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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 4h

Oh

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine that

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 19h

Don’t you dare ruin their prom. Where will they going to get photos of themselves delivering wisdom on a panel? Where else will journalists flirt with PAOs and swing helicopter rides? Dudes have job interviews and mistresses lines up! Now they have to wait until Army-Navy for their next prom!

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

What??! Why?!

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US Army accepting roughly $1 million donation to bring senior leaders to DC conference as troops brace for missed paycheck | CNN Politics

The US Army is accepting a donation of roughly $1 million for the travel and lodging of senior leaders to a professional development conference in Washington, DC, next week, as active duty forces are ...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

Oh my God there are some absolutely incredible lines in here

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h

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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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 5h

Every now & then, you realize MAGAs don't understand that the entire world hates their fucking guts. I don't want to hear the anthem these days & i live here.

Wrestling Mike Check - WWE, AEW, TNA, Wrestling News @wrestlingmikecheck.bsky.social · 7h

Crown Jewel event held at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, the local crowd reportedly booed during the national anthem. The unplanned reaction added tension to the atmosphere before the show began

#CrownJewel #WWE #NationalAnthem #Perth #WrestlingNews

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

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...

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 4h

i don't think this guy can be humiliated more than he's already humiliated himself. I mean this is a speech that the TEAM released: www.tiktok.com/@cbssports/v...

“You have fire in your gut?” #nflfootball #nfltiktok #nfl

TikTok video by CBS Sports

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21h

Trump is feeling impotent after a bunch of court loses and the sting of the missed Nobel Prize. So he is back at tariffs which give him the power trip he craves.

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 22h

a group of people are clapping their hands in a crowd .

ALT: a group of people are clapping their hands in a crowd .

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 22h

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22h

Healthy people don't like it. There's depressingly large subset of the population that gets aroused watching men in uniforms brutalizing civilians on trivial pretexts.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 22h

People see masked ICE thugs physically abusing and arresting normies, and they do not like it. Consequences are going to follow. It's just a matter of time.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Michelle Obama telling everyone she's been communicating with Osama Bin Laden

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

You're never going to believe this, but the Trump administration's claim that assaults on ICE officers have gone up 1,000% turns out to be bullshit

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

www.npr.org

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Cool system.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Worth emphasizing that there are serious questions about whether or not Lindsey Halligan is even legally in her job

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

Carr has been demolishing media consolidation limits, consumer protections, and corporate oversight and pretending it's improved government efficiency

it's pure regulatory capture and corruption, but outside of places like the Ars and The Verge, most outlets parrot his efficiency framing

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 1d

Should note that this was brought by Trump's personal attorney, since the career Federal prosecutor resigned after no evidence was found. abcnews.go.com/US/us-attorn...

US attorney resigns amid pressure from Trump after sources say he refused to charge NY AG Letitia James

U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert resigned his position Friday amid pressure from President Trump after sources said he refused to bring charges against NY AG Letitia James.

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 2d

old enough to remember a mini cultural freakout about supposed anti-Semitism when high school kids laughed during Schindler's List

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 2d

This is 99% of video games

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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