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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 19h

Amazing twist at the end

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 1h

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 34m

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.

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Breaking News
President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the
cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao.
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Breaking news
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Trump pardons crypto executive
Changpeng Zhao, who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to enabling money laundering at Binance
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Breaking News
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Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture

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B.J. Hutto @bjhutto.bsky.social · 4h

Does calling something 'evil' have any valence left?

Because this is evil

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 9h

I mean you’re bang on the money but even without asbestos that’s just not SOP for demolition anymore, you can see from the photos they’ve done zero stripping or salvage

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

in every piece of fiction where the plucky heroes disguise themselves as civilians to enter bad guy's base, they're committing war crimes! the reason for this are obvious if you think about it: what is side A incentivized to do if side B regularly disguises it's soldiers as non-combatants?

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 10h

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 8h

This is my suggestion for the last time a reigning king of England prayed with a pope. Any advance on 1273?

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 9h

On his return from the Holy Land in 1273 Edward I was received in Orvieto by Gregory X and stayed with him for two months. I'd be surprised if they didn't pray together at some point during that time.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

In Opinion

“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.

Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires

As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 15h

Hey so I think if we want to exist as a society we need to regulate the fuck out of GenAI and I think a big easy first step is keeping it a country mile away from political ads.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

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Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 18h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 15h

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

www.nbcnews.com

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21h

BREAKING: The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials, a significant expansion of President Trump's original stated plan.

Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom

Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 20

They attacked liberalism because it seemed to them the prind·
pal premise ofmodern society; everything they dreaded seemed
to spring from it: the bourgeois life, Manchesterism, materialism, parliament and the parties, the lack of political leadership.
Even more, they sensed in liberalism the source of all their
inner sufferings. Theirs was a resentment of loneliness; their
one desire was for a new faith, a new community of believers, a
world with fixed standards and no doubts, a new national religion that would bind all Germans together. All this, liberalism
denied. Hence, they hated liberalism, blamed it for making outcasts of them, for uprooting them from their imaginary past,
and from their faith.
-Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair:
A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology'

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Has to be understood as a threat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 1d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 2d

The death has been announced of influential theologian Phyllis Trible: myunion.utsnyc.edu/emailviewonw...

A towering talent and dedicated feminist biblical studies scholar. Our condolences to all who knew her.

myunion.utsnyc.edu

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

If cameras had been rolling for this it'd be the new succulent Chinese meal www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Just not the Trump Foundation “charity” — which was dissolved under court order after he “repeatedly used Foundation money for his own personal, business, and political interests.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 1d

"Several people familiar with internal administration deliberations said any initial land attack would probably be a targeted operation on alleged trafficker encampments or clandestine airstrips, rather than a direct attempt to unseat Maduro." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump beats the drums of war for direct action in Venezuela

The Trump administration has surged warships, fighter jets and troops to the Caribbean for drug interdiction. Many see the ultimate goal as toppling Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

honestly would watch a mr t documentary, this is all bananas

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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