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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
01
25
50
Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
40000
30000
20000
10000
Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
75
Donor Age

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

I was married but I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 19h

I feel like it’s been a minute since we had a musical interlude @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

like in a way the Reagan revolution was just a newer republican ~service model~ of political organizing leveraging and therefore socializing suburban women into conservative political actors right as older style democratic party machines were falling apart cus of political entropy

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i do actually think the american electorate will respond pretty drastically to this administration, but the key thing is does that reaction actually stick? i really dunno, we've lost a lot of the institutional glue and machinery that would socialize voters into a mostly stable majority

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 1d

“The sky is the chief organ of sentiment in painting.” John Constable
From Gwaun y Llwyni in the Aran’s.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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NOTUS @notus.com · 1d

A federal judge temporarily blocked the mass layoffs the Trump administration is conducting during the government shutdown.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said it “is both illegal and is an excess of authority and is arbitrary and capricious.”
www.notus.org/courts/judge...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs

“This hatchet is falling on the heads of employees all across the nation,” U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said in a court hearing.

www.notus.org

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck are we doing?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

yeah this is a Problem if people ever stop believing

if Google or Meta never gets AI revenue to the level they expect they’re still tied to the advertising money faucet, they’ll be fine

if OpenAI’s profits never materialize we are in some shit

(xAI is, well, tied into the Elon Bullshit Machine)

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

this is one of the best articulations of the AI bear case I've read

most of the AI companies are also massively wealthy and profitable hypercorps, but OpenAI specifically is a bomb planted at the heart of the American stock market helpfully labeled "this is a bomb"
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Rum 🔞🫟 Commune Whore @rumrumaart.bsky.social · Apr 7

Taps the sign

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Penny Shortage @cheatlines.co · 1d

I highly recommend going to your most local No Kings if only to find out which of your community’s grandmas have that dawg in them

Penny Shortage @cheatlines.co · 26d

i will say that at *my* No Kings protest the Andor and other pop culture themed signs DID read as revolutionary poetry compared to the other two sign types, "FUCK da CHEETO 🖕" held by a tiny grandma and "multi paragraph screed about the National Park Service written in regular ballpoint pen"

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2d

I’m trained as a digital humanist which is arguably why I’m deeply invested in the analog.

Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 2d

Folks are really surprised that I am in creative technologies because I work in the analog sphere a lot. However, I am intensely interested in how we can use creative tech...just you know, not for evil. I love all the weird little tech we can put in analog spaces. Also knitting needles are tech.

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lacey, infested with bears @byelacey.bsky.social · 2d

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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ChaseTriesAgain @chasetriesagain.bsky.social · 2d

Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨

A screenshot from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine showing a Bajoran man and woman holding hands.

Spoilers: One of them is noted bigot space pope Kai Winn Adami, and the other is a simple Bajoran farmer who is definitely not Gul Dukat, former authoritarian oppressor of Bajor now on an undercover mission for space demons.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3d

It's funny how banks have no problem with money if it comes from oppressing workers or destroying environments, but the line is: fraking adult games ☝️

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 3d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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ChaseTriesAgain @chasetriesagain.bsky.social · 3d

Odo: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

#DS9 #StarTrek

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 3d

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 3d

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 3d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 4d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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J.R. Blackwell @jrblackwell.bsky.social · 3d

My wife noted that I mostly post photos of the sky here on this app. This is true. Here are some more!

A photo of Edinburgh as seen from Edinburgh castle on a bright day in July.

Two cliffs covered in green grass and moss with the sea and grey sky beyond them on the isle of May in Scotland.

The ruins of a cathedral as seen from the ruins of a castle with a sunny blue sky and sea at St Andrew’s in Scotland.

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · 3d

Is this in CMYK?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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