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Keith @keithdev.bsky.social · 1d

The farmers have lost the China market to Argentina and Brazil. They're not going to get it back for a long time. USAID is done. The country shouldn't have to keep bailing out the farmers. They either find new markets or plant less.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 9h

Is there a single musical artist who, if you pick a random song of theirs, you'll be more likely to get a "song that's excellent to screw to" than Teddy Pendergrass

He's gotta be at least top 5, no?

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 10h

they hate us because of our freedoms.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 9h

Well THIS movie is timely.
I really hope it breaks box office records.
I hope every American goes to see this.
And I hope it gets through to people in ICE what's going to happen to them, inevitably, in the future.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvAy...

NUREMBERG | Official Trailer #1 (2025)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics

www.youtube.com

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 9h

Don't time travel and tell the writer of Devilman that or we'll lose this great panel

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10h

Thread. in case you need to calm a Facebook-pilled relative.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10h

You can tell it’s October when ppl start spreading drug sadism myths about expensive drugs given for free to school-age children, since children usually have the means to purchase more drugs…

Anyways, we actually know pretty definitively that “fentanyl-laced marijuana” isn’t a thing & never will be

Post
The Dank Informer & @TheDankInformer
X.com
Franklin County deputies seized 8 lbs of fentanyl-laced marijuana targeting kids

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9h

my guess is Fetterman has decided the best way to support Israel is to just blanket express enthusiasm for war crimes.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10h

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on.

like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 9h

Everything they say about Democrats is pure projection. Their accusations are confessions. They assume Democrats are thinking, planning, and doing exactly what they would do in that same situation. They cannot fathom that other people aren't as craven, corrupt, and evil as they are.

A tweet by Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) on Twitter:

If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard,
that would be a direct attack on states
rights.

Over the last several years, we've seen
Democrats try to take away our Freedoms
of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't
let them take away our right to defend
ourselves, too.

South Dakota defends the Constitution.

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 9h

oh okay sure

ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

www.propublica.org

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10h

My ideology is that we should give a super-competent guy lifetime dictatorial power so we can build a high-public-sector-capacity developmental state. Now to take a big sip of my coffee and see the competence level of the guy we've elevated to lead the country I live in.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10h

two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe the fawning over Tulsi Gabbard’s sympathies for Assad and Putin, we may have to have a round of Murdered Arab Olympics to make that judgement

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11h

Surpassing even Bernie Sanders’s own latent nativism, I do not believe there is a darker stain on 21st century progressive politics than this racist ogre or the people who supported him because he refused to dress appropriately for his station

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11h

Conor Lamb would not have done this shit

Consensus among both the Working Class Heroes of Pennsylvania and the deft online lefty politics knowers was that his vibes were too faggy

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11h

Someday when the country is done we’ll wish we’d told him “no”

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11h

One last thing re: Fetterman

“The stroke changed him” is a copout

I have seen ischemic strokes do horrible things to people’s brains, those things did not include magically turning them into warmongering racists

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 11h

Surpassing even Bernie Sanders’s own latent nativism, I do not believe there is a darker stain on 21st century progressive politics than this racist ogre or the people who supported him because he refused to dress appropriately for his station

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 14h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 15h

He’s right!

Jenna Laine @jennalaine.bsky.social · 15h

Baker Mayfield on changing perceptions of him: “Early on in my career it was ‘cocky, immature.’ Now it’s ‘moxie’ and ‘he’s a dog.’ Same sh— different day. As long as you play well, they change the narrative, but you’ve just gotta be yourself, and I’ve always been like that.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Dizzygirl @dizzygirl.bsky.social · 21h

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Dizzygirl @dizzygirl.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ya'll, I can't. 😵‍💫

A different kind of #FAFO

It would be hilarious if we didn't have to share a planet with these imbeciles.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 11h

It means that the lunatics and freaks are in charge

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 11h

Chemtrails? Is this chemtrails talk?

That used to be considered a sign that a person was crazy and I feel crazy for pointing out that this is crazy talk!

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 11h

Look, I’m a freak plugged into the internet pretty much 24/7, but someone’s gonna have to explain “weather modification activities” to me because that’s straight up crazy person talk. That is the talk of someone who thinks the earth is flat and the moon is a hologram.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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