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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 39m

The man has exhibited visible disgust for anyone with a disability for years. They’re eugenicists.

Even if this gets overturned by the courts what are parents supposed to do in the meantime if they live in a red state?

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 15m

Listen up

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 34m

Get your inflatable cartoon animals ready

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Marcie8🎃8 @marcie808.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, gang, it’s 1946 and Bette Davis has just finished A Stolen Life in the midst of moving to Glendale, so she’s understandingly tired and needs a good local restaurant and Donnelly’s fits the bill. She’s treating so what are we having?
#TCMParty
#VintageMenus

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 3h

Not sure anything related to the film industry press frustrates and disappointments me as much as knowing Disney'll take more crap for making any TRON film than they will for trying to make a never was like Leto happen AGAIN. It's the "economic anxiety" of filmed entertainment journalism.

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AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · 1h

Yep. Me too.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 3h

I'm old enough to remember reporters calling it "disappearing" when it was happening in Central and South America

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h

So Disney did crossbranding with Grok and other Musk junk for Tron Ares AND pulled in Mr Beast to market to the youths?

And it’s bombing?

Thank you, universe! Scrumptious!

a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food in front of him that says movieclips

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food in front of him that says movieclips

media.tenor.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning, Bluesky.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLX1...

Childish Gambino - Little Foot Big Foot (Official Video) ft. Young Nudy

YouTube video by ChildishGambinoVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 2h

Spain by Julian Schnabel, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137729

Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

© 2012 Julian Schnabel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 2h

RIP to the great Diane Keaton. If you can find it, her book on Clown Paintings - for which she curated a large selection of flea market amateur clown portraits -mostly fantastically creepy - accompanied by the thoughts of famous people regarding clowns - is well worth a look.

Diane Keaton standing in front of of an impressive array of creepy clown paintings

Dusne Keaton’s book ‘Clown Paintings’ which features an ultra close up view of a clown’s jeering face.

A portrait from the book - an incredibly creepy black-eyed clown

John Waters on clowns, with the headline ‘Clowns are usually assholes’

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

reminder that @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and i do a weekly politics show over at our patreon for Unclear and Present Danger www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 5 — Authoritarianism as Content Creation (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12h

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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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine being this bad at running a government

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

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Fdell @fdell.bsky.social · 5h

C’mon.

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AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · 4h

Yummy!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

"Without a Face" (1996) is literally about the hardships undocumented immigrants go through, so it's not surprising Morello is against sending federal troops to protect ICE and deport immigrants.

The first lyric: "Got no card so I got no soul."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 5h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10d

this has been my thought exactly with all of these funding resolutions

like, why would I agree to shit if Trump is just gonna impound it and do whatever he wants, regardless of how the money is appropriated? if y'all want our funding decisions to be meaningless, let's not have em

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12d

So let's play this out: Dems hold the line on the actual big picture constitutional lawlessness issues, which Trump/GOP would never concede and any deal with them would be worthless anyway. What good are concessions in legislation and appropriations from a guy who breaks those with impunity? 1/

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12d

So let's play this out: Dems hold the line on the actual big picture constitutional lawlessness issues, which Trump/GOP would never concede and any deal with them would be worthless anyway. What good are concessions in legislation and appropriations from a guy who breaks those with impunity? 1/

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