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RandomMinutia @randomminutia.bsky.social · 2h

Water Spray Stop GIF

ALT: Water Spray Stop GIF

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 6h

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6h

I cannot stress enough, no one on a college campus looks like that and 95+% of students wear entirely typical, gender-conforming clothing. And the other 5% (it's not really that many) are perfectly fine, but seriously these guys are making up someone to be angry at.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 7h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 6h

illegal and dangerous

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

In addition to gifting Trump a jet, Qatar is building a $5.5 billion Trump golf resort in Qatar, are major investors in two Trump developments in Saudi and Oman, among other things.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

An update from WGN on Debbie Brockman: "Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

This morning, masked Border Patrol agents violently pinned a longtime WGN-TV producer to the ground after detaining another unidentified male in Chicago, eventually arresting her and hauling her off in an unmarked silver van.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 8h

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 11h

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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RandomMinutia @randomminutia.bsky.social · 8h

a man is holding a can of soda in front of his mouth and says `` time is a flat circle '' .

ALT: a man is holding a can of soda in front of his mouth and says `` time is a flat circle '' .

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RandomMinutia @randomminutia.bsky.social · 8h

Ah, the First Red Scare and backlash to the Russian Civil War crossbred with the classic Jim Crow racial resentment that exploded into the East St. Louis Race Riots of 1917 that carried into racial paranoia, prohibition, & the rise of the 2nd Ku Klux Klan that paraded down DC in full robes by 1925.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 16h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

eji.org

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Caroline Losneck @carolinelosneck.bsky.social · 9h

Wow. Never heard of this before now

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 16h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

eji.org

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, this is great.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 19h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

www.wusa9.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

Walking back into work to perform limited excepted duties as approved by my chain:

"the situation is uuuuhhhhh fluid"

James Earl Jones in By Dawn's Early Light .

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 1d

The glory of the Kavanaugh Stop.

The law shields the powerful from the oppressed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 21h

He's got the juice.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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