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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 13h

good afternoon

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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 13h

Every time an Officiating Expert speaks these days it seems like he says something I have never heard before in my life.

Theflagisupsidedown @theflagisup.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine trying to explain to a rabid football fan from say the 80s what a “football move” is.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h

Lock him up

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 16h

At least half a dozen companies vying for some of the $45B allocated for immigration detention work hired a friend of border czar Tom Homan because that friend (who previously had Homan on his payroll) led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of scoring a contract.

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

www.propublica.org

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 15h

I love that you still have this. Is Enzo still with us?

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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 17h

When will the DC press start taking about the mental stability of a man who doesn’t remember he was president on Jan. 6, 2021?

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 21h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 21h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 22h

we need to abolish this shit

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Very funny considering this was about six months ago

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Apr 29

Under attack from Nate Silver, "the man who is always right"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is cutting mental health services. Specifically, the people staffing 988 will be unsure of their employment.

What we need to do to help support them is tell their bosses they have saved our lives, or kept us company, or helped.

And insist they tell their staff you said so.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

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

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 1d

I love mustard pork BBQ and brisket lol

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 1d

PROST

Two white people doing beer in front of a mountain

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

President who engaged in housing discrimination as landlord lays off housing discrimination staff

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d

30% of SFO's city budget is for policing

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 1d

Has Kansas City ever been the BBQ capital of America?

Pizza and Pasta the Homemade Way @pizzacook.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Tell me you've never been in Memphis without saying that you've never been in Memphis.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/d...

Is Kansas City Still the Barbecue Capital of America?

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

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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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 1d

Every now & then, you realize MAGAs don't understand that the entire world hates their fucking guts. I don't want to hear the anthem these days & i live here.

Wrestling Mike Check - WWE, AEW, TNA, Wrestling News @wrestlingmikecheck.bsky.social · 1d

Crown Jewel event held at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, the local crowd reportedly booed during the national anthem. The unplanned reaction added tension to the atmosphere before the show began

#CrownJewel #WWE #NationalAnthem #Perth #WrestlingNews

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 2d

Valley views

A person stands in darkness over a code of the lights of northern salt lake

Hills at night illuminated by light pollution

A panorama of lights of salt lake City Metro at night

A view of downtown salt lake City skyline at night

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