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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 3h

Treasury official James Kelly grilled after claiming does not see any evidence of price gouging in the insurance sector bcoz their profits ‘don’t look excessive’
Nick McKim “they’re up 50% in the last financial year!” #Estimates

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

Johnson and Lauer are stalling.

If Grijalva isn’t sworn in, it gives them time to pressure one of the 4 Republicans who signed the discharge petition to flip.

The reason they’re working this hard to shield the Epstein files is because Trump’s name is all over them.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7h

I just can't. F*cking hell.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social speaks compellingly on the similarities between the background, rise and methodology of Stephen Miller and Josef Stalin, and why it matters.

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 8h

The NYT is reporting it as normal political discourse.

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17h

This is not normal, this is fascism. Never let it become normal.

Reuter headline "Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment"

Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 8h

I see the New York Times is reporting this as normal political discourse.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 8h

Politicians who are named 'The Fixer' are never admirable.

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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 8h

Someone tell Mr McCartney he didn't refute the allegations, he simply denied them.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 3d

Awesome talent :
Guillermo Galetti

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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 23h

What an appalling government.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 23h

Reposted from Twitter (but worth watching):
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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 1d

The bad news in the graph is that coal has barely shifted.

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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 1d

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Web search may be the only really significant technological advance where we *decided* to just bork it completely. It's like we had a steam turbine ships with radio and people said "fuck it, we are going back to slave galleys plus a bloke on top of the mast with some flags"

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 1d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 1d

Will an organized nation-wide resistance emerge?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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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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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 1d

The US edition had a glossary of the Nadsat words, the English edition isn't. The latter was better--the sense emerged from th context and the words themselves.

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Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 1d

He's concerned not by the murders of foreign civilians, but that US citizens might be murdered.

Large Johnson @flytyingguy.bsky.social · 1d

AYFKM? That is the DOJ's job. She did it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

Geoff Hammond @geoffhammond.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller does a Tony Abbott!

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 1d

Please listen to this video and share widely. I think they are about to ramp things up.

#USDemocracy

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 1d

#Photography Elliott Erwitt (1950).

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