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Fight @ifight4them.bsky.social · 14m

He could spin this with the other comedians who went and have The Bonesaws of Comedy tour.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

Burr called performing in Riyadh one of the top 3 experiences of his life lmao

The royals loved the show. Everyone was happy. The people that were doing the festival were thrilled. The comedians that I’ve been talking to are saying, ‘Dude, you can feel [the audience] wanted it. They want to see real stand-up comedy.’ It was a mind-blowing experience. Definitely top three experiences I’ve had. I think it’s going to lead to a lot of positive things,” he said.

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jordan pumpkin spice [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social · 1h

"I never imagined it would be like this," I whisper into the mirror as I put on my dinosaur costume.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

At 10am, Judge Xinis will hold a conference in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas) case. I’ll cover for @lawfaremedia.org. Expected mainly to be about whether to grant Abrego discovery into, e.g., how the govt chose to try to send him Uganda or Eswatini (former Swaziland). ...
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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h

I say this with love, some of you are going to lose your life savings to a man who says you have parking tickets that can only be paid in Target gift cards

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4h

👀👀👀👀

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 2h

Been going on for a long time. This is what I mean by selectively hiring only anti-immigrant, right-wingers. Agents like me and others do not exist within that agency any longer.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

“They sponsor this? Fuck them. No, really. Fuck them—I mean it. And you can quote me on that.”

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

www.motherjones.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza shared details today on how Israel’s two-year genocide has deliberately collapsed the Strip’s health system. Hospitals, clinics, and oxygen stations have been destroyed, medicine stocks depleted, and famine conditions worsened.

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 11h

Distressed to hear Madeleine Habib’s boat has been intercepted & boarded by IDF. Yet another breach of int law by Israel. I’m in Canberra & liaising now with the PM’s office. Israel must immediately release all on board including our brave Tasmanian Madeleine #auspol #politas

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 6h

This is an incredibly obvious instance of projection and mirroring, revealing how Casey Babb thinks of both Bari Weiss and Van Jones not as individuals but as fungible and replaceable assets (tokens?) within a general category.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5h

We save each other

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 14h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 14h

this is the most traffic has been obstructed by the portland ice facility and it’s because they roped off the whole city block with yellow tape so kristi noem and her streamer friends could film their little content. they are long gone but the tape remains

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11h

war, war never changes.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 13h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 14h

It feels like floor level standards to support your colleague as they demand their civil liberties be protected. All Ald. Fuentes did was ask for a warrant when federal agents were arresting a man.

Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 16h

Pro-ICE Alders? Pro attacks on Govt official Alders?
“Alder Mitchell (7th), Beale (9th), Quinn (13th), Ray Lopez (15th), Coleman (16th), O’Shea (19th), Tabares (23rd), Scott (24th), Sposato (38th), Napolitano (41st),Reilly (42nd), Gardiner (45th), Silverstein (50th)”
thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Fight @ifight4them.bsky.social · 9h

Getting my teeth kicked in by one of America's Sweethearts.

Fight @ifight4them.bsky.social · 9h

I can't stop laughing

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

Biden doesn't get enough shit for naming Harris his running mate to begin with. That's the kind of thing someone with no care for the future does. She was already well established as a bad politician and a weak national level candidate by then.

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 19h

guard guys looking like the old Da Bears skits

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 21h

A bill that basically allows teachers to acknowledge that trans people exist is too spicy for this nazi fluffer

Republicans latched onto the legislation as an example of "gender ideology" at work in state government, with the Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R) demanding Newsom veto it.
The bill promotes the "theory that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person's gender," Jones wrote in a message to Newsom.
"For third grade students the framework states,"
'When
providing instruction on sexual and reproductive organs, teachers can introduce the concept that gender does not always match the sexual and reproductive organs described," Jones said.
"Teaching controversial gender theories to students as young as eight or nine years old is not a practice that most Californians support, nor want to see happening in our schools."

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