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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 14h

It should be noted that American companies did this in Venezuela for about eight decades, leading to the revolution that brought Chavez and Maduro to power.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 19h

Eric Mueller would’ve been 54 today. I miss that crunchy scamp.

Eric Mueller wearing a T-shirt with a large picture of himself on it

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 2d

This cat better be named Sir Wilford James Diabeetus the third

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 2d

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

youtu.be

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 2d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 2d

Mac Jones going to scramble, then realizing he doesn’t have the facilities for that

a baby is standing in a room with his arms outstretched and wearing a space racer shirt .

ALT: a baby is standing in a room with his arms outstretched and wearing a space racer shirt .

media.tenor.com

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Chris Potter @cpotterpgh.bsky.social · 2d

Penn State: We're gonna let our public-radio broadcasters die rather than pay $17 million for someone else to operate them, because who would pay "a subsidy to run a business [when] there’s no guarantee they’ll stay in business"? (www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...).

Also Penn State:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3d

this rules

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

They make induction countertops that are meant for woks and I really want one. They’re so cool.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute legend.

But really, *those* are the movies we're naming? She won an Oscar for ANNIE HALL and more than held her own with an all-star cast in the GODFATHER films.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Roger Cormier: Built for Fall @yayroger.bsky.social · 4d

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 5d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 8d

R.I.P the TiVo DVR (1999-2025)

The pioneer in digital video recording has officially ceased selling its DVR.

TiVo changed my life, and cloud DVRs will never match its precision and user-friendliness. It's the best piece of consumer electronics I've ever used.

www.mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting...

TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News

TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation...

www.mediaplaynews.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 8d

i really appreciate the increasing challenge to the user - finding your app shouldn't be easy

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 8d

Microsoft’s new Office icons are now available in TestFlight versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint on iOS

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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow's headline: "US NAVY TO SEPARATE 38% OF RANKS, 25% OF OFFICERS"

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 9d

Wait until Pete finds out that 38% of the US Navy is non-White, including 25% of its officers

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen Miller is what you would get if Col. Klink decided he was going to be Maj. Hochstetter

Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 9d

Two former Texas quarterbacks are on NFL rosters—Sam Ehlinger (DEN) and Quinn Ewers (MIA). Both are third on their depth charts.

sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking...

Browns' Dillon Gabriel will become sixth NFL starting QB to have played college football at Oklahoma

Every starting QB at Oklahoma from 2015-23 is now a starting QB in the NFL.

sports.yahoo.com

Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 10d

Looney Tunes clip of French chef saying "You are expecting maybe Humphrey Bogart?"

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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 10d

Pro tip: Even for a newspaper pro, let @glennf.com deliver finished book files. Getting that stuff slightly wrong in PDF can be a nightmare.

(Remember when iOS displayed all pages blank in some PDF files? That was often an incorrect "Overprint Preview" setting, even if you didn't use overprinting.)

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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 10d

It's not a phrase I use, but I've never been more tempted to use it than as part of the phrase "Vice President Whiny Little Bitch"

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 11d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 11d

BIRB

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12d

Anyone know what this friendly guy is

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 12d

"hard-charging journalist" did she cover Uvalde? Embed with infantry in Ukraine? Expose a listeria cover-up in an Iowa meatpacking plant? Literally anything besides whine that working at the Times meant she had to co-exist with liberals?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 12d

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this:

Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 13d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13d

Underrated reason why Israel is currently at -70% approval with Democrats in the US and basically every left of center group in the Western Hemisphere today is this is the average Israel supporter's rhetoric

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13d

I see people are posting their fantasies of Thunberg being tortured again

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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 13d

Ever wondered what it would look like if Colonel Klink thought he was Major Hochstetter?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"