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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 2h

#USA

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 2h

Heh heh.

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 2h

So clean.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

We are currently clean on OPSEC

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 3h

Most Wanted

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Mary Ann Brown wife of John Brown, with Annie (left) and Sarah (right) in 1851

Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 3h

David Roth!

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @davidjroth.bsky.social and @vicmsong.bsky.social to talk about Sora 2, Meta’s AR glasses, the “friend” pendant, and why none of these products can ever truly deliver meaningful friendship.

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Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/08/2025 · 51m

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 3h

#NoPost

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 5h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QO0... !!

Lyres - How Do You Know

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5h

The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.

Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

www.qasimrashid.com

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 19h

Choose your fighter.

DC Sandwich Guy throwing sandwich at officers

Chicago priest being assaulted by troops

Guy carrying American flag surrounded by gas.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then they’ll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 8h

My Pet Goat

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Real quandary for Rubio: how do you pull your boss out of a meeting with Andy Ngo and other esteemed pro-fascist personages?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispers in the ear of President Donald Trump after handing him a note about a Middle East deal saying "Very close. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government.

Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 8h

Untitled by Mark Rothko, 1952
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137850

Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

© 2012 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 8h

LOL

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 9h

There are a lot of problems with this document.

For starters, all the numbering is fucked, so the internal references don't make any sense...

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relating to this Agreement will not be more than the Increased Cap Amount.
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circumstances will either party be liable to the other for lost profits or revenues
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informed of the possibility of this type of damage in advance. Examples of these
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services, loss of goodwill, or reputational damage.

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 10h

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Bari Weiss and the post-liberal media order

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality.

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 11h

As any decent human being would be.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..."

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 11h

Wow.

Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 16h

Don't threaten us with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson on nuking the filibuster: "Is it wise? A lot of people would tell you it's not. I mean, on the Republican side, I would be deeply concerned if the Democrats had a bare majority in the Senate right now of Marxist ideology taking over the Democrat Party...turning us into a communist country"

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 16h

Today’s Starting Point goes behind the scenes of a Globe photograph that shows the aftermath of the Trump administration's aggressive approach to immigration enforcement in Massachusetts. trib.al/56eBI1a

‘She’ll probably never let her daughter go again’: How a Globe photographer captured an image for our political moment - The Boston Globe

The photo, of a child whose father was arrested by ICE, shows the aftermath of Trump’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement in Massachusetts

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 16h

#USA

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

he probably doesn't! most American police forces are some combo of rogue paramilitary and criminal gangster conspiracy! but that's all the more reason to start standing up some loyal formations bsky.app/profile/kitc...

kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 16h

Pritzker seems to be semi waving the white flag on that and acting like he doesn't control his state police. Hope he reconsiders.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Columbus Schools board votes to remove requirement to bus high schoolers

Columbus City Schools voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move.

www.dispatch.com

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Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 23h

You probably already know this accoun: bsky.app/profile/joel...

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