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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3h

I know this is left field but this entire line of thought is incredible proof that there is one huge group chat and we’re not in it.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 17h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 1h

America isn't a free country. This isn't freedom.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 3h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 1h

By saying this, we're accepting the framing that they want to replace it. They don't. They don't care if 20M or even 100M Americans lose their health insurance.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. His agreement is Biden's, except Netanyahu boxed himself in a corner and had to accept it.

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2h

Time to truly cancel your WaPo subscription (even though they still have some great reporters).

“Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.”

I just can’t.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 6h

Yep. Dems should also be salivating over Trump’s IEEPA powers if SCOTUS upholds them. Forget the regulatory agencies, just slap 500% tariffs on Tesla and Oracle until they bend the knee.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 6h

🇫🇷⚫ La #France célèbre ce jeudi la panthéonisation de Robert #Badinter, connu du grand public pour son combat ayant permis, en 1981, l'abolition de la peine de mort dans le pays.

🗺️ À cette occasion, France 24 revient sur la situation de la peine capitale dans le monde

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 3h

I think trump is confusing his IV injections or enemas with babies vaccines.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4h

Trump: These massive vaccines that are twice the size of a jar like that. A glass of water like that into a baby's body.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 7h

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 4h

I love what this Pope is saying here. Truly the teachings of Jesus.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 8h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 4h

We need more of that. Not that this person isn't crazy; I'm sure she is. But a divided GOP is a defeated GOP.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Rebecca has 92K followers including Gaetz, Loomer, Massie, D’Souza, Sen Schmitt, Rep. Cloud. Broke with Trump over Epstein.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 8h

It's the return of repeal and replace.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 9h

Dems should use this to call for designating MAGA as terrorists and eliminating their gun rights.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 9h

The Trump admin has floated trial balloons about removing trans people's gun rights and designating trans people as terrorists. They have also called for mass civil commitment of unhoused people and those suffering from addiction or mental illness.

Genspect's scheme fits that framework perfectly.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 9h

So the ACA repeal is back on for the GOP. Hopefully in time to leave an impression on 2026 voters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

Nobel snubs trump again. No prize for Art of the Deal. Trump said to consider strikes against Sweden.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

#BREAKING Hungary's Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

If you put a sticker on your car "Pro-God. Gun. Life" you turn me away from God.
Also it's an oxyMORON.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

Constitution says you can ignore the parts you don't know about.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 11h

Correct. Netanyahu made a mistake that embarrassed trump personally when he attacked Qatar. If he hadn't, there would be no cease fire today.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 20h

Life is too short to follow academics who say that Trump is better than Biden on Gaza. You can think Biden was horrible on Gaza, but if you think Trump is better than Biden you are not a serious thinker.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 11h

The wapo editors don't care. It's just propaganda now.
Cancel your subscriptions, it's not going to get better, and put your money somewhere else.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 11h

2025 was third warmest September on record, according to European lab Copernicus.
Have you noticed how you don't hear about such reports from US agencies anymore?

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 19h

2025 a connu le troisième mois de septembre le plus chaud jamais mesuré, selon l’observatoire européen Copernicus

Des records de chaleur ont été frôlés le mois dernier, non loin de celui de septembre 2023 et du deuxième septembre le plus chaud en 2024.

www.lemonde.fr

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 11h

The wapo is reminding you to cancel your @washingtonpost.com subscription. Listen to them and do it today!

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 11h

Jake tapper: "President Vigor! 🤩 😘🍑"

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 19h

Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 11h

The last meeting for the Nobel peace prize took place on Monday _before_ the Gaza cease fire. Poor Donald, his publicity stunt won't make the cut.

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 13h

Prix Nobel de la paix : la dernière réunion du comité a eu lieu lundi ; « il y aura un lauréat cette année », assure l’Institut Nobel

Israël et le Hamas sont parvenus jeudi à un accord sur un cessez-le-feu à Gaza, alors que Donald Trump lorgne le prix. Les membres du comité se décident généralement plusieurs jours, voire semaines avant l’annonce, prévue vendredi.

www.lemonde.fr

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