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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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ICE Breaker @mutant.pizza · 5h

What are the odds this was stolen from wherever doge put all the government data that they removed from secure government servers.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe letting Elon Musk and his turd army download all the personal data of everyone who paid taxes in this country and install a backdoor to all the data was a bad idea after all

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sorry but if you can't calculate this discount, you shouldn't have any role in the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Dr Oz: "You'll notice, President Trump, these are discounted from $242 to $10. I don't know what the math is on that. We can't even calculate it. It's too high to calculate."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss”

The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder.

Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo.

One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.”

Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera.

It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12h

Myron Gaines
@MyronGainesX
Yeah we like Hitler. No one gives a fuck what you woke jews think anymore.

Bro was a revolutionary leader and saved germany. The jews declared war on Germany first.

If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof, I'm questjoning everything you guys have said about the painter during WW2.

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Rob Altman 😷✊🇬🇩 @robaltman14.bsky.social · 13h

stays, for now! 🤣

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 14h

This is blatantly unconstitutional and why no Democrat should ever hedge on "well tariffs..."

The President does not have the authority to impose taxes nor does he have the authority to distribute unconstitutionally collected revenue from those taxes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Leavitt: "President Trump had to tap into tariff revenue to get WIC money out the door for vulnerable women, infants, and children/"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

Any election pitch against these guys should be "Hey do you hear what they're saying they're insane"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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

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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 14h

Octogenarian Mitch McConnell falls over when being asked about ICE

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 15h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14h

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"A health care system that has universal access, but crappy, substandard care and a government that treats the economy as a shakedown racket."

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-fut...

Is the Future Socialist?

Even if we could go back to the economic and political arrangements of 1996, it’s not clear that anyone wants to.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 17h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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theonyximpact.bsky.social @theonyximpact.bsky.social · 18h

The harm is real: Black workers pushed out of jobs, HBCUs stripped of resources, Black mothers and fathers denied healthcare, and neighborhoods left without protection from floods, asthma, or poisoned water.

📖 Read the full Blackout Report now.
#BlackoutReport #OnyxImpact

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16h

Must-read report bringing into full focus the magnitude and harm of the MAGA assault on Black America.

theonyximpact.bsky.social @theonyximpact.bsky.social · 18h

The harm is real: Black workers pushed out of jobs, HBCUs stripped of resources, Black mothers and fathers denied healthcare, and neighborhoods left without protection from floods, asthma, or poisoned water.

📖 Read the full Blackout Report now.
#BlackoutReport #OnyxImpact

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.

Every time they’re asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they don’t deny it.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 15h

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, hibiscus, rose petals, violet, and calcium studded cucumber

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 16h

mmhmm

Myron Gaines on X:

Yeah we like Hitler. No one gives a fuck what you woke jews think anymore.
Bro was a revolutionary leader and saved germany. The jews declared war on Germany first.
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof, I'm questjoning everything you guys have said about the painter during WW2.
11:49 AM • 10/15/25 • 513K Views

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

Second graf in this article gives us more accurate reasons for why public transit isn't a preferable choice: service areas are smaller, less stops along routes, US spends far more money and time than other countries to build it. But sure, fear of crime is the issue. [2/3]

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16h

Some dismiss concerns about subway crime as baseless, the result of insufficiently hardened attitudes toward life in the “big city," Charles Fain Lehman writes. But if policy makers ignore people’s fears, they'll miss a chance to make transit better:

The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit

People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 15h

BRETT KAVANAUGH: “If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

Check out the full report here: https://tinyurl.com/3cfy5kpf

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans will never cease to claim 39-year old white guys are "kids" and 12-year old black boys are "men"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

According to rapid response, feds have grabbed one person from the Addison/Kimball Home Depot this morning. Several people detained in Back of the Yards as well, still all over the area. They've also returned to Carpentersville this morning, and were seen near an elementary school there.

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