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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe there's a time for some things, and other times for other things.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 18h

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo recklessly gassed children at an elementary school in Chicago. 😡😡😡👇

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 17h

Psycho

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 20h

You could have seen the same kind of thread 20 years ago from these people.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 20h

You mean there are OTHER racist Republicans?!?

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 20h

Florida man murders 6 people after losing Nobel Peace Prize.

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 21h

C’mon, let’s all debate

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23h

“People who work in New York City politics are, like, professional sickos, and we can often get pretty obsessed around drama and gossip and scoops and rumors" is the truest thing I've read anyone say about people who work in high-profile politics generally www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

How Elle Bisgaard-Church became Zohran Mamdani’s most trusted adviser

The first-time campaign manager steered him to victory in June. Now she’s focused on the likely next administration.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

ZOHRAN: “We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.” 🇺🇸

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 23h

D’Angelo…only 51. What a great talent. RIP

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 23h

Oh man. RIP and thank you 🙏🏾

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 23h

Drew Struzan, iconic poster artist of Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars, among others, has died at age 78.

Drew Struzan, Iconic Poster Artist Of Star Wars And Indiana Jones, Dead At Age 78

Drew Struzan, iconic poster artist of Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars, among others, has died at age 78.

comicbookclublive.com

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 1d

!!!!!!!!!!!

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nice catch

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 1d

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 1d

These people are diseased

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing. Seems like this would be a great populist issue to push.

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 1d

Go Maggie!!!

Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 1d

In a new video interview, United Talent Agency (UTA) spotlights Maggie Kang, creator of Netflix's biggest animated feature film of all time: KPop Demon Hunters. #KPopDemonHunters #MaggieKang #Netflix #SonyPicturesAnimation #UnitedTalentAgency #UTA
www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/watc...

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 1d

You know, maybe it's a relatively tiny amount of folks who ever really used the term to describe themselves, and the real "creators" are the right-wingers who have been using the name as a boogeyman for decades.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 2d

He should be rolled out

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