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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sure that Trump being *obsessed* with undermining Venezuela has NOTHING to do with the fact that it competes with his authoritarian pals in Russia and Saudi Arabia in selling oil.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 18h

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).

He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 20h

My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 19h

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s secret police in Chicago.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

An immigration agent to a protester who was filming their vehicle’s license plate: “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

The whole thing as a vanity exercise to demonstrate a show of force before the No Kings events.

DOD had said that firing bombs over a highway was safe; state officials disagreed and shut down the highway, used by about 80K people daily. Turns out the state officials were right.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 21h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 19h

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 20h

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 23h

Hi Americans your president is siding with a war criminal and threatening Ukrainians with annihilation if they fight back, just fyi, if that even bothers someone

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 1d

"At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

This guy's just-woke-up-from-a-coma act is so good I'm gonna have to steal it. Boss asking you about that missed deadline? Hearing about it for the first time. Wife mad you forgot your anniversary? Sorry I'm not familiar with that person. Weef? Is that how you say it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

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csquared69.bsky.social @csquared69.bsky.social · 21h

They have also been marinating in these racist ideas for the past 30 years since the start of Fox 'News'. Their hatred of everyone has increased, while their intelligence level has been diminished by 24/7 propaganda on news channels, talk radio, church, podcasts, and their social media algorithms.

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csquared69.bsky.social @csquared69.bsky.social · 21h

These people have been brainwashed their whole lives to believe some "other/s" have access to more of what they want in their lives than they do, or that some "other/s" are getting something for free that they must pay for or go without. All while our government hands over tax $$$ to corporations.

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RK Atkinson @rkatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

The current US government cannot be trusted. At all.

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FLARE 💥 Resistance Action Center 💥 @flareusa.bsky.social · 1d

After No Kings ended, we (along with Burning River Brigade and Cliff Cash) took the protest right to shadow president Russell Vought’s front door. After a few neighbors reached out, we knew we needed to take the fight directly to the culprits.

*CONTINUED IN THREAD*

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
on.ft.com/4n9nlNd

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

on.ft.com

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Paul Biba @paulkbiba.bsky.social · 6d

www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.

www.404media.co

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csquared69.bsky.social @csquared69.bsky.social · 23h

That'a fantastic!
And they are hard to control when they are limp. 😂

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Between Friday 10/17 and Saturday 10/18—just this weekend's demonstrations—Illinois State Police and Broadview PD arrested 30 people outside the ICE facility.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

A representative with National Lawyers Guild Chicago tells me 15 people were arrested over the course of the day at Broadview yesterday.

All 15 have reportedly been released.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

I'll check on protest figures/status from tonight as well tomorrow morning.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Hark, Speaker Mike Johnson! Looking at all the many, many pics of the enormous, joyous “No Kings” rallies throughout the United States today, I am struck by what lovely weather your Lord and Savior provided. Apparently, God is a fan of, as you claimed, "America-hating Antifa terrorists." Glory!

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 1d

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 1d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)

Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...

Page 1, The Exponent

WE STUDENT JOURNALISTS MUST STAND TOGETHER

graphic of hands holding each other's wrists
Red, Black, Yellow and White

background is shredded newsprint

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