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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

I hate watching the US having actually read history and studied political science. I want to shake every American and tell them they can't vote their way back to normal. The institutions have been compromised, there is no going back.

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Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 23h

I mean the thing is this is historically normal. Buckingham palace is remodeled every now and then, which is what I amount to being an equivalent to the Whitehouse. Castles were also regularly added to.

Westminster is more akin to the Capitol Building; we don't elect our heads of state like you do.

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Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 1d

Every now and then I create myself as an immortal wanderer and just see how far I can go. Led a jihad for Rome once.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

It’s outrageous they’re killing innocent people, but we also need to stress, every time, that it would not really matter even it were absolutely certain that they were drug traffickers. Murdering criminals is still, you know, murder.

Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 3d

The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no evidence they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had proof, they’d face a court, not a drone.

The law still applies, even to suspected drug traffickers, and right now, the Administration’s story isn’t adding up.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

speaking of tattoos, i once was walking to the bus stop and noticed a guy with what looked to be a swastika neck tattoo, and it was, but as i got closer i could see a red X covering it. which was weird because i noticed the swastika first

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Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, watch shitty movies the way they were intended to be seen, sent in an absurdly high quality video by a friend and get so drunk the quality doesn't matter anymore.

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Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 7d

York-Upon-Hudson

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9d

the days when these guys worried about hiding their "power level" are far behind us

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, neither of them stopped the genocide because children were dying, they did it for those political points.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 10d

Starving two million people in Gaza — including a million children — is a war crime.

We’ve witnessed hundreds starve to death from Israel’s manmade famine; countless more will die unless Gaza is flooded with aid.

Keir Starmer must demand Israel’s lifts its illegal siege NOW.

Screenshot of Reuters headline:

Gaza's Rafah border crossing will remain closed through Wednesday, Israel says
By Reuters
October 14, 2025 2:55 PM GMT+1 • Updated 52 mins ago

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 10d

I love how the message of The Good Place was "It is impossible to be a good person under Capitalism and also impossible to ameliorate its influence while you are living. Your sins can only be purged in the afterlife!"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10d

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 11d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 12d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 12d

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 15d

It’s officially ceasefire in Gaza.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 15d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 15d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 15d

A mosque in Dundee was 'descrated' with urine and faeces in the latest attack on Scotland's Muslim community.

@heraldscotland

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553008...

'Deep hurt' as urine and feces 'desecrate' Dundee mosque

The perpetrator broke several windows at the mosque and proceeded to urinate and defecate inside the building.

www.heraldscotland.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 18d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 21d

Okay. What if that's what I want my taxes to go to? Toward helping the sick and the poor? To building roads, libraries, and schools? What if that's exactly what I want???? What then???

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 20d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 20d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23d

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

The Verge @theverge.com · 25d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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