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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 2h

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 8h

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 15h

> 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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Five @5arah.com · 6h

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tacos el chismoso 𓅣 @lexaproletarian.bsky.social · 8h

ACAB includes the Salvation Army

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 9h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

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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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 10h

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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Five @5arah.com · 12h

Stay safe! Supposed to ramp up tonight/tomorrow.

Also, hope you are feeling better!

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Five @5arah.com · 13h

NYC folks stay safe. I always worry about y’all when there is big rain and storm surge.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody talks about mom when her hands rise to cover her face. Where did she go?

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15h

I’m currently at a pop culture convention with 120k+ attendees where there’s Game of Thrones stuff literally everywhere, and the Marvel TV panel was so overpacked they had to shut down the floor. But I will agree people do not talk about Succession quite as often as when it was airing every week.

Nobody really talks about Succession anymore. Or Game of Thrones. Sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Five @5arah.com · 14h

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 16h

Since some people seem to be misunderstanding things:

It's not that I can't cook from relatively scratch ingredients (flour, milk, eggs, dried beans, etc).

It's that it's not a failing to not do so every day. Which, again, is a thing that most people, even historically, didn't do either.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 1d

For any who need to hear this:

Most people, throughout history, have not had to cook every day. It's not weird to not always have the energy to do that. And when you have some but not tons of energy, a lot of packaged or frozen foods have gotten good in the past 20 years.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15h

The increasing use of AI to surveil people’s emotions endangers not only privacy but also personal autonomy—the bedrock of democracy, writes Oznur Uguz. Newly emerging AI laws fail to provide adequate safeguards, she says.

How AI-Powered Emotional Surveillance Can Threaten Personal Autonomy and Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

If we do not regulate emotional AI surveillance now, we might soon have to fake how we feel to protect our privacy, writes Oznur Uguz.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20h

"If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to 'supervision at all times,' then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, & internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity."

The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.

If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 1d

I repair rare books and last year that included some writings by Southern pastors about how to reconcile owning enslaved persons with being 'a good Christian' and woo baby there was nothing Jesus said that these guys couldn't reconcile with the right to beat enslaved people to death

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said this on here before but my “reformed” church brining this guy (Wilson) to speak in 1997 was the first massive red flag telling me I’d gotten myself into a situation I needed to get out of.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 21h

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Five @5arah.com · 1d

It is a great shirt 👍🏻👍🏻

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Five @5arah.com · 1d

10000 years dungeon to whatever editor decided it was good to bury the lede/cause mass panic for people who don’t read oast the first 13 words.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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