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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 3h

Real Life Hot Priest Just Dropped

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 7h

Listen, I know this isn’t how it works or anything, but if anyone was wondering, I honestly feel like the Democrats should hold out until the GOP agrees to ban billionaires and send every American family $250k Trump checks for having had to live through all this white nonsense.

Dream bigger.

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 4h

Terry Gross: telling these stories that include voices of enslaved & women & indigenous might be called DEI; screening this at Smithsonian or NPS could get you canceled.
Ken Burns: i like to say DEI is "E Pluribus Unum" "A story is a story is a story." #AmericanRevolution #USHistory #PBS #FreshAir

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 4h

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: Washington was against keeping & recruiting Black soldiers who fought bravely in Lexington & Concord, eventually realized mistake... Terry notes W describing colonists as enslaved to British. Ken says "irony & hypocrisy not lost on anybody." #AmericanRevolution #PBS

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Courtney Enlow @courtenlow.bsky.social · 4h

This genuinely made me laugh out loud.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 4h

In intro to #PBS event, Pa. Rep. Brendan Boyle notes he is part of 1st gen to grow up w #PublicMedia... made me realize me too! I've been grateful for being a PBS kid, but didn't realize that childhood was unique to our generation in comparison to parents & grands & even our kids to an extent.

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5h

Ken Burns: I often think of PBS is to communication as what the Declaration of Independence is to the country -- supporting a lifetime of learning... criticizes end of CPB and reallocation of $700M funding for public media as "short-sighted."

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 5h

An exchange in tonight's VA Gov debate:

AS: My opponent has previously said that she does not think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

WES: That’s not discrimination!

AS: She said that she is, quote-unquote, morally opposed to same-sex marriage.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (1/2)

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5h

Ken Burns: I often think of PBS is to communication as what the Declaration of Independence is to the country -- supporting a lifetime of learning... criticizes end of CPB and reallocation of $700M funding for public media as "short-sighted."

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 10h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 7h

🩷🩷
(My sister went to the pop up shop this weekend and I am jealous as hell, ngl.)

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, it’s not like there’s anything else on at 7pm on a Thursday. Perfect family viewing

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

One hour until the debut of Bad Pedophile.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 7h

Listen, I know this isn’t how it works or anything, but if anyone was wondering, I honestly feel like the Democrats should hold out until the GOP agrees to ban billionaires and send every American family $250k Trump checks for having had to live through all this white nonsense.

Dream bigger.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7h

Reupping this for New York’s post-post season baseball consideration

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 2d

MONEY TRAIN TO THE GAME: "The MTA would have to spend at least $3 million in contracted union fees to provide the same special game-day service to Citi Field as Metro-North gives Yankee fans to go to the House that Ruth Built, data obtained by Streetsblog shows." nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/m...

MONEY TRAIN: How LIRR Unions 'Game' The System - Streetsblog New York City

An old work rule means that the MTA would have to pay millions of dollars just to provide a little extra service after special events like Mets games or the Ryder Cup.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.bsky.social · 7h

*chefs kiss*
They even left a little space for cars!

Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 7h

Flex-post, bike lane, bike share dock protected painted sidewalk extension.

What a combo.

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 7h

Another excellent moon shot! This one from our clear and crisp start to Thursday.

Even colder tonight. Some frost western and northern suburbs. Forecast update at cwg.live.

📸Ian Will/Flickr

A waning supermoon this morning on the National Mall. The Washington Monument is lit by the morning sun and the sky is clear.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

cope and seethe trad converts, francis outplayed you

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine the meltdown

Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 1d

Greta Thunberg, hands down, Nobel peace prize. For her diligent and empathetic activism against the war in Palestine and against those that wage war against our environment.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 8h

Ann Sothern with a super-cute white floof dog. I don't have any more information than that, but how much more do we need, really.

Sothern has on a chic little black hat and a fur jacket. She is holding the small(ish) dog. The dog has floppy floof ears, a big black nose, and fur almost covering its eyes.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 8h

Lindsey Halligan is gonna get a Presidential Medal of Freedom, I’m just not sure if it will be before or after she loses her law license

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Letitia James has been indicted on one count of bank fraud in Virginia, charge brought directly by Lindsey Halligan, just like the Comey indictment.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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DarkAndSpookyMikey @lightmikey.bsky.social · 8h

From Hensley park I can see lots of emergency vehicles, but not the accident. Eisenhower now at full stop.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 6d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

The entrance to the walled garden I found today, with its broken door and big ivy hat.

An interdimensional portal in the walled garden I found today

A hole in the wall of the walled garden I found today, leading to 1785.

Ruined potting sheds in the walled garden I found today.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13h

[Chuck Schumer voice] For every subscriber we lose in Fairfax County, we'll pick up two in Galt's Gulch.

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