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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — @keshaunpearson.bsky.social : “xAI was able to pollute our community over 12 months illegally with up to 33 methane gas turbines. That’s unheard of, illegal, uncivilized, and truthfully it’s disgusting.” wreg.com/news/local/p...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday on CNN Stephen Miller said Trump has plenary authority. If you watch the video, you can tell it was a slip of the tongue — he instantly froze up after realizing he’d said the quiet part out loud.

Just to be clear, Trump does not have plenary power — yet.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Trump aide freezes on live TV after controversial claim about president

A Trump administration official faces criticism after allegedly claiming US President Donald Trump has "plenary authority" while on a live interview with CNN.

www.abc.net.au

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Texas Bishop Mark Seitz just met with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from migrants terrorized by the Trump administration —
apnews.com/article/vati...

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

apnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 2d

live stream from war torn Portland

#pdx #portland #musicfestival #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is giving tech billionaires what they need to build the Network State - protected utopian cities for them, wasteland ravaged by climate change for us.

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felinecannonball @felinecannon.bsky.social · 1d

DHS repeatedly lies about incidents of assault, illegal detention, constitutional infringement, negligence.

And they argue that creating or possessing evidence of their crimes and lies is itself illegal. They assault and detain photographers, delete videos, seize phones.

Worth reading:

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

You have yet to respond to the only point I’m really trying to make. Every day Republicans are in charge moves us further away from the luxury communism you seek. I would love us all to have all the healthcare and freedom we need, but I promise that accelerationism is taking us on the opposite path.

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

Where does it end? Treatments on demand for those who feel self conscious about aging, or don’t feel manly enough?
We both know our healthcare system is a disaster. Which brings this right back to the main point - Elections have real, life and death consequences. Please vote wisely, not emotionally.

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t want to pay your transition expenses, for one.

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seem some demands I don’t agree with. Demands that are not rights.

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

None.

I disagree with the enforced conformity of thought that characterizes much of the online pro-trans rhetoric. I disagree with propaganda that distorts the sociopolitical realities of the United States. And I can’t help but notice what appears to be a solipsistic view of the rest of the world.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

Were you lying then when you said that, according to you yourself, I’m not obliged to believe a claim I know not to be true?

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll remember that next time someone calls me a bigot over a policy disagreement arising from my failure to buy into the rote assertion that “trans women are women.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

A week later, and we've just yawned & moved on. We're not a serious country, & it's really hard to say that we even live under a Republic of laws & the Constitution anymore. No one who swore oaths to those things on Bibles is doing their damn jobs.

Bart board: The institutions are not self-enforcing

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

Trump won because a lot of people voted for him despite disliking or disagreeing with him. Biden/Harris lost because a lot of people didn’t.

We are where we are because that cycle has repeated a few times. Pie un the sky purity politics will be the death of us, and the worst shall inherit the earth

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Time is not. @ndillo.bsky.social · 1d

This is the world that is:
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… and some still can’t tell the difference between Gavin Newsome and that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Siri do any religions say anything about how we should treat the poor and the sick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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