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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 6h

Damn sir this was a great show! Haven't heard you yet but will definitely be tuning in. Perfect timing to have your guest on with some great insights, especially into the implications for universities that capitulate to the regime as I'm currently going back for a degree in CA

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

When is the round table on the tooth fairy?

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 8h

With a similar tone and attitude. I was devastated, not Italian or a NYer but he was just raw and Passionate about his craft. And humble AF, giving credit where it was due, just like the words he spoke here. Real AF

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 8h

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH EVERY MINUTE OF THIS!

Bourdain is ON POINT.

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 8h

Me Oirish oiyes are smoilin 🇮🇪

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13h

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 17h

Former FBI Director James Comey's indictment is more than a case—it's a warning.

It’s the most obvious instance yet of targeting political opponents, while letting allies off the hook. 🧵

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

We take for granted that up until recently, the DoJ was populated with career decorated lawyers who not only know WTF they're doing, but are actually interested in upholding the law. These MFs now look like straight off the billboard ambulance chasers

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

Damn straight! I was toying around w the idea of looking to help dev a TikTok clone that would be non profit or somewhat open source, at least algorithm-wise to protect against the metas and bad state actors of the world

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 12h

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.” defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 1d

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments.

apnews.com/article/nobe...

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

The Nobel committee said that the three laureates “have developed a new form of molecular architecture.”

apnews.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

this is not to say that they’re going away any time soon or that things won’t get worse before they get better, but last week felt like the administration started coming unglued and this week feels like the unraveling is speeding up

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

Judge Perry asked defendants’ counsel to explain the mechanics of this to her and got a “well that’s what the declaration says”

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 13h

wait

an ICE agent is claiming he had his “beard ripped off”??

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 14h

Hamilton responds, with anger in his voice, “This is no Carrie Underwood song.”

Perry then asks for more specifics about the agent who “had his beard ripped off” and the discovery of an alleged “improvised explosive device” at Broadview.

DOJ has nothing more to add.

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

Oh shyyyyyte I almost spit mah drink out.. FFS warn me MF

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

fr fr, This. I didn't expect much coherence to come from the regimes tactics but it Is seemingly more random. Like these puppets get installed without any algorithmic instructions. Just like rats w time bombs strapped to them, handler hoping they'll cause enough chaos

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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 1d

We will not allow ICE to operate in the shadows while they surveil us and violate our rights.

Our responsibility is to protect civil liberties, not surrender them. @repshontelbrown.bsky.social, @repyassansari.bsky.social and I are demanding answers about their use of spyware against US citizens.

Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE

The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…

truthout.org

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

Damn, this startin to get me pumped for some Dubs

CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

That is a Wonderful thought 🤟🏼 Also, super jeally you made it across the pond and don't have to deal w this crap 😭

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

Looks like she took your advice? Or the reporter? I feel you tho, I started getting justifiably paranoid about big data collection over a decade ago and don't use the meta apps. Went w a Pixel this time to go barebones and use Graphene

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

Srsly?? I mean I heard about the pallets of bricks being delivered to projected sites but damn, that's Machiavellian AF. Wouldn't put it past the CIA to strategize with LEO plants to scheme like that TBH

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

No way.. that's Epic! Bring right near there in the setting of Kubrick's plot must've been rattling!!

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 9h

Look at dem boobieeees!! Sry I'm still tickled, and kinda pissed my folks didn't take the excursion out to the islands when they passed through on a cruise, so they could bring me moar boobie pics 🫶🏼 ima science nerd and wrote a paper on the Scopes Monkey Trial and Darwin

CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 10h

Snikt-snikt

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