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merritt @merrittk.com · 5h

that isn't a "saying" it's an official saudi tourism slogan lmao

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump is fighting for his life to stay awake during Andy Ngo's speech

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 9h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 22h

Democratic Party turboloyalists are often some of the most toxic people I've ever encountered. Whereas the Right are generally honest about all the vile things they think and believe, this group of centrists adds the additional insult of pretending to have some sort of morality and knowledge. Vile.

Tony Moonbeam II @moonbeamii.bsky.social · 1d

Why do I have to learn about some hippies' shitty little boat on the second anniversary of the most deadly act of antisemitic violence since the Holocaust? I will never forgive these idiots for this.

Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 1d

You don't trust the Israeli Foreign Ministry. I don't trust a bunch of Swedish Hippies on a racing boat.

I'm going to go with the Israeli Foreign Ministry:

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 2d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Cosimo Kramedici @slurmslurper.bsky.social · 3d

Sliwa is Bernie Sanders’ Wario

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 7d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 3d

no that's exactly what happened lol. They saw the huge success of NYC's Citibike program and thought "wow great idea but too much cooperation with the local government"

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 3d

Like the addition of Lime scooters makes it much more possible for me to get to 90% of the places I need to get to via public transportation, but piles of scooters strewn everywhere in 2018 means this isn't an option nearly as often as I wish it was

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like companies cramming high traffic areas with electric rental scooters years ago without any concern for optics or local communities did a huge disservice to what is actually a pretty great mode of last-mile transportation.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 3d

A fat guy being calm and collected will always defeat a jock.

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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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends