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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5h

I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 8h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 7h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 7h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

First he shook down schools, businesses, and his own supporters. Now he's demanding a $230 million apology from the literal Justice Department.

Report: Trump demands taxpayers hand him $230 million

Is it still "ridiculous that anyone would even suggest" that he's cashing in?

www.motherjones.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

“Are you asking the DOJ to pay you? How much?"

TRUMP: *pretends not to understand the Q 🤷🏼 … says he’ll give it to charity 🤥 … rambles for 2 minutes about how the election was stolen from him 🥸*

Endless corruption and greed

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 2h

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say

A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

www.kktv.com

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 1d

😂

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Blind man handcuffed, dragged by federal agents at ICE facility, he says

Quinn Haberl, a blind protester, says federal agents at Portland's ICE facility dragged and handcuffed him twice. Both incidents were on video.

www.kgw.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

techcrunch.com

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Derek DeVries @derekdevries.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently we've entered the Overton Canyon.

an older man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table with a notebook and water bottles .

Alt: A scene from "I Think You Should Leave" depicting an older man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a conference table and exclaiming and gesturing with surprise "Oh my god! He admit it!"

media.tenor.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"

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Derek DeVries @derekdevries.bsky.social · 1d

This is top-tier satire. 👍

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.

Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies

A new study in the medical journal Pediatrics found that peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 declined by more than 27% after guidance was first issued, and by more than 40% after it was expanded…

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 2d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

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Empathy @constant-tummyache.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

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Derek DeVries @derekdevries.bsky.social · 2d

A dismaying number of Trump supporters that think these videos are real.

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 2d

A conspiracy theorist labeled him a ‘domestic terror professor.’ Then the death threats began.
https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

(shouting to the press secretary) Can you confirm whether the diarrhea was pre-loaded onto the aircraft or was it coming directly from the president's Ass?

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