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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 12h

Why are all these guys just absolutely out of their bloody minds

thoughts-comments.bsky.social @thoughts-comments.bsky.social · 17h

Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t think we can call it “pedocon *theory*” anymore, the evidence is in, the hypothesis has been proven, the peer reviews are in

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 16h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

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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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 14h

@jaketapper.bsky.social ? Anything? Hello? Is this thing on?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 14h

@jaketapper.bsky.social ? Anything?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 16h

“Hey Doug, any stag and does coming up? Any weddings I can help you out with?” #onpoli

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 16h

NEW from Toronto Today:

The company behind Toronto’s speed cameras has tapped five lobbyists to help get the Ford government’s ear ahead of promised provincial legislation to end the program. #OnPoli #Topoli
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

Toronto's speed camera vendor registers to lobby province ahead of Ford's ban

City staff said it’s too early to tell if Ford’s ban opens Toronto up to legal risk for breaking a contract

www.torontotoday.ca

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17h

10 October 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Vera Erdesz, was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage sepia-tone photograph of a smiling girl with braided hair.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 22h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 21h

I’m a quick-witted dame with a wicked shorthand and a 70 wpm typing speed. When I’m not knocking back whiskey at the local watering hole I’m using my feminine wiles to get the bad boys talking. That’s how I get the good scoops, see? And when I get one I run thru the newsroom yelling STOP THE PRESSES

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 1d

It’s gonna ask if your kid has a permit for that lemonade stand.

Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 1d

That headline is so unbelievably offensive.

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 1d

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to

The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

www.thetrillium.ca

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 1933 | Dutch Jew, Isaäc Hartog, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Black and white portrait of a young boy wearing a white shirt and dark tie.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 2d

Myers says this is another issue that highlights the need for Toronto to look at becoming a charter city. "Whether it's speed cameras, whether it's bike lanes, whether it's blue bins, we can't seem to make a decision without Doug Ford running interference because someone got in his ear."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: because the veteran prosecutor nominated by Trump as U.S. attorney and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee after 8 months on the job found no basis for indicting James Comey or Letitia James, Trump replaced him 3 weeks ago with an insurance lawyer he met at one of his golf courses.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1936 | Dutch Jew, Abraham Alexander Velleman, was born in Zutphen.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

A vintage black and white photo showing a young
boy smiling slightly.

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously I only do this with cardinals

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 1d

I feel attacked

Midge @midge.bsky.social · 1d

People over 40 watching birds at the bird feeder

Picture of a crowd going wild with enthusiasm

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry for your loss. He was a beautiful boy.

Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 1d