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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 9m

Graham Planter looking at his tattoo in the mirror every morning for 20 years.

Garfield looking at a Nazi SS skull with a caption that says "Huh. I wonder what that means."

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samantha parkington @jazzpomegranate.com · 10m

BERNIE! BERNIE NO!

walter white screaming in the car, powerless to stop what's happening

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 4h

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Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1h

people keep asking "well what do you expect the democrats to do? they can't do anything!!!" and then they do this

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 3h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Adam @ahaberlach.bsky.social · 34m

This is getting more evidence of "Too stupid to be a senator" all the time.

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 1h

Platner’s former political director →

(He released it himself???)

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I've run out of self-restraint, worse than when the guys on the train to Boston were fan boying over Reds Eats.
The DC consultant class has fucked up our US Senate race again and you all need to stop snipping at each other.
This is seriously the dumbest timeline.
Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest. He's not an idiot, he's a military history buff. Maybe he didn't know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means.
His campaign released it themselves to some podcast bros, along with a video of him shirtless and drunk at a wedding to try to get ahead of it.
The vault is open for the GOP to fucking crush any dreams we had in the general and literally everyone I know is fighting with each other on social media.
We cannot be this painfully stupid.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 52m

this is going to be a partisan take but i dont think the president should be allowed to give himself $230M in taxpayer money

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1h

Speaker Johnson must stop blocking the results of a free and fair election. We’re demanding he do his job and swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 4h

This is the reality of Donald Trump’s America.

Another parent of a U.S. service member gets deported.

On his way to pick up his pregnant daughter.

While wearing his “Proud to be the father of a U.S. Marine hat.”

This is cruelty as policy.

This Family Visit to a Military Base Ended With ICE Deporting a Marine's Dad

A U.S. Marine says his parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they visited a California military base and one of them was later deported

www.military.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 4h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Adam @ahaberlach.bsky.social · 1h

Wait, this is how I learn that there's going to be a followup to Heat?

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2h

52 new projects — including the next Jumanji movie, Michael Mann's followup to Heat, and the next film by the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once — just received the latest round of California Film & TV Tax Credits.

It means $1.4B for our economy and thousands of new jobs.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1h

If it is true that much of recent ICE recruitment is from the same loyalist groups and communities responsible for J6, then it is not just what they do with the weapons now, it's where those weapons go post-regime if/when those agents return to the civilian population.

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Adam @ahaberlach.bsky.social · 2h

Yo, stop voting for his nominations.

bsky.app/profile/sena...

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 3h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 3h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats: We support the “no kings movement”

Also Democrats: We vote to give more power to the king

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3h

Helped two teens who were hiding from ICE this morning after a third had been snatched on Oakton in Evanston. They’re safe, half dozen community members responded. Adrenaline crash happening now.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 3h

oh yep that's the skull on his hat in this very famous gif. wow

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3h

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h

Me: "I wish ppl would move on to talking about something else besides the NYC mayoral election."

Monkeys Paw: "lol ok get ready"

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

man what the fuck is the maine senate primary

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 5h

Some questions which would have struck me as obvious to ask here:

"When did you realize it was a Nazi tattoo?"
"How did you feel when you realized it was a Nazi tattoo?"
"What are you going to do about the Nazi tattoo?"

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/uMnc4ddc7j4?...
I hate to give Pod Save clips of this, but they're the guy who has the footage of him blasted at a party, shirtless, totenkopf on his right pec.

Graham Platner On His Past Internet Comments, His Military Service and the Democratic Party

YouTube video by Pod Save America

youtu.be

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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 4h

RISC architecture changed everything. youtu.be/yVo9_h3-zwQ?...

Angelina Jolie: "RISC architecture is gonna change everything"

YouTube video by Statistical Machine Learning

youtu.be

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 4h

I say this all the time, but for my entire life until roughly 2015 I thought we were basically done with Nazi stuff. I miss that.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

really did not expect to hearing about nazis all the time in 2025

was just not something i considered tbh

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

good bit from the Guardian review of Giuffre's memoir; I have heard several people from the NGO world express the confusion and embarrassment they felt at billionaires showing up with very young women at events.

In respect of these people I’d like to ask: who the fuck did they think the 17-year-old at the table was? What did they think she was doing there? Only Melinda Gates, who met Epstein once and cited him as a factor in the breakdown of her marriage to Bill Gates, sensed what apparently none of these people could put their finger on

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

every day another data point that these goons are razing this place and salting the earth. no one in the history of public service has held american people and american traditions in greater contempt than these freaks

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 5h

There's a whole other world out there: www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs

Tutors International, United Kingdom

www.tes.com

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Adam @ahaberlach.bsky.social · 4h

... adding "University of Texas" to the filter on the resume screening system....

Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 6h

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed Sunday that UT Austin professor Art Markman has been dismissed from his administrative role as senior vice provost for academic affairs because of “ideological differences"

UT Austin professor dismissed from administrative duties for 'ideological differences'

Gov. Greg Abbott said Art Markman was dismissed from his role as senior vice provost for academic affairs for "ideological differences."

www.kut.org

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

Cool. Release them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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