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Sophie Bee @pogform.bsky.social · 11h

Another very moving moment: “You’re gonna know the answer.“

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 16h

it is kind of funny that the guy with transparently the least integrity in mass media likes to scold and lecture so much

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 1d

it's illegal to be a Democrat

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Hundreds of National Guard troops were expected soon in Chicago. The deployment is the latest in a series of military incursions in U.S. cities, particularly in Democratic strongholds. President Trump said he would consider invoking emergency powers to “get around” legal obstacles. Follow updates.

National Guard Troops Expected Soon in Chicago as Trump Considers Invoking Emergency Powers: Live Updates

The mobilization includes some 200 Guard troops from Texas. President Trump said he would consider invoking emergency powers to “get around” legal obstacles.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is 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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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 2d

ATTN: ALL STAFF

Hey guys 😜, it's me your new boss. Like you I have a lot of questions. How did I get here? Do you pledge allegiance to the Zionist state of Israel? And more.

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck NPR. If someone's a contrarian, unpolarized, just against the popular grain, you would see heterodoxy in their opinions. Not an exact replication of the attitudes and values of power.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news

CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 2d

is Donald Trump a contrarian? is Stephen Miller? is Peter Thiel? thank you NPR for informing your readers instead of carrying water for power. truly it is a sight to behold.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

"Weiss [is] someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive, and invested in smashing the last vestiges of liberal power in this country: universities, civil servants, and the media. She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain."

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 2d

the temperature in this country is too high, so we brought in someone who will tell you a different temperature

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ordering a burrito “Estupido Style” and refusing to elaborate

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 4d

"bluesky elder" do you hear yourself

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 4d

Mang! The James Mangold Story

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 4d

came up with a new kind of movie/game called a morblike

Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 4d

your steel erection plunges deep into the sky
(the sky is me)

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boobs are progressive and feminist @bapaf.bsky.social · 4d

a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 4d

same thing with "the border"

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 5d

I urge folks to watch this in full if they can. Kat & activists on the ground are 100% correct: That whole "Chicago is a war zone" narrative is FALSE & yet so popular with people in power, but the ones CREATING a war zone are the current regime, DHS & ICE, all over the city & def in #Broadview

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 5d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 4d

watching Eddington a second time is one of the most enervating experiences you can enjoy in cinema today

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 5d

[me writing a poem about a guy] you are a mighty redwood, tall and hard,

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Billy Norwood @bnowalk.bsky.social · 5d

Prosecute ICE

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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