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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18m

"When they try to describe this situation as 'war-torn,' it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit."

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 45m

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 59m

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 17m

I think the element where the frog guy is literally on the front line helps a lot. he's not just screwing around, he's confronting them. Putting his life on the line to create surreal images that mock these city occupations for the hog culture nonsense they are

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 2h

I would have liked to have filmed the inking of this tiny wren and the shrub's very fine branches with this brush, but I needed to get especially close to the piece for this and it would have been too awkward.

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Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a tiny bird perched on a small, leafless shrub. The head of a hen just makes it into the crop, opposite the bird. The drawing is very fine and intricate. The detail shown is roughly comparable in size to two postage stamps, and is photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush the piece was drawn with.

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TerminalSanity @terminalsanity.bsky.social · 6h

You know... if the Nobel Committee wants to make themselves useful thy should tell Trump they will award him a peace prize f he can get his Gaza peace deal hold up until next years Nobel awada and get to at least phase 4

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

Nobel Committee should just troll Trump, and give Obama a second Peace Prize.

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Dragon Ball Stills @dbstills.bsky.social · 2h

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 1d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Silly Rookie @sillyrookie.bsky.social · 1h

The search seems bugged. You can find by series, though.

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Plum @mochakoffee.bsky.social · 3h

The obvious answer.

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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 3h

An international ‘what’s your favorite Gundam’ voting page has gone live. Results will include regional favorites, alongside the 'one to beat them all’ globally. 🥇 Which one will you pick?!

Site: gundam-official.com/feature/vote...

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Silly Rookie @sillyrookie.bsky.social · 1h

REAL ONE DETECTED

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Silly Rookie @sillyrookie.bsky.social · 1h

I'll say that it was WAY more coherent than Wing, for sure. And the Victorian setting with shamanistic rituals was interesting.

I am a G-Gundam guy, so I've been trying to force myself to get into a "normal" series that isn't Universal Century.

Silly Rookie @sillyrookie.bsky.social · 1h

Kingdom Hearts appearance? Maybe Japan really liked it? (I seriously have never seen any of these movies.)

Silly Rookie @sillyrookie.bsky.social · 1h

I'll take your word for it. I tried to start it completely blind a few months ago and it was SO strange and all the nudity was off-putting.

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Suprdee2 @suprdee2.com · 7h

Family Exchange Program (4/6)
A crossover with Bob Scott's Molly and the Bear!
#Rosebudscomic

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5h

what a time to be alive

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8h

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

All this only happened because we let one guy control the military. True democracy would be every citizen having one soldier

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4h

Why, did the money have something on it

Something red maybe

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 4h

whew

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 4h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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