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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 7m

Black-tar–heroin level bullshit. Just absolutely unvarnished fantastical lies.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29m

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10m

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 9h

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 · 1d

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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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 2h

What kind of fucking idiot builds this sort of thing and doesn't understand the copyright ramifications? JFC

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Chron.com @chron.com · 6h

"I don't want to hear 50 white guys come up to me and almost say the N-word."

Big-name comedians think Austin's comedy scene is a laughingstock

"I don't want to hear 50 white guys come up to me and almost say the N-word."

bit.ly

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 7h

This isn’t the first time Miller has used the term “plenary authority” with respect to the Presidency. He did so already in March, but that time he was referring to the president’s authority in foreign policy. What’s new here is now to say this absolute power also applies domestically.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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rawkitbawl @rawkitbawl.bsky.social · 11h

I didn't think "Scorched Earth Jimmy Kimmel" was in the realm of possibility.

Yet here we are. I'm now a fan of someone I thought about less than once a year about two months ago.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 3h

Insulting to Theoden, TBH.

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jess banks @profbanks.bsky.social · 4h

This is really A+ photojournalism, and it gives confirmation to the feeling that MAGA shills aren’t even listening to the questions—they just want to score their planned shots for the clip content later. It’s all a scripted show, just like Trump’s other false fronts.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

In general, we win by making sure that as bad things happen, and bad things are happening in lot of different ways, people know that they are happening and that they need to blame republicans.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

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

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

“We’ll schedule it as soon as she wants”?

She’s been demanding it for weeks but Republicans keep blocking her.

They really really really don’t want the files to come out

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 20h

Periodic reminder that Gavin Newsom still sucks.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 20h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 22h

I am fully willing to deploy the c-word when referring to Pam Bondi. Jaysus.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

SCHIFF: If a video exists of Homan taking $50k in bribe money from the FBI, will you support a request to provide it to the committee?

BONDI: You can talk to Director Patel about that

SCHIFF: I'm talking to you about it

BONDI: Will you apologize to Donald Trump?

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 23h

Expand the court or lose the republic.

This is so deeply and completely fucked.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23h

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for the small glimmer of hope. Although federalist Society recommendees are by default getting some side eye.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

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