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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 9h

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 13h

Still think @pixelatedboat.bsky.social nailed the Trump 1 era

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13h

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 17h

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone still talking about legality just sounds like this now

Comic: nine one one what is your emergency

What do you mean you're being murdered

That's illegal people can't do that

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 14h

Grok what usually happens to Microsoft competitors?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 16h

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 16h

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO.

Speaker asks sim if he’s tired of getting ratioed on twitter by Orr

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#vanpoli

isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 5d

Another speaker opposed to the motion and bringing up the rally and Sims tweet. She asks sim if he’s tired of getting ratioed on twitter by Orr. Coun. Zhou trying to interrupt her and now telling people it’s a serious environment.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 16h

please post rare turing_polices

Turing Police @turing_police
when I was like 12 I went to the California science center which had a "drunk driving simulator" educational arcade type game and if you were too good at it the game would automatically crash the car after a while so you didnt undermine their message

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 19h

"The Nazis have stopped doing genocide so they're 100% good now" is going to be a very common argument for a while.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 20h

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

www.rte.ie

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 16h

I still use my ex-girlfriend's dad's phone number at Safeway in the US lol. He might be dead by now

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 19h

postmodern finance theory

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 19h

Progressive U.S. politicians, both elected and campaigning, should keep their fucking mouths shut about how hopeful it is to see hostages freed.

IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 19h

Israel is still murdering Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Tweet from Mosab Abu Toha:
A civilian named Khaled Barbakh was killed by Israeli gunfire in central Khan Younis.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

When Biden violated US law to give Israel a thirty day deadline to comply with a series of steps in October 2024 I was assured by many people on here that he was finally going to impose consequences. Anyway Israel didn't comply with a single step and Blinken claimed they were in compliance anyway.

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19h

fact it didn’t fucking work. It didn’t work electorally, it didnt work geopolitically, it didn’t work for tens of thousands of dead palestinians

how did joe biden spend the lame duck? great question, calling on world leaders to continue supporting israel after the likud coalition helped elect trump

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 17h

msnbc starting to sound like the kind of radicals that make the will stancil types so mad on here. heard someone say something to the effect of "moderate democrats? this is not a time for moderation" lol. brunch crowd going full antifa

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 17h

Oh cool they're the IDF now

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 17h

Barack Obama had this and used it to defund ACORN

To pass your agenda a Dem will need 60 votes in the Senate & a majority in the house. In every battleground state voters need to show up to give a Dem President the power to deliver without negotiating. If we fail to do that, we cant complain when what's delivered is watered down

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 20h

Well-buttered rightwing propagandists are always screaming lies about “paid leftwing protesters” because 100% of all rightwing political activity is very obviously deeply funded by the hyper billionaires who own them - so they fabricate a symmetry that doesn’t exist

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 19h

Well see, it makes perfect sense as long as you assume the conclusion and work backward from there

🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 19h

"Critically reviewed single" is just a long-winded way to say incel

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 1d

Well, they're liberals. When was the last time a liberal sacrificed anything, even mild social consequences?

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