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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5h

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5h

Been in awe of the high-caliber writing brought to bear on this hiring decision.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5h

Well, they had a good run but it looks like LinkedIn just thinkfluenced its last grindset.

Push notification from LinkedIn: I am not cut out for this shit.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 20h

killing myself POSTPONED

HOME > MOVIES > MOVIE NEWS
'Heat 2' Is On: Michael Mann
Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing (Exclusive)
Mann is set to direct the follow-up to his 1995 feature, which has Leonardo DiCaprio circling to star.
BY BORYS KIT, MIA GALUPPO
OCTOBER 7, 2025 11:15AM

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

The world peace image from The Simpsons, in which Lionel Hutz imagines reps from all countries holding hands in a circle, beneath a smiling sun and a rainbow.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

The digital camera thing I don't understand at all. If you want to experience old school tech, get a disposable camera or something. But this is like bringing back the iPod.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“The Luddite Club, a nonprofit group that supports taking smartphone breaks, has 26 chapters, nearly all of them at high schools or colleges.”

Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology

Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras

www.wsj.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

ICE about to be paid in Burger King coupons

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 1d

I bet our brains will come out of this ordeal very cool and normal

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so propulsive, just pulling you from one thing to the next.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

“This next song is called ‘Capitalism is a Wound’.”

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · Aug 10

Every song by Stereolab is like:

[grooviest bloop-accented melody you've ever heard] workers must seize means of production / gorging on the blood of righteous struggle

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

I loved that rectangular stage setup. Was levitating in my seat the whole time.

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoyed both BHB and Talk to Me but kinda weird for a filmmaking duo to make ‘grievous mutilation of a child’ their signature move.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Still don't understand how these bros built huge podcasts when they were clearly born after Trump's first term.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

Hazelnut: mysterious, sensual, evocative.

Filbert: doofy, technical, Scott Adams-adjacent.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Literally the Mr Burn’s school of business

FAMILY, RELIGION
FRIENDSHIP. THESE ARE THE THREE DEMONS YOU MUST SLAY IF YOU WISH TO
SUCCEED IN BUSINESS.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3d

more like the American legal system is inherently unequal and that fact has inevitably reached powerful people

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3d

A pillar of American values is that the legal system treats everyone equally. The indictment of James Comey makes a mockery of that idea. bit.ly/46TyPOR

Comey Indictment Shows Danger of Subservient Prosecutors

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics.

www.brennancenter.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

If I were a hazelnut, I’d be so mad if you called me Filbert.

A container of hazelnuts, labeled with their lame technical name, Filberts.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 3d

Book Of The Dead style tome containing the words that, when read aloud, release The Grinch

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d

Two.

Two.

They mounted a helicopter assault and destroyed an entire apartment building and zip tied all of its residents to arrest two guys for maybe being in a gang.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4d

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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