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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5h

like the dwarves of moriah, we mined for crypto - too deep

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Justin Feldman @jfeld.bsky.social · 1d

Making a rare appearance on this app to announce that I'll be live with Adam and Nima talking about MAHA politics on Monday evening. Hope to see you there.

Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 3d

Please join us one week from today for a Beg-A-Thon live show @ 9:30ET/8:30CT! We will be joined by Justin Feldman
to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our shitty for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 15h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 15h

The fucking inability of Dems to capitalize on “he cut cancer research to bail out Argentina” is infuriating.

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Sophie Koonin @localghost.dev · 20h

I'm about halfway through this brilliant book and thoroughly recommend it for any fellow etymology nerds (or anyone who's ever attempted to teach English as a foreign language and come up against some seriously difficult questions about why we spell stuff like we do!)

Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 9d

I now believe it's real.

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 1d

many of you would fall prey to this,

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 17h

I've said it before, but it's remarkable how quickly the feds have managed to piss away the seemingly ironclad presumption of candor & credibility they enjoyed with federal judges.

They've lied so shamelessly, flagrantly, & frequently that judges have decided not to be played for fools any more.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

trump was prosecuted for real crimes and now he's punishing the people who prosecuted him with fake crimes

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 1d

This same spending boom is now probably the largest bubble in history. Said bubble is directly contributing to rising prices, choking out investment in other sectors of the economy, & appears to be the only thing holding up the US economy.

All of which was also true before the gov't shutdown. 9/x

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 1d

The Bank of England certainly knows a thing or two about bubbles, seeing as they've been near or at the epicenter of many of the past three centuries most well-known examples.

This one, however, might just be the worst with all the trade war & killing agriculture stuff in play. 🧵 1/x
#EconSky #AI

Bank of England Warns of an AI Bubble Burst

Valuations appear stretched especially for AI companies, the bank said.

gizmodo.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

The entirety of the Trump content mill is 90s drama-style cliffhangers. If things are open and shut, there's no reason to listen to tomorrow's podcast. The door must be left open to a larger cabal who ultimately will never be found, because the cabal isn't real and their failures are their own.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Congressional Democrats Find That Taking a Stand is Popular

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

Declining child mortality, fast and slow

The image depicts a line chart illustrating child mortality rates, specifically the estimated percentage of newborns who do not survive past the age of five. The chart has two distinct lines: one representing Sweden in blue and the other representing South Korea in red.

Starting in the early 1800s, the blue line for Sweden shows a gradual decline in the child mortality rate, fluctuating around 35% at the beginning and continuing to decrease steadily over the years, reaching nearly 0% by 2023.

In contrast, the red line for South Korea begins more steeply in the mid-20th century, experiencing a rapid decline after 1950, ultimately approaching a very low percentage by 2023.

The sources for the data are listed at the bottom as Gapminder (2015) and the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025). The entire chart is labeled as CC BY for Creative Commons licensing.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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