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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6h

Listen idk if it's going to break through at all, but if I were the media and the literal POPE was lecturing me for being a lying piece of shit, I may look in the mirror for a moment.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 8h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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kc @allaganeyes.bsky.social · 6h

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 23h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · 15h

Konrad von Carstein, with a speech bubble drawn to imply he is speaking the quoted skeet

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 15h

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

Guy who's only read Orwell: This is Orwellian

Guy who's only read Dickens: It's Dickensian

Guy who's turning into a giant bug: It's Kafkaesque

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Snowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 1d

Extra transparent membrane over their eyes!

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

Again:
1) If the RIFs are illegal, "We are going to divert appropriated funds to pay Da Troops" is double mega illegal, and that actually matters.
2) The military's payment system is so baroque I'm not sure it's even possible to do this
3) They just keep blowing up their own leverage.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 1d

Sir, we’ve found the Rebel Bass

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

Since people are freaking out about this- the Democrats *are* Doing Things, people are fighting back, society is still mobilized, this site will not prioritize telling you this because keeping you in a permanent state of pants-shitting is how a lot of people make money.

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

Just to make sure we're all on the same page- the Democrats *are*, in fact, pushing for the prosecution of anybody who assists Trump and Vought in their illegal RIFs:

democrats-budget.house.gov

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing a lot of folks being shocked by this but this is just a training agreement. Mountain Home is a major F-15 base & the Qatari air force just bought a bunch. This is pretty common, Norway & the UAE both have facilities in AZ for flight training.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 1d

Salesforce paid to relocate a coworker out of Texas after the abortion ban, these guys are stewing in some really rancid group chats I guess

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 2d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

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

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 2d

looks like it went great

picture of trump half-assedly waving with a dejected look on his face. Caption reads President Trump Returns To The White House
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House following a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump traveled to Walter Reed to visit with troops and receive a medical check up. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

"We have to let the voters touch the stove!"

"No! We have to deliver results on healthcare!"

This is what is going through the minds of the people you are trying to strategize around: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtL_...

Patrick on a seahorse listening to fly me to the moon

YouTube video by SystemFormat

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2d

Bert Guy, Junior

Eric Teusink @ericteusink.bsky.social · 2d

A sitting judge, who also serves as a lobbyist for judges, and former Secretary of the Republican Party of Georgia, got a DUI when he hit another car with his Mercedes at Wacko’s Gentlemen’s Club in Jacksonville.

The levels of Georgia are off the chart.

Georgia judge charged with DUI after parking lot incident at Jacksonville strip club

Bert Guy Jr., president of Georgia’s Council of Superior Court Judges, was charged with DUI from an incident in the parking lot of a Jacksonville strip club, authorities said.

www.ajc.com

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Snowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 2d

Ominous

a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 2d

The wizard unlocks a desk drawer and opens it, slowly, revealing a silk-wrapped dagger. He swallows and unwraps it, touching it with a single finger. The jewel in the pommel glows gently and he carefully rewraps it, then leans back in his chair with his eyes closed, taking slow, calming breaths.

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Snowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 2d

You're lucky you have a CEO who remembers to use one!

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