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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 36m

why didnt walt just tell skyler his second phone was for optimizing his pokemon go playtime. is he stupid

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

City hall is fully ablaze and the fire department is engaged in an endless discussion of whether or not turning the sirens on and driving quickly to the site of the fire would send the wrong message to the public and may in fact be counterproductive.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

The president of the United States is destroying constitutional government and literally calling himself a king and the pathetic journalistic and political class of this country is busy winding itself into circular meta-debates over the correct way to perform their reaction or nonreaction to it.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1h

a fun thing about "LLMs don't have insight into their thought process and are just giving you an explanation of their understanding of how they probably got to a particular idea, if you ask them about it" is that this is also usually true of humans; see the many flaws of self-report psych research

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2h

This is just straight-up treason by rubio, he's wrecking our ability to fight organized crime in order to help bukele cover up his apparently cozy relationship with MS-13 leadership and possible theft of us foreign aid, all so trump et al can get photos of us sending hairdressers to torture prison

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 5h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 6h

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 2h

haha. yeah

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 16h

Someone updated this meme.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 16h

its crazy how everything on royalroad is rated 4.5/5 and most of it absolutely dogshit

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 19h

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18h

THE EMEMY WILL NOT BY FORCE TAKE A LILY PAD FROM THE OHIO RIVER OR A HOP IN THE BLUE RIDGE

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 19h

WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE,
FROM MISSISSIPPI'S WINDING STREAM AND FROM NEW ENGLAND'S SHORE.

WE DARE NOT LOOK BEHIND US BUT STEADFASTLY BEFORE.
WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE!

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

there are so many resistlib grandmothers out jesus christ

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

also pleasantly surprised by how few and how chill police there are so far

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

saw surprisingly few protestors in dc but surprisingly many in arlington? like there 300+ people in a park across from the ballston metro lol

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Watergate every day

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

www.nytimes.com

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

what da

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

ok but like. santos????

chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

no its still invite only. like a year ago is when it went from private beta to the invite only beta i think. the invites are also just pretty common and easy to get so its basically just a normal game

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

got a deadlock invite we're so back

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces.

It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.

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chc4 @chc4.bsky.social · 1d

kinda crazy that half of them are actually Bernie Sander And AOC Shut Down The Government Over Trans For Illegal Alien Felons i kinda thought people were cherry picking the hits

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