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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1h

FRANKENSTEIN is an absolute triumph from @realgdt.bsky.social. Sumptuous and immersive and so completely, heartbreakingly human I was almost weeping by the end. One of the best of the year, do not miss it on the big screen.

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CryHavocDOW @cryhavocdow.bsky.social · 19m

"Absolute Batman (2024-) #13" by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta.

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Absolute Batman (2024-) #13

Shared via Kindle. Description: Batman’s final showdown with the monstrous Bane! Will he be able to overcome this unstoppable behemoth, or will he be trapped in Ark-M forever?

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Mwangangi, RN @mwangangi.blacksky.app · 1h

Big fun

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How to Detect Deepfakes: The Science of Recognizing AI Generated Content

YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official

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CryHavocDOW @cryhavocdow.bsky.social · 1h

"Absolute Batman (2024-) #12" by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta.

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Absolute Batman (2024-) #12

Shared via Kindle. Description: Batman is at the mercy of the monstrous Bane. And though his body hasseen better days, his mind and spirit are still strong. But how much longercan that withstand Bane’...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3h

you know I could have sworn that like ten years ago they pretended this happened against them (it didn’t) and said it was the worst offense that had ever happened (again it didn’t).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 4h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

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CryHavocDOW @cryhavocdow.bsky.social · 2h

"Absolute Batman (2024-) #10" by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta.

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Absolute Batman (2024-) #10

Shared via Kindle. Description: Bruce Wayne is trapped within the horrors of Ark M as his best friendWaylon Jones endures unimaginable tortures…but what awaits Batman isfar more terrifying than anythi...

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CryHavocDOW @cryhavocdow.bsky.social · 2h

"Absolute Batman (2024-) #9" by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta.

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Absolute Batman (2024-) #9

Shared via Kindle. Description: The latest development in saving the derelict and despondent of oursociety is a facility known as Ark M—a fully operational institution thathas played a rather sizeable...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Americans love the idea of other Americans working in factories. bsky.app/profile/jame...

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 5h

Remember kids: Spending trillions of dollars to "reindustrialize America" is dastardly socialist central planning...unless billionaires do it. finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-an...

Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: 'This Is The Way'

Prominent tech investor, Marc Andreessen, expressed support for a suggestion for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk to lead a $10 trillion program to reindustrialize America. Andreessen Agrees Musk Sh...

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BlackCharmie🧁🏳️‍🌈 @plainjainepretty.bsky.social · 4h

If you live in GA the Public Service Commissioner election has started!

This is the person/people who set the electric rates.

If you tired of your power bill going up go vote!!

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 5h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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CryHavocDOW @cryhavocdow.bsky.social · 3h

"Absolute Batman (2024-) #8" by Scott Snyder, Marcos Martin.

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Absolute Batman (2024-) #8

Shared via Kindle. Description: Batman is in the fight for his life against this icy new threat. But in the end, what terrifying truth will be unearthed about Ark M and…Joker?

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 5h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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CryHavocDOW @cryhavocdow.bsky.social · 5h

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🗣️ Get out the way #filmbreakdown #offensiveline #chicagobears

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

I’ve told this story before: during prospective student weekend at Harvard, I sat through a group of white & Asian Am. prospies talking about how all the Black & Latino admits were affirmative action cases. I was not the only Black or Latino person in the room with them.

Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 6h

💯 I defended affirmative action one day and woke up to stuffed monkeys hung by a noose in my dorm's bathroom. None of this is shocking or new.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 9h

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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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 9h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 10h

I get the impulse to push back and if you have the time go for it. But please understand, nothing you are saying will change her mind. Because her objection isn't to the bigotry, it is to the public expression of it. Don't get fooled.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 10h

I see y'all arguing with Amanda Marcotte & let me crank up the wayback machine...she hung out with a bevy of white feminists who didn't think they were racist, they just thought BIPOC women should wait until all the other issues were solved. She's one of the reasons #solidarityisforwhitewomen exists

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 6h

Mainstream media orgs are incapable of covering the depravity of this administration because the truth sounds like bias. Impartiality doesn’t sound like impartiality when the reality is morally obscene

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 7h

They have been trying to undo the Voting Rights Act since 1965.

They've been trying to undo what they lost during the Civil War since 1865.😒

They don't forget and they don't give up....ever.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

This shit just sucks. It's the worst watching incredibly hard working and talented journalists lose their jobs because their work makes the white supremacists in power uncomfortable while billionaire oligarch sycophants like Bari Weiss get 9 figure paydays and fail upwards. This is unsustainable.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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