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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 44m

brb dropping everything to math out "how long of a work trip with Jesus would you have to take to afford a 3yo's blueberry budget"

screenshot from tumblr, discussing Charlie Kirk's widow explaining his death to their children as "he's on a work trip with Jesus to afford your blueberry budget"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 49m

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 7h

No Kings Day message to Trump: Other than your coterie of ass-kissers, nobody likes you.

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Judge Stephen Dillard @judgedillard.bsky.social · 7h

Fifteen years ago, Gov. Perdue announced my appointment to the Court of Appeals of GA. I’ll always be grateful for the confidence & trust he placed in me with that decision. These have been the most wonderful, challenging, & humbling years of my life. I’m truly blessed to have a vocation I love.

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The San Diego Comic-Con Unofficial Blog @sdccblog.com · 4h

Are you ready for #SDCC Open Registration on November 15? It's the final badge sale for SDCC 2026. Our Visual Guide will help you prepare: sdccblog.com/2025/10/san-...

San Diego Comic-Con 2026 Open Registration Visual Guide

sdccblog.com

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Law Dork @lawdorknews.bsky.social · 4h

Here's a brief note at Law Dork from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 2h

"Only this thin plane of glass keeps you from being smacked SO HARD"

Sugar the cat, outside on the patio, looking annoyed at Saja the kitten, who is inside the house, looking at her through the patio door.

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Kent Porter @kpphotos.bsky.social · 14h

#CometLemmon above NE Sonoma County, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. #kentporterphotography

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Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · 1h

NEW - British Columbia will be making moratorium on cryptocurrency power connections permanent. BC Hydro will launch competitive process for AI and data centres on January 2026. Criteria will include data sovereignty, benefit to BC/Canadian firms, regional benefits, jobs, and
revenues. #bcpoli

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 20h

I've been seeing quite a few MAGA edgelord accounts today.

Friendly reminder:

Block immediately, and do not engage.

I know they're not having as much fun on twitter with so many of us here, but it's not our job to pet them and feed them little treats of attention.

Do not engage.

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AnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 1d

Great sign!

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

RE: Dutch spooks deciding they're less willing to share w/the US: Remember that the docs from SVR that were the focus of the (now declassified) Durham annex and HPSCI reports were from the Dutch. Basically Tulsi burned all that to smithereens for partisan gain.

nltimes.nl/2025/10/18/d...

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

In a joint interview with de Volkskrant, AIVD Director-General Erik Akerboom and MIVD Director Peter Reesink confirmed that the agencies have become more selective in their cooperation with the CIA and NSA. “That we sometimes no longer tell certain things, that’s true,” Reesink said. Akerboom added, “Sometimes you have to think case by case: can I still share this information or not?” While both officials stressed that relations with U.S. intelligence agencies remain “excellent,” they emphasized that the Netherlands has become “more critical.”

According to the two directors, the Netherlands is increasingly focusing on European cooperation. “We have scaled up enormously,” Akerboom told De Volkskrant, referring to a leading group of Northern European services — including those from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Poland — that are exchanging intelligence more intensively. The war in Ukraine and the growing Russian threat to Europe have accelerated these multilateral intelligence partnerships. Reesink noted that a similar development is visible within military intelligence circles.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 9h

There also used to be a lifetime limit on insurance.

So your policy could literally say 'We will only cover a life time limit of $200k and then you're cancelled and we will not insure you'.

Obamacare eliminated that.

Planetaire, Militant SJW 🌼🌺🌾 @planetaire.bsky.social · 19h

Obamacare made me not die as a child because of the pre-existing condition bullshit they had before then. These guys are demons.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 21h

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 15h

Moreover, even though the whistleblower story contains real news—he hasn’t talked before and he’s making his case publicly—here’s how the CBS News website is playing the two stories at this hour: Kushner leads, whistleblower story is below 10 other stories under “more news.”

Top of CBS NEWS homepage

Witkoff, Kushner reveal turning points in Israel-Hamas negotiations
4H AGO

CBS NEWS

More Top Stories
DOJ whistleblower says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case
2H AGO

The enigma of Tim Curry.
13H AGO

Painter Amy Sherald on portraits and politics
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16h

Genuinely fascinating and terrifying to have a person who has never read a book or basically anything and only learns and retains about 5% of what the last person he spoke with told him running the country

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 16h

If I told you that the Vice President of the United States ordered an IED attack on a California highway adjacent to a Marine base, you'd probably think I was kidding.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

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Evilly Essley @antimle.bsky.social · 17h

"She's fuzzy and brown, she's low to the ground, she's on the hunt she's after you."

A floofy tabby cat sitting in a child's booster seat on a patio table looking very pleased with herself.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 17h

When George Santos ran against Tom Suozzi in 2020, the election wasn't supposed to be close, so Suozzi didn't bother doing oppo research on Santos; Suozzi won by 12 points. In 2022 when Suozzi didn't run, Democrat Robert Zimmerman assumed (without checking) that Suozzi had run oppo and found nothing

chaotic wastrel @chaoticwastrel.bsky.social · 18h

The posts are not good, but I think the replies here give good context for why we shouldn't assume this is a Fetterman situation. Also, this stuff is clearly being pushed by interests aligned with the Janet Mills campain, and Mills has done worse while in office than Platner has posted on Reddit

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

Through Oct. 19, 2017, Trump had spent all or part of 93 days at Trump Org properties and likely played golf on 57.

As of Oct. 19, 2025, he's spent all or part of 102 days at his private properties and likely played golf on 71 days.
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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 17h

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

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