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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 1h

Wait this was a video game

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Federal authorities in Los Angeles arrested a 29-year-old Uber driver who appeared to be obsessed with fire in connection with the wildfire that devastated the Pacific Palisades in January, killing 12 people. nyti.ms/42SMJ2L

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder: support your local public broadcaster folks!

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2h

Fail

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

lindsey halligan, welcome to the rocket docket

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

The judge, for his part, warned the government that the case shouldn't get off track because of classified information issues.

Either the information will be declassified or we'll go through the "fastest CIPA process you've ever seen in your life," he said.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

The government's lack of a plan prompted Comey's counsel, Fitzgerald, to say that the prosecution "put the cart before the horse."

Usually, you figure out classified information issues in consultation w/ DOJ's national security division *before* bringing a case, he said.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

For the record, he has a JD, was a constitutional lawyer for the ADF (rightwing group behind 303 Creative, the Colorado gay cake case, and current conversion therapy one), and was even dean of a law school that never opened (shady).

But also? Claims to have no idea how laws or constitutions work.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 4h

Ball-knowledge is everywhere

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 4h

Shockingly good pitching advice from this home trend magazine

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 4h

Mr. Beast is likely the Big Creator most threatened by AI slop because he generates the same kind of content, no

www.techspot.com/news/109769-...

MrBeast joins growing list of celebrities warning AI could upend creative work

YouTube star MrBeast has joined a growing list of prominent figures speaking out against the rapid rise of AI content. In a recent X post, he warned...

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 5h

with a comb-over so you know it's Trump Santa Punisher

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 5h

Shoutout to @gamersnexus.bsky.social for covering the EA Games acquisition and asking the question: "How the F is EA Games worth 55 billion dollars?!"

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The Shady Acquisition of EA Games

YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 6h

The easiest way to understand the Administration is to remember that they can be moved by the death of even a single person—but they have a particular view of who counts as a person

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 6h

Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

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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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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 6h

These people are so deeply weird.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 7h

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 7h

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk

thehill.com

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 9h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 7h

Particularly angry senators that want to tell me they voted no on a nominee on the floor but don’t want to talk about how they voted for cloture so that their useless gesture at “resistance” could be recorded

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 7h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 7h

They ran on a platform of texts that read “DEMOCRACY WILL DIE UNLESS YOU SEND ME FIVE DOLLARS NOW” and upon being elected spent their whole time granting unanimous consent to the death of democracy.

Also they still want that five bucks.

Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 7h

That's what they've been doing, to the point that people on here constantly yell at them for being too narrowly focused on these issues.

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 7h

“The atrocity was brief, the agents polite, and citizens eventually had their zip ties cut. There was no civil rights violation here.” (Kavanaugh, J., concurring) (hypothetically)

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 7h

"No doubt Chuck Schumer and the head of Antifa (whose name escapes me at the moment) were in cahoots to shut down the government so that they can turn America’s national parks into training grounds for leftist guerrillas."

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You

President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 16h

What the courts have not not immunized before the fact, the President will pardon after the fact.

Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 16h

Trump's gestapo may want to rething things. Trump has immunity. They don't.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 16h

This is a good summary of American Christianity in the year 2025

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21h

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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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 16h

“That home run broke a decade of rotten luck.” They were in the World Series last year! Aaron Judge hit a big home run before…something else happened

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 16h

I was told many times that it was bad to hire manifestly unqualified people merely to hit some arbitrary target for diversity

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

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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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 16h

It’s war, I tell you

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 17h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 17h

" no rights which the white man was bound to respect"

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