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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 12h

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.

What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.

On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

www.dataandpolitics.net

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 13h

BREAKING NEWS: Today is National Pug Day so please post photos of your pug(s)

National Pug Day
HAPPY NATIONAL PUG DAY!
PUGTOBER
NATIONAL PUG DAY
Celebrated annually on October 15th, National Pug Day is a tribute to the ancient and beloved dog breed.
Pet lifestyle expert Colleen Paige established the day in 2012 to celebrate pugs and encourage adoption from shelters and rescues. Ways to celebrate include:

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 13h

This is Sophie — she’s 3yo, loves naps, cheese, and being chased by other dogs ❤️

A photo of a pug and her owner sitting on a bench

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 7h

Between the vice president's misbehaving "young boys" and the news media's "underage women", I'm starting to think nobody actually knows what a child is?

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 8h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

“i have always been a shitty person i was just more careful not to leave evidence behind”

-the vice president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 7h

uh oh what did the nazi south african do this time

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 11h

Bluesky crashed from everyone joining lol. We're getting everyone on here

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

“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.
PPA

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

"mad" has several definitions according to the dictionary i use but it is rare for them to all fit into one example tbh

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

"i wasn't allowed to talk about replacement theory or any mainline immigration stance"

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6h

Oh they mad

Aidan @aidanxitter
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit
One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil
All over some useless YR beef
And then the GOP condemned them
Fuck these people
The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration
I wasn't allowed to talk about "replacement theory" or any mainline immigration stans They asked me to resign over Trump's gr card diploma mill comments

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 7h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely desperate to know what the blackmail leverage here was like can you imagine????

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6h

Oh they mad

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 1d

Thinkin about how much pushback I got for reporting this last year ! www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

www.wired.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

one of those sentences that is both shocking and utterly predictable which seems to happen with stunning regularity these days lol

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 5h

Yes, apparently due to Elon restoring a Nazi doxxing ring on X

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5h

I watch my tv (baseball) Ted watches his tv (the mailman)

Ted, a dog, looking out a window and I watch mariners Julio Rodriguez on tv

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

what level of AGI is porn chatbots for verified adults

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

wat

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 8h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4h

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that No Kings vexes people like Talia Jane is not an important reason to go. But it is nice, and you may have it, as a treat.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

If State Farm is truly interested in being a good neighbor, it should be transparent and let the numbers speak for themselves.

Other insurance companies work with us on this, but State Farm has refused.

Without the data, homeowners have no assurance.

Illinois sues State Farm for not releasing homeowners’ insurance data

State Farm responds to lawsuit filed by the Illinois Attorney General's Office

www.25newsnow.com

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