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LAL - Free Łink @lindli.bsky.social · 1h

such fine, robust specimens of the master race

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

www.newsweek.com/full-list-yo...

Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats

Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

www.newsweek.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 2h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2h

Also Yseult
“The K-pop industry, like others, has sucked on Black culture like a vampire for decades. It samples our music, steals our movements, wears our skin like costumes, and profits from our pain while erasing our names.”

See "Blacksound" by @drmadmo.bsky.social & "Black Meme" by L. Russell

French Singer Yseult Alleges Plagiarism in R.Tee Video

French Singer Yseult Alleges Plagiarism in R.Tee Video Director Apologizes for Similar Scenes in Damdadi Music Video

www.chosun.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2h

Yseult's IG "spent 100K on a music video I produced last year, only to get it copied and pasted by a K-pop creative a year later"

Video dir. Hong Min-ho
"I sincerely apologize… scenes were identicall to Yseult's original work. It is true I was inspired by Yseult's work…"

He apologizes with what? 💰

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2h

Legacy Russell’s "Black Meme" says owning, replicating and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.

Prof. Matthew Morrison's "Blacksound", citing Saidiya Hartman et. al., looks at origins of blackface minstrelsy & its impact on U.S. music
#Blackademics

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

boltsmag.org

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

... i'm sorry, trump is 20pts under water IN TEXAS? www.economist.com/interactive/...

economist map showing turmp's net approval in texas is -19.3%

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

In pictures: Palestinians return to north Gaza to find devastation

Returning residents are forced to erect makeshift tents on the rubble and comb through the debris with their hands to find their loved ones' bodies

www.middleeasteye.net

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LAL - Free Łink @lindli.bsky.social · 2h

And Maine 😭

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B R A N D O N @sirbrandonthomas.com · 3h

Now ma’am… is this you?

What if I were to say, “what a big ugly face… wtf would you prance around with THIS face?”

I’m not saying it… but what if I was?

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 8h

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff.

Early 2020s: LLMs
Early 2010s: MOOCs
Early 2000s: Wikis

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 9h

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 13h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 3h

Trump is deliberately killing civilians in his "war on drugs" — and getting away with it. Now, with DHS claiming "Antifa" is collaborating with cartels, it's not impossible to imagine that war coming home.

I asked experts what that could look like and how to resist. www.salon.com/2025/10/16/f...

From Venezuela to America: Trump wants to bring the war home

By linking "Antifa" to foreign drug cartels, U.S. officials are building the case for a domestic war on terror.

www.salon.com

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

Brooks: we need a mass movement

"There are hundreds of groups involved in organizing the event. They include the ACLU, College Democrats of America, the Human Rights Campaign, the League of Conservation Voters, and the National Organization for Women"

Brooks: no, I mean of dudes like me

The unhinged attacks on No Kings

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” On Sunday, October 18, millions of Ameri...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

"It’s getting worse. I mean this neither as an expression of hyperbole nor a cry of alarm. I mean this simply as a factual statement about where we are." And more than three quarters of Trump 2.0 left.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

It’s Getting Worse.

The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

www.thebulwark.com

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

Israel killed 3 Palestinians today

Israel is still not allowing UNRWA to deliver aid. UNRWA said they have enough food to supply Palestinians for 3 months. Israel hasn’t let them bring any aid into Gaza in 7 months.

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Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social · 10h

Yea....that is a perfect behind.
Chef's kiss.

This chalk demon is jealous for sure.
I bet she has a flat sad pancake ass.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 5h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 3h

“The UN estimates that 92 percent of all residential buildings across the Gaza Strip have been destroyed since the genocide began in October 2023. Almost all of the territory's population has been displaced over two years.

An estimated 1.5 million people are in need of emergency shelter.”

*92%*

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 3h

In pictures: Palestinians return to north Gaza to find devastation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/gallery/pictures-thousands-palestinians-return-northern-gaza-find-devastation

In pictures: Palestinians return to north Gaza to find devastation

Returning residents are forced to erect makeshift tents on the rubble and comb through the debris with their hands to find their loved ones' bodies

www.middleeasteye.net

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 6d

Hi @anguskingiii.bsky.social, since you're with him, can you convince your father/top supporter to stop voting with Trump and Republicans? He keeps doing it and he knows better - or should

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6d

Spotted: Angus King introducing Ron Wyden to his son Angus King III, who is running for Governor

Angus King, an old white man with a moustache, standing next to Angus King III, a younger white man in a black suit, next to Ron Wyden, an older white man in a charcoal blazer

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

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
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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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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 11h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

www.nytimes.com

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Buck @turbineseaplane.bsky.social · 15h

“My daughters are just a little younger than you” 🤮🤬 (from Prince Andrew)

‘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...

www.theguardian.com

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