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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 3h

The bar was subterranean, and clearing it doesn’t warrant applause. Let’s not confuse motion with momentum or proximity to a microphone with leadership.

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 3h

Come on Molly. “Credit where credit is due”? That’s generous to the point of parody. If Schumer “kicked it up a notch,” it was into the same ditch he’s been circling for years, performative gestures, procedural fog, and a knack for mistaking inertia for strategy.

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Jai C. Porter 🇨🇦 @jaicporter.bsky.social · 2h

I guess he’s finally starting to listen to, I don’t know, like everyone? But is it too little too late?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

i can’t believe we got another woke pope after all

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

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...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely made up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 6h

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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zgslug.bsky.social @zgslug.bsky.social · 2h

It is troubling that ongoing propaganda aimed at creating a false narrative that will justify invoking the insurrection act just gets reduced to jokes about dementia. I'm sure you'll have more to say and all, and I get we need humor to face the abyss and all but damn. We gaslighting ourselves here.

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zgslug.bsky.social @zgslug.bsky.social · 2h

It is troubling that ongoing propaganda aimed at creating a false narrative that will justify invoking the insurrection act just gets reduced to jokes about dementia. I'm sure you'll have more to say and all, and I get we need humor to face the abyss and all but damn. We gaslighting ourselves here.

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zgslug.bsky.social @zgslug.bsky.social · 2h

Another tech bubble ready to burst, will be even worse than last time

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

More datapoints for how the US economy might be drifting towards Dutch Disease through too much dependence on the tech sector

zgslug.bsky.social @zgslug.bsky.social · 2h

Everything about Pritzker has been way more legit than Newsom, but liberals would rather fuck Newsom so we will be stuck with another transphobic republican-lite candidate

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

Pritzker is meeting the moment and if he stands up for the people, stands up against Trump's rein of terror, holds ICE accountable, he can elevate himself as a front runner for Dem leadership.

Now is the moment for leaders, not cowards.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Lynne B-K @islndgrrl.bsky.social · 23h

Fuck ice, love your neighbor. Love your planet. Resist.

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4h

Former Oklahoma state superintendent of education Ryan Walters says that his new mission is to "destroy the teachers union." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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WolfTron V @blackdolphin.bsky.social · 9h

This morning I was sent a Sora video with a cage fighter beating Stephen Hawking mercilessly. One of Hawking’s legs fell off.

Just totally normal stuff. Several hundred billion well spent.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

TRUMP: federal workers not guaranteed back pay

IRS: actually yes they are

www.axios.com/2025/10/08/t...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

Over at the bad place they've interpreted that some one being arrested for the Palisades fire in California is proof that global warming is a hoax.

Yes really.🤷‍♀️

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine that.

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

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zgslug.bsky.social @zgslug.bsky.social · 2h

Do y'all know what a Revival is? We should all be worried about how this is being framed as a religious event.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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NOTUS @notus.com · 2h

Republican Rep. Sheri Biggs failed to properly disclose 170 trades worth up to $13.6 million.
www.notus.org/congress/rep...

Republican Congresswoman Failed to Properly Disclose 170 Trades Worth Up to $13.6M

Dozens of those trades came in the form of stock sales made on March 18, when key details of Trump’s tariff policies were disclosed.

www.notus.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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