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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

🎶Now his hat is on backwards
He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you dude

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 7h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 12h

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 12h

looks like an FN303 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_303

FN 303 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

What is that weapon?

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12h

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: 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.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

The Notebook (2004)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Is the fentanyl crisis over at the Canadian border?

TRUMP: Is what?

Q: The fentanyl crisis

TRUMP: No, it's not over. I think it's never gonna be over

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

AlexXxander Hamil$10

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 12h

the thing I love about our current era is how dignified everything is

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

the way he fuckin talks it sounds like he’s going to murder them

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13h

President Trump addressed backpay for furloughed workers, saying that some "don't deserve to be taken care of" and that he'll take care of them in a different way.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 16h

We will rebuild

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.bsky.social · 18h

Horrible, horrible images from Portland:

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

Like Cerberus they guard the threshold between real life and the underworld of electronic data

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

Based on Bondi’s inability to give a denial or even an ordinary sounding non-denial, I would conclude Sen. Whitehouse’s volunteering of “you don’t know anything about that” is not supported by the circumstantial evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

What does Pam Bondi know about the grand jurors who indicted Comey and how does she know it?

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17h

This exchange is quite something

It begins with Attorney General Bondi alleging that grand jurors who indicted Comey were "liberal" (Grand jury identities are to be secret)

And ends with her mentioning the "great picture" showing her and Trump and others at dinner

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

Take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the candy corn from entering your home in the first place

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 18h

Remember Wikileaks? That website that was very much earnestly concerned about government overreach and abuse and not just an op?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

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Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social · 18h

Abilene is a red town in a vastly red region. So this is ... interesting. (Gift link.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Abilene residents slam Trump ouster of Eisenhower museum leader over sword: ‘It’s crap!’

“That’s not his,” said Abilene Wanda Bell, of an Eisenhower sword requested by the Trump administration. “It’s one of the treasures of our history. That’s not somebody else’s to walk in and demand.”

www.kansascity.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

It’s the first point, not the second. Do most people know what Benedict Arnold did specifically? No, but they might know he’s got the name of a traitor and a pariah. The loss or failure of a cultural consensus about Nixon is what’s operating here, not the olds tripping over young people’s ignorance.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 20h

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20h

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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