Just “this sucks, in many ways”

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 8h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

Shining lasers into the air also forces aircraft doing stuff like “life saving medical flights” to land, which is a great way to lose popular support for your activism. Don’t fucking do this.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5h

It is wrong and so freaking stupid. It's impacting hospital care (causing helicopters to have to land an hour away instead of at hospital which is near ICE facility) and the type of thing which will turn people against the protestors. www.kgw.com/article/news...

OHSU says emergency flights will be diverted amid 'laser party' aimed at helicopters circling over Portland ICE facility

A "laser party" for those frustrated with helicopters' nightly flights over the South Portland area can have dangerous consequences for patients, OHSU warned.

www.kgw.com

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 5h

Me, from episode 02 going “You could have just used a real dog and it would be better” and now wondering if the show heard me

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · Aug 16

I kept thinking I would be more worried if they just had a very large practical dog in the scene. The GoT direwolves were more threatening

And there are other (non-franchise) VFX aliens in show and they work. The mega ticks and the terroroculus thing are upsetting

The Alien is almost comical

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 6h

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 7h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

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‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com

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