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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 9h

There 👏🏼 are 👏🏼 no 👏🏼 good 👏🏼 billionaires 👏🏼

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 12h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 9h

Had gnudi for the first time tonight and friends? It’s great

melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 18h

Perfect day in the ATL

The midtown Atlanta skyline as seen looking across a pond in Piedmont Park. The sky is cloudless and bright blue.

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 18h

*I will not make comments about people’s looks. I will not make comments about people’s looks. I will not

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

Breaking News
Trump's handpicked US attorney Lindsey Halligan didn't coordinate with DOJ on NY AG Letitia James' indictment, sources say.
https://cnn.it/46WoSjD

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 1d

Pardon me, “Winsome Earle-Sears”?? Imma gonna discriminate against her based on that name alone

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 1d

Damn fine forecast, Atlanta

10-day weather forecast for Atlanta and it’s nothing but sunshine, highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s as far as the eye can see

melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 1d

Is this some sort of banana-flavored circus peanut thing??

The same photo of candy with a blue circle drawn around some light yellow vaguely banana-shaped candies in the middle row

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Israeli tanks fired directly at civilians on Al-Rashid Street on Thursday as they were trying to return to northern Gaza.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

The Amish are such a bottleneck of genetic disorders they have a special hospital for it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic_...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

A plainclothes officer sucker punches and violently arrests a man after he points out that another officer is deliberately stepping on a woman’s shoes while she is carrying her child.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 1d

Delete this post then delete your account

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Netanyahu is very happy to make Trump look stupid

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 2d

PSA for @jamellebouie.net and @dieworkwear.bsky.social J Crew has a new Wallace & Barnes collection and it’s amazing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously!!! Stop letting them dictate the discourse, Christ almighty

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

imagine if we just ignored conservatives' complaints about the Super Bowl every year. they always do this!

melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 2d

My kid has never heard of Gwyneth Paltrow and excused it by saying, “I’ve only heard of actors if they’re really famous.” #burn

melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 2d

Finally my cats can look like Russian mobsters

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4d

Leave Twitter for Bluesky. Leave Bluesky for Mastodon. Leave Mastodon for Klerb. Leave Klerb for Chunk. Leave Chunk for Goobus. Leave Goobus f

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