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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 12h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 11h

Only unhealthy people could have chosen the idiot felon to represent them.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11h

She marched to Mike Johnson’s office and will be the 218th vote to finally release the Epstein files

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 14h

No Kings is October 18: Be peaceful, be weird, have fun, and stand up for the country we all want to have. 🙌🙏💪👏✊️👇

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

maybe this is Mike Johnson's way of telling us he's a nevernude

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, Himes is correct here, but I'll never understand how blowing up six guys in a boat is considered "macho".

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

I miss Tip O'Neil.

Tip O'Neil at a podium with a coffee cup in his hand.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 19h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

Karma's a bitch.

Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

I am telling you, AI is NOT a serious technological advance. It's a techie parlour trick that is being thrust upon us because the big names in tech have run out of ideas and they can't stand the idea of no longer being considered "growth" companies, deserving of their current stock price multiples.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 17h

OpenAI has chosen the worst, weirdest possible time to embrace the fact that people want to fuck chatbots www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

Growwing up, if you had told me that the United States of America would become a kakistocracy before I reached 60, I would thought you were in need of some *serious* help. But here we are.

Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

Now Donnie thinks he's Neo.

Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 14h

The only reason this got rammed through in the first place is because Trump so desperately wants the Nobel Peace Prize. And the only reason he wants that prize so badly is because it was previously awarded to a beloved *black man* and former POTUS, @barackobama.bsky.social

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 18h

Trump deserves credit for freeing the surviving hostages—but this was theater, not peace. The ceasefire is already cracking, and the odds of a real accord are barely 30%. The dead may never be recovered. Netanyahu and Trump staged a show, not a treaty. open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...

Theater of Peace: Trump, Netanyahu, and the Ceasefire That’s Already Cracking

While Trump should get credit for freeing the living hostages, the so-called peace deal was more performance than progress—its ceasefire already fraying, its promise of lasting peace fading fast.

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Sean @cackalackdev.bsky.social · 22h

in Chapel Hill in the 90s, Sid's was known for being nazi central

at a party at a friend's house one night, as a Black man was trying to leave, a group of Sid's employees started hurling racial slurs. When I tried to intervene they all jumped me

dude is not someone to celebrate

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The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 22h

Surplus Sid’s owner Barry Keith worked for the military surplus store’s original owner while at UNC-Chapel Hill in the 1970s.

Surplus Sid’s has closed in Carrboro. What’s next for its owner, Barry Keith.

Surplus Sid’s owner Barry Keith worked for the military surplus store’s original owner while at UNC-Chapel Hill in the 1970s.

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Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, really, are you even surprised by this?

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 22h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 19h

I'd probably be happy to, but I blocked "them" at some point and @bsky.app is crazy hardcore about it. I wish they'd at least let us view the account on a case-by-case basis, like we could on Twitter.

A screenshot of the OP, showing that the account they're reposting has been blocked by me. There is no way to know what account was blocked or to selectively undo the block, as there was on Twitter.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 21h

Calvin & Hobbes are named after the philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes.
Calvin is actually Hobbesian, and Hobbes is a Calvinist.
If that isn't goddamn genius, I don't know what is.

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Conrad Brean @conradbrean.bsky.social · 20h

You're going to lose a LOT MORE than just your health care if you don't join the rest of us in making our voices heard. This is not hyperbole - the end is nigh if we don't start repeling the march of fascism RIGHT NOW.

Join us this Saturday, October 18 for the No Kings mass protest.
www.nokings.org

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 21h

Even the soulless Supreme Court thinks Alex Jones is a piece of shit. He better pay the Sandy Hook families for causing so much pain.
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