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The Wonder Years of Lead @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 21h

Biological name

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 6h

Okay this was literally an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 20h

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

we are going to beat these people, eventually, and we are going to make a better world out of it.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6h

Most posters are like, "what did you expect buying in a subdivision that took away their home?"

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6h

It's extremely on brand for Florida that this redditor stood there filming a bear going through the trash in the garage from ten feet away, like it's the most ordinary thing in the world

From the florida community on Reddit: Can’t leave my garage open for 5 minutes these days …..(Central Florida)

Explore this post and more from the florida community

www.reddit.com

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

Yep, I heard the same things too, and the idea that if kids saw that being gay was ok, that they might choose an alternative lifestyle

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

Funny thing is, this is in fact why the religious right throws fits about queer representation--they know when people see that characters they like, played by actors they like, are depicted as queer and it's no biggie, it chips away at the social stigma they've built to reinforce heterosexuality.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously!

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, they think their alt text is somehow helping train image recognition or AI-written image descriptions or something. Which is somehow bad, even though decent AI-generated image descriptions could actually help people with vision impairment without taking away jobs.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

Funny how the media turns on the GOP riiiigghhhtt about the time they detonate safe flights.

Suzanne Kelleher @srkelleher.bsky.social · 17h

“The air traffic system, in general, is stressed to the max,” a veteran air traffic controller working at a major East Coast airport told Forbes on Tuesday, adding “sick outs will continue to happen because the [controllers] aren’t fit for duty.”

www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Overstressed, Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers ‘Aren’t Fit For Duty,’ Says Agency Veteran

Cracks in the air travel system are widening, as air traffic controllers bear the strain of an understaffed system and no pay until the government shutdown ends.

www.forbes.com

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 9h

This guy literally did what Jesus would've done (call them to repentance and offer salvation) and they fucking shot him and laughed about it. I don't want to hear one Evangelical whining about being persecuted when shit like this is happening

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 9h

It's amazing that they've produced an entire party of Trumps not just in terms of the fascist politics but in the sense that almost all of these people are incapable of processing anything more complex than lines of tweets

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 8h

at this rate we're going to actually get our first functional PNW furry convention out of the protests in Portland

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders.

Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 9h

one reason i am not particularly worried about this is that there is exactly z e r o law, habit, or even vague idea anywhere in american governance or history that says our elections can ever be stopped

we had elections in 1862 and 1864!

we will have elections in 2026.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

he's super into the fact that Ukraine hasn't had elections in a while. my tinfoil hat is all this nonsense with a few hundred national guard is to get his insurrection and cancel christmas

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 8h

Journalism? Podcast? Decades?? Lmao

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 9h

Damn

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 9h

The weird stuff we actually saw is definitely weirder than the imagined stuff

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10h

That would be Maximum Overdrive for me. I thought I must have imagined it, but no, Stephen King was just extremely high on cocaine.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10h

That was what I thought Maximum Overdrive was until I discovered that yes, it's a real movie that I remembered correctly and Stephen King was just extremely high on cocaine

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 10h

"Goncharov" is a fun meme, but I don't understand talking about it like it's conceptually unprecedented when a solid 50% of us have a piece of wholly invented media in our heads that we genuinely remember seeing because we've unwittingly conflated a bunch of unrelated shit we saw when we were five.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 10h

"Goncharov" is a fun meme, but I don't understand talking about it like it's conceptually unprecedented when a solid 50% of us have a piece of wholly invented media in our heads that we genuinely remember seeing because we've unwittingly conflated a bunch of unrelated shit we saw when we were five.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, it's like they didn't want to write alt text in the first place, and finally found a socially acceptable reason to refuse to do it

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