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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 4m

Your aluminum? Your English muffin? Your right to bare arms?

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 7m

It's a sleeveless jumper, no?

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 15m

They've reinvented the bus again. Well done everyone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

There are at least 170 incidents where ICE held US citizens against their will.
This includes 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure if it's so stealth, but Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" has got to rank as one of the best of the 90s. In fact, few artists had a better run of albums in the 90s than Sweet. They're all pop-rock perfection.

Tuesday Weld in a fur lined coat, looking at the camera. This was the cover art for the album.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

Reporters walked out of the Pentagon on Wednesday after news outlets refused to sign new press rules laid out by Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense. The new rules raise the prospect of punishment for simply requesting information on matters of public interest. Read more: nyti.ms/48sfl6q

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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone who has lived in Canada since the early '90s know this too.

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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 20h

Chiropteran Eating Competitions are serious business.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20h

stupid round bat sport

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 20h

Turns out it's the world outside of Tommy Westphall's snowglobe.

IGN @ign.com · 21h

As Stranger Things Season 5 approaches, Ross Duffer revealed that the two-hour finale will finally reveal what the Upside Down is, saying, “Every season would be like, ‘Should we talk about it?’ And we’d go, ‘No, let’s wait.’ And then finally, we’re like, ‘Well, we have to now!’” bit.ly/4qd9Ize

The Stranger Things Finale Is 2 Hours Long and Explains What the Upside Down Is

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 20h

TIL there was an American one that started in the late 90s.

I meant the OG British one.

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 20h

I probably still have my copy of 2 around somewhere.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22h

Welcome new Bluesky users, to prove that your are at least 36 years old, the minimum age for this website, please list your favorite song on the first ten volumes of Now! That’s What I Call Music. Please consult this playlist if you need assistance.

music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Now thats what i call music(US Vol 1-10 by Cooper Lund on Apple Music

Playlist · 174 Songs

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Bill Nemacheck @billnemacheck.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a helpful infographic....

The four ages of white innocence:
Too young to understand
Made a youthful mistake
Listening and learning
From a different time

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21h

New: Trump officials unveiled a tool intended to help millions of Medicare patients pick their plans, as open enrollment begins today.

But the tool — a directory that was intended to match providers with their plans — was rife with errors, The Post found.

More here w/Akilah Johnson

Medicare doctor directory, a Trump team priority, launches with errors

The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses about which providers are covered by health plans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 20h

Sounds like Suzie Izzard doing a bit. Like, I'm expecting them to ask if they have a flag.

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 1d

Get Mamdani a case of coffee creamers, STAT!

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Pentagon beat reporters have been handing in their press passes all day long today. It is one of the most striking examples of news media solidarity we've seen this year.

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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 1d

I firmly believe that the main reason for British reality shows is to have a market for balladified covers of 30 year old songs.

Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

Stephen Fry: The perspicacity of our unseen nemesis is unfathomable

[A slowed-down acoustic cover of We Are The Cheeky Girls plays for no reason]

#thetraitors #celebritytraitors

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 1d

Greta was stripped and had soldiers film themselves with her while Israel's far-right minister Ben-Gvir screamed at her. Absolutely degrading sexual abuse and the Swedish foreign minister's reaction is essentially "she asked for it".

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 1d

Vance is trying to dismiss this as kids making mistakes.
Point to the kid below.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta prepare future journalists for their jobs at billionaire owned news orgs somehow. Not letting them publish news seems like a great way to do that.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 1d

Not so much pissed as disappointed, but in 5th grade or so we had a history test and the last question was who invaded Ireland in the 12th century and I said The Vikings because, since The Normans started as them, I could be extra clever by writing that.
The teacher did not appreciate my genius.

Post Mo Thóooooooin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 1d

I remember a prof asking us why it's called Oedipus Rex when we're reading its translation. I sheepishly offered "because that's its name" and they snapped back "exactly!"

So, you see kids, there are no dumb answers.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone snickers about Oedipus banging his mom, but the story is genuinely TRAGIC. A perfectly plotted narrative. Everyone should read Sophocles's play.

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