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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

This is Jim Crow shit.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...

www.justice.gov

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5h

This document is … insane? Incredible?

In it the USG shakes down a university for $1.17 BILLION “to avoid legal action” and dictates how hiring, promotion, admissions, scholarships, and CURRICULA REVIEW will be conducted. It stipulates how and when students can protest on campus.

It is un-American

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15h

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

ucop.edu

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

These guys get $50k signing bonuses.

Stephen Miller is telling them they have immunity and encouraging them to create chaos.

They get almost no training, many couldn’t pass an open book exam & they’re allowed to hide their faces.

They’re swinging assault rifles around in public.

Abolish ICE

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 7h

Science fiction is like sex - of you don't know any women who like it, that reveals more about you than them.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 18h

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3h

Probably fine

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

New: "Trump Crypto Partner Suspends CEO With No Explanation After Stock Falls 74%"

me, for @forbes.com

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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma Suspends CEO With No Explanation After Stock Crashes 74%

Alt5 Sigma suspended Peter Tassiopoulos just two months after the company announced a $1.5 billion deal involving the Trump-backed World Liberty Financial.

www.forbes.com

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's good to note that our class system is so stratified that billionaires & tech leaders are literally living in a different reality.
(I don't understand the value of sharing their thoughts with an audience living lives in which those thoughts have no application or value.)

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Omar Moore @popcornreel.bsky.social · 12h

This ad from Ontario, Canada that Trump hates and responded to was shown here in the U.S. during a commercial break of the Toronto Blue Jays—LA Dodgers World Series game one tonight.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 21h

This is a good example of why I yell at people for sharing poll results as screenshots/text without linking back to the actual poll toplines. It breaks the chain of information and makes it way easier for bad actors to thrive.

Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald.bsky.social · 21h

This ME-Sen poll and this account are fake. No such poll on Emerson Polling's website or X feed. And take a close look at the account's handle: @PoliticPollss when the real one it's impersonating is @Politics_Polls.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21h

I want you to read this and understand that Mamdani will stand up for ALL OF US. Muslims, Jews, Christians, trans people, immigrants, EVERYBODY.

We are all exactly as vulnerable as everyone else; this man will stand up for ALL OF US.

Cuomo would NEVER.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22h

Mamdani: "I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of NYC. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in a hijab. I want to speak for the Muslims who work for our city ... only to see their leaders spit in their face."

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Emily Greenhalgh @emwritesscience.bsky.social · 22h

This is perfection.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Barbie crying [edited]: He thinks I'm megafauna? I don't suppress the growth of woody vegetation or stabilize the abundance of smaller animals.

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Emily Greenhalgh @emwritesscience.bsky.social · 22h

Charismatic megafauna
Charismatic megafauna
Monkeys with a complex
Broken brains!

Lis is writing you a lovely postcard 💌💙 @ghostalservice.bsky.social · 1d

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Lis is writing you a lovely postcard 💌💙 @ghostalservice.bsky.social · 1d

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty sure the US government has done a lot of ‘anticipatory demolition‘ in other places too.

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 1d

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

www.curbed.com

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 2d

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges.

TAX BILLIONAIRES
RUN THEM DOWN
LOOT THEM
IT WORKS

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

They are firing pepper balls into the faces of clergy, again
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Jorge Bautista, a clergyman with the United Church of Christ, reacts after he was hit in the face by a pepper round from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as protesters blocked the entrance to Coast Guard Island Alameda, where they are sent to as a staging area for a planned immigration crackdown, in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 2d

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

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Emily Greenhalgh @emwritesscience.bsky.social · 1d

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ben affleck looking bone deep exhausted smoking a cigarette on a stoop. Text overhead reads Breaking News

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s good and important to spread the word about companies that are doing bad things and offer people alternatives to those companies that aren’t evil. I also think shouting “cancel that!” “Stop using that!” “Why are you still on that!” isn’t a great way to help ease people’s transitions.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.

Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients

A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.

www.washingtonpost.com

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 2d

This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.

NYT headline: U.S. strikes second boat in pacific as anti drug operation expands.

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