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rogue @roguechocolate.bsky.social · 1m

If he'd just stopped at Jordan, who sucks, on my so called life all of this could have been avoided, but better late than never

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1h

We did it everyone! We got Hollywood to recognize he’s not just a cringe musician, a phony nuisance on set, and an alleged sex predator he’s finally now unmarketable box office poison headed to movie jail.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 11h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8m

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 2h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 37m

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 53m

This Is Fascism

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rogue @roguechocolate.bsky.social · 25m

Spanakopitarts

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile in Madagascar following protests by the self-identified Gen Z movement (like in Kenya, Indonesia, Nepal and Morocco... pay attention), sections of the military are now aligning with the protesters. (We'll see how that goes.)

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Madagascar soldiers join antigovernment protesters assembled in capital

Youth-led demonstrators enter Antananarivo's May 13 Square for the first time since protests erupted last month.

www.aljazeera.com

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 3h

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

Give every politician as much credit as their actions and no more

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Oct 5

bobby "boris" pickett nailed it when he described the monster mash as a "graveyard smash." anyone who was there will tell you, that's exactly what it was. only none of us knew how to put that feeling into words. bobby changed all that. he changed it forever

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 9h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3h

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2h

👇👇👇👇👇

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 2d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 23h

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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rogue @roguechocolate.bsky.social · 12h

A+ music choice

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 14h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13h

Except most of these occurred under Biden.

Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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