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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 20h

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

If anyone works at CBS News and would like to leak to me about whats unfolding over there, my Signal is ParkerMolloy.86

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 3d

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage.
Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 2d

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen @lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social · 2d

To our friends who work at CBS News: during these times of turmoil and fear — remember that no matter who owns you or leads you, your rights as a worker are protected by your union. ✊

@wgaeast.bsky.social
@wgawest.bsky.social
@sagaftra.org

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Spot on.

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 5d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen @lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social · 4d

Really?? Congratulations and many happy returns!! 🥰

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 5d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

open.substack.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

. @janefonda.com is so inspirational

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

www.theguardian.com

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5d

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

people.com

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 6d

NPR and PBS are separate, non-profit public media networks, with one focused on radio and the other focused on TV. Heere's a link with more info on how to give to PBS. foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen @lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social · 6d

“Here’s the bad pitch — "

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

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