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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s video of the incident

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 18h

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 45m

One of the great losses in the exodus writing about NOAA's new leader. Two years ago WaPo legitimately had the best top to bottom weather and climate team. Wonder what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3h

hams??

a tux cat with huge hungry eyes looking at the camera

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 11h

This was grad school, he was a postdoc and he and his wife had a condo with a yard. I don’t know where he learned to clean it out but he knew how.

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 12h

Funny thing is he was a quiet, soft-spoken guy. And a goose assassin.

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure he ever said.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown.

Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 12h

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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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

Not paying people remains one of the biggest through-lines of Trump's career.

That plus corruption, racism, and sexual assault.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 16h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 14h

Ooh

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14h

The youth don’t know how good they have it. We were drink Burnett’s vodka out of plastic bottles. Uphill both ways in the booze, lord Jesus. It was terrible.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 14h

thought to myself “what if there was smaller skeleton trapped inside a larger skeleton, that would be pretty spooky” and then realized i was describing a pregnancy

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Lee Clark @inktnerd.bsky.social · 15h

Loaded cheesy fries with the liquid cheese whiz, bacon bits, Lowry's seasoned salt. I'll roll around in that shit

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 15h

it's been nearly a day and I'm still staring off into the distance thinking about being "cursed with bones" 💀

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I love picking all the meat off fish heads, and not in the genteel way but in the “starved raccoon finds it in the dumpster” way

This is also how I eat crawfish, chicken, lobster, and anything cursed with bones

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 14h

The handful of other ear-wigglers I have met have been both at once - never another who can do one at a time.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

RIP to an appetizing master

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 14h

I can wiggle my ears one at a time.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 15h

ah yes, 2025, the year portland put up brand new public payphone signage

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15h

Bondi refused to come right out and defend Trump, choosing instead to hurl insults and How Dare Yous to Senators today, everyone who could be stonewalling is stonewalling, and it really does make me wonder just what they know at this point.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 15h

Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025

It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.

Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15h

It's surreal that we're watching the Attorney General, the head of the FBI, and the Speaker of the House running a cover-up in plain view but at this point I don't know how else you interpret things like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15h

Okay I'm not that much of a pervert

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