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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Gourmet Spud @gourmetspud.bsky.social · 32m

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3m

Goodnight.

Laughing before falling asleep is a good thing.

Laughing at fascists—even better.

So here you go.
The Portland Frog.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 56m

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 6h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 5h

Instead of being a accessable source of good information, access to experts in any field, bringing the world and its people together; social media is ripping us apart. Not just us as individuals or groups, but whole societies. The cost of loosing democracy will be very high.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the Internet, Stupid

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

"all the filters that previously existed to control the quality of information disappeared."

A must read by @frankfukuyama.bsky.social

www.persuasion.commu...

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It’s the Internet, Stupid

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

www.persuasion.community

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 9h

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 5h

Edmontosaurus is my homeboy.

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 5h

There’s a very strong chance that the most dangerous and temperamental animal you’d encounter on a trip to the Hell Creek formation would be an Edmontosaurus or Triceratops

Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 7h

As a paleontology enthusiast I always find it funny how pop culture constantly describes large herbivorous dinosaurs as "gentle giants" when most of our current living herbivorous megafauna are some of the most physically dangerous and temperamental creatures on the planet.

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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 7h

It was not just Trump and Epstein it was also Trump and Casablancas and the teen models they groomed and booked for “career building” dinners with older men.

I remember this. Does most of the press have amnesia?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

www.theguardian.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 6h

They're feeding him conspiracies like pablum and the Idiot in Chief is eating it up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 6h

Remembering at Trump's first press conference where he rambled some antagonistic bullshit, it was reported that a journalist said "we're so back".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 6h

"They turned the entire city in a Spirit Halloween"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 7h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 7h

Epidemiologist Nima Machouf was among 6 Canadians on a humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israel, and attacked by helicopter, early this morning.

Last week @kratchanov.bsky.social interviewed Machouf for @pivot.quebec, who called on Canada to take action to reign in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Canadian aboard intercepted Gaza flotilla calls on Ottawa to help stop Israel’s genocide ⋆ The Breach

In an interview conducted before her ship was seized, Quebec epidemiologist Nimâ Machouf explains why civilian activists are risking interception at sea to challenge Israel’s illegal 18-year blockade ...

breachmedia.ca

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 6h

Is the implication here, then, that they will pursue extrajudicial killing of individuals, in this case American citizens, based on an assumed guilt without any evidence, justifying murder with post-hoc rationalizations?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

“Many of us were forced to leave behind everything that was most precious—family, home, the communities that gave us a sense of belonging,” individuals said in the video viewed by Pope Leo. “Now, when deportations strike, the loss is repeated.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …”

The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15h

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 14h

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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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 7h

Correct.

He’s staging “left-wing” attacks—or more accurately, trying to provoke them—to give him an excuse to use violence against his opposition.

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 7h

“I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop ‘left-wing’ terrorism. He is staging it,” Taylor wrote. “His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response..."

open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 9h

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 12h

Postal workers in Canada are on strike to preserve delivery service as a job with a living wage. If they lose, even state-run delivery will be remade in the image of the gig economy.

Canada Post’s Strike Is a Salvo Against the Gig Economy

Canada Post once set the standard for secure, middle-class work. Now, as government moves to gut it, postal workers are fighting against a future of gigified delivery jobs, vanishing benefits, and race-to-the-bottom wages.

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Farah❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 @firasz.bsky.social · 9h

I am Nour Faraj.I am ten years old. I lost both legs above the knee and my right arm in an instant. My brother, Moaz, who is 4 years old,lost his life, and my brother,Yahya, who is 3 years old, may lose his foot at any moment. My mother,has fractures and deep burns.please help me
gofund.me/982fcaf79

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