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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7h

the new york times has helpfully clarified that buildings in oregon are made out of modern construction materials.

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drew @dogballs.info · 7h

Stephen Miller for sure went on autopilot on CNN and had to stop himself from saying the thing he is telling trump all the time, which is that he is winning all his cases and that he has supreme executive power. It’s muscle memory for him at this point

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Andrea Hangst @fballandrea.bsky.social · 7h

ALLIE KATCH IS BACK! #HOGGlory 🤼

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

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Travie 🍂 @tzgrey78.bsky.social · 9h

I can't believe TKO would make him do this

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 9h

Peak hater was Rick Rude airbrushing his opponents faces onto his ass🤼‍♀️

Professional wrestler Rick Rude shot from behind showing Rick Rudes trunks with an airbrushed caricature of The Ultimate Warrior on his ass

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 11h

They are looking for very specific outcomes, feelings from the retribution and riches he promised and when it doesn't materialize and doesn't bring them the end they fantasized for, they are not coming to the Dems. They're going to go even further to those promising them even more violent revenge

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11h

It’s true that some MAGA supporters are losing faith in Trump and expressing frustration. But evidence and trends suggest they’re flocking to explicit Fascists and growing more radicalized.

We can’t just sit back and hope. We have to fight.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-its-...

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11h

It’s true that some MAGA supporters are losing faith in Trump and expressing frustration. But evidence and trends suggest they’re flocking to explicit Fascists and growing more radicalized.

We can’t just sit back and hope. We have to fight.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-its-...

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 14h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11h

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 15h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 12h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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RJ City @rjcity.bsky.social · 16h

That’s how you make NYCC exclusive niche merch. Come to booth 4643 before I lose my mind.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 14h

between musk and trump and RFK jr they're gonna get everyone back to the pioneer days where you had to have 15 kids because 10 of them don't make it

onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

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TAIGASTYLE @theleemoriarty.bsky.social · 1d

Last thing (it’s my rest day so I’m rambling)

Lots of elections and things to vote on starting. Growing up I was around a lot of people who would say voting doesn’t matter cause it’s not gonna change stuff.

If it couldn’t change stuff they wouldn’t be working so hard to make harder to vote.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

Terrible punk band in your city 🤝 old-timey cholera sufferers

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 17h

Cock Gush

United States, Census, 1900

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Sam @samantha1713.bsky.social · 1d

Kylie vacated the Women’s ID Championship on 9/22 & was informed today that they weren’t renewing her contract. As Mike Gilbert said on the other app, the contract should’ve been paused.

A screenshot from WWE ID’s Twitter stating the WWE ID Women’s Championship is now vacant. They congratulated & thanked Kylie. The tweet was posted at 8:24 PM ET on 9/22/25.

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Sam @samantha1713.bsky.social · 1d

Not renewing the contract of a pregnant wrestler is an awful look.

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Andrea Hangst @fballandrea.bsky.social · 1d

At least this requires no treatment, just stopping taking the antibiotics

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 1d

And they say nothing is made in America anymore!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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🎃 Ꮸr͙ყʂէąᥣ 🎃 @crys134.bsky.social · 1d

If what this EMT says is true, this could be it.

Which makes me sad for not only Kota but Kenny as well. I just know he had the whole story arc planned out in his head for now and even his own future plans.

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🎃 Ꮸr͙ყʂէąᥣ 🎃 @crys134.bsky.social · 1d

So sad to hear about Ibushi's injury.

This post from an EMT has me really worried.

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