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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 6h

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 3h

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 6h

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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CNN @cnn.com · 4h

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump's proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House. https://cnn.it/47yWmpP

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 33m

Remember their names.

CNN @cnn.com · 4h

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump's proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House. https://cnn.it/47yWmpP

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

www.cnn.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 28m

question here is: will Duffy turn out to be more Pete Buttigieg (derogatory) or Ashley St Claire (complementary)

Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 32m

New: Elon Musk's feud with Sean Duffy, the Trump official with the most oversight of his businesses, is raising eyebrows. "You’re essentially fighting with the guy in charge ... It’s so much self-sabotage."
wapo.st/4nf0OyB

Musk doubles down in fight with Trump administration, risking his empire

The tech executive has shown little sign of backing down from a battle over the future of NASA. It has spilled into the Transportation Department, which oversees regulation for Tesla.

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David Riecks @riecks.bsky.social · 2m

WTF? #AIslop #plagiarismmachine

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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Scott P @mookiedad.bsky.social · 13h

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Spook E Peyote @niceandinnocent.bsky.social · 12h

Of course they are. That's how AI works. That's why people call it a plagiarism machine. It doesn't create anything it just mashes up stuff people made.

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Mister Sterling @mister-sterling.bsky.social · 13h

Christ, you are all correct. Those are people based on actors.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28m

Betting on games you play in: awful, uncool, threat to the sport, needs to be banned and illegal

Betting in illegal poker ring organized by the mob: insanely cool but unfortunately still needs to be illegal

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1h

we’ve got a mafia poker ring abcnews.go.com/US/miami-hea...

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Billups was arrested in Oregon, where is expected to make an initial court appearance on Thursday, sources said.

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 8h

Rep Shontel Brown is on 🔥 speaking the truth.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27m

Desert Point, Lombok Island, Indonesia

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 27m

If you are arresting someone for playing the Imperial March you are literally a stormtrooper!

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31m

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On
September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking
in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr.
O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on
his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened
to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording
and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant
MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in
essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him
from continuing his peaceful protest.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26m

my reaction to the Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier news is that I don't trust anything Kash Patel does to be on the level.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25m

I don’t want to be overly precious about it, because many people in many non-desk jobs work close together in large spaces. But there is something just miserably bleak about this room.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 32m

Congrats workers on your new hell zone

Congratulations
@jpmorgan
on the opening of your new headquarters! 🎉🇺🇸🙏

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

White Stoops, West 88th Street, New York City, Winter 1952, by Ruth Orkin.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31m

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 12h

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

“People aren't buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen - The Shot

Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...

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Voidra ➡️ MIGW, GCAP, PAX! @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 10h

Dave Milner is, consistently, the only hope I have in Australian journalism. Not journalism. Just Australian journalism and it's ability to tell the liars and fascists to go fuck themselves.

Verbatim.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 12h

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

“People aren't buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen - The Shot

Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...

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Negan @rogernegan.bsky.social · 10h

This

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Earlier today, I looked quickly at a poll result showing that 1 in 8 Republicans think the No Kings protests were "mostly violent" — and half aren't sure if they were violent or peaceful. www.pbump.net/o/half-of-re...

Half of Republicans aren’t sure how violent the No Kings protests were

I've been traveling this week, so the amount of attention I've been able to pay to the world around me is diminished, no doubt to my benefit. That said, the poll result below did come to my attention,...

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Diane @notalwaysladydi.bsky.social · 12h

He and every president occupy the WH as a GUEST! The National Park Service owns it, it is part of the National Trust of Historic Places and the Peoples House! He desecrated an icon of our nations history without consultation , permission or showing a plan of any kind! Remove him from office.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 13h

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

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