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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

It's a whole block party vibe over here.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 10h

I have frogs everywhere

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 10h

This makes donald trumps mastodon clone potentially the juiciest hacking target in world history lol

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 10h

That frog is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop shimmying EVER, until you are grinning.

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 13h

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

View from a coffeeshop with wall-length windows

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 13h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 13h

The last time the FBI was diverted by an incoming, clueless Republican admin, they managed to ignore this during August 2001: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US."

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A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data
The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 p.m. EDTToday at 2:21 p.m. EDT

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h

Research reveals industrial pollution’s historical link to urban poverty, with eastern parts of cities often more impoverished because of prevailing winds.

Column | Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest

Research reveals industrial pollution’s historical link to urban poverty, with eastern parts of cities often more impoverished because of prevailing winds.

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 13h

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 1d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

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Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 15h

Researchers have found a way to get close-up images of nearby #stars and #exoplanets within 25 years. These new probes would be tiny disks with optical sensors, accelerated into space by lasers, travelling at 0.2 times the speed of light. spectrum.ieee.org/high-speed-i...

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 14h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 14h

Portland Frog now has some more mates:
(same video, but portrait mode-friendlyt)

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 14h

That Florida Man has really outdone himself this time.

'Rinderknecht allegedly started the fire with an open flame—“likely a lighter”—Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: “Are you at fault if a fire is [lit] because of your cigarettes?”'

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Florida man accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades
By Richard Winton and Hannah Fry
Oct. 8, 2025 Updated 11:24 AM PT
Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Palisades fire after a nine-month investigation into the blaze that killed 12 people.
The devastating fire that destroyed thousands of homes appears to have been a rekindling of an earlier New Year’s Day fire.
The most destructive inferno in Los Angeles history, which charred a devastating path through Pacific Palisades and Malibu in early January, was a flare-up of a fire that an Uber driver intentionally set days earlier near a popular hiking area, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

Authorities announced the arrest of the Uber driver, 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting the initial fire early New Year’s Day that eventually became the Palisades fire. Rinderknecht, of Florida, who was arrested Tuesday, was charged with destruction of property by means of fire and faces a minimum of five years in federal prison.

Among the evidence collected from Rinderknecht’s digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city, said Bill Essayli, acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, at a press conference Wednesday.

“While we cannot undo the damage and destruction that was done, we hope his arrest and the charges against him bring some measure of justice to the victims of this horrific tragedy,” Essayli said.
The finding affirms a long-suspected theory among fire experts and comes after a nine month probe into the cause of the Palisades fire, which charred 23,400 acres and leveled more than 6,800 structures, including many homes. Twelve people died in the fire.
The first fire, called the Lachman fire, was reported about 12:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day on a hillside above Pacific Palisades by a resident whose home is about two blocks from the popular Skull Rock trail.

Some residents said they saw fireworks in the a…

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 14h

Every so often, going against habit, the elderly, increasingly confused adjudicated rapist's crumbling mind spits out a non-lie or nugget of self-disclosure:

"We took the freedom of speech away."

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.

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Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 17h

You know who else documented their crimes extensively and eventually had that documentation used against them

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

Sickening.

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 19h

Politics can be confusing these days:

"Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality."
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Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality
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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

Under Nazi rule, clergy who refused to support the regime were surveilled, arrested, assaulted, and in some cases, executed. The Nazis publicly aligned themselves with Christian values while targeting religious figures who defended the vulnerable or spoke against state violence.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

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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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 1d

Alexander Pushkin, Charles de Gaulle, Bertrand Russell, or Rube Goldberg could all have gone to see Kraftwerk demo the future at the Rockpalast!

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Kraftwerk live | Rockpalast | 1970

YouTube video by WDR Rockpalast

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

At some point one of the Gestapo is going to pull the trigger in a crowd and America will be forced into a place it may not be able to ever fully recover from.

The fascists are going to end up killing a lot of people before this is all said and done.

Laura N. Rodríguez Presa
@LAURA_N_ROD
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A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.
Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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