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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 1h

My fun head canon is Sam Beckett completed his mission and jumped to his next mission.

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 21h

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 21h

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re worried people don’t care and aren’t watching, they are.

Our YouTube audience is primarily young men. Don’t let the fascism get to you, that’s the point.

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 3d

"Power doesn't panic"

This quote is living rent free in my head, lately.

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Power doesn’t panic | Star Wars Andor #shorts #viral #video #fyp

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 3d

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 4d

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5d

An AI actress is trying to get her big break in Hollywood.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5d

These “agents” like doing this. They want to do this because it’s a legal way to feed their worst compulsions.

And they’ve been given full authority to do it - verbatim - by Stephen Miller and President Trump.

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

We keep warning about martial law.

Just trust the evidence of your eyes and ears.

This is what the Trump Administration will do to stay in power. They're creating their own Reichstag fires on a weekly basis.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 5d

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 6d

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 7d

A V X

(it was always AVX)

Told you so

IGN @ign.com · 7d

The Russo Brothers have shared a teasing photo from the Avengers: Doomsday set, alongside the caption: "look hard." https://bit.ly/42GIjvN

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Douglas Davidson @elmntsofmadness.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI: I had the chance to see GOOD BOY, a horror film from the POV of a dog, during #SXSW 2025 and have often thought back on it since.

It releases wide this Friday, 10/3, and I get into why it resonated in this spoiler-free review. #GoodBoy

Ben Leonberg’s “Good Boy” takes the horror tropes you know and revitalizes them via a new context that’s unpredictable and terrifying. [SXSW]

Good Boy, Ben Leonberg, Alex Cannon, Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, What's Wrong With Your Dog?, SXSW

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 7d

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 8d

READING RAINBOW is returning w/ new episodes — on YouTube, not PBS.

Mychal Threets — a librarian who "rose to internet fame" — is a good choice as host.

I know YT is where kids are now. But a beloved PBS kids franchise going elsewhere feels sad to me right now.

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Viral Bay Area librarian named host of ‘Reading Rainbow’ reboot

Mychal Threets will continue his literacy advocacy work by helming the reboot of the classic PBS show “Reading Rainbow,” which premieres in October.

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Hubert Motley Jr @groonk.bsky.social · 8d

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 9d

And if you’re worried that caring about your immediate local wildlife is distracting you from caring about bigger community issues, I promise you can address both simultaneously, because all living things have very similar wellness requirements. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environ...

Environmental justice - Wikipedia

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 9d

Couldn’t recommend “nature therapy” type stuff enough in these trying times.

You don’t need any experience at all or even much nature (I’m in the middle of the biggest city in the state). Free apps like Merlin or Seek can help you learn more about the nature you’re seeing, but that’s not required.

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 9d

The more stressed I get about existential threats, the more I have to force myself to look for local calming good things to self-regulate and avoid spiraling.

Just over the moon that my backyard groundhog found a partner and they’re fattening up so well at my feeders to face the winter together.

Blurry photo through the dirty old glass on my back windows, showing two very round gray-brown ground squirrels known as groundhogs. They are stuffing their faces with corn and suet and sunflower seeds spread out of the ground below a shepherd’s hook with bird feeders, and there’s cover nearby like a big log to protect them a bit from predators. Their hole is about 20 feet behind this photo, at the roots of a large tree.

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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 9d

Oh they weren't even chasing him as part of some migrant round-up? They were just angry he insulted the president? That's even more pathetic than they looked in the other video.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 9d

This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9d

it's fascism, folks.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 10d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

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Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9d

It's an objective fact that if you're running around arresting people based on the color of their skin, you're a piece of shit

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