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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 10h

Nearly a quarter million dollars has been raised in just the last couple of weeks for the Gaza Food Kitchen. Will you help get us over the line?

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 7h

🤨💯🎯🧐

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 7h

The answer has to be Trump's oldest enemy toward whom he has a level of animosity that drives him to complete insanity: Rosie O'Donnell.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h

The question is who winning the peace prize would piss Trump off the most?

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 10h

Why, did the money have something on it

Something red maybe

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 10h

whew

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 7h

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Pixel Scroll 10/9/25 Last Supermassive Black Hole For 27 Parsecs

(1) CANADA’S ON SPEC MAGAZINE TO FOLD. On Spec told readers today that the magazine will end publication after “Thirty-Five Years”. Managing editor Diane Walton had previously announced that she wi…

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‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’

'Mad Max' director George Miller says that "AI is here to stay and change things" and praises the potential to make filmmaking "more egalitarian."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 8h

Nah, just tell him he WON, inform him that there's a 3000% tariff to accept the award and THEN( after he pays, of course) just send him a BIG BOX OF GLITTER...😉

Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 8h

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Sharky 🦈 @sharky.bsky.social · 8h

They should tell him he won but then ship him a box of glitter.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 8h

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Exploring Hallmark’s 2025 STAR TREK Ornament Offerings

For this week's Trek Tuesday, we're exploring the 2025 Star Trek Hallmark Ornament offerings, including the Titan-A and Hologram Janeway.

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 8h

Comedian Josh Johnson on MAGA losing their minds over Bad Bunny performing at Super Bowl. MAGA “want Spanish in their mouths [tacos, guacamole, margaritas] but not in their ears.” Don’t make them listen to Spanish 🙄😂

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Comedian Turns MAGA Into a Laughingstock as Collective Freakout Intensifies

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · 16h

Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US.

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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 9h

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Most Banned Books of The Year List Includes Numerous Genre Titles and Authors - Reactor

Stephen King alone had 87 of his titles banned somewhere in the U.S.

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 14h

The 9th Circuit issued a "stay" of the judge's order, which restricts #47 from deploying Portland's troops.
Oral arguments set for Thursday- today.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #DV1

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Federal appeals court rules on Trump’s Portland troop deployment case

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 10h

UTTER BULLSHIT...🧐🎯💯🤨
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Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charges

James, a Democrat, has clashed with President Donald Trump after she brought civil charges against him in New York.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 13h

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Colombia's president says boat struck by US was carrying Colombians

The White House calls the allegation "baseless" as the US Senate rejected a measure to bar Trump from using force against the boats.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 18h

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 21h

Hey America-
I don’t care at this point who you voted for, did you vote for having your rights & privacy taken away?
WAKE THE HELL UP.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

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