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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 1d

Yo this is wild AF

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the news report on the president's greasy little grift as a customer satisfaction story and not, you know, This is Deeply Unconstitutional and Also Fucking Embarrassing as Hell

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 20h

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20h

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

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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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

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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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 1d

I'll try to contain my amazement that she centered herself and made herself the victim.

Jenn Budd crashing out because she was called out on posting AI

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Kamuka @kamuka.bsky.social · 10h

Federal Agents May Face Charges After Violent Arrest of WGN Journalist in Chicago in Violation of Court Order mhtntimes.com/articles/fed...

Federal Agents May Face Charges After Violent Arrest of WGN Journalist in Chicago in Violation of Court Order

A viral video showing federal agents violently arresting WGN producer Debbie Brockman in Chicago may violate a court order protecting journalists, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns.

mhtntimes.com

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 3d

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*.

yeGADS

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A white dwarf may have been torn to shreds by a black hole

Just writing that sentence made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

badastronomy.beehiiv.com

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12h

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 8h

😭

Is Matthew McConaughey friends with Jared Leto?

Didn't get along with Leto: McConaughey - IMDb.
Los Angeles, Feb 23: Actor Matthew
McConaughey says he did not get along with his "Dallas Buyers Club" co-actor Jared Leto.
Much like the first half of the movie, where McConaughey's character hates Leto's character, the two actors don't really care for each in real life.

Did Denzel Washington and Jared Leto
get along?

Leto and Washington didn't make nice off - camera. Director John Lee Hancock says the first time the two laid eyes on each other in "Little Things" was in costume for a night scene where Deacon suspiciously checks out Sparma's car.
The coolness helped keep the screen tension. " I stayed away from him. 26 Jan 2021

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 8h

The former Armstrong Rubber Company building in New Haven, Connecticut, was designed by architect Marcel Breuer. Completed in 1970. r/brutalism

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 14h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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The Card @thecard.bsky.social · 1d

Feeing angry about feeling sad, and feeing sad about feeling angry.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 4d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 4d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 11h

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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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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