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The #polycrisis is here! #Stoicism, #Solarpunk, #Python, #craftBeer, #mezcal, #Scotch, #donuts, #fountainPens, #ᏣᎳᎩ. #rompecabezas #Allerdings! Passive/Aggressive Stoic AKA Chris Merle Lives in Tucson, Arizona

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@[email protected] @clmerle.bsky.social · Dec 30

I still think it’s possible this platform is a honey trap. If so you can find me on Mastodon if this platform goes to shit.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

www.propublica.org

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@[email protected] @clmerle.bsky.social · 8h

Lots of new trucks are too big for parking spots, but yeah, this one is particularly egregious.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8h

He's real proud of lowering the taxes of super rich people while taking away healthcare from millions.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9h

Oh just Trump riding around his golf club telling his rich members "your taxes are coming down" while the government is shut down with thousands losing their jobs, people losing health insurance and kids going hungry….totally normal stuff

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11h

Do you see where this is headed?

Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: “Asked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.”
Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

no. don't. stop.

New York Post @nypost.com · 10h

NYPD cops will flee the force if Mamdani is elected, Ray Kelly warns

"He is a problem. He is antisemitic. He is someone who has a lot of crazy ideas," Kelly told Cats, describing the NYPD as a "target" for Mamdani.

nypost.com

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 10h

A beautiful moment at sunset somewhere over Colorado yesterday. 🌅

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13h

This is such suberb journalism, and it is so hard to do right.

First, you have to find out about the incident, and have the instinct and experience to know it will make a story worthy of putting in the paper. Something that reflects and represents larger issues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

JFC

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

One feature or authoritarian movements: They get more extreme.

"The highly unusual request appears to have originated from a letter sent from 25 Republican members of Congress asking [the EPA] to investigate how mifepristone might be contaminating the water supply."

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

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

tl;dr the case doesn't even rise to the level of bullshit

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 1d

I wish MSNBC would realize the value of Trump calling them sick and worse than CNN. They should lead with that in their promos. But the marketing people are clueless cowards and won’t do it.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

These layoffs are illegal and will be challenged in court. Keep resisting, Democrats.

Tweet from The Washington Post reads: “Breaking news: The Trump administration began laying off federal workers while the government is shuttered, fulfilling threats from President Trump to take advantage of the closure to shave off more parts of the federal workforce he dislikes.”
Below is an image of Donald Trump speaking. Caption: “Trump administration begins laying off federal workers…”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 1d

This pic really makes the US collapse into full despotism feel real, doesn't it? Leader's dead-eyed, meritless teen son shoved into powerful role solely because Leader wills it: a marker of corrupt autocracy recognizable on every continent and in every century.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

god. I love Portland. Such an awesome American city. Iused to visit regularly but now I miss it, that amazing vibe.

we love dogs - noem go home. on a sign above a woman walking her dog at night.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Wilhoit’s Law:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Judge "You are going to jail"
"I'm rich."
Judge "Why didn't you say before! We can't have you going to jail, nudge, nudge, wink, wink"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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