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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 9h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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🎃spooky chey👻 @cheygoulet.bsky.social · 15h

19 days until Halloween 🎃

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Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social · 21h

I'm loving Columbo because every domestic set fucks unbelievably hard.

A man and a woman in a very seventies apartment: white floor, green shag area rug, cool futuristic looking chairs, grey bar.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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𝖂𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗 @wertheimer.bsky.social · 1d

50 yrs ago

Fly Robin Fly
Silver Convention
11 Oct 1975
#MusicSky🎶

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

This Mariners-Tigers battle is one of the best baseball games I’ve ever seen

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Jeriatricmodel @jeriatricmodel.bsky.social · 1d

Going to the store today to buy one onion and a loaf of bread like I just rode into town in my horse and buggy.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d

YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Wilbur72 @wilboo72.bsky.social · 5d

Laying in bed thinking about work in the morning should be some sort of partial credit.

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Chris Hauselt @movingsideways.bsky.social · 3d

In space no one can hear you SCRAM!!!

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 3d

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 3d

Me: Is there something I could do differently to improve my sleep?

Doctor: I recommend not looking at your phone for at least an hour before bed.

Me: So nothing then.

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🎃spooky chey👻 @cheygoulet.bsky.social · 4d

23 days until Halloween 🎃

Opossum in a strawberry-themed costume.

Instagram: avec.possum

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 4d

Autumn is my favourite season, spring a close second, but one thing I really hate is waking up when it’s still dark outside…

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scifitoys.co.uk @scifitoys.co.uk · 5d

1965 Doctor Who and the DALEKS plastic jar tub

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S.D.Harrison @sdharrison.bsky.social · 5d

#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge

ERASURE

8 : Chains of Love

youtu.be/6J2OlIpQgF8?...

Erasure - Chains of Love (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by Erasure

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 5d

"The Wrap of Khan" would be a good name for a Star Trek-themed shawarma cart

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 5d

If I have to enter in one more verification code I'm going to snap

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

it’s often talked about how elon musk is an annoying piece of shit but the worst part is that we have to take a guy with the name “elon” seriously. what a dumb name

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