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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

pure uncut covfefe

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 7d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 5h

Oh shit, they arrested Maria Von Trapp?

The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 5h

The “girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa” couldn’t be any younger than 90 years old you stupid fucking fascist orcs.

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 4h

You know how those thinkpieces about the Star Trek Holodeck would just create sociopaths because they can just create people to hurt without repercussions?

Like, maybe we should give them more credit than we have.

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 12h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

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

Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 6h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 5h

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4h

Netanyahu is very happy to make Trump look stupid

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 4h

*sigh* It's called relationship anarchy.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 9h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

this is not good at all.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

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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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 7h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 8h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6h

I would never ever ever be so fucking stupid as to RSVP to a political protest of any nature.

Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 6h

I have to agree: there is no better way to demotivate people for a mass rally than to require an email address (for various reasons). No Kings is really fucking up here by not even telling people where the various protests will be. You must make attending protests convenient.

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 6h

You do you, but I guess I'm skipping the next one, because there's no point to a secret rally. I'm not going to RSVP to get an address. 🙄

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 6h

bringing a flipchart of projected quarterly figures to a gunfight

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 6h

"The First Amendment doesn’t permit Colorado’s censorship,” say the bigots talking to SCOTUS

OK, so if a "therapist" explicitly told children to self-harm or kill themselves, the first amendment would allow that?

Ask them that directly. Get SCOTUS to explicitly say yes. Let American hear them

Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 15h

The only "expert opinions" the conservative justices care about are their own

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 12h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 9h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 7h

It's not a shock collar. Every day now there are out if context clips on here going after this guy.

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 7h

It would be devastatingly easy for Democrats to walk through downtown Portland and livestream a bunch of random shops and ask people how evil Trump has to be to lie about them like that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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."

Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 7h

Any of my fellow Jews who think this crowd is actually fighting real antisemitism should be forced to wear the shanda fur die goyim sign for the next 30 years.

I was going to say slapped, but bluesky would probably auto censor me.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 2d

I know everyone has moved on

But according to new CNU Virginia poll

Spanberger is up +13% on handling trans issue

It is top of mind for only 3% of voters

After GOP spent 2 months and millions pushing message

Perhaps why they have shifted focus in recent days…

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda surprising in the new Wason Center poll: Spanberger leads Earle-Sears on who "would do a better job handling....transgender policy” - by 13 points! But only 3% say “transgender policy” is "top of mind" for them, so simply not a big issue. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/new-...

New Wason Center Virginia Poll: Spanberger Leads 52%-42% (+10); Hashmi 48%-39% (+9); Jones 49%-43% (+6); Slightly Tighter Than Wason’s Last Poll on 9/18

The last poll by CNU's Wason Center, on September 18, had the Virginia statewide races as follows: Abigail Spanberger 52%-Winsome Earle-Sears 40% (+12 points); Ghazala Hashmi 48%-John Reid 37% (+11 po...

bluevirginia.us

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 8h

...I'm so mad this got killed, I would have played the FUCK out of this game

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 8h

well he's getting fired.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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