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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 1d

Why are Democrats lining up behind a 77-year-old candidate for a body that runs on seniority?

www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/10/w...

What are they thinking? - Verities and Vagaries

Janet Mills, former Democratic governor of Maine, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Many have described this as a "coup," specifically for Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to rega...

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 1d

Here you can read the beginning for free

“Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.” Sometimes you encounter a sentence so perfect, so obviously right and true, it makes your bone marrow vibrate. Jimmy Fallon … wants to turn Wordle … into a TV show. Just reading the words is like tuning in to the resonant frequency of the universe. Yes. Yes, he does. I think I was born knowing it. I think plants know it. In 1730, peasants in Holland were troubled by a strange, unspeakable thought that flickered at the edges of their consciousness. This was their knowledge that all times are as one, and Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.

Princess Leia looks up. Her eyes are sad but full of dignity. Around her, the nighttime chirps and trills of the forest moon of Endor echo through the Ewok village. “I know,” she says to Luke Skywalker. “Somehow, I’ve always known.” Luke has just told her that Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 1d

New meme format

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Ghost @wahurd.bsky.social · 1d

That man's brain deserted him completely in the biggest moment of his career.

Ghost @wahurd.bsky.social · 1d

Then, next year, they can give it to themselves!

Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com · 1d

Hear me out:

Tomorrow, the Nobel Committee should award the Peace Prize to Barack Hussein Obama.

Did he deserve it the first time? Probably not. Does he deserve it this time? Absolutely not.

Would it cause the current president's head to explode? Yes. Ipso facto: Give Barry the Nobel again!

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Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com · 2d

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She Blinded Me With Violence @philkensaban.bsky.social · 2d

Accidentally knocking an entire shelf of pasta sauce onto the floor with the AR-15 strapped around my back while Christopher Cross's "Sailing" softly plays over the store speakers.

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 2d

Shoppers are split after Publix announced it will now allow customers to openly carry firearms inside its stores.

Publix to allow open carry in stores, prompting mixed reactions from shoppers

The decision comes about two weeks after an appeals court ruling overturned the state's ban on open carry.

cbsn.ws

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All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · 3d

I find the quest to make the dryest or filthiest martini to be exhausting in the same way I wish they'd stop piling shit on caesars/bloody marys or milkshakes, so I appreciate @jayasaxena.com's piece on wet, sweet & floral martinis having their day slate.com/life/2025/10...

One of the Greatest Cocktails Has Been Ruined by a Nasty Trend. But There’s Hope on the Horizon.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

slate.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 5d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 4d

the physics of this are so funny because the right guard stepping on his foot leads to him looking like uncle phil just threw him out the front door of the mansion

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 4d

Look at this body position, Trevor Lawrence ate shit as hard as you could, he’s a hippo in wool socks on a waxed floor, he hit the turf going 300 miles per hour

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 5d

A regrettable thing about being a parent in these times is that so many public figures’ names fit perfectly into “Baby Shark” and once you mentally hear it, even once, you can’t read them any other way.

Anyway. Bari Weiss.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 5d

we're already in the middle of the Country Over party

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 5d

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Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com · 5d

CBS News x The Free Press:

Afflict the afflicted. Comfort the comfortable.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 6d

This seems like a guy who bent a lot of rules, including immigration laws, while also being a successful leader. If he was in tech we would have several tomes written about his rise and grind/move fast ethos

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 6d

This sucks. Seems like ICE got the right guy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 6d

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 8d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 8d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 8d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 9d

If he replied saying "mr pope is my father" I would convert to catholicism

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 10d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

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I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com · 10d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10d

"this is not about politics. this is about power."

what the fuck do you think politics is if it is not about power?

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 11d

the ending is also something

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actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · 14d

just now, in fact

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 14d

I was not a young person when I realized that "Ice Capades" is a play on words.

I had spent many decades simply thinking "They're capades! On ice!"

James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 14d

My wife skated with the Ice Capades, who had a certain number in the cast, and I know that each dressing room had a goodly number of persons, with no more elbow room than was necessary. And the most recent hire was closest to the door.

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morahsarah.bsky.social @morahsarah.bsky.social · 15d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

The victims of this tragedy aren’t receiving the level of attention they deserve,” she said. “Under any other circumstances, we’d know their names and their stories by now.”

"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)"
Song by Woody Guthrie
Written 1948
Genre Protest song
Composer(s) Martin Hoffman
Lyricist(s) Woody Guthrie

The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten
The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexico border
To pay all our money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be Deportee

Now my father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money her made in his life
Six-hundred miles to the Mexico border
They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon
A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground
Who are these friends, who are falling like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys
We died in your orchards, we died on your plains
We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops
Both sides of the river we died just the same

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 15d

Who called it inbox zero and not the mail loneliness crisis

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