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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

The US president said he has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in the country, citing the flow of migrants and drugs to America on.ft.com/43nPBVg

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 16h

Jupiter (credit: NASA's Juno Mission, Gerald Eichstädt, & Seán Doran) & JMW Turner's A Disaster at Sea, oil on canvas, 1835 (unfinished)

the blue, white, and gold cloudscape of Jupiter swirling and eddying together

unfinished Turner painting possibly depicting a ship called the Amphitrite - it's burning and breaking up, with roiling, foamy sea carrying and swallowing up the people aboard. there is no clear delineation between the sea and the sky and the clouds - blue, white, and gold swirl together.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

got my contributor copy of Arrow's new 4k restoration of Outland today 🥹 love this movie so much and (if I remember right) I actually felt pretty chuffed with the essay I wrote for the booklet

Outland release spread - kaleidoscopic slip case feat. a guy in a spacesuit reaching out, his helmet bursting with red color, backgrounded by a vortex/rings of bright colors; the cover feat. a guy in a spacesuit standing on top of a wall with a solid bright red background; a glimpse at my essay titled "Dismantling the Rotten Machine" with a glossy little photo of Sean Connery fighting a goon in a kitchen.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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weinberg @weinberg.social · 2d

yup. I mean, look at this.

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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

unbelievable. way too young. we've lost a giant

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

Please do not let it be true that D’Angelo has died. That cannot be possible.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Thunderdome apologist @spencerwparsons.bsky.social · 2d

What's in the basket?

Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Split Picks keeps the horror coming with a new episode about two oddities from director Frank Henenlotter! Filmmakers Steve Collins and Spencer Parsons join host Jim Hickcox to chat 'Basket Case 2' and 'Bad Biology!'

Split Picks: Frank Henenlotter's 'Basket Case 2' Vs. 'Bad Biology' - Split Tooth Media

Split Picks keeps the horror coming with a look at two oddities from director Frank Henenlotter. Buckle up.

www.splittoothmedia.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Thunderdome apologist @spencerwparsons.bsky.social · 2d

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Matt Orion @orionjack.bsky.social · 2d

We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥

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Thunderdome apologist @spencerwparsons.bsky.social · 2d

If GATSBY was truly that great, it would be THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Thunderdome apologist @spencerwparsons.bsky.social · 3d

Telling you that you're wrong and why is literally idea exchange. Disagreement is not a gag.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4d

Oooooeeee there are a lot of people with gags in their hands on this site. Used to be a nice open space for idea exchange.

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 4d

Oh damn, Diane Keaton. For those of us who were kids in the 70s and 80s, the most human human in so many ways, a model of who you could grow up to be, or grow up to love, or both.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

Guess they are counting on the troops to murder their fellow citizens for free.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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