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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1h

Who knew that giant inflatable frog costumes were the perfect protest outfit because they can deflect pepper balls while also making anyone who gets mad at you look like a huge doofus?

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 1h

The Second Casting

Dan Fox @foxdaniel.bsky.social · 4h

Jim Caviezel being too insane for Mel Gibson is quite something.

Page Six @pagesix.com · 1d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

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Evangeline.Morin @evangelinemorin.bsky.social · 2h

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 2h

Bedfellows just keep gettin stranger.

Valk @einherjarvalk.bsky.social · 4h

no no no, YOUR goat is washed, mine's still a king

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“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..”

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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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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 5h

when i tell you this is some of the BEST sound design I’ve ever heard… GO SEE IT IN A THEATRE! You WONT REGRET IT!

'PREY WILL PLAY IN THEATERS FOR THE FIRST TIME
LEARN MORE

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely wild time for my son to be studying the Constitution in his 9th grade Early American History class

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding?

why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, this is no reflection on your mother. I just like picturing baggage full of perishables. Luggage full of legumes. That sort of thing.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7h

The Onion had a post about NSPM-7 before The New York Times did lmao

THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

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

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 8h

Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 9h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 7h

Ok now I’m just imagining a suitcase bursting at the seams with lentils

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 7h

I’m going to Dokweznee Land!

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 10h

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth, Megan?

Yes, the guy who received so many threats because of your own actions he had to flee to Europe isn’t the real victim. No. You are, because people called you out.

Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter who started the Change.org petition to remove Bray, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Di Filippo's petition is slanderous.
"The petition once again proves that Conservative students are always on the receiving end of hate when speaking about concerning issues," Doyle said.

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 9h

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 9h

Sooo Lindsey Halligan really didn’t notice how many lawyers who’ve just done whatever Trump says have been disbarred, huh?

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9h

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 9h

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11h

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

he’s gonna end up inventing antisemitism from first principles lmao

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

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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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 15h

If Fascism is a boot stomping on a neck, forever, Capitalism is a Croc full of M&Ms, leaking forever

kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not even going to open this email, but just let the image I’ve conjured dwell forever in my mind palace ( a Croc full of M&Ms constantly needing to be replenished as the candies fall out through the holes.)

kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not even going to open this email, but just let the image I’ve conjured dwell forever in my mind palace ( a Croc full of M&Ms constantly needing to be replenished as the candies fall out through the holes.)

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 15h

Glad you’re home. Sorry you don’t get time to catch your breath. I very much get that. The world just keeps rolling on whether you need a break or not. Try to hang in there

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kablackquois @kablackquois.bsky.social · 1d

Duquesne

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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