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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 17h

heading to the ice facility like

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 5h

Rosie the Ribbiter

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 2h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2h

Emergency alert, the news is smelling blood in the water

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 3h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 3h

This is dangerously close to the pope turning to camera and specifying he's the exact kind of lib I am

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

“Because people complained about food prices when food prices were stable but car prices were high, we can presume that they actually meant to complain about car prices” is not really sound logic. Another, better explanation is that people can be mad about problems that aren’t real.

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prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 3h

it is not dems blocking the troops getting paid

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I expect that “should the troops get paid” is something most Americans would support if you polled it without any context.

The average American doesn’t give a shit how something happens, they just want good things to happen, however they define that.

Elected Dems haven’t adjusted to that reality.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

I’m not sure there ever been an investigation more robustly proven valid than the first Trump impeachment. Did he use presidential power for his personal gain? Uh, yeah! I think he probably did!

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 17h

I'm just one monastery, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (procedurally building and testing plausible names of god using a custom set of glyphs). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs I would have expected if you'd asked me six months ago.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

It’s bonkers. Like say what you will about Andrew Carnegie but after getting wealthy beyond compare he built libraries. Thiel and Musk and Ellison have been like “what if we restored the third reich? what if I became Big Brother? what if we ushered in an age of superstition, wouldn’t that be neat”

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2d

I want 10,000 words longform on how these drug-addled creeps have all openly embraced literal villainy. Like, the most clownish form of "I want to look evil." This feels different than a lot of their historical predecessors!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15h

the agency itselt should be bureaucratically re-arranged in a way that allows us to effectively abolish it in its current form without explicitly doing it in a way that makes us politically vulnerable. call it the “homeland protection enhancement” bill or something

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4h

MAGA is failing and flailing, but that doesn't make them harmless - I fear they will be even more immediately destructive in failure than success.

The good news: the Athenians retained their democracy. We can too.

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 4h

So there's a Dwarven salt mine in Poland and there's a massive chapel where everything is made of salt

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration wants us to believe that they are all-powerful forces who control everything and can be reined in by neither Congress nor the Supreme Court, but if anything goes wrong, it's Mastermind Chuck Schumer's fault.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 4h

Were gonna find 274 people that I pardoned, and out them back in jail!!

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 18h

An ounce of Help is worth a pound of Hamburger

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