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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7h

Themme-fatales to the dance floor please

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7h

Toxic, Britney Spears, and Last Christmas, George Michael, for me.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7h

Somewhat related I love it when a restaurant back to front of house sings along with a song and it’s like you’re in a musical number.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7h

I’m losing my mind. So good.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 9h

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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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7h

😂

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

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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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 8h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7h

Dinner with these two hotties at Izakaya Minato in Portland, thanks to @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social and @printbookstore.bsky.social.

A wooden bar at a Japanese Izakaya. A Negroni sits next to two books nonchalantly, as if it is not obsessed with them. They are THE ENGLISH UNDERSTAND
WOOL HELEN DEWITT
And
Gabrielle
Calvocoressi
The New
Economy

A porcelain dish and chopsticks sit in the front of the image.

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

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."

n.pr

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 14h

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

t.co

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15h

LMAO. this is going to turn out well I can feel it

CNN @cnn.com · 20h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 14h

Hammam is a volunteer nurse, hoping to rebuild in Northern Gaza near the hospital where he works.

nursehammam7.bsky.social @nursehammam7.bsky.social · 16h

🚨Urgent🚨
This is what remains of our home in northern Gaza. It was completely bombed, leaving only stones. We lost everything. We own nothing. We are now homeless and devastated, without shelter or a tent. We appeal to you to donate so we can buy a tent to live in.
Plz help🤲⬇️
tinyurl.com/nursehammam

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 17h

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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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

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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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

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

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

Bibliomancy!

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

Please help this volunteer nurse if you can.

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