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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 6h

has gavin newsom always been so phlegmy

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Open Plans @openplans.org · 9h

By bringing back year-round outdoor dining & simplifying the process, the City will make it possible for restaurants to thrive while giving NYers more ways to enjoy our public spaces. A big THANK YOU to @cmrestler.bsky.social & the bill's co-sponsors for putting people over parked cars!

Council Member Lincoln Restler @cmrestler.bsky.social · 10h

We introduced a bill to restore year-round open dining and make it easier for restaraunts.

Outdoor dining was a silver lining of the pandemic, and New Yorkers want it back. We can simplify the process for restaurants to secure permits and give us more places to dine together.

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 10h

did my once-a-year nail painting

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 10h

finally reading back the ai policy that i contributed literally nothing to; they didn't even take my one hard-line recommendation that was to remove the word "fear" from the document because to say that people have "fears" of AI is an absurd premise

thanks everyone!!!!!!!!!!

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I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 11h

We should all be anti-fascist. #antifa

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 12h

Well, at least we’ve finally disproved Whiggish historiography.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_hi...

Whig history - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

anyway jon glaser is on office hours rn so that rules

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

CURVY not SURVEY

jeesh

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

i thought when you have a fascist government, it brings out the best in the arts !

the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

between this and the article in the cut about removing a rib to be more survey what the fuck are we even doing here? the culture is just fully regressing

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 12h

No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

🙏🏻

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

it's not bad if you like dr. pepper

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 12h

that dr. pepper strawberries and cream kinda smells like strawberry but it just tastes like dr. pepper

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One Amahira, MA @oneamahira.bsky.social · 14h

With alt text:

A few days before the taping, Colbert's producers held a prep call with the candidates and their aides. The sample questions covered basic political topics, such as the meaning of democratic socialism. Right before the candidates went onstage, the producers appeared in the greenroom and said that they wanted to go over a few more questions. Earlier that day, a group of prominent Jewish figures, including Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, had sent a letter to Colbert demanding that he grill Mamdani on his views of Israel. According to people who were in the room, one of the producers suggested a "thumbs-up or thumbs-down" segment: "Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state."

Mamdani's face dropped. "I just couldn't believe what was happening," he told me. "That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game." His aides were incensed. "You have the first Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York," Zara Rahim, a senior adviser to Mamdani, told one of the producers. "You don't want to ask him a question about that?" (CBS did not respond to a request for comment.) In the end, the game didn't happen, but Colbert did ask Mamdani whether he believed that Israel had the right to exist. "Yes, like all nations, I believe it has a right to exist," he said. "And a responsibility also to uphold international law."

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · Oct 24

I drew Snoopy from memory

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 1d

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 1d

this is some of the dumbest shit to ever happen in america

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 1d

stealing valor from myself who lived in downtown portland many many years ago lmao

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