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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

This is the way

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 3h

I was going there but someone else said Dallas Buyers Club and that’s even better considering Kid Wegovy’s gaunt features.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 4h

The other big test is that you have to eat a slice without a knife and fork.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations on nailing that sweet nexus between “that’s far too graphic” and “so plausible it must be true”

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 4h

My kid once ordered strawberry with strawberry cream cheese.

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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 7h

TV photographer shot with crowd-control munitions at Illinois protest
->U.S. Press Freedom Tracker | #Protest | More from Lil' Dr Glen at BigEarthData.ai

TV photographer shot with crowd-control munitions at Illinois protest

Jeff Freeman, a photojournalist for WLS-TV, was shot with pepper balls while reporting on protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Illinois, on Sept. 27, 2025. Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson sent a...

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 5h

Because you don’t care for jalapeño, or the combo doesn’t work for you?

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 5h

Totally

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 7h

You get your drugs and they also pay you ten times what they’re worth!

I don’t see how anyone could think this was a bad idea tbh

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 7h

Could you get elected with a cream cheese and lox on jalapeño?

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 16h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

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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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 14h

It’s funny to visit Alamogodno and see German dishes on the menu in restaurants.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 17h

In AP English in high school our teacher did the thing where people take turns reading the play aloud. I thought it was gonna be the longest two weeks of my life, until she followed it with another interminable reading of The Metamorphosis.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 18h

Please don’t read this as homophobic, either. It’s weird to post this kind of knob slobbering hero worship of someone you know, much less some famous misogynist abuser.

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 18h

It’s not science if you don’t assume your conclusion before doing the experiment.

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 18h

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 18h

Schumer trying to chaise some of Gavin’s clout.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully.

Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ health care and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.

A headline from the New York Post reads: “JD Vance calls Chuck Schumer ‘one of the most famous Palestinians’”

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 19h

What are you trying to say?

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 20h

I’m not a fan of the federal land giveaways for solar that absolutely destroy the intact desert ecosystem at those sites. But I suspect they’ve already bladed the roads and killed the tortoises and spread the weeds. So now we have a lose-lose situation, a Trump specialty.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 20h

Hoover Dam won’t make 2 gigawatts when Lake Mead finishes drying up due to climate change.

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