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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

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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Saoirse Lannister @saoirselannister.bsky.social · 12h

I really thought the Mercury were gonna go win that in OT and A'ja said NOPE

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 14h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

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

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2d

From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatives romanticize the Confederacy because no matter how much time passes, the Confederacy will never be 18 years old.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 3d

I'm wheezing.

Now, UCLA's interim head coach, Tim Skipper, is tied with Franklin with one career top-10 win against a Big Ten opponent.

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 3d

A bill is sitting on @GavinNewsom’s desk that would lower Californians’ utility bills – all he has to do is sign it. But rumors are swirling that he plans to do the opposite - a move that could prove disastrous for California and for Newsom. A 🧵:

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 5d

Great story. Can't overstate the desperation in creative industries right now. Nearly every person I know who previously had a viable, or even lucrative, career in media/entertainment is in a financial panic, leaving longtime apartments, desperately taking any work they can find. It is really bad.

Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 6d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 5d

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

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Michelle @cloverjag.bsky.social · 5d

Van Helsing spies a vampire approaching. He leaves the door open, an invitation to come in. The beast suspects nothing. Another successful kill. It’s not easy keeping the world safe.

A child is dressed as Nosferatu. He approaches Van Helsing’s front door his bag ready for treats. Van Helsing looks from his window.

The door is open. Uncertain, the trick or treater enters.

He wanders the house confused as to why there is no bowl of candy. Van Helsing is behind him, his stake and hammer raised.

Van Helsing adds another trick or treat bag to a small pile of others. The Nosferatu mask is there as well as a Ninja Turtle mask. Van Helsing has been busy.

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Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 6d

Smashing your tv up because you're mad the cartoon robot doesn't have a massive anatomically correct metal dick:

IT GETS WORSE...

Transformers Earthspark, a show for CHILDREN on
@Netflix
, also promotes the use of made-up pronouns like "they/them."

Parents, this is what your children are watching.

CANCEL NETFLIX

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 6d

and scene

a tweet by Dana Gould @danagould that says:

Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did.
Because what he did had no value.
It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value.
He just made anger. Every day.
Rising, blooming & fading like a fart.
Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week.
Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone.
Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Saoirse Lannister @saoirselannister.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!

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Sykes @mikedsykes.bsky.social · 6d

MAN. These were so underrated. Paul George has an incredible line that I think gets overlooked

Saoirse Lannister @saoirselannister.bsky.social · 6d

Another old NikeiD creation. I remember hearing PG liked fishing back then so I call them Glowfish.

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Saoirse Lannister @saoirselannister.bsky.social · 6d

Another old NikeiD creation. I remember hearing PG liked fishing back then so I call them Glowfish.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7d

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Why Is This Democratic Senator Voting to Confirm a Trump Judicial Nominee?

If you really think Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, the bar for affirmatively supporting one of his nominees has to be higher than “I don’t know, he seems fine.”

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Saoirse Lannister @saoirselannister.bsky.social · 8d

I have no idea how this Fever/Aces game is tied with 30ish seconds to go

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8d

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet.

WTF?

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 8d

Are you kidding me right now? This is the last thing we need. KOSA is back no thanks to Senator Blumenthal who is working with the GOP and bringing in Republican Senators to convince the House to support it.

Please, CALL GOP House leadership and tell them to keep opposing it!

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