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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 3h

jfc, mark. What's that saying? If there's a n@zi at a dinner table and 9 people sitting with him talking to him, you've got 10 n@zis at that table.

www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Mark Cuban Would Still Have Dinner With Donald Trump

The billionaire investor campaigned for Kamala Harris, but thinks tech execs have a “moral imperative” to play nice with the president. Why? It’s good business.

www.wired.com

EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 3h

oh, ffs.

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 4h

there is no low that the current regime won't strive to attain.

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

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

www.theguardian.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 6h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 4h

🤮

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6h

I’m generally very “let a thousand flowers bloom” vis a vis kinks involving consenting adults, but this seems deeply gross and unhealthy.

The Verge @theverge.com · 12h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 4h

"She didn't look like her last name."

fucking hell.

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ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 5h

Authoritarianism expresses in venues other than the federal or state government.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

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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Indiana University fires IDS
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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.

EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 5h

the repub party, y'all. Not that anybody is surprised.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 9h

mmmmm the Schadenfreude is delicious...

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13h

CBS aired a segment by Olivia Reingold—a reporter for the Weiss-founded Free Press—in which NYPD officers are worried about Mamdani, with some “considering retiring.” The evidence? Four unnamed officers quoted out of ~33,000.

The story is thinly sourced, fearmongering, tabloid drek. trib.al/hfqsrL0

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 13h

Y'all, we knew this was coming. 1CE is trying to partner with private companies to hunt migrants on #socialmedia. They'll be hunting the rest of us, too.

Non-paywall link: archive.ph/M3Zqd

english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-...

ICE’s migrant hunt expands to social media

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking private companies to establish a permanent cyber surveillance operation to boost arrests and deportations

english.elpais.com

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 13h

Again, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy capitulated and hired someone who has absolutely no journalism experience TO RUN ITS FREAKING NEWS ROOM. The "fr33 pr3ss" has done stories that were proven false and they didn't run retractions or apologies. CBS now also floods the zone with shit, as B@nnon has said.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13h

CBS aired a segment by Olivia Reingold—a reporter for the Weiss-founded Free Press—in which NYPD officers are worried about Mamdani, with some “considering retiring.” The evidence? Four unnamed officers quoted out of ~33,000.

The story is thinly sourced, fearmongering, tabloid drek. trib.al/hfqsrL0

EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 13h

I know. Freaking sad. He was only 51!!!!! Fucking cancer.

www.msn.com/en-us/music/...

MSN

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, man.

hiphop-n-more.com/2025/10/lege...

Legendary Musician D’Angelo Passes Away

Iconic singer and songwriter D'Angelo has passed away. After reports began to circulate on social media earlier this morning US time, a couple of significant voices including DJ Premier confirmed the ...

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 14h

Sadly, it's confirmed: hiphop-n-more.com/2025/10/lege...

Damn.

Legendary Musician D’Angelo Passes Away

Iconic singer and songwriter D'Angelo has passed away. After reports began to circulate on social media earlier this morning US time, a couple of significant voices including DJ Premier confirmed the ...

hiphop-n-more.com

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 14h

#NewJersey
#voting

Madz @madz123.bsky.social · 14h

Heads Up New Jersey! 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Source: Alt National Park Service

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 14h

Hi, all--Episode 1 of Season 4 of podcast the Anti-Trans Hate Machine just dropped. This season explores the organized right-wing campaigns behind the destruction of #publiceducation using anti-trans heinous-ness as a weapon. Highly recommend! @imarajones.bsky.social @translash.org
#LGBTQ

Anti-Trans Attacks Tear Communities Apart

Podcast Episode · The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality · S4 E1 · 52m

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 15h

Huh. It's almost as if right-wing corrupt assholery isn't as popular as right-wing corrupt assholes think.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 15h

Man, that walters' guy is beyond tool-dom. What a freaking corrupt douche. Had this guy from TX on the OK payroll. The guy does political consulting. And walters' seems to have had some other people on the payroll--they hardly ever showed up to "work."
freepressokc.com/walters-chie...

Walters’ chief policy advisor paid $150K, few office days

Walters’ chief policy advisor was in the DOE office only 42 days since Jan. 2023 while drawing a full-time $150K salary and running his Texas consulting firm.

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying "same," but I'm not not saying it, either.

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

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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