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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

watching WISHMASTER and are we positive that the united states hasn’t been cursed by an evil genie

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 4d

Thanks to @foone.bsky.social's nekos wearing headphones thread I keep describing kemonomimis as either "foone-compliant or foone-incompliant". It came up at work again.

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who is online stoking flames between libs and leftists right now at this moment when the libs and leftists are actually getting along in the streets is either unserious or a bad actor

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9h

They won’t even give the movement a name as they did the Tea Party.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Mar 7

It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 18h

Milo Yiannopoulos •
@Nero
POLL: I'd rather my child had
feminism
cancer
21,232 votes • Final results

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 13h

And of course this was the day after a 10K hike and an 8 hour car ride and he still wanted to come out to the protest.

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 13h

I wanted to speak up in the moment, but "Eat shit, bitch. This is how fast he walks." seemed a little over the top.

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 13h

Dad is walking at a slow amble with a cane towards the protest.

White hippy woman somewhere between mine and dad's age: "The faster you walk the longer you live!"

Me, ten minutes later: "Wait, that sounded pretty fucking ableist."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 20h

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 15h

We have to accept that the mainstream media is protecting Trump. If this were a Democrat who shared a video of him shitting on Republican protestors they’d play the video every chance they got while calling the Democrat unfit to lead the country.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17h

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 14h

I knew Trump was full of shit, but I didn't know he was that full of literal shit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 17h

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 17h

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15h

This is just straight-up treason by rubio, he's wrecking our ability to fight organized crime in order to help bukele cover up his apparently cozy relationship with MS-13 leadership and possible theft of us foreign aid, all so trump et al can get photos of us sending hairdressers to torture prison

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

The NYTimes was not able to rule out the possibility that Donald Trump was actually filmed wearing a crown and flying a jet that doused Americans with diarrhea.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

"Brown liquid" ftw. I thought they'd at least acknowledge the consistency. I also love the "appeared to be AI." I think it's pretty safe to conclude he didn't have the whizzes at Industrial Light and Magic whip that up for him.

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself
Flying a 'King Trump' Jet Over
Protesters President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and
flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 1d

decades of sophisticated political philosophy dedicated to the criticism of rights discourse, theories of alienation from “organic community,” and advocacy for post-liberal forms of “counter-politics” have all led to Donald Trump posting an AI video of himself as a king shitting out of a plane

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 16h

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 17h

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 19h

With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

Camila @camilapress
FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15—the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we're aware of—was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters.
At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro's identity is confirmed by his cousin.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
EN VIVO SANTA MARTA - EXCLUSIVO
Señal
Colombia
EN DIRECTO
RTVC NOTICIAS
EXTRA SEGÚN CBS NOTICIAS
15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 LANCHA FUE BOMBARDEADA@*
7:53 PM • 18 Oct 25 • 395K Views

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 16h

If you can’t accurately describe what was in the video, perhaps you should focus on why that is

Or perhaps you should stop running interference for a dictator by normalizing fascist propaganda

You FUCKOS

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 21h

In one video the president shared on social media, Trump wears a crown and flies a fighter jet with "King Trump" written on it.

Trump jabs 'No Kings' protesters with AI videos of himself wearing crown

In one video the president shared on social media, Trump wears a crown and flies a fighter jet with "King Trump" written on it.

bit.ly

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is just murdering people and the Supreme Court gave him immunity to do it.

Democrats need to start being louder in reminders that while Trump has immunity, murder is not legal for those who carry out his orders.