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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 12h

Oh shit, this is how they'll take over America

We borked our economic system so badly that the extremely rich have now become out-of-this-world rich. They're just going to buy up and wingify everything that matters.

Twitter cost nothing to Musk - he's destroyed 2/3 of its value and he's ecstatic

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

Dominion Voting Systems, once at the center of 2020 election conspiracies, has been sold to a firm run by a former Republican elections official promising to “restore trust in voting.” Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to do it.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 15h

Might I add to this discussion that "peace" has not yet descended upon Gaza?

Talk about obvious. They don't give a damn about actual leadership or making people's lives better. They're only obsessed with the trappings of glory.

Who cares if Gaza still sucks - just give him the trophy already!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 15h

I voted for Hillary but I sure as hell don't want to hear her talk about "Israel-Hamas," jesus. And what conservatives want to hear from Condoleezza Rice? If this is their stab at modern journalism, the network will be in the can before 2026.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 19h

"that's Kristi Noem's department"

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 19h

This is a big tell

Conservatives have no basis for understanding journalism and making it better. Instead, they have a penchant for identifying and destroying their enemies.

Bari doesn't care at all if you think CBS needs an ombudsman, she wants to know if you're woke. This is all tribal bullshit.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 21h

Here's the full memo.

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lvnvrcd.bsky.social @lvnvrcd.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem =

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Aah I see he's a rape padawan

🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

did image search for him and literally the first one was him and Andrew Tate

Newest White House sex pest pictures with notorious professional misogynist Andrew Tate

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Well now we know who cancelled Mark Bray's flight

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad we won but the ending to that Dodger game was cruel

That is such a difficult play ohh man

#Dodgers

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Another terrific playoff pitching substitution from Dave Roberts, the man is uncanny

#Dodgers

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Buried lede, almost last sentence:

"He had planned to fly to Spain on Wednesday night but said that shortly before takeoff, he was notified by the airline that his family’s reservations had been canceled."

Bray + wife & kids mysteriously blocked after getting boarding passes & going thru security.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

bit.ly

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a beard is making a funny face with his mouth open

ALT: a man with a beard is making a funny face with his mouth open

media.tenor.com

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Clear as a bell: "...with her baby in her placenta."

I guess in Bobby's mind a placenta is sort of like an egg case, and a human baby is something like a shark

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

fedora, neckbeard, MAGA hat

we can assume she's a pedophile

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

You have a constitutional right to protest

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

"The problems begin when you try to analyze it."

What are these problems, exactly?

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

can’t comment on Candace because it’s quite obviously a freak show. It’s like driving on the highway and seeing a farmer having sex with a sheep. You don’t want to look, but you can’t look away either. The problems begin when you try to analyze it. It is what it is.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

I still don't believe Netanyahu will accept this. I fully believe he is cooking up some conspiracy to defy the whole thing and return to genocide.

The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 1d

Smotrich says he will oppose hostage deal, as his party weighs quitting the government https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-he-will-oppose-hostage-deal-as-his-party-weighs-quitting-the-government/

Smotrich says he will oppose hostage deal, as his party weighs quitting the government

Religious Zionism source says decision hasn't been made yet; Ben Gvir mum on deal after earlier threat to bolt if Hamas 'remains in existence'; opposition has promised 'safety net'

www.timesofisrael.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

A plainclothes officer sucker punches and violently arrests a man after he points out that another officer is deliberately stepping on a woman’s shoes while she is carrying her child.

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 1d

Mike: "...who appeals to a broader audience"...

Johnson concludes Lee Greenwood should replace Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl. Right.

How about some reality? Albums sold:
- Bad Bunny: 116 million
- Lee Greenwood: 25 million

Spotify total streams:
- Bad Bunny: 96 billion
- Lee Greenwood: 96 million

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has killed the third son of Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza
Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem..
RIP my dear son.
6:06 AM • 10/9/25 • 186K Views

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 2d

The failure of Dave Roberts in one graphic

Who are the greatest pitchers of all-time? What teams counted on their guys in the playoffs? The pitchers with the most statistical innings.

Kershaw has the worst ERA by far. On average the other 14 pitchers have an ERA of 2.996. Roberts tortured the guy.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone remember Dave Roberts sending Kershaw in relief, getting an inning out of him, then disastrously thinking "HEY CLAYTON WHY NOT PITCH ANOTHER INNING?"

I do.