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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

lmao this rules

CalyxWorks @calyxworks.com · 6h

Portland Protest Frog replaces the stag on the Old Town "Portland Oregon" sign ... which now reads "Little Beirut"

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 4h

I say representative, representative, representative with each word getting louder but also more punctuated until I'm yelling REP RE SEN TA TIVE.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 4h

Regarding the alleged arrest of “the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.”

1) it’s not illegal to date someone.

2) antifa is a leaderless and loosely organized ideology, not a group

3) if antifa did have a founder, I’m pretty sure it would be a 150 year old Italian person.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 5h

Couch street

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Spooky Ha-Lewie-n Name Pollis @lewispoll.is · 5h

A higher proportion of *Republicans* think Trump is abusing the power of his office than of *all voters* who view the Israeli government favorably. I am begging any political leader from either party to understand that and act accordingly.

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 7h

The percentage of Americans who say Trump has definitely or probably improperly used his office to punish those who say things he does not like, per new Pew Research Center survey:

Overall: 66%
Republican: 42%
Independent: 66%
Democrat: 90%

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 7h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Matt Orion @orionjack.bsky.social · 8h

Every month, someone is innovating a new way to violate the Stringer Bell rule

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 8h

This detail about the Palisades arrest is wild:
While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: “Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes,” according to the criminal complaint. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities announced the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting a fire on New Year’s Eve that eventually became the Palisades fire.

www.latimes.com

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap, y’all. mRNA tech not only cures (some) cancer. It might cure (some) vision loss. What’s next? Weight loss? Gray hair? Abolishing reality TV?

Golden Age of Science right now. And some folks want to kill it stone dead.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 9h

"You could see some of his thought process in the months leading up, where he was generating some really concerning images up on ChatGPT," Essayli said.

Great job with those hallucination machines, this is all going great.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

abcnews.go.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

JUST NOW IN MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social announces his run for Congress: “Believe in me, because I believe you deserve the best. It’s about US.”

Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1A8A...

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 12h

they won't even give her a tylenol for it!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 12h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 12h

Well this is a new one, your post was labeled as “rude” and hidden for me

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Doesn't feel great to be in the line of fire, does it? It's wild that your argument boils down to the idea that vulnerable people need to sacrifice themselves to protect YOU.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 12h

One of my great aunt lavita’s kids fell into the pig pen and was eaten, “bones and all” according to my grandma.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

bijou theater

Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 1d

thank god I get to see melvins/red kross tomorrow.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Repugnant.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

They're using a photo from 1992, from LA after the Rodney King verdict.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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