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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 58m

Racism is insidious like this. It makes weaker people who are victims of it become bigots themselves as if that might shield them.

Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 2d

Winsome Earle-Sears — that is, in fact, discrimination.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

In a huge coincidence, a Bitcoin billionaire just-so-happened to put up massive leveraged bets against Bitcoin and Ethereum right before Trump posted about new tariffs on China, prompting a market crash.

$200m in profits instantly. $200m we know about, because they likely used many accounts.

Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs, Now Up $27M - How Did He Know?

Satoshi-era whale shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump tariffs, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B.

cryptonews.com

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 1h

This is the problem with AI. The idea behind this is funny, you can see what the prompts are *trying* to accomplish, but the hand holding the paint brush has no feeling behind it, no coherence; it's like verbally dictating to a blank canvas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEM...

NEW SONG - Cockeyed Toady

YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies

www.youtube.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine being a VP less respected than Dan Quayle.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 2h

Read up on this guy. True menace.

george 🇵🇸 @deejaygeejayg.ee · 21h

I appreciate that being a music genre nerd isn't the important thing here, but that murdered sex criminal did NOT make indie rock

Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 3h

I recall hearing stories of Stones fans booing because Prince performed in women's panties. Interesting, seeing as how by then at least Mick had played around with gender and had at least one well-traveled rumor floating around.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 5h

Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social · 11h

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Well worth reading this

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

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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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 5h

There is a not-insignificant number of Trump voters who voted for him just to upset people, but maybe not quite enough for this.

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 5h

This was never very funny, but now I seriously need to see this fool removed from power and committed.

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 9h

This very weird and short story is free for a few days on kindle because we don’t like Columbus.

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 11h

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed nearly 200 people when all he and people like him really had to do was wait 30 years to get exactly what they wanted: For a Republican admin to give them exactly world they claimed to be against.

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 12h

A movie with ideas more ambitious than how it was ultimately executed, but still a good send-off for Craven's involvement in these films. A good statement on why we need horror.

Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 12h

This is a totally personal thing but as someone who writes and has written slasher stuff, I have it in my head that I just can't write a summer camp slasher because that's been done. Then I look up and see another less dumb person said "fuck it", and did exactly that.

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 16h

I've been saying this for the past month with very little response, but that's okay, positive movement is positive movement.

I'm not upset or anything.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 17h

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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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 16h

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Did You Know PORCUPINES are SUPER Affectionate? Lola is! Come Visit Book at AnimalEDventures.com

YouTube video by Animal EDventure Park & Safari

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 17h

How Kubrick must’ve felt every time the camera pulls back to reveal even more perfect blocking in Barry Lyndon

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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 17h

Absolute fucking knobs.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com