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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1h

Oh those NYC buses crammed to the gills with Rockefellers, their diamond stickpins poking one another, their monocles tangled

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 2h

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1h

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1h

what if there were one car company that did every shitty thing imaginable

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1h

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

electrek.co

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think for me it is so much "criticism" as "if you were a comic I still listened to before you went this thing, that's not what you are anymore, so long and thanks but no thanks."

There are plenty of other funny people out there to listen to.
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I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S
_OkudzetoAblak
X.com
Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 46m

Family says Border Patrol agents shot and killed their dog after being given permission to search the house for undocumented immigrants.

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El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 6h

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we're actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 16h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17h

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Jack Straw @jstrw.bsky.social · 43m

Ok Time Magazine!

a man says i owe you an apology while sitting in front of a tnt logo

Alt: Shaq saying I owe you an apology, I wasn't familiar with your game

media.tenor.com

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 45m

At first I did not believe this headline was real. But it’s one of the most honest I’ve seen anywhere in legacy media in 25 years.

Headline of Time Magazine IRL: “Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 45m

NEW: “The Justice Department seemed poised to pursue an indictment against Letitia James on pathetically weak charges. Yet the charges that actually ended up in the indictment a jury returned on Thursday may somehow be even weaker.”

By @mollyroberts.bsky.social

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Courts & Litigation Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law
Executive Branch
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Lindsey Halligan didn't have a strong case against Letitia James. She indicted her anyway.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Marc Thiessen said the quiet part out loud this week, proclaiming that the Washington Post is "now a conservative opinion page."

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Washington Post columnist proudly boasts ‘we’re now a conservative opinion page’

Marc Thiessen declared on social media that he’s no longer an ‘outlier’ at the Washington Post, as the paper’s opinion section is wholly ‘conservative’ now

www.independent.co.uk

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2h

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

So they’re keeping the House in recess for another week (see his follow up)?

To delay the Epstein Files and, I guess, avoid the No Kings rally on 10/18?

They are in full blown pants pissing panic

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2h

UNREAL

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 2h

Institutionally, Jews were invested (sometimes paternalistically and hierarchically, granted) in the fates of Jews in other parts of the world *as Jews* and there are travelogues and educational/charitable networks that attest to this throughout the 17th-19th century. I teach abt some in my classes.

פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 15h

Yes. The only people who have difficulty understanding this are people who know nothing about the Jewish world.

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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · 12d

What in the ahistorical nonsense...?

Our texts & liturgies have talked about Am Yisrael for CENTURIES BEFORE ZIONISM. Before Enlightenment-era nation-states existed.

I have seen more of this kind of thing in recent months from Arab-speaking creators. idk where they're getting this shit from.

Screenshot of a tweet by susan abulhawa @susanabulhawa

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Historically speaking, there was never such a thing called "The Jewish People" before zionism.

There were Jews--Egyptian Jews, European Jews, Yemeni Jews, etc.

The fairytale they sell now to the world was manufactured in the 19th century. Most Jews didn't buy it at first; so zionists set up schools (literal schools) to indoctrinate them into believing that colonizing Palestine had been their lifelong dream.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is Hegseth trying to make it sound like a bigger deal than it is. We have friendly foreign air forces in the US for training exercises and the like all the time, especially ones that use US equipment. That's what this is. It's not like an operational deployment or giving them a whole airbase.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

They were going after Harvard for accepting donations from the Qataris but they basically own our government and all they had to do was give up a jumbo jet they weren't using anyways.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

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@ZohranKMamdani
’s “plan” provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while
@ZohranKMamdani
the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

also his dad was literally also governor of new york, who are you calling mansion boy bsky.app/profile/kend...

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

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Jack Straw @jstrw.bsky.social · 2h

Wait wut? A Qarari air force base in America?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

So is this how President Peace Prize got the ceasefire deal to work?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Jack Straw @jstrw.bsky.social · 2h

Eek. Well, I don't really care about the prize, other than not wanting Trump to get it.

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