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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 1h

Berlusconi had exactly the same ritual of having his doctors telling the press how younger than his age his body looked after each check up. Literally the same personality cult.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1h

We're all trying to find the guy who did this www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives.

www.mediaite.com

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 1h

happy third bday to this delightful weirdo

nyx (black cat) doing her batman “i’m vengeance” pose

nyx with her front paws draped over a chair

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 1h

Bari at a zoning meeting: [Raises hand] Hi, yeah, I'm covering this meeting and it's really boring, can you like bring out cupcakes or something or talk about how this [checks notes] en-cumber-ants is woke?
Chair: Ma'am, the petitioner has the floor and they know what they're talking about.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1h

I would pay actual money to watch Bari Weiss cover a zoning board meeting.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

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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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1h

Love the little Klansmen hiding in the evil crown.

BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 11h

🤨 we know who’s terrorizing our country.
www.nokings.org find a rally 10/18/25 👊🏼

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 5h

The thing we have learned very clearly about Jay Bhattacharya in the last six months is:

He wants to be a podcaster.

He seems to have no interest in running NIH or learning about science. He’s the leader of #darkscicomm

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6h

Bhattacharya is busy tweeting from his personal account about how he was right about lockdowns.

This is where he seems to want to spend his time, rather than doing his day job.

t Jay Bhattacharya reposted
Coronavirus Plushie & @c_plushie
Follow
And this is how it was covered by @IngrahamAngle on this day, 5 Oct, 2020:
Top International Epidemiologists Launch
Petition for Focused Protections and an End to Lockdowns — Signed by Over 1,700 Medical Professionals
Thank you @MartinKulldorff@DrJBhattacharya and@SunetraGupta
• DR SUNETRA GUPTA LOXFORD UNIV EPIDEMIOLOGY PROFESSOR
FOX NEWS
EXPERTS: THOSE NOT VULNERABLE SHOULD RESUME LIFE
EXCLUSIVE
ANGLE

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 2h

They'll say he's healthier than a team of horses a week after clinical death.

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 2h

Fallujah never looked this bad.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 2h

Probably not. It's just the vast left-wing conspiracy seizing control of his Bluesky account to make all the sheeple here think he survived the Metro.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2h

People like social workers, homeless advocates, service provider, etc., who, because they get compensation from the state, steal from people who are not homeless (taxation being theft), prey on the morbid guilt of the degenerate liberals, and prevent the culling of the herd.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 2h

Savage

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 4h

the densest man in media strikes again

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Western Mass Politics & Insight @wmasspi.com · 3h

A #WesternMA face with a familiar #Springfield name is joining @MassGovernor's office. #mapoli #spfldpoli wmasspi.com/2025/10/brie...

Briefings: A Western Mass Ashe Rises into the Governor's Office… — Western Mass Politics & Insight

UPDATED 10/8/25 1:11PM: To include clarification from the governor’s office on the staff changes. The name of a new staffer for Governor Maura Healey will sound familiar to some in the Lower Valley. T...

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 3h

Guarding the eggs.

A black cat sitting in a shop window with many eggs.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 3h

This document is not only hysterical (par for the course), but it outright lies.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3h

"The district court impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief's military judgments — something district courts lack the authority and competence to do."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5h

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 4h

Note the lack of en-Thune-siasm for that, though.

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Jeffery C. Mays @jeffcmays.bsky.social · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/n... Like Ms. James, Mr. Mamdani has been a frequent target for the president, who has falsely called him a communist and illegal immigrant while threatening to strip Mr. Mamdani of his U.S. citizenship and slash New York City’s federal funding if he becomes mayor.

For Mamdani and James, Twin Targets of Trump, a Political Bond Deepens

www.nytimes.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 5h

Most people can't imagine police brutalizing them because they have extremely few interactions with the police in their life. But many people have dogs, love their dogs and know that dogs act like dogs when they encounter a stranger.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

were the objects insults? Harsh looks?

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 5h

I still think the Trump DOJ is failing to produce competent witnesses here more out of incompetence than out of contempt — the lawyers in charge just cannot navigate agency structure and law. But as Judge Xinis’s “two strikes” comment suggests, they’re running out of time to learn their jobs.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 9h

Judge Xinis shows her frustration at the Trump DOJ.

"See, Mr. Ensign, this is the problem that I have."

She notes that her order demanded a witness who could deliver answers on Costa Rica.

"You come today with a witness that knows nothing about Costa Rica."

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 6h

Gross and disappointing.

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 6h

I really don’t understand why Judge Perry (a Biden appointee) just accepts and adopts “Department of War” and “Secretary of War“

She uses it throughout the opinion, it’s a little jarring

Also bn October 4, the Department of War asked the Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard to agree to the mobilization of 300 Illinois National Guard troops pursuant to 32
U.S.C. § 502(f). Doc. 13-2 at 5, 21. The Illinois National Guard Adjutant General was informed that if he did not agree in the next two hours, "the Secretary of War will direct the mobilization of as many members of the ILNG as he may deem necessary under Title 10 United States Code." Id. at 21. Governor Pritzker reaffirmed his position that there was no public safety need necessitating such a deployment. Doc. 13-15 at 24. Later that day, the Secretary of War issued a
memorandum calling forth "at least 300 National Guard personnel into Federal service...to

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