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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 1h

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2h

let’s see what they canceled children’s cancer research for:

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2h

"It doesn't get more tinfoil hat."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to investigate *chemtrails,* according to an internal memo @stephaniearmour.bsky.social obtained.

A department spokeswoman notably did not deny it.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of Health and Human Services.

kffhealthnews.org

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22m

Putin really knows how to manipulate Trump psychologically—and Trump is eager to be manipulated.

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one. President Putin congratulated me and the United States on the Great Accomplishment of Peace in the Middle East, something that, he said, has been dreamed of for centuries. I actually believe that the Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine.
President Putin thanked the First Lady, Melania, for her involvement with children. He was very appreciative, and said that this will continue. We also spent a great deal of time talking about Trade between Russia and the United

States when the War with Ukraine is over. At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States' initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined. President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this "inglorious" War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end. President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today's telephone conversation.
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Lauren al-Ghaib @whimsikal.bsky.social · 58m

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2h

I don't know who needs to hear this, but pretending that you know better than the NTSB isn't a cute look

Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2h

This kind of behavior is always kind of annoying but especially bugs me in this case because this is an 87 page NTSB report including both culture issues and detailed photos and microscopic analysis of the hull failure which I was really itching for and all previous reports were light on

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4h

I would have told you the level of raw Divorced telegraphed by the Tesla Cybertruck was already at such an elevated level that it couldn't possibly be more Divorced but knowing any guy you see in one could be doing ""therapy"" with Grok just punched it up even further

Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 5h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3h

Always listen to survivors.
Always believe survivors.

May Virginia’s words and memory be for a revolution. ❤️‍🔥

Very, very significant trigger warning on this. CSA, grooming, more.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

As @lutzfernandez.bsky.social writes here, the MAGA obsession with the Epstein files was never about justice for his victims, it was only about their revenge fantasies about liberal elites, and now that's been laid bare:

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 7h

In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about the convolutions of the Epstein story and how the throughline is MAGA using children to achieve their political ends.

For MAGA, what's supposed to be about the children is never about the children.

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge

House Republicans care less about delivering justice to this sexual predator's underage victims and more about punishing their political enemies

www.theunpopulist.net

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 7h

2. The they were citing was not just Bari Weiss's FREE PRESS, but it was written by Olivia Reingold, who co-authored that awful, genocide-denying, ableist claptrap piece a few weeks ago...

FP - why is the Free Press suddenly a go to source for Palestine supporters - FP, "Zohran Mamdani Meets the Jews of Park Slop, "I;m going to have people in my administariton who are zixonists," the frontrunner for New york city mayor says, as he piuts a softer spin on his anti israel past, by Olibia Reingold

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 2d

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

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

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 16h

What a 2025 sentence.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 14h

I have some bad news about violence against women in conservative circles. Utah is so proud of their low numbers and your numbers would be low too if you ignored reports

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 14h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors," Thunberg said to Aftonbladet.

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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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15h

I'm a fucking historian of American social movements, Will. My complaint with you here isn't that you're sullying untouchable mythology. My complaint with you is that YOUR COMPARATIVE CLAIM IS A CATEGORY ERROR.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15h

lol some of us don’t have time to discern the (rumored) different flavors of conservatives. They all sit together anyway. Like. Be for serious.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 19h

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 20h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bailout for Argentina, now doubled to $40 billion, is part of an effort to swing Latin America to the right

@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 19h

#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
Could yall help me repost this over 50x:
WASHINGTON DC 10/16/15 @ Politics and Prose at Union Market
Thank you!

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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 22h

If you saw Obama as a threat

If you see Mamdani as a threat

If you see Tlaib, Omar, Crockett or AOC as a threat

Mr. Ackman, the problem is you, and your racism.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Linus is right. Release the Epstein files!

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jul 10

resist far right eugenics with your daily choices—wearing a respirator is not the domain of the fascist, indeed much the opposite or we wouldn’t be where we are—protect the health you&yr community have by filtering airborne irritants, from smoke to chemicals to allergens to pathogens, with 1 tool: 😷

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jun 9

please be conscientious of the way you talk about “masked people” these days; some face coverings are poor excuses for protection as they are used as vehicles for oppression, others—respirators—are themselves tools of liberation. act like it. mask up & support maskblocs.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgaeMAa/

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 17h

unsure why you should wear a respirator in a crowd ostensibly gathered in the name camaraderie against a government gone awry in the big year of 2025? consider the following...

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jul 10

last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

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