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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1h

She's gonna open an anonymous tip line for people to report colleagues who express sympathy for Palestinians

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1h

You can always tell people who didn't work their way up through real jobs and manage based on the dumbest ideas they've heard of other terrible bosses doing.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the full memo.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 14h

sherman, for the love of god!

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1h

Virginia GOP is just...running a lady with dementia? Throwing everything at the wall and seeing if any Trump magic is left in the residue.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4h

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol winsome please

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1h

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money. Also Money.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2h

how's user growth going? has the devs meltdown and assault on their trans userbase paid off big?

lol

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2h

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer looks great. Inject that unfinished GRRM content straight into my veins.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2h

Well it's six fewer words than he's used to

Lenny Dykstra uses 8 words to sum up brutal Phillies NLDS ending

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 3h

ah damn now Halsin is asking if he can come too

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 3h

would it be weird if I dated both of them

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 8h

Lux Pascal, actriz: "La transfobia es parte de la misoginia. 'Scratch a transphobe, a misogynist bleeds' [si rascas a un tránsfobo, sale sangre de misógino]".

Lux Pascal, actriz: “Yo no soy la única persona trans en la vida de Pedro Pascal”

La intérprete se presenta con su primer papel protagonista en ‘Miss Carbón’. Ha cuidado al extremo lo que cuenta sobre su vida y su hermano mayor: hoy nos explica por qué

elpais.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is team Maduro now

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 10h

I liked the cut of his jib

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 10h

also in very popular cities these days. we had some travel to SoCal this summer and there were zero hotels in the region offering GSA rates. everyone had to get waivers

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12h

The uncool one is Dylan.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 18h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12h

The fact that their ticket was mysteriously canceled the day before and then they were questioned by DHS is both one of the greatest political scandals and crises of my lifetime and just another fucking Thursday in 2025.

Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 13h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 13h

Nothing can really backfire on them so long as the right controls the courts. They don't even follow precedent they themselves set

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 13h

Would be so fucked up if they rule in his favor that I'm more or less expecting it now. A fake news site can't buy a conspiracy rage bait site but far right oligarchs can buy every media organization in the country.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 23h

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 14h

I tried the hand trick. Apparently my breath smells like lotion.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 14h

Just about every major hotel does government rates for official travel. Would be interesting to know if they stayed within that, if they paid the difference out of pocket, or if he used his authority to waive the limit. Would bet well above the government rate that it's the last one.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 15h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 15h

there's no hiding this flex

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