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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

JUST IN: A federal judge in San Francisco has HALTED Trump’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers during his shutdown, calling it “unlawful” and “politically motivated.” Judge Illston said Trump acted as if “the laws don’t apply to them anymore.”

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 2d

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography

Loutro Beach on the island of Crete. A small boat with a man in it hovers on top of turquoise water. In the distance, brilliant white stores and homes line the cove. There are no roads to get here. Boat is everything.

#greece
#travel
#sea
#holiday
#crete

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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eSBe @sb2749.bsky.social · 2d

some things never change :)

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

in actuality, this is a mod of SSB named Smash Remix, evidenced by the fact none of the featured fighters or the stage are in the vanilla game

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. Melee featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

in actuality, this is a mod of Melee named The Akaneia Build, as evidenced by the fact King Dedede, Lucas and Sonic aren't fighters in the vanilla game

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. Brawl featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

in actuality, this is a mod of Brawl named Project+, as evidenced by the fact Roy isn't a fighter in the vanilla game

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

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illusion @serufu.bsky.social · 2d

#undertale

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 2d

Imagining Jack Frost, Pikachu, and Agumon having a conversation

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Davis: In [Mike Johnson’s] mind, how can one be a good Christian while at the same time want to take away health care?

Former fundamentalist Levins: Mike Johnson is a beta male in a patriarchal structure. He knows that he’s got to be obedient to his authority, who is Donald Trump—who to him is God.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2d

I think it clicked. You never see the Imperium of Space King losing. What makes 40k good satire of militaristic theocracy is that for all the propaganda, for all the superweapons and backwards dogma, the imperium is visibly rotting. Space king is just the violent power fantasy part with no depth.

Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2d

Space King hurts me because I swear there's a funny show trapped in that mess. Like they kind of nailed the absurd backwardsness of the imperium and inherent contradictions of shitty space marine fans but also they don't know how to write jokes so it's just slurs and murder

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 5d

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 5d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 3d

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 5d

Okay so just to recap the government has basically shut down entirely and we're on the edge of a historical economic bubble pop and we also just implemented a bunch of trade tariffs on the world's biggest exporter do I have that right

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 5d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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Another Somari @somariblue.bsky.social · 5d

@bolldeluxe.bsky.social
October 10th, the release of a Mario and Sonic Fangame called "Sonic Boll"
It has been going on for many years, many changes.
The game and the community helped me flesh out as a person and becoming an artist, I wouldn't be here without it.
#art #supermario #sonicthehedgehog

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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