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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11d

The self-pity in this set of paragraphs is remarkable.

One former Jewish staffer in the Biden administration who worked on national security issues recalled that while once proud of telling people what he did, any suggestion that he was working on Israel and Gaza felt fraught.

“I was afraid of learning what someone might think, especially someone under 40,” he said. People would drop off cookies for those pulling late nights on the Russia-Ukraine war — there was no such warmth for those pushing Biden’s policies ahead on Israel.

Working on Israel “felt like a long nightmare that never really ended,” the former official said. Trying to balance his longstanding affection for Israel and his outrage for what was happening in Gaza was difficult: “There was no welcome middle ground that was at all possible.”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5h

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

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9h

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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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 1d

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 5h

we’re ruled by guys who are too scared to walk down market street in the middle of the day

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 6h

big kaiju battles as a service

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 6h

i truely wonder how much not prosecuting this kind of crime is load bearing. like, the mora choice is obviois, but can the economy still function if every company paid the full cost for each violation

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 9h

I don't want to lambast a guy for the crimes of his son, but how many times do we have to hear about another church pedophile.

It's not porn's fault you're a sexual abuser. Maybe if people spent time dealing with actual ISSUES rather than blaming everything on a imaginary demon...

Screen shot of Ron DeHaas essay (The Perfect Sin) recovered from the Covenant Eyes website:

As my personal burden for the issue of internet pornography has grown, I have seen in the testimonials of our members how pornography has broken relationships.
It breaks down relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, on the job, even lost jobs, relationship to church family, relationship to the "inner man," and a person's relationship to God.
Related: The Effects of Porn on Wives and Marriages
When there is a secret life going on, that secret life affects every one of those relationships. A secret life pervades every aspect of life, and diminishes effectiveness in all areas of life-home, job, church, everything. For those who are active in a church of any faith, a secret life destroys ministry, and the cumulative effect of millions of secret lives is an ineffective church. Basically, Internet pornography has been perhaps the greatest push toward an era of ineffective ministry.
Related: Porn-A Gateway Drug
All the more for the pastor, minister, or counselor whose job and ministry are tied together. The damage that Internet pornography has done is truly immeasurable.
So, from Satan's perspective, internet pornography is the perfect sin. It breaks families and jobs and communities, it tears down a person's relationship to God, it diminishes the work of ministry, and it is devastating in every way. And it is freely available to everyone of all ages, it is only two clicks (maybe one if it's bookmarked) away from you reading this, it is addictive, and (without a monitoring program) it is totally secret. I firmly believe that internet pornography is the sin of this decade. What more could
Satan ask for?

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 6h

i will never in a million years understand the logic of jamming a highway into the water front

pfc. italian beef @realbillhicks.bsky.social · 9d

chicago is one of the most beautiful cities on earth ever. period. and if you think differently you're a stupid fucking asshole and i will fight you in single combat

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

we finally figured out a scheme to price emotional labor

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 12h

The latest from Young Men Research Initiative: Young men are increasingly using OnlyFans to have someone to talk to

open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

Young Men Use OnlyFans for More than Just Porn

How the pay-per-view site is becoming an emotional support system

open.substack.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 8h

I was on the ground today in Broadview with Senator Durbin to conduct Congressional oversight on ICE’s processing facility.  As elected officials, we have a duty to ensure transparency within federal facilities. What is ICE hiding? Kristi Noem, what are you hiding?

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 8h

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

they’re shaped the same wtf

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

at least you can explain Linda. she has CTE from a lifetime of being around vince mcmahon.

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

very normal words you just said, mr. president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

is it good when china smells blood in the water?

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

congratulations to the CIA for another well deserved Peace Prize

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

The world’s smallest man:

“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called me and said that she was accepting it in honor of me.

“I did not say then "give it to me." I think she might have, she was very nice.

“I have been helping her along the way, they need a lot of help.

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 7h

tough, but fair.

now to check my own posts…

Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 7h

if you respond to a politics joke post with a sincere politics opinion bluesky should shadowban you for a week

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

temporal overtourism has become such a huge problem. of course, we’re all aware of the situation in 1914 sarajevo—where the guise of “non-interference” has fallen away and locals hawk “I SURVIVED THE BLACK HAND” t-shirts to out-of-timers—but the problem is just getting worse

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 8h

maybe even less so this time! their collective grasp on reality is getting sketchier by the day

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 8h

@grok how does negotiation work?

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 8h

🚨 READ: Israeli media is reporting a "secret clause" in the Gaza ceasefire that would allow Israel to restart the war if Hamas can't locate all captives within 72 hours. This could be Netanyahu's exit strategy to sabotage peace. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about

Hebrew-language Israeli media reports say there is a “secret clause” buried in the Gaza ceasefire agreement that would allow Israel to resume the war. Palestinians worry this is the pretext Netanyahu ...

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 8h

“i’m not touching you” as a political movement is both extremely annoying to defend against, and exactly what millenials have been training for our entire lives.

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 8h

“i’m not touching you” as a political movement is both extremely annoying to defend against, and exactly what millenials have been training for our entire lives.

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haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10h

we need to do what the right does: pose as allies and infiltrate institutions.

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10h

smart money is setting up the argentine pesos version of the iraqi dinar scam

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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