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kevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 3h

Inflation for food was legitimately much worse between January 2021 and January 2024 than it has been for the last six months, that's why

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 4h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

Entire political movement led by a rapist. What do you expect?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4h

JUST IN: U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui refuses an indictment DC US Atty's office got from DC Superior Court grand jury after US District Court grand jury refused to indict. Faruqui calls indictment "facially invalid." Govt to appeal to Boasberg. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 5h

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

I don't get it, this is exactly what Gen AI is good at (half assing an act of creation that no one is going to critically evaluate).

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Topher Brennan (he/they) @topherbrennan.bsky.social · 8h

ICE goons who gleefully abuse people based on the color of their skin don't just need to go to prison—they need to be given the maximum sentence the law allows. Not even for the sake of "justice", but so one of them doesn't end up founding the next KKK. bsky.app/profile/whst...

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

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

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 8h

There are anecdotes of neurologists/psychiatrists not asking "who is the current President" between 2021 and 2024 in red areas

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 9h

Reminder that this is the test

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 9h

"Jews are Palestinians" (derogatory) (right wing coded)

"Jews are not Palestinians" (derogatory) (left wing coded)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 9h

Wonder if any intrepid journalist has attempted to get a fully fictitious identity signed up as an ICE agent

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 9h

Feels like "a bunch of ICE new hires are actually registered sex offenders" is a shoe waiting to drop given how certainly little vetting anyone is doing of these guys.

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 9h

half these people aren't even allowed to be this close to an elementary school

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 9h

These people are fucking monsters

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 11h

If her fetus is "in her placenta," that woman is in a ton of pain and the pregnancy's a nonstarter anyway. Good lord, don't take medical advice from this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11h

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 10h

We're going to win

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 11h

Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for mushroom risotto

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 11h

It's England, you can get sued for anything there

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 12h

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 20h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 17h

Habeas is so important, so powerful, the rights, and of course the corpus involved

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 18h

This man's brain is just scrambled eggs on toast

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18h

ARE YOU HABEAS CORPUS?

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, this is the same lady who did the OK hand sign at Kavanaughs hearing

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