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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 6h

Ill advisedly watched a few minutes of CNN’s Town Hall tonight with @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social . They both were great but every question from the moderator confirmed that to the MSM it’s all a fucking game. Who’s winning? How can you be more popular? While the nation literally burns.

Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 3d

The Rolling Stones have sold “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” to Amazon. Enjoy in many commercials. Here’s your “street fighting men” - ancient millionaires who couldn’t wait to pick up some more fucking cash.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3d

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 4d

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 4d

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 4d

O dear Diana

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 5d

JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 5d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 5d

Also we have precisely ONE verified recent case of a politician paying actors to attend a political event. You'll never guess who it was.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Did Trump Campaign Offer Actors $50 to Cheer His Announcement?

The Trump campaign denied knowing a contractor hired a casting agency for the candidate's 2015 campaign-announcement rally.

www.snopes.com

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 5d

Incredibly, there is a "new" track from Life Without Buildings - Sue Tompkins, Will Bradley, Chris Evans & @robertdallasgray.com . It is, as ever, utterly magnificent, and I burst into tears hearing it for the very first time. Pick it up on Bandcamp. errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-t...

Love Trinity, by Life Without Buildings

1 track album

errolshotwax.bandcamp.com

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 5d

Yes.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 5d

MixCloud charts!
Bipolar Explorer's "The Other Room" -Edition 75
★3rd in #Soundscape
★8th in #Drone
★11th in #ExperimentalAmbient

www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/bipo...

Bipolar Explorer’s “The Other Room” / 07th October 2025

Deep listening tracks of experimental and ambient music, field recordings and otherness. Curated by NYC experimental dreampop trio, Bipolar Explorer. || www.bipolarexplorer.info || https://bipolarex...

www.mixcloud.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5d

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 5d

Thank gawd!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 6d

I suspect he will be awarded the Nobel for exactly that reason. The international community fears him but our own country- a collection of ignorant racist peckerwoods- is to blame for returning him to power. I will be shocked if I awake tomorrow and Norway hasn’t named him. It’s fucking over.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 6d

Townshend has sold “Who Are You” to Walmart. The Who Sell Out, indeed.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 6d

Rooting for your guys! (diehard SF Giants fan but we need this as a country) 💕🙏

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 6d

p4k, pro buildings from the get go pitchfork.com/news/life-wi...

Life Without Buildings’ Final Song, “Love Trinity,” Unearthed After 24 Years

Long available only as a bootleg, the cult art-rock band’s last studio recording gets a new digital and vinyl release from Errol’s Hot Wax

pitchfork.com

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