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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking about writing about the experience of being gaslit by rural and suburban family/friends who tell you that their paranoid fantasies of your city trump your lived experience.

Long way of saying share your stories in comments! I may quote them.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

The Republican shutdown continues.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 4h

The hotel I stayed at this week in Dublin had awful security.

They had a self serve kiosk that would check in / print you a new hotel room key given information about your email address, surname, and the number of nights you were staying. No ID check needed.

All of these are trivially guessable.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 9h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 21h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

NEW: Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.

Those dates have come and gone.

They’re still stuck here.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates have come and gone. They’re still stuck here.

www.propublica.org

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 3h

It's a good way to get attention.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 14h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Post this everywhere‼️
-and-

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 3h

Bsky getting back to its roots

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

new: zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

…are way past the point of not taking these “national security” directives seriously, even if trump and Stephen miller don’t get Everything they want ultimately. He got the doj to turn on a dime and start indicting enemies who his former handpicked prosecutor apparently couldn’t build a case for. &…

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 4h

(he's a Protestant pastor not a priest, just several mainline churches maintain the clerical color aesthetic)

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 3h

He's apparently a musician as well, so this is possible.

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 3h

a man and a woman are sitting in a dark room

Alt: A woman nervously adjusts her hair and glasses

media.tenor.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"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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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13h

Manchaca.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 14h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 16h

A very weird detail in this WSJ story about Trump’s weaponization of DOJ and FBI:

“Trump occasionally reminds aides about an incident last year in which Trump cut his hand on Bondi’s large wedding ring, causing him to bleed.”

…??

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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