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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 16h

I’m sure someone will tell me that there’s a lot of actual Christian Republicans. I’m sure there are. But to be in bed with cats that only believed in a performative version of your faith just feels like mockery to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 18h

Agreed. An unabashed progressive as head of the biggest US city is a good thing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 21h

Revival. It touches on the Christian roots of the nation, and encompasses the spirit of “fixing, getting right” rather than “throwing it all away”

Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 2d

#fantasyfootball I don’t know anything about Drake Maye but he’s punching above his weight class today. It’s not often that a hurt Lamar Jackson could have his production replaced

Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 2d

Penn State… can’t say it shouldn’t have happened but its still shocking

Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s riding the retro trend. Tecmo ‘26 coming to consoles soon.

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 2d

Randy Marsh all the way down. “I’m sorry, I thought this was America”

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 2d

And yes, it’s directed at, in her point, future people that would visit this future beach, but that would also include Jewish people

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 2d

Y’all gotta delete this. Cruel people aren’t stupid( she’s bringing up a larger, accurate point), while literally, LITERALLY, calling Jewish people vermin. It’s in the clip!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CANDACE: “Trump wants a Nobel Prize for the planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza they can profit off of and turn into a beach town… every family set to inherit what they did will be cursed… when they build a Trump Hotel there, I caution 🌍 to stay far away from that cursed land.”

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 3d

Shit ain’t been right since the Warren Court 😔

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 3d

My wife jokes with me because I unironically call The First Wives Club my favorite movie. RIP

@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3d

Omg! Nooooo!

#RIP Diane Keaton has died! 79 years old. Way too young.

people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

people.com

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 3d

Big ahh pretzel

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 4d

Yes.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 6d

They just hit 80k, no? @demsocialists.bsky.social

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 6d

Not gonna lie, big reason I’d been delaying re-upping the membership

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 6d

That’s it. This should be Gamergate 2.0. They took away a game where you could basically play Django, because “some” people might get offended.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6d

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING ME

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 6d

This made me think of something - I know the Left doesnt celebrate nationalism in the traditional sense, but there’s something to riding the nostalgia/“the past was better” wave. Teen Vogue has existed since 2003, and the parent mag for a lot longer. Why not elevate something that already exists?

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 6d

The programming language? /s

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 6d

Good take. Wasn’t it Aaron Sorkin of all people that suggested a free for all convention, with debates led by Taylor Swift? They wanted it to be a carnival, which would have still been a Dem loss, but at least they would have gotten their ratings

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · Dec 6

CON AIR and FACE/OFF were released 3 weeks apart in June of 1997.

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 7d

The Rivian CEO gave a bullshit answer to the political climate on #Decoder

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · 7d

That, but also these Gen Z cats never had Nick at Nite - a glimpse at the “heyday of America”, at least by television standards. My Nick at Nite was I Dream of Jeanie and Dick van Dyke Show. Kids today think Friends is nostalgia (and last I checked Friends was on the current Nick at nite)

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