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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 22h

Oh my god they counted the Tele’s botched Cairo Takeaway sting as an “antisemitic attack“

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.smh.com.au

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 1d

Nelson Alexander requiring tenants to use an AI chatbot to report urgent repairs. Reportedly this chatbot cannot differentiate between urgent and non-urgent repairs. Incredible.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

This is canon now

Ferengi Liaison to Project Cybersyn @sovietcola.bsky.social · 1d

"Tracy you can't fly anymore, remember?"
*cut to Tracy stood in a plane brandishing a box cutter. his expression is tense and angry but he is saying "If you do not all calm down I cannot teach you about knife safety" in Arabic*

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Chele @chelecajeleca.bsky.social · 1d

The best form of welfare (for the capitalist class) is coerced labour exploitation (for you)

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 2d

Payman: Why are you maintaining a system that "The Labor *party* platform notes can be punitive, cause stress and anxiety, and can be a barrier to employment?"

Senator Jess Walsh responds by explaining that the Labor *government* believes the best form of welfare is a job 👍

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

The difference between David Pocock and the rest of the Cwth Parliament is that as a professional athlete he was required to appreciate interest conflicts and integrity risks (especially re. gambling).

In Australia the federal level is unique in not doing this: States and Councils must handle risk

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

whew

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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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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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

The controversial Riyadh Comedy Fest ended today, to be followed in December by the Saudi capital's music festival Soundstorm with Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, and more

Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, & More Playing Controversial Riyadh Music Festival Soundstorm

The comedy world has been in an uproar over the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which ended today after two weeks of performances in Saudi Arabia’s capital. Extremely popular comics including Kevin Hart, Dave...

www.stereogum.com

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 2d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

getting urinated on would be a less humiliating way to lose a rap battle

Over the course of 16 days, the two artists released eight so-called “diss tracks,” with increasingly heated rhetoric, loaded accusations, and violent imagery. The penultimate song of this feud, “Not Like Us”
by Kendrick Lamar, dealt the metaphorical killing blow. The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive bassline. “Not Like Us” went on to become a cultural sensation, achieving immense commercial success and critical acclaim.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

An especially silly example, but I see "[much-celebrated legend] is underrated/overlooked" WAY too much these days. IDK if you're young, or hang with the wrong people, or are just desperate for an angle, but this is a very boring (as well as inaccurate) way to discuss someone.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined.

The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange.

www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation

The new legislation comes after a 2023 Business Insider investigation into sexual misconduct at a California high school.

www.businessinsider.com

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

Like if you think that comment was in poor taste, please, please don't ever read any of your own books from the late 80s and see what Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison got up to.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta say, it's a bit rich relaunching Vertigo, "Comics! They're not just for kids!", after being lily livered cowards who hurled a trans writer under the bus for making a Kirk joke.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Social media is to blame for social cohesion issues across the globe, News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, has said, as he calls for media to present a united front against the platforms and AI companies seeking content for free.

Miller told the Melbourne Press Club on Wednesday social media was rife with “misinformation, disinformation [and] the rabbit holes [that] they drag you down.

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 2d

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her.”

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 3d

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2d

We should never be surprised by the cruelty of humans - anyone who has read about Rhythm O, the 1970s performance art piece created by Marina Abramović could tell you that. She still bares the scars of people's glee at permitted punishment

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

The Boaty McBoatface side of human nature is always there, the instinct to troll, to mock, to turn sincerity into a joke. Now it’s just got better tools, & sometimes that means people making tasteless things like Sora2 videos of Stephen Hawking being horribly brutalized. futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Jay Gish @jaygish.bsky.social · 2d

[Butthole Surfers thru a megaphone voice]

RFK, lying on the topic of disease,
Jarod gettin’ money from the Saudis and Chinese.
Kristi hates the NFL, prez’s brains are fog…

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

trumps nazi goons trying to pepper ball a frog

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