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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 2h

So if Frog Suits are so intimidating they require an armed military response to just a couple of slacker Portlanders with Amazon accounts, does that mean our military should abandon helicopters and tanks in favor of dressing themselves in apparently imminent danger Rainbow Unicorn inflatable suits?

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 3h

Fundamentally any situation in which Abrego gets to exercise agency in the decision of where he is sent and isn't treated as a criminal is unaccepetable to these goons. If the destination doesn't convey "punished on our terms" then it won't do the PR work they want out of it.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

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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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

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...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Me: [some farrago of vapid twatwafflery]

Everyone: [rolls eyes, snorts, shakes head]

Me: IS THIS AN INTELLECTUAL DONUT SHOP BECAUSE I SMELL THE THOUGHT POLICE

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

not one of the linux people in this thread is doing a single, solitary thing to refute the joke

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

every linux person i know: you should try linux, it’s great and easy!

also every linux person i know:

Ed @ed3d.net · 4h

ed: I want to just install a Linux desktop and I prefer KDE

also ed: fedora doesn't have even nouveau out of the box and says "mess with rpmfusion"

also ed: "'nobara linux'? that has one developer"

also ed: "kubuntu's installer crashes making encrypted partitions"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

One of the real dangers of becoming super rich is that you'll write or say some of the dumbest shit imaginable and there's no one around who will tell you how stupid it is before you publish it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

nothing bad can happen. it can oly good happen :)

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 7h

I have no doubt that Bari Weiss will continue to climb the ladder of success in the news media. Thankfully I have run out of subscriptions to cancel.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16h

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, in 2020 not only was Biden not President, and Trump WAS President, but by this point Trump had fired the then current (GOP!) FBI director for the crime of doing his job and installed his own political lackey in the position, expressly to have him under Trump's control!

Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 17h

"If this is so, which it is"

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 17h

"If this is so, which it is"

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

B R a I n s

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 19h

Celebrating Gavin Newsom signing SB79 at Los Angeles Lithuanian Days! May California continue to be a beacon for people from around the world. 🇱🇹 🇺🇸 🐻

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 22h

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 23h

You can do meth and work 24-7 as a drywall installer whenever you want, what are these people chasing?

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 1d

incredible.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 1d

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 1d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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