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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17m

Bringing your notebook to a rap battle because you can't remember your shit lmao. Real haters would've been locked in and would have been practicing in the mirror for weeks. I know this doesn't mean shit but performative hating vs real hating matters in times like these

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 16m

I know, it's Texas, but why can't TMA just tell this old crook to fuck off? www.texastribune.org/2025/10/06/t...

Texas physicians group is undermining federal COVID vaccine recommendations, Paxton says

Texas Medical Association has nudged physicians to consider COVID vaccine recommendations from other medical groups.

www.texastribune.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25m

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15m

“I’m English on my mom’s side and ethnically a kidnapper on my dad’s”

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 20m

mean girl handwriting lol

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · Aug 11

New school year about to start, so a new thread for the alphabetical order commute playlist. This morning's drive started with "Dumb All Over" (Zappa) and ended with 4 songs titled "Dust" (Monks of Doom, Parquet Courts, 13th Floor Elevators, Elvis Costello).

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14m

I had a lunch conversation with my fellow Fellows that started with Bad Bunny, moved through Gramsci and Stuart Hall, and ended with climate despair and translating Motown lyrics in 1970s Cuba.

Honestly, I cannot imagine a better way to spend an hour of every day I have left on earth.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 53m

So excited for these cats’ groundbreaking French EDM album

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2h

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Like, I'm not even joking when I say that figuring out bsky.app/profile/raha... took me two extremely stressful weeks in which I was spending 12 hours a day terrified that I was about to get fucked and the only reason I figured it out was a rando helpful blogger and not THE PEOPLE WHOSE JOB IT IS

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · May 14

Okay. This is like nine layers down in The Fuckery, but we ran into it while trying to resolve The Fuckery and it is a fucking massive change: The PCI DSS standards have *significantly* changed the way sites using third party payment services can demonstrate they meet the standards.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 6h

www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Sorta incumbent on you to know the laws about paying your employees.

Like yeah they weren't intentionally doing this and were paying people all they were old overall.

But law says you pay them weekly it's your duty to be aware of that.

Long Island business owners slapped with $6 million lawsuit over law they didn't know they were breaking

The "DQ Sisters" say their employees are part of their family, so they were blindsided by a blizzard of claims that they were breaking the law.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1h

White righties: this Super Bowl halftime pick is terrible. They should get someone conservative and hip, like this 96 year old cop I know who has a bluegrass band called Burning Crosses

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Reeves Gabrels @reevesgabrels.bsky.social · 53m

New solo album from my bandmate Roger O'Donnell...

Roger ODonnell @rogerodonnell.com · 2h

PROJECTIONS pre order link

mfl-stores.myshopify.com/collections/...

Roger O'Donnell | Roger O'Donnell | MFL Stores

mfl-stores.myshopify.com

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5h

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the edge of the Dartmoor woodland behind my work studio. Light shines under the old wooden gate leading out to the hills beyond.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 52m

I know, right? I can tell you about Bad Bunny that he makes popular music, he's been on SNL, he's been in some big movies, and he wrestled for WWE.

It's genuinely hard to name someone more mainstream "real America" than that! Does he need to drive a NASCAR too?

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 55m

If you're spray painting threats on a synagogue, you're not helping anyone's cause. You're just an antisemite.

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Rafi @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 58m

Very cool and chill to find at a local shul the week after Yom Kippur.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Temple Israel defaced with antisemitic graffiti

Parents dropping children at Temple Israel's daycare Wednesday morning found the building defaced.

www.kare11.com

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Kat @skyridgemeadows.bsky.social · 1h

The intelligence agencies, the judicial system, and the military must be free from authoritarian control. Tom Nichols addresses the current civil-military crisis.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1h

seen on fbook

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 1h

#giftlink Arrest Made In Palisades Fire (via @nytimes.com)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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topiltzin.bsky.social @topiltzin.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, that is killer. Though I wonder about the long term cost of the battery & the slow erosion of all the electronics. An EV is now an iPhone on wheels.
Time will tell I imagine.

I now drive a Honda Civic Hybrid, and have improved mileage from +/- 29 mpg overall in old Honda …

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Alicia K @wordnerdy.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, I cannot move to yet another social media thing. If this one dies I will just no longer be extremely online. It will be a weird change but maybe I’m gettin too old for this shit

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