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Rapswell
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Raps with PENPALS & OG’z, mixes by DJ Gully Foyle, beats when I feel like it

http://www.pen-pals.bandcamp.com

https://on.soundcloud.com/y2doNPhjH1CBkqw9Ux
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rapswell.bsky.social
Put together some of my fav songs to zone out to - hope it helps some people ✌️🧘‍♂️😴

youtu.be/VIMpuGC7jzg?...
Ambient Songs For Sleep & Meditation
YouTube video by Swell
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December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
rapswell.bsky.social
New Swell Radio Hour is up now!

soundcloud.com/penpalsnyc/s...
Swell Radio Hour Episode 18 - Ambient Songs For Sleep & Meditation
Play this & drift off into the clouds Tracklist: Synergetic Voice Orchestra - A Tale H. Takahashi - Bathtub Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima, & Satsuki Shibano - Toi Laraaji & Brian Eno - Meditation No
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December 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
rapswell.bsky.social
The Secret Agent is easily the best film I've seen this year
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.

Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.

A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
They got son on the cover looking like the Dalai Lama when in real life he’s on some Garbage Pail kid shit
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6d
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
I fuckin hate AI with a passion
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy.

Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.

Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.

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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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ence.bsky.social
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15d
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
BREAKING: BIDEN INSTRUCTS PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE OLD DUDES WHO WEAR SUNGLASSES
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
Rockstar Games are union busting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
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November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
Hey @developers.google.com FUCK YOU for having me opt in to training your AI software without my permission! Everybody turn these settings OFF

www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-N6dI...
undefined on Instagram: "kazwindnessHow to turn off AI Gemini training on your private information in Gmail. I’ve shared this how-to before, but just realiz…"
kazwindnessHow to turn off AI Gemini training on your private information in Gmail. I’ve shared this how-to before, but just realized I forgot to turn it off on all my accounts, so worth another check. I also don’t trust any of these companies to not just automatically flip stuff on again. #aiethics #gmail #aiscraping
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November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
Certified President, Certified P*dophile
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 18d
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Hello @support.bsky.team why has
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
alkapdc.bsky.social Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 20d
New:

On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers

He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): I've been invited to speak across the country about January 6. And now that I'm relaunching Oath Keepers, I'm getting more invitations to come speak as well. So, yeah, I'm relaunching the organization and rebuilding it. ... They tried to take us out after January 6 but what man means for evil, God will use for good. I came out stronger after it, and so my goal is to rebuild the organization stronger than ever because it's an essential mission. Absolutely. JIM HOFT (HOST): Oh, that's wonderful news. So the Oath Keepers is going to have a relaunch here, and Stewart's breaking that news this weekend? RHODES: Yes, sir. ... RHODES: I mean, I have to make sure that if I'm ever taken out again or if I'm or when I'm taken out again, that the organization can drive on without me. That's not what happened last time. ... So we want to make sure it's got resilience and redundancy built in that it can drive on strong. With the same mission, though. You can't call yourself an Oath Keeper if you're not willing to protect people against radical antifa and other leftist violence in the streets. STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience. Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play. ... And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country. ... He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
rapswell.bsky.social
The OpenAI dude has an extremely punchable face
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM