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Ducky needs a hug 🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 17h

A comparative breakdown of professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino and all around piece of shit Christopher Columbus

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 15h

I've never seen this before - but this image makes me sick to my stomach. Jeez.

Poors, watch out! Gavin Newsom’s on a homeless hunt with a trash bag and TV crew | Opinion

California governor Gavin Newsom spent Thursday raiding tents at a homeless camp in the San Fernando Valley for the benefit of television cameras.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 15h

me too, and my dachshund

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15h

I think this from @donmoyn.bsky.social is essential reading for the moment. I’d emphasize that the staggering process he describes doesn’t end with the assault on immigrants. It’s about creating an armed force loyal to nobody but Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 15h

new fear unlocked

Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 15h

A 76-year-old woman in NYC is sliced apart and killed by a 7-foot solar panel that came loose due to poor installation and strong winds as the East Coast is battered by a powerful nor'easter.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 16h

Good for this veteran.

Are you prepared to do what he did? He stopped this man from being tased, at least. That’s something.

Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 19h

If you are an American citizen, you should be very concerned about what ICE is doing.

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 17h

me, watching an auto oriented business on a transit corridor close

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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 18h

No amount of money or power can stop your last words from being "check this shit out"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

Doug Lebda, the chief executive and chairman of LendingTree, an online loans marketplace, died on Sunday following an all-terrain vehicle accident on his family’s North Carolina farm, according to a company spokeswoman. He was 55.

Doug Lebda, LendingTree C.E.O. and Founder, Dies in ATV Accident

LendingTree named its chief operating officer, Scott Peyree, as its new chief executive.

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Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social · 17h

It’s Jimmy and the Jaywalkers’ first music video, accompanying the hit, “You Never See a Mayor on a Subway”! Will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social break the mold?: youtu.be/4mZA_TzX9Wo

Jimmy and the Jaywalkers: "You Never See A Mayor On A Subway"

YouTube video by Gersh Kuntzman

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 19h

never heard of this guy before but he kinda looks like an asshole roommate I once had

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 19h

lotta good stuff in the cheap bins in BK, our neighbors seem to only like "cool" stuff.

OTOH last time I went to Rebel Rouser, I didn't even make it to the Rock section and I had to tap out cuz I had already selected $100 of records. Like I had to make myself leave.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 19h

hell yeah! @hollyanderson.bsky.social let's keep hoping we get Belichick at UNC for another year

Keeping It Heel @keepingitheel.bsky.social · 19h

"Categorically False."

Bill Belichick firmly denied the rumors of his potential departure from UNC during his Monday morning press conference. ⬇️

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI, and you did, because there is a wildly different standard for how news that might hurt Cuomo or Sliwa is reported and followed up on

“We don’t know what her relationship will be with a Muslim mayor” wtaf

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 1d

🚨breaking: former NYPD commissioner is an unapologetic 200-proof Islamophobe

"She's doing a great job and l'd certainly like to see her

stay in the department as a commissioner. But we don't

know what her relationship will be with a socialist mayor, a

Muslim mayor. We just don't know," Kelly said.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

we never doubted his COMMITMENT, we doubted his ABILITY

David Malandra Jr @davemreports.bsky.social · 20h

#PennState AD Pat Kraft about Injury to Drew Allar

"Anyone who every doubted that young man's commitment to Penn State and Penn State football, you don't know what the hell you're talking about"

#WeAre

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

lol Donald Trump displaying more empathy for Palestinians than some of my own relatives

(to be clear, he is acting, he doesn't care about other people anyway, Palestinian, Israeli, American, whatever)

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Trump: "I am looking at the faces of the people. Those are people like you and I and they are people that look so fantastic. And they're walking back to a house that's demolished... I saw good people."

Fox News: "Will they be able to stay in Gaza?"

Trump: "I think so. I hope so."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 20h

It’s cool that the most evil man in the world can at least perform more empathy than John Fetterman

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Trump: "I am looking at the faces of the people. Those are people like you and I and they are people that look so fantastic. And they're walking back to a house that's demolished... I saw good people."

Fox News: "Will they be able to stay in Gaza?"

Trump: "I think so. I hope so."

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

Donald Trump is at the head of an international child trafficking network. Republicans recently voted to give $80b to further their child trafficking efforts.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Garibaldi day to all who celebrate

Giuseppe Garibaldi, founding father of modern Italy. Leftist revolutionary. Presented here with sword and flag in hand after landing on a beach. In the background there are ships and the silhouettes of soldiers.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

he's very handsome!

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

I missed this the other day - so Russia admitted to downing one of the civilian airliners they've downed since 2010? (it's been multiple, that tends to happen when a state is a violent criminal regime)

Putin says Russian air defenses responsible for Azerbaijani jet’s crash last year, killing 38 | CNN

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the cras...

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 2d

There’s really nothing else to conclude except that in order to be able to keep the National Guard out — whether his motives are selfish or he genuinely believes that would be catastrophic — Pritzker is throwing both protesters AND the people ICE is targeting under the bus.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

there's lots of good ideas on policies that Dems could propose.

Too bad the Congressional Dems are led by two lazy right wingers who hate thinking of or enacting policy, and really only care to make speeches about how cool Israel is, everything else is too hard for them. And too left-wing.

'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 20h

most elected Dems (and GOP, of course) would oppose this unfortunately. I'm sure voters would support it across the board (until RW propaganda machine says otherwise then the 30% of idiots would follow them per usual)

Darin Self @darinself.com · 21h

I am curious what would happen if Dems ran on a plank of creating an anti-corruption agency with stronger independence than the Fed.

I think it would be highly successful because it would show "we will tie our own hands on this".

Darin Self @darinself.com · 21h

One lesson for pro-democracy advocates currently sitting in opposition around the world -- hammer incumbents on corruption and link strengthening liberal democracy (aka accountability) to anti-corruption efforts.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 21h

I am curious what would happen if Dems ran on a plank of creating an anti-corruption agency with stronger independence than the Fed.

I think it would be highly successful because it would show "we will tie our own hands on this".

Darin Self @darinself.com · 21h

One lesson for pro-democracy advocates currently sitting in opposition around the world -- hammer incumbents on corruption and link strengthening liberal democracy (aka accountability) to anti-corruption efforts.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

This is what I pay the New York Times for: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
[Gift link]

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