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Otto @ottoim.bsky.social · 1d

I love seeing a long-form profile of the DSA in the FT today. I support the DSA and have since i voted for Jesse Jackson in 1988, when he almost won Texas’ Democratic Primary - gift article:: on.ft.com/3J4a2jf Will Zohran Mamdani’s rise mark a new dawn for American socialism?

Will Zohran Mamdani’s rise mark a new dawn for American socialism?

Tens of thousands of volunteers mobilised by the Democratic Socialists of America are working to elect a torchbearer for a beleaguered US left

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Otto @ottoim.bsky.social · 2d

Read down to the last paragraph. Hilarious! FU Benioff

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

look at this little bitch

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 2d

What a mensch.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 7d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

#WarRavagedPortland

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 6d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 8d

GOOD NIGHT ,
OTTO

NANCY IS SAYING GOOD NIGHT TO HER PET TURTLE OTTO

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10d

Remember when Hillary Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable“?

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 10d

Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10d

“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

— Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline

www.nytimes.com

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 11d

Don’t get mad at the muppets for playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival, it’s the only way they can save the theater

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Otto @ottoim.bsky.social · 10d

Amazing! Go UW!

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10d

Don’t miss the post-game interview

Dorian Lord Zedd @zeddrick.bio · 11d

University of Washington - Piece of shit disrupts Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “retarded degenerates” and “fags"

The professor, Dr. Nicole McNichols, and her class
👏DO
👏NOT
👏PLAY
👏THAT
👏GAME

Otto @ottoim.bsky.social · 11d

I love this! “not a single newsroom” agreed to the Pentagon policy

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11d

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11d

Swear her in.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 11d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 11d

Trump just signed an Executive Order pledging an Article 5-esque security guarantee with Qatar. If they get attacked, America will consider it an attack on us. I'm sure the $400 million bribe they gave him had nothing to do with it...

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Otto @ottoim.bsky.social · 12d

Don’t forget Hegseth’s white racist tattoos

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12d

Instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe you had to work twice as hard to prove yourself worthy in life along the way.

Not at all the same, but it brought back memories of how my young son felt as the only Black kid when the class read To Kill a Mockingbird out loud…
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12d

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers

2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

Dr. Agarwal is among more than 20 researchers who have left their work at Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other big A.I. projects in recent weeks to join a new Silicon Valley start-up, Periodic Labs. Many of them have given up tens of millions of dollars — if not hundreds of millions — to make the move.

As the A.I. labs chase amorphous goals like superintelligence and a similar concept called artificial general intelligence, Periodic is focused on building A.I technology that can accelerate new scientific discoveries in areas like physics and chemistry.

“The main objective of A.I. is not to automate white-collar work,” said Liam Fedus, one of the start-up’s founders. “The main objective is to accelerate science.”

Mr. Fedus was among the small team of OpenAI researchers who created the online chatbot ChatGPT in 2022. He left OpenAI in March to found Periodic Labs with Ekin Dogus Cubuk, who previously worked at Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary A.I. lab.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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