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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 6h

Oh dear, it seems the anti-vaxxers are upset that Trump got flu and Covid shots during his physical exam.

a barbie doll says ohh myyyy with her hands in the air

Alt: a barbie doll says ohh myyyy with her hands in the air

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 15h

Former Presidents should take the money raised for their Presidential libraries and use it to build libraries in underserved communities. #BookSky #Libraries

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 11h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 9h

We have the dumbest people on Earth running the government.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 10h

MAGA doesn’t care if you die.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 12h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans don’t care about the military. It is merely a prop for them.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 11h

After he used it to help him write his last book, of course.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are.

I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 11h

The map showing all of the events is INSANE. 😲

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15h

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

t.co

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 19h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 14h

Gonna get bounced out of court so fast the sonic boom will be louder than the Concorde

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14h

While the Trump admin has accused state AG Letitia James of using a Virginia house as an "investment property" to rent out rather than a second home, The New York Times reports that she a house for her grandniece, who lives in it rent-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Ms. Thompson’s testimony that she has lived in the house rent-free — Ms. James pays even for basic upkeep, the people said — could make it difficult for prosecutors to convince a jury that the house was meant to be used as a rental investment property.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 14h

Writers Guild rightly tells members not to respond to Bari Weiss

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wga-cbs-news-staffers-not-respond-bari-weiss-memo-1236546038/

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13h

I want to make it perfectly clear I've got nothing against TRON: ARES. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

But what I want most is for the younger generations to love going to the movies, which means we need more movies for them. Not every movie needs to be for 50 year old white guys.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 1d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 12h

HELL YES

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 12h

I’d say (not that you asked, of course 😬) the Lusitania, with Trump as the German sub commander.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13h

comics to read in your comfy deck chair on the titanic

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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