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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 1h

A 61-year-old ex cop has spent the last month in jail for posting memes mocking Charlie Kirk's death. His bail is set at 2 million dollars.

This is tin pin dictatorship shit

theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme

Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

theintercept.com

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 5h

“You can’t blame the current economic collapse on Reagan’s policies and Thatcher’s policies!”

Watch me.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 47m

I've a new essay out at The Nation on Trump's mass firings at the CDC earlier this month and what they mean––not just for public health, but for the entirety of US politics.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15m

it would be good if, say, the New York Times reported that all of this stuff is *wildly* illegal under the Hatch Act.

Cadence ”Port Game Use Crane” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 28m

man

Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

I truly wish that I were joking x.com/dhsgov/statu...

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over a lightly fried vaporwave scene from HALO

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

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David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 1h

There's nothing in the Saudi Arabian press or released by Neom in the past week to indicate that this has been "announced".

My suspicion is that someone has had a giggle with (not especially well done) renders based on some other completely unofficial images such as this.
bsky.app/profile/caes...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them

evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 1h

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

www.wired.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

it is obvious the billionaire Ellisons want to turn CBS into right wing propaganda, but as a reader coming in fresh you'd have zero understanding of this from reading the U.S. press

even this Semafor style where the writer expresses "their view" lacks the courage to be pointed about it

CBS’ Weiss explores poaching conservatives from other networks

CNN personality Scott Jennings visited the new CBS News editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, this week at CBS’ New York headquarters.

www.semafor.com

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 2h

This is very good

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...

Andrew Cuomo is a Nihilist Who Hates New York City

Near the beginning of his mayoral campaign, an eagle eyed observer noticed Andrew Cuomo’s car parked illegally and snapped a photo of it for social media. It wasn’t the worst of Andrew Cuomo’s offense...

www.elizabethspiers.com

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James Tyler @jamestylerespn.bsky.social · 2h

can you imagine skying a penalty out of that in a shoot out

Caesar Flunk @caesarflunk.bsky.social · 4h

This will 100% not be built.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, uhh, that headline just keeps going doesn't it??

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

Nebraska residents and former inmates are frustrated by plans to turn a Work Ethic Camp into an immigrant detention center.

The closure has officials and local nonprofits that depended on the prison labor scrambling to find a new workforce.

Nebraska’s ‘Cornhusker Clink’ for migrant detainees upends rural town

Nebraska residents and former inmates are frustrated by plans to turn a Work Ethic Camp into an immigrant detention center called the “Cornhusker Clink.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Between the tariffs, the immigration crackdown, and cuts to SNAP, Trump is creating a mass crisis in U.S. farming. And a lot of this stuff can't be walked back. Chinese markets for Argentine soybeans won't just switch back when Trump TACOs again. Bankrupt farmers can't just bounce back next year.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 19h

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 5h

Man I loved the pivot from “virtual school during the pandemic was amazingly destructive and caused so much learning loss we should have let COVID rip through the schools instead of closing them” to “the wave of the future is your kids’ education being 90% chatbots- sign up or be left behind!”

Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 7h

The ones that stick with me the most are this investigation into Alpha School, Silicon Valley's favorite AI-first educational environment...

Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out

In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

www.wired.com

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 3h

Here's a little known landmine: If Charles and William both die suddenly, Andrew becomes regent for the 12 year old King George VII.

The Regency Act assigns it to the next adult in line who is resident in the UK. Unless Harry is persuaded to move back, that's Andrew.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

you might as well do good things, because even if you do bad ones to appease shitty people the right will lie about it anyway.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 4h

A lesson for the Labour Party - even if you deported a hundred thousand migrants, or five hundred thousand, Nigel Farage would just tell people you hadn't, and they'd believe him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah this makes me annoyed not because I am a grand defender of Biden's record on the border (I am not), but there is this utterly false perception that the Biden admin did nothing. That could not be further from the truth. The Biden admin carried out over 3 million repatriations in 4 years.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 5h

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD

(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

a screenshot of two X posts by Chris Lesinski (@lesinski)

the first, posted at 7:14 PM EDT on Oct. 25, 2025, says:

Quite an epic AI typo in The Journal today.

The Paramount exec is named Cindy Holland and they wrote “Cindy the Netherlands”

The post also includes a photo of the print newspaper featuring the passage in question.

The second X post, a threaded reply from @lesinski, was posted 17 hours ago, and says:

Spelling this out a little more:
1) yes, this is real, WSJ Sat/Sun edition this weekend
2) they probably do some form of AI copy editing and the style guide says “we don’t use the informal ‘Holland,’ instead use ‘the Netherlands’”…

… it’s just that this is a very obvious exception a human should have caught.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Gallego: "How can I negotiate? The president is in Asia for 5 days. Johnson is basically keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with right now?"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!

(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)

newrepublic.com/article/2022...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Trump screws his voters again: He just denied disaster aid to Maryland (while giving it to red states). But I took a look and it turns out the suffering Maryland counties are in Appalachia and backed him by 40 and 54 points.

On the pod, @stevebenen.com and I discuss:
newrepublic.com/article/2022...

Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters

After Trump’s handling of disasters boomerangs on MAGA country, the author of a piece on his retribution against blue America explains how this saga reveals MAGA ideology’s deepest depravities.

newrepublic.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6h

Again, it is a test of cognitive impairment. This is like him saying he’s faster than anyone in the world because an MRI shows he didn’t tear an ACL. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "

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Hari Sethi @harisethi.bsky.social · 7h

Doesn’t matter how you win the thing, but I do find it ironic given the club spent years prioritising a specific style of play & approach to football, whilst telling us how superior it was.

Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 8h

Leeds, Wolves and Nottingham Forest.

The only teams in the Premier League with fewer open play goals than Arsenal, who will probably win the title this season.

Doesn't matter in the least how you get there but set pieces are very much the direction of travel in 2025/26.

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