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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 37m

Perfect angel @ vet visit

#HRH

Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 43m

That GD b***h !!!

Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 2h

Speaking truth is unnecessary? Ha!

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 7h

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

in a way it's heartening to see journalists realizing they don't need physical access to the halls of power in order to report on what's happening in them.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. The direct U.S. bet on Argentina is exposing the Trump administration to criticism of a bailout .. ‘subsidizing a foreign country’ to bolster a Trump ally and benefit wealthy investors.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 8h

Probably not. He’ll be hanging out with all his Republican friends

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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 9h

AMERICA FIRST

THE BIG LIE

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 23h

THIS!!!

A letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 18h

The face of a heroine addict

Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 19h

* the soulless soul suckers

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 19h

Jason: *sends me this*

Me: *walks back into the living room with my Bible* You don’t know what I was reading, do you?

He: Was it about frogs? Plagues?

Me:

Me holding my Bible open to Exodus 5 (the NAB Catholic version)

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 21h

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again they had killed his entire family as psychological torture meant to break him. When he walked up the stairs of his home today, his wife rushed into his arms, with his children and parents beside her - alive, waiting, delirious with joy and relief.

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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 21h

So cute!!!

And mine….

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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 22h

And now? “trunk or treat” ???

💩

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Blanche Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 @blanchehudson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m guessing 36ish percent of Americans* love this

* cultists in rural trailer parks

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It’s Still Me! @itsstillme1.bsky.social · 1d

🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The NYT fights back!

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 1d

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

BTIG: Trump tariffs were “the match that lit the selloff, but .. kindling for a fire was set over the last few weeks .. private equity and credit names were really selling off,” discretionary was weak. “There is enough damage below the surface .. to suggest this is the start of a deeper pullback ..”

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to re-up this a third time:

Please read this excellent piece by Lincoln Caplan about why John Roberts—more than Mitch McConnell, more than Stephen Miller or Russell Vought, more than anyone else—owns the destruction of Constitutional order.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...