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eke @eke.bsky.social · 10h

eviction moratorium now we're getting some interesting solutions

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

L.A. County Considers Emergency Declaration Over Immigration Raids

www.nytimes.com

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

Fitzgerald said there'd be a motion about this coming from Comey and I think the schedule means it's in the next couple weeks. So they won't be able to avoid it for long.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

he's definitely not extremely sick or anything.

separately: everyone was very happy and proud of him for making it all the way to the cabinet meeting that takes place in his house

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 17h

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The trailer for the miniseries based off Garfield's assassination is out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jop...

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 17h

this is like all those statistical comparisons people like Bret Devereux are always complaining about, even if it's technically true it doesn't make any practical sense of explaining the reality, the French poor were not *more economically equal* to the French aristocracy than people in the US are

UberGoose @ubergoose.bsky.social · 18h

Probably a good thing that we surpassed the French Revolution in economic inequality years ago and it’s only getting worse every day

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 17h

getting urinated on would be a less humiliating way to lose a rap battle

Over the course of 16 days, the two artists released eight so-called “diss tracks,” with increasingly heated rhetoric, loaded accusations, and violent imagery. The penultimate song of this feud, “Not Like Us”
by Kendrick Lamar, dealt the metaphorical killing blow. The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive bassline. “Not Like Us” went on to become a cultural sensation, achieving immense commercial success and critical acclaim.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 17h

it frankly makes more sense as something that criticizes its audience — COD Guys, who do eat up the ultraviolence — than TLOU2 does to criticize the Naughty Dog audience

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 17h

no pun intended

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 17h

since you can just pocket any allocated money and use it for whatever at this point, it sounds like a slush fund to use on the insane, poorly-reported-on influence operations they've been doing there

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h

This is very weird and is almost certainly something other than what it sounds like

Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears

Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 19h

wrong robert

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 19h

also like: threatening to do what you've literally already done. what are you going to kill USAID again?

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 19h

eke @eke.bsky.social · 20h

just dripping with loser energy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

I really have come to 100% believe that the younger, equally evil members of the Trump administration are constantly using AI slop to manipulate their elders.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

we are governed by Facebook Grandpas who passionately and irrevocably believe that AI images of five-boobed ladies are real

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 20h

lol

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20h

this man realizing he's about to get cooked alive

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 20h

shut the fuck up you fucking prick

eke @eke.bsky.social · 20h

the unit of analysis is congressional districts. do you have a point

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 20h

hearing that Zohran would "smash" self-determination but "pass" on apartheid -- what could this mean?

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 21h

not much of a clear question, either! i think i'd probably say he was doing what he promised, but not because i support him or think those promises aren't awful

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 21h

turns out most *people* in these states live in republican congressional districts, even the states that are like 40% black or vote near 50/50 in presidential elections. funny how that works

eke @eke.bsky.social · 21h

this analysis is fundamentally fucking stupid when you are talking about some of the most gerrymandered states in the country

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

the thing that's clear about Fetterman is he just likes killing. doesn't really matter who or why

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Conor Lamb would have done that.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

One reason that this could be a pretty competitive race is that in the age of ActBlue, Chi could raise an absolutely colossal amount of small donor money.

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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