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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 13h

In the spirit of the season, here are my 25 favorite horror novels (as of this second).

Listed chronologically.

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social @kkoja.bsky.social

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 12h

i wrote a book about a small press getting cursed with an unsolicited manuscript submission. it's very scary. you should read it.

buy a signed & personalized copy here: ghoulish.rip/product/i-be...

the jacket art for i believe in mister bones

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 14h

Palestinian families like Hammam's have been violently displaced & starved for 2 years in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, & shelter, they urgently need a tent:

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Abood @zozosaaaahhh.bsky.social · 8d

"Our children are suffering, and we can't do anything. Our beautiful children are dying of hunger.😢
Their innocent faces are suffering, and we're suffering even more. We beg you to help us, share our suffering, and assist us with donations.💔💔
gofund.me/d14cbe76

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 9h

The White House is using footage of Florida in Trump’s “fake news” attempt at showing chaos in Chicago.
In the video which was shot during “Operation unrest” you can see palm trees.
They are so bad at this.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/A0IeQajgtQ2m...

White House's Chicago

The White House has been caught faking unrest in Chicago.

apple.news

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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nat / bird king cosplay 🔜 GICOF @birdking.bsky.social · 9h

he lives here now
#nier

fake landlord text exchange

landlord: "It is clear in the lease: no skeletons allowed in the apt. Sorry"

(photo of emil from nier replicant looking very cute sitting in my apartment)

landlord: "OK I will make an exception because he looks very polite"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

“We’re physically seeing the impacts of a changing climate on these communities. … And the fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem.”

(Published May with KYUK)

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

www.propublica.org

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Rami 🍉 @mido0012.bsky.social · 13h

Why did you stop supporting us?
Why are you leaving Kinda sick and hungry?
Where are the rescuers, where are our friends?
Even with the ceasefire, we have no work, no income, no food.
Please, don’t turn your backs on us , we still need you desperately.❤️‍🩹
tinyurl.com/HelpRamiFamily

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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

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Doaa Madhoun @doaa66.bsky.social · 15h

I'm Duaa from Gaza. The war is over. I had a beautiful home, a wonderful life, and healthy children😞. Everything is destroyed. We're homeless. We've even lost our livelihood. Donate. I want to save my children from this devastation and live a better life.😞😞💔

More in the comments.
gofund.me/7fc0e346

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Zombie Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 13h

There is no repairing the damage - we need to build what's next.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump's constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean
that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 13h

Love them, what a moment in pop culture

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-V...

EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

www.youtube.com

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Haneen🍉 @habjjfjiu588.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian publishes me and my meaning on Blue Sky. Take a look, donate and support me.

Donation link 👇🏻👇🏻

chuffed.org/project/help...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

Q: What is Trump’s plan for antifa?

A: He will create the organization, and then destroy it.

What To Know About NSPM-7

On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads...

theonion.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 21h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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