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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: millions go to church every sunday and call the priest "father" but he's not really their dad.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 10h

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

Greg Bovino and his CBP team in their car leaving the federal courthouse with the reflection of a Chicagoan giving them the middle finger in the car window glass

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 10h

Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 7h

The amount of labor that has gone into it, too

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10h

Getting word that Uncle Sam isn’t America’s real uncle

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 10h

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

CNBC @cnbc.com · 20h

Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'

cnb.cx

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 9h

and @etbrooking.bsky.social brings it all home for me

“In many ways, Trump administration officials are trying to use these online motifs to smuggle concepts that would otherwise be too extreme for the American people. Most Americans do not want to ‘destroy’ legal asylum seekers. And referring to this group of people as a ‘flood’ is the sort of thing that was once the domain of white-nationalist manifestos. But tie these things together with an image of Master Chief and a Halo Warthog, and the inconceivable becomes a casual joke,” Brooking said.

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 9h

thank you to @mikesenters.bsky.social for being so succinct and clear about why this latest wave of Trump branded Halo memes feels so horrifying

Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’

'The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely.'

www.404media.co

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 9h

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8h

FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription

YouTube video by Indivisible

www.youtube.com

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 12h

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 12h

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22h

also some science is fucking settled. it's idiotic to pretend otherwise.

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 22h

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change.
Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence.
My latest for Live Science
www.livescience.com/...
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There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you

How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.

www.livescience.com

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20h

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 18h

My weekly plea to tell your apolitical sports-enjoying buddies to stop using X and come to Bluesky. Tell them sports are here, major accounts, endless sports videos and highlights and stats and all that. Tell them they can have a timeline free of politics if they want. Just get them here.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18h

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 18h

I feel like I’ve seen 100k+ in major job cuts in 24 hours

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

Damn.

@wsj.com $UPS
www.wsj.com/business/log...

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 17h

So for those who don't know, the foundation of this is racism.

Most white people can shave without huge issues. Many people of other races have severe problems when they do. That's why some cultures who wanted bare faces PLUCKED the hairs, they didn't shave....even though they clearly had blades.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 18h

Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report

www.independent.co.uk

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 11h

I forget where I heard it; fundamentalism in the early 1900s was not only in response to liberal Christianity but also a backlash to union organizing.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

Evangelicalism's deferred rewards pitch is similarly shaped enough to Silicon Valley's current marketing model that this partnership was more or less inevitable I suppose

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16h

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab

Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.

www.gavi.org

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h

Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

www.theregister.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

no joke: this line of attack is racist.

MANY people from MANY cultural backgrounds use “auntie” and “uncle” for older relatives and even close family friends.

the NYP knows this. this is just bad faith racist bullshit parading as cultural ignorance.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

My Post headline

Mamdani didn’t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ who feared for safety post-9/11

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 was actually his dad’s cousin.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14h

They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.

It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.

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