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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h

These costs are sucking chest wounds to the average American, and will be impossible to weather. This, alongside the AI bubble, the housing market bubble, the loss of jobs, encroaching inflation, and every other batshit thing Trump does, will lend itself to a cataclysmic cascading failure.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky...

$28,000 for a plan in Oregon...

$44,000 for a plan in Vermont..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages

Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...

www.washingtonpost.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Threads post from julieceye

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 3h

Considering adding "But will this project be far more extensive than initially let on?" to every single NYT story about Trump and his admin.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.

Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates

nyti.ms

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has now murdered 34 people in international waters.

No one has any idea if any were criminals, and of course it doesn't matter, because it was a war crime to kill even a single one of them.

Drug trafficking is a felony, but it's not a violent crime and isn't punishable by summary execution.

Trump administration announces another strike on alleged drug-carrying boat, in the Pacific Ocean

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says in a social media post the U.S. military conducted its eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel

www.independent.co.uk

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7h

*screams*

Several of the women I interviewed belong to religious communities that strongly oppose gender-affirming care, and yet were taking testosterone in amounts comparable to those taken by some trans men.

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✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 17h

gender remains the goated lens for everything and it is of course men who are being pressured to hollow out their empathy centers such that it would ever seem cool and fine to get the murder tattoo fascists like

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 17h

the first person that patriarchy teaches a man to harm is himself.

oppressive violence against others is more palatable if someone has already first been convinced to rip the copper wiring out of their own soul.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Jan 29

⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies.

⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4h

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

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Amon26 @amon26.bsky.social · 4h

i'd be fine with captialism if it wasn't a game of everyone flouting the rules to fuck the other guy without being forced to quit.

That's all it is anymore. Not about what you can provide or create, its about cornering people, squeezing them dry, and escaping the consequences

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 6h

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 8h

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some
There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11h

The miracle of Effin' Birds is that I had to submit all the comics for the 2025 calendar by June 2023, so I wrote this joke somewhere between late 2022 and early 2023.

I remain a shitty Nostradamus.

(Get your 2026 calendars right now at eatf.art)

Evan 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) @evan-of-ohio.bsky.social · 14h

We are indeed witnessing historically significant horseshit, @effinbirds.com

A calendar page for Wednesday, October 22,2025. A drawing of a bird on the right side and on the left the text "at least we're witnessing historically significant horseshit"

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Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 8h

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 7h

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

Enthusiasm for testosterone cuts across political lines. Several of the women I interviewed belong to religious communities that strongly oppose gender-affirming care, and yet were taking testosterone in amounts comparable to those taken by some trans men. Marcella Hill, one of the most popular testosterone

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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 7h

Not technically pasta, so it’s fine.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 9h

One thing people can do too to protect the integrity of our upcoming elections is to register as a poll worker. BETTER YOU THAN SOMEONE IN A RED HAT

jenni @msjennimiller.bsky.social · 9h

There are people like Zohran and AOC in every city. You don't have to elect guys with shitty nazi tattoos just because they said some good stuff. keep it moving!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 12h

👀

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 13h

uh

Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 14h

One of the new leaders of Planned Parenthood Southeast said she was pro-life. Another complained that the group was focusing on abortion. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within”

One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.

www.motherjones.com

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Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 20h

curated meme by unknown author, maybe DMTv? it's a Dungeons & Dragons game with Star Trek characters; first panel is a grizzled old dungeon master with his materials sitting in front of him, with text: a pool of oily sludge blocks your path; second panel is Tasha Yar of TNG with text: A what? Whatever, I'll just walk around it; third panel is a D20 showing a natural 1; last panel is a Denise Crosby title card from TNG with her name being crossed out with a red sharpie

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

I need y’all to take five seconds and think about what it feels like to be a Jew whose family was massacred by people wearing this symbol and watch you analyze and debate this.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this a debate? Why is this an analysis? Why are we discussing his motivations or the reasoning behind why he has it or why he kept it? (These are all rhetorical questions.)

Nazi tattoo = you’re done.

It’s literally that simple. There’s no nuance or further conversation needed.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway if you have a Nazi tattoo it’s true you’re not a secret Nazi. You’re an open Nazi. You literally have a sign that you carry around in your body every day that says “I’m a Nazi.”

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

Graham Platner has deleted reddit posts defending people for getting SS (bolts) nazi tattoos.

He was also a Blackwater mercenary as recently as 2018.

there is no reason someone running for public office should have a nazi logo tattooed on their body, regardless of their past.

r/liberalgunowners by u/P-Hustle
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June 9, 2020
I was with 3/8, we never worked closely with west coast outfits but did relieve 3/7 in Ramadi, and they seemed like a squared away unit.
r/leftistveterans by u/P-Hustle
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Where are you?
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r/liberalgunowners by u/P-Hustle
June 8, 2020
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Almost all the dudes I know with them were from 8th and 6th Marines, and a few from 2nd. Definitely a unit thing, and more popular in certain battalions than others for sure.
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I was on Lejeune, and know lots with bolts.
r/liberalgunowners by u/P-Hustle
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I'm not going to try to explain the infantry to you. It's clearly a pointless exercise. Have a good one.
June 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
r/liberalgunowners by u/P-Hustle
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June 8, 2020
God no. You could read through my post history and see that I'm pretty radically left.
But this is a specific culture that I am close with, and know intimately. I'm not being willfully obtuse, I'm explaining something that is far more nuanced than you're willing to understand.
If anyone is being obtuse here, it's you.

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