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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s new national security memo (NSPM-7) designates the following as terrorism "indicators":

🟥Anti-capitalism
🟥Anti-Christianity
🟥Anti-Americanism
🟥Extremism on gender
🟥Extremism on race

This encompasses pretty much everybody to the left of MAGA.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h

They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 2h

Why the fuck is it always blue hair? This one thing has them so triggered and it feels like … fifteen years out of date, as a stereotype?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2h

swear to god these days I feel like the only person who saw the aliens land

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 6h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 2h

Wixcore

Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 2h

National Design Studio looks like it's shipped its first website:

trumprx.gov

TrumpRx

The lowest prescription prices in America. Coming January 2026.

trumprx.gov

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.

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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon @bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social · 13h

But if it isn't the corrupting influence of money, why else would Americans have elected a racist authoritarian?
[reads American history book] ah, I see.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 7h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5h

Not the Onion.

I wonder what will happen when ICE kidnaps all the Qatari soldiers for being brown people in Idaho

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/...

Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says

Hegseth The Defense secretary made the announcement at a Pentagon press conference with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's defense minister.

www.cnbc.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2h

this is just disgusting. and shows I think why continued protests are necessary.

genocide denial is evil. it's evil if you're doing it to protect Bibi, it's evil if you're doing it to protect Harris. just cut this shit out.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 2h

Platner ftw. For policy reasons and vibes reasons. Mills has neither on her side.

Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 2h

Gotta love that Mills first blocked No Tax on Tips and *then* (reportedly) entered the senate race. I don't even care about that issue. I even get why she opposes it. But it's a pretty broadly popular policy that she didn't have to have a stance on and she chose to become even more unpopular.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 3h

A… a decade? Man I only started using rgb(a) at all within the last, I dunno, five years? It was all SASS and hex before that. And I feel like my experience is a lot less legacy/enterprise than many. I only learned rgba was deprecated from stylelint this year.

Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 9h

I think the biggest giveaway that CSS has been generated using some sort of LLM (outside of the mistakes it might have made) is that they all seem to use `rgba()` or `hsla()`.

Is there so much training stuff out there still using the `a` with those? We haven't needed it for like a decade now.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 3h

Wow how did they get a goal when there's a defender tossing himself on the ball like it's a grenade? I was certain that was a pen. #UpTheHearts messy goal but they all count the same

Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 3h

God that halftime stat with Morse leading the league (?) in saves but still being 5th in GAPG was kind of sobering. #UpTheHearts are an exciting expansion team but still an expansion team. Cracks really showing the last few games

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jordan pumpkin spice [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social · 8h

friendly reminder, our taxes pay for the military in israel to get free tuition and free healthcare

born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 23h

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 8h

In all seriousness, the notion that an administration that claims to be protecting the religious freedom of Christian from attack is literally attacking a Christian minister

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 8h

I found the war on Christianity

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty insane stuff from DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/dhs-fps-me...

Accordingly, if an individual across the street from a federal building throws a rock or bottle at FPS officers on federal property, as many of these rioters are wont to do, FPS can leave federal property and either arrest the malefactors or take other appropriate action in line with FPS's continuum of force policies. FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat. There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 13h

The thing for me is it seems like a reasonable question to ask… with a pretty reasonable answer. But it's not really being treated as asked-and-answered and that feels bad-faith.

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

i am seeing a lot of this and it's not true, fwiw.

Platner worked for Constellis in 2018; it's true that Constellis is the successor company to Blackwater after a bunch of name changes and mergers and acquisitions, but Erik Prince stopped being involved in 2010.

Liz BlueHeart 🇺🇦💙💛 @elizdelg.bsky.social · 1d

My issue with Graham Platner is that he worked for Eric Prince’s Blackwater. Was he a mercenary?

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