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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 6h

Totem Inschrift, by Carl Heidenreich, 1963, 📸 by @GoslingPhoto

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 2h

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! 😅🤝

zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 7h

when I was young, I was particularly good at appealing to parents and authority figures, so I may just be bitter that instead of it getting me national influence it just got me sent out to talk to grown ups when me and my friends were high

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah he is! Bless his heart.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8h

REI easily top of the list of companies most likely to do a land acknowledgement before layoffs

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

WaPo opinions showing up as "Washington POS" on here just too good

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 13h

Genuinely mind-blowing thread of forensics on IDF Spokesperson’s Unit fabricated animations used to “justify” Israel’s acts of war, which amount to GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL-SCALE DISINFORMATION, often relayed full cloth and sans scrutiny by mainstream media outlets:

Click through to be amazed + appalled.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

Never thought as an agnostic Jew that I’d die fighting side by side with the Pope

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head.

ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 20h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 14h

Going to buy one for my cat, see if I can get her to say "oy, bruv."

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 18h

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 14h

A 2002 M5 w only 4,300 miles? Pretty neat.

How many dashboards, tho, ya think? 🤔

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 15h

4,300-Mile 2002 BMW M5

Bid for the chance to own a 4,300-Mile 2002 BMW M5 at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,965.

bringatrailer.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15h

An interviewer asked me about America's "cost of living crisis," and I was struck again by how casually we've let such profoundly nightmarish phrases slip into our everyday lexicon.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks, Noah! I consider that a hard-earned stamp of approval from a discriminating ball-knower such as yourself.

You probably think Austin Reaves doesn’t offer enough value where I picked him, and that’s okay. The Jakob Poeltl and Toumani Camara picks, however, are damn-near unimpeachable, imo.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing. Love them both, and this story is nuts. Like, nuts, but carnivore nuts. 😅😩

Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 17h

Le’go! DM me an invite and league info/specs, and I’ll definitely check it out. I love playing w ppl I know, internet homies included. 🤓✌️

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 17h

CAAA-CAAAWWW (reprise) 🦅

Perhaps controversially, I just drafted Onyeka Okongwu as my 6th rd pick at 77th overall in my 14 team, 9-cat, all women’s league’s 2025-26 NBA season slow (af) draft.

Other centers w guaranteed starting spots were still on the board, but I LOVE his percentages (esp FT%).

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 17h

Round 5 draft pick (at #64):

Blazers’ Belgian beaut’ Toumani Camara. 🇧🇪💪🏽🌹

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 1d

Hah, over it now. Poeltl was a damn good pick there at 49 in the 4th round. I was kinda bent bc the person immediately ahead of me had swiped Zubac, but we def sparked that heavy run on centers that usually starts c. the 40th-to-50th pick, and I’m pleased I got a good one.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 2d

I fear my 4th round pick is raising that mildly anxious question for me rt now of, “Am I not particularly excited ab this pick bc it was somehow a legit misstep, or is it simply bc he’s an especially straightforward, relatively boring pick?”

Yep, I drafted Jakob Poeltl.

Bird and boat city, baybee.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 NANTS INGONYAMA BAGITHI BABA/…./

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala (x’s ♾️)

From the day we arrive on the planet/
And blinking, step into the sun/
There's more to see than can ever be seen/
More to do than can ever be done/…./

🎶 In the CIR-CLE/
THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIFE 🤲✨

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 4d

Anime fuckin whips so much ass man

LeBron explaining the game to a young and inexperienced Austin Reaves and in a second panel an experienced Austin Reaves explaining the game to a young and inexperienced Bronny James

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

LeBron may now be the greatest <NBA> player in history (I disagree, but the numbers are the numbers). But regardless, Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr./Kareem Abdul Jabbar is the greatest player in basketball history & it's not particularly close.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 1d

“There have been things we see w our eyes that we’re then told didn’t happen,” Sabella said. “That’s been happening a lot. We can say, ‘OK, you’re saying this didn’t happen, but we actually saw it.’ Our reporter picked up the smoke bomb and we have a picture of her holding it… We have the receipts.”

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 1d

This is one of the best articles I've read about the shutdown.
No one can trust that Trump will stick to any deal that's made.

It's much more than healthcare. It's about the rampant lawlessness of this administration and the complete abdication of responsibility by Republicans in Congress.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

All year, we’ve seen this administration treat appropriations bills less as laws-to-follow and more like Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. What should make this moment any different? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump in has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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