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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 3h

Crybully goon state, shooting and crying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Liberal pro-Israel politics in the United States and the Anglosphere writ large relies upon an idealized version of a state which does not exist, a political elite which does not act the way the West pretends it does, and a civil society which is far more conservative than the West likes to imagine.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 4h

Summit in Budapest. As in „Budapest Memorandum” in which NATO countries and Russia guaranteed Ukrainian independence in return for Ukraine surrendering its nuclear weapons. Putin straight-up taking the piss, Trump doesn’t understand or care.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4h

President Trump:

I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one⤵️

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 3h

Once again reading about Lord Haw Haw's later career, looking out the window, sighing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3h

In other words Trump did the dril tweet

Donald J. Trump ®
@realDonald Trump
If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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10/16/25, 1:30 PM

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 13h

They definitely hear things that upset them, like: You must secure your second year accommodation by November of your first year and pay two months rent as deposit up front. We may increase the rent before you move in.

Or: Yours is a worthless degree that a future Conservative government will ban.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22h

“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”

Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h

He’s just a young lad of 65 how could he possibly be expected to know anything about the Republican Party’s views on healthcare

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17h

what did he think trump was gonna do, exactly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called the Affordable Care Act flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 14h

Not really - these kinds of paltry numbers are within margin of error. A sad business

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

UK economy returns to growth in August with 0.1% rise in GDP – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the latest UK growth report Today’s GDP report also highlights weakness at service sector firms focused on consumers. The UK’s consumer-facing services sector shrank by 0.6% in the three months to August, dragged down by: travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities (down 7.6%) other personal service activities (down 3.4%) buying and selling, renting and operating of own or leased real estate, excluding imputed rent (down 1.0%) “We have seen the fastest growth in the G7 since the start of the year, but for too many people our economy feels stuck. Working day in, day out without getting ahead. The Chancellor is determined to turn this around by helping businesses in every town and high street grow, investing in infrastructure and cutting red tape to get Britain building.” Continue reading...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 15h

How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto on.ft.com/4olkLoi

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 15h

The great thing about cryptocurrencies is that they strip banks of their power to create money thereby making the financial system more stable and.....oh
finance.yahoo.com/news/paxos-a...

Paxos Accidentally Minted $300 Trillion of PayPal’s Stablecoin — Then Burned It

Stablecoin issuer Paxos revealed that it erroneously minted $300 trillion worth of PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday, only to reverse the mistake minutes later by burning the excess tokens.Blockc...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

In today's least surprising news

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21h

(Maybe you should mention this is illegal)

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 1d

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 1d

People are gonna get rich. www.ft.com/content/0425...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster 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

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

This is a grim read. I stick to my view that the wilful blindness of the government to the financial crisis in local government will cost them their majority at the next election. Why not roll the dice for change when the local public realm is falling apart? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says report

Exclusive: Impact of austerity cannot be undone by end of parliament despite above-inflation funding, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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