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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 14h

OK but please share for the rest of the class. Wtf is it?

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 14h

It's cool to make fat jokes when it's for my side!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 15h

Pigeons at my apartment complex be fat and lustrous as fuck and I'm to blame 🥰

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 15h

Again...what gifts? Am I supposed to appreciate Leno?

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 18h

You can just copy the post text, delete the original, and repost it corrected. Especially if you are quick, you won't lose any likes or whatever causes people not to delete their posts.

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 18h

What gifts? This looks like garden-variety shitposting.

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 18h

Seems a lot like impersonating a police officer to me, huh? Crimes on crimes on crimes.

www.kptv.com/2025/10/16/v...

Video shows Hillsboro neighbors confronting federal agents

A group of neighbors in northeast Hillsboro confronted two vans filled with federal agents on Monday, as shown in a video posted to social media.

www.kptv.com

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 20h

For those who didn't know, Pepe was actually super chill and the opposite of a Nazi symbol until memed to death by 4chan edgelord dorks.

end op·pres·sion @respect4all.bsky.social · 2d

I love that Pepe the Frog is getting rebranded.

Feels Good Man

Pepe the Frog Creator Tries to Reclaim Meme in 'Feels Good Man' Doc Trailer

Creator of Pepe the Frog — the comic character that became an alt-right-troll meme — attempts to reclaim his creation in 'Feels Good Man.'

www.rollingstone.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21h

"We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy," Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought also said. "Not just the funding, but the bureaucracy, that we now have an opportunity to do that." https://to.pbs.org/3W4Qezh

Federal workforce shutdown cuts will 'probably' exceed 10,000, Vought says

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said in an interview Wednesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more workforce cuts, known was RIFS or reductions-in-force plans, are planned a...

to.pbs.org

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

If you can’t attend a protest, there are many other ways to resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21h

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.

www.statnews.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sawyer Hackett @sawyerhackett.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents cosplaying as soldiers are assaulting and detaining veterans who served in actual combat

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 23h

'The proposed center has faced stiff pushback from a community upset over the enormous amounts of water and electricity it would require, and the lack of transparency with which the developers and some in local government have pursued the project."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘The city that draws the line’: one Arizona community’s fight against a huge datacenter

Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert – but will Project Blue be stopped?

www.theguardian.com

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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ARLnow @arlnow.bsky.social · 1d

Top White House official selling Arlington home after activists write chalk messages on sidewalk

Top White House official selling Arlington home after activists write chalk messages on sidewalk | ARLnow.com

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is selling his Arlington home after it was repeatedly targeted by activists. The nearly 6,000-square-foot house, custom built with interiors that "embrace...

www.arlnow.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 29

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 1d

*Haunted Doll Mike Johnson's Epstein Shutdown. I swear he looks more like someone who is possessed by the spirit of an evil children's toy than anyone else I've ever seen.

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 1d

Since tweets like this continue to travel and I get similar responses every time I post something positive about China, it's maybe good to point out where China's progress on clean energy is and isn't world-leading and/or game-changing. 🧵

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck I'm cooked

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Klippenstein: The memo says it considers as indicators things like anti-Christian sentiment, anti-government views, and anti-traditional family positions.

These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.

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ektir @ektir.bsky.social · 1d

The hellscape is coming from inside the building, from what I've seen. Masked devils keep emerging from the belly of that beast to shoot, snatch, and gas members of the crowd at random. Outside that danger zone, it's still just beautiful Portland.

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