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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 8m

Do unto others Alder.

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 8m

Is this today?

Is he finally admitting to white hair at the ripe old age of 79?

His skin looks extra Kramer-Krispy today. Does he have a new personal assistant?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 13m

Now is an excellent time to be investing in anti-surveillance tech.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 12m

There should be a trigger warning for this.

Please and thank you.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 17m

I’m waiting for his comeuppance with possibly excessive expectations.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 21m

This “Democratic programs” thing seems like terrible politics.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 22m

I don’t understand the politics of it either. I suppose the fight now is over the marginal 5-10% from 35%-45% Republicans.

But will those people buy this? At least the 45-55% onside will be further buttressed by how crazy this is.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 28m

Abso-fuckinglutely not.

And this is already terrible precedents on what already gets funded privately.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 35m

The woman who has secured a restraining order is *different* than the woman who called the cops on Mills back in February and accused him of physical abuse before recanting.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 35m

He looks extra crispy today.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 38m

Looks like Biden ended woke.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 44m

The wording is not great here.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

President Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

bit.ly

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 46m

A liberal group should start a website that just documents all of the Republicans or Trump donors/supporters that have been caught abusing women and/or been identified as pedophiles.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 49m

Cory Mills, boy I dunno

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 46m

Good work by the AP.

But it’s disappointing there isn’t better reporting on what is going on.

And it’s hard to believe this isn’t murder.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

Where my 4th Amendment people at?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1h

it is incredible to say "hey we fixed the mental health issues so get ready for PORNOGRAPHY" like at least put those in different tweets.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

Hot take: They are trying to see how much power they have amassed by flirting with the most dangerous topics to see if there is anything they can do that will incite regulation.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

good news everyone!

chatGPT is now able to “mitigate the serious health issues,” according to trustworthy source Sam Altman, which means humanity can be trusted with the Revenge Porn Madness Spigot

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

I’m old enough to remember when Trump thought he would have a strong dollar policy and a weak dollar policy in the same press conference.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

12/ The US dollar is having its worst year in decades, over political worries over US
FT: www.ft.com/content/ac9e...
Polycrisis: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

I remain surprised he hasn’t mentioned Philadelphia once during his Reconquista.

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 2h

Serious chance he's basically going to break one of the world's premier sporting events on a whim one day.

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

I have no idea who is going what exactly in the AI boom. But having lived through several cycles now (and a crypto one too) I can guarantee somebody is pulling an Enron. Booking future revenue today through sleight of hand.

And they will be found out when the ship teeters.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

To re-emphasize. There will come a point in the next year when all the “independent media groups”, ie Meidas Touch etc etc, even your preferred ones will be kicked off of YouTube, Substack, FB etc.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

Broke: Find Shoe Thought exclusively on Threads.

Woke: Shoe Thought has transitioned to BlueSky.

Bespoke: What is good in life? To delete your accounts, to block your enemies and see the lamentations of their followers.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

He knows he has their number. Surprise he didn’t ask for a bribe right here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1h

Incel: They are censoring me for my deeply held conservative beliefs.

Me: You mean the Bishop Berkeley stuff?

Incel: No not that one.

Me: Oh you mean the small government ones?

Incel: Not exactly.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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