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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

And the craziest part is this was needless. Congress would've passed a military pay bill with near unanimous support! Congressional Ds have been begging Rs to bring a bill to pay the military to the floor! But Johnson refuses to gavel in because he doesn't want an Epstein vote.

Johnson wearing a jacket that's photoshopped to say "this has nothing to do with epstein"

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 6h

Oops! All Enron!

#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 7h

Tesla is sitting on nearly a billion dollars of unsold Cybertrucks. Now Elon's using the imaginary value of SpaceX and xAI to bail out Tesla... While asking Tesla investors for a blank check to "invest" in xAI. The entire empire is a giant scam. #teslatakedown www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Cybertruck sales are so bad Musk is selling them to ... himself

You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous ...

www.dailykos.com

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 8h

I asked Border Patrol why they used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics, highlighted this morning by @paleofuture.bsky.social. You're not gonna believe this but they did not answer my questions: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

www.motherjones.com

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 10h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 9h

Mahreen and I were A Public Space emerging writing fellows the same year and I was so taken by her short story I reached out and told her I had to know her. This is her first collection and my god she’s so good at writing tales of casual evil. Highly recommend!

Book on a green cloth. Cover is yellow background with two women with long dark hair, one with eyes obscured by petals and the other with a face replaced by the sky. White text:
SMALL SCALE SINNERS
Stories
MAHREEN SOHAIL

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12h

WILL ONE PERSON ON BLUESKY CRITICIZE RFK JR PLEASE!

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 21h

Lol ending of that movie is “this is gonna happen again” and I’m yelling at the screen TESLA! OPENAI! Jesus we’re doomed to repeat the same Enron bullshit until there’s real accountability to deter it.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

They are the hottest couple alive and everyone should see their gothic horror film The Legacy.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

Mills entering the race against Planter: totally fine

Gillibrand, Schiff and Kelly backing a centrist septugenarian over a chud-coded progressive while strong-arming Kleban into droping out: something I'm actually angry about

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Im actually surprised there are any republicans condemning those Nazi texts but now I’m like oh shit what else do they know is gonna come out in another round of leaked texts?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

say what you will about janet mills's age, but as a politician she's truly unstoppable, by which i mean i've replied STOP three times today to identical fundraising pitches for her, each apparently coming from a different number/superPAC/whatever, but the messages keep coming in

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room to brush up on how a ponzi scheme collapses

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1d

I would simply not use a national party body to intervene in a primary race and instead build infrastructure for the eventual nominee, trusting the choice of primary voters, but then again I lack the political acumen of people who have steered the party into its lowest ever modern approval rating.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

American elected officials are the only people in the country who can afford to retire, and none of them want to.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

I think the average Californian is pretty hawkish about corporate water usage—not necessarily because they care about climate, but because they're told they have to restrict water, and they're pissed someone else doesn't have to. If they knew how much water data centers used, they'd say no.

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

I had the urge to chant "chug chug chug"

April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

good christ look at this book cover for Quan Barry's antarctic thriller.

picture of an ice berg flipped upside down with the deep end in the water jutting up into a blood-red for 2/3s of the image. white text: THE UNVEILING

bottom 2/3 is the tip of the ice berg, jutting down into a sparsely cloudy sky. white text over image: QUAN BARRY AUTHOR OF WE RIDE UPON STICKS

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Doing an open call for volunteers to sign up for my protection racket

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Rachel Walens @rwalens.bsky.social · 1d

LA County Library is partnering with the LA County Dept of Public Health to offer a FREE vaccine clinic for Flu and COVID shots, no insurance required. Friday October 24, 10 AM to 12 noon. Go here for details and to make an appointment:

lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event/14546049

Free Vaccine Clinic: Flu and COVID-19 for for All Ages

LA County Department of Public Health is partnering with LA County Library to provide FREE flu vaccinations and the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 6+ month. Health insurance is not required,...

lacountylibrary.libnet.info

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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