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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8h

Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 8h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13h

A laughably false claim.

I wonder what the next 2 or 3 stories they fabricate will be? Before they are forced to swear until penalty of perjury. Because that's the pattern. Make up something on the spur of the moment, discard it, and move to the next tall tale.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughling is now claiming that Debbie Brockman was arrested for "assault on a federal law enforcement officer" because she was throwing objects at a Border Patrol agent.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Michelle Obama telling everyone she's been communicating with Osama Bin Laden

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 15h

Mina and Pablo tried smelling salts on PTFO and I'm a little concerned about the gas station product with the ripoff monster energy logo they tried but this is must see TV (since @pablo.show hasn't posted it yet)

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 15h

Painful to hear the fear in her voice as she says, "let them know." And as others have noted, this seems to violate Judge Ellis's order issued just yesterday about arresting journalists & also about unnecessary physical force. (See 1(a) and 1(h) of order). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15h

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 22h

Torches, pressure cookers, power stations, power banks, magnetic balls, waist fans, pajamas, and more. It was a wide-ranging Recall Thursday. Check out this week's consumer product recalls: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

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jaker @jaker.fightins.online · 16h

do you know how much money a game about murdering racists shitheads would make? Wolfenstein has like 17 different versions. People Make highlight reels of creatively killing the Klan in RDR2. Cowards who Hate money

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 21h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

It took half a million Palestinian lives and psychotic Nazis posting tiktoks in the dresses they looted from the women they killed for this shift to happen

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d

‘A historic shift’: More polls show what our University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll has been showing: a dramatic shift away from sympathy with Israelis to sympathy with Palestinians among all Americans in the past of two years.
youtu.be/00pOhuUGjnY?...

‘A historic shift’: Enten on American support for Palestinians

YouTube video by CNN

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

Mary mother of Christ, these people are overpaid fools.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Brian A 🎹🎸🌵⭕️ @phillybri.gobirds.online · 1d

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile today at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 1d

I think Halloween is going to be really weird because I expect a lot of conservatives parents are going to have their kids dress up as ICE agents.

I think i might try to buy Mexican chocolate just for them.

BenState @baney84.bsky.social · 1d

Need a rule that in order to kick, punt, or longsnap you need to have played at least 3 previous downs.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

How? How are we losing this messaging war? This is insane shit.

Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a ninth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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