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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

So, even if Kamala Harris ran the centrist campaign of their dreams featuring police officers, Liz Cheney, no Palestinians, and a pledge to build the most lethal military in the world she did it Black-ly and woman-ly so actually it was a “far left” campaign.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3h

meanwhile

Elon Musk tweet: VOTE CUOMO!

Trump Tracker reply: This is the third sexual assaulter you have endorsed. Which is not a lot, but weird it has happened three times.

Elon Musk reply: Do you have a better suggestion?

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 2h

It’s a stupid question as asked though - Cuomo is not a nominee of his party. It should have been “did you vote for the nominee of *your party*, or not”

He is a party official and if he can’t vote for the party’s nominees he should withdraw from leadership

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 2h

Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."

Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 7h

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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Chelsea Janes @chelseajanes.bsky.social · 10h

Now that the dust has settled on that crazy World Series, it still strikes me how unlikely it was that Max Scherzer got one (last?) October run. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Max Scherzer gave the Blue Jays all he had. They helped keep him going.

The future Hall of Famer wasn’t sure he could continue pitching at his lowest points this spring. He ended up starting Game 7 of the World Series.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

This Washington Post article about MAGA people trying and failing to date in Washington is...really something

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

When Morgan Housley, 29, moved to Washington for her job in April, she had some non-negotiables for the conservative man she was looking to date: He had to “love the Lord,” genuinely enjoy going to church, and be able to “provide and protect, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all of those things.” A fit, athletic man she could go on runs with.
So far, Mr. Right has not materialized.
Instead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are …
“Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.
If she had it her way, she would be married and expecting her first kid. She says a lot of her colleagues at the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group whose website says “in order to save America — we have to save the family,” are settling down and having children. But it’s rough out there. When we reached Housley by phone, and she told a co-worker that she was discussing dating in D.C., a voice at the other end of the line could be heard saying, “Oh nooooo!” So, that’s where we are.
“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

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Ronzo @ronronzo.bsky.social · 11h

Arranging funeral services for your granddad just as dick Cheney dies.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

Pope: God loves everyone

Tradcaths: *screaming, crying, throwing up*

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

the hopes of a Based Pope are dead (to the trads)

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 1d

This is disheartening because — and this is still something I find crazy but awesome — Teen Vogue has been putting out INCREDIBLE political journalism the last several years. Like, better than publications whose claim to fame is covering politics.

Cheers to everyone who made that happen. Thank you.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 21h

Zaporizhzhia was on generators for reactor and spent fuel cooling for a bit www.nucnet.org/news/power-s...

Power Supply Restored To Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant After Month-Long Outage

Six-unit facility once again receiving external electricity to cool reactors and spent fuel

www.nucnet.org

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21h

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22h

Police opted not to call SIU despite running somebody over twice. A public organization with barely any oversight. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wat...

Sayer also said police are actively reviewing the incident but did not notify the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) because the woman's injuries weren't serious enough to meet the threshold to alert the provincial watchdog. If she had suffered injuries that would have interfered with her health or comfort and were not "transient or trifling in nature,
" then the SIU
would have been obliged to investigate.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 21h

Ha ha, that’s funn…

(Remembers that it’s not even three years since John Tory resigned, he keeps hinting at running again, and before that we had a crack mayor)

Yeah, never mind, forget I said anything

Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 21h

You missed the bsky reaction the first time around, I guess? bsky.app/profile/mile...

Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Jun 17

respectfully, I had not seen a picture of Zohran's wife before today and I am hitting myself in the head with a hammer at this time

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Abbott's joke about putting a tariff on people makes sense if you read it in the context of hoping to be able to own people again.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve all gone mad.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 1d

.@politico interviewed Toronto Mayor @MayorOliviaChow about @ZohranKMamdani - she advised NYC’s likely next mayor to focus on affordable housing - and her relationship with @MarkJCarney - better, certainly, than Mamani’s with Trump www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Why Zohran Mamdani May Want to Look to Toronto

Canada’s most prominent mayor is a fan — and she has some advice for the potential next mayor of New York.

www.politico.com

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Jim Calabro @calabro.io · 1d

This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾

A chart of the main bsky backend load balancer request throughput compared to 7 days earlier (the previous Saturday). There's a massive spike during the world series game.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 2d

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...

www.ncronline.org

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 1d

I dare one of these reporters to ask “you seem to not be aware, when asked about them, of many things the president says and does. Do you not pay attention to the leader of your party - is he not relevant to your interests?”

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

New York Post headline:

Nearly a million New
Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor
- possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 1d

Can we all agree that when a president pardons a guy who was convicted for financing terrorists, and then says he didn't know the guy but "I was told" to pardon him, the follow question MUST be "Who told you to pardon him?" But CBS never asked: who is making decisions in the White House? 1/

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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