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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 9h

An important distinction here, however, is that what the Ellisons did was not a pragmatic--if gross--business decision.

They are bigoted authoritarians themselves and made an ideological decision. That it happens to align with the current President is just a bonus.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

$150 million might seem like a lot of money to pay for a niche subscription website, but the Ellisons knew that the ROI would be tremendous, and Donald Trump ratified that for them tonight.

And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're not-- you have a great-- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great-- from what I know.

I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me-- a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news. And I think that it's happening. I see--

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this answer requires his immediate removal from office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Tiger Lily 🐅 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 14h

What crisis? Bigotry is the core of their identity. They're proudly nazis

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15h

“JD Vance’s refusal to forcefully condemn the infamous Young Republicans group chat” illustrates “No Enemies to the Right” aka “NETTR” (a motto coined by Claremont Institute donor Charles Haywood), which has combined with the “technological revolution” to unfurl a “red carpet for…antisemites…” 1/

The GOP’s antisemitism crisis

Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the looming Republican civil war over Jews.

www.vox.com

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 19h

Fuckers.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 22h

"That one banner of Shōhei Ohtani eating an onigiri that's in front of every FamilyMart"

(the banner reads: "I was born in a country that has delicious rice balls")

x.com/dailyportalz...

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

The Official White House Snub Watch has begun!

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

I'd be very curious what ADL's funding sources are at this point, and how they have changed over time.

Growing up I recall them having broad support, often crossing political divides. Now they just seem like a coalition of the Netanyahu government, Zionist Jews, and the worst Evangelicals.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 2d

(At least the final years of Reagan had a capable team working together with a more-or-less unified--if shitty--vision of government. This is a handful of viziers with unaligned and often contradictory projects running in parallel.)

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 2d

*works great for the looters, pillagers, and would-be authoritarians, not so much for Americans or the world, in general.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 2d

They're not really hiding that Trump is no longer capable of fulfilling the duties of the President due to his cognitive decline.

They're just giving him fun activities while they do whatever they want and simply not talking about it.

It's a plan that works great* until it very suddenly does not.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Hayes: “Maybe this guy is just immersing himself in redecorating projects and overseas parties in his honor while Stephen Miller builds a secret police force, and Russ Vought illegally seizes control of all government spending, and Marco Rubio plans a military adventure in Venezuela.”

OCCUPIED: Trump renovates bathrooms as his team ramps up the military machine

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

yaledailynews.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 3d

Love your neighbors, cover your Rings if you have em

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 3d

‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 2d

Mesothelioma attorney ads continuously running on Fox News to ensure they're played in the White House...

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn't bode well for the candidate's ability to run a Congressional office, though...

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 3d

*millennial on the avocado toast gallows:*

"First time?"

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 3d

1027 Millilitres

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3d

I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

Rep. Clay Higgins:

There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average.
Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries.
Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

These people have civilian jobs. It's one thing to mobilize them for an emergency or a legitimate war, another thing to send them to American cities to stand around and mill about. You're messing with people's careers to further a hostile and idiotic agenda.

Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC, will remain mobilized in the city at least through February 2026. Hegseth extended their orders on Monday. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

Exclusive: National Guard orders in DC extended through February 2026 | CNN Politics

National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC will remain mobilized in the city at least through February 2026, according to people familiar with the Guard’s orders.

edition.cnn.com

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Smarmies

Tiger Lily 🐅 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Nards

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Bitterfinger

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes that failure may have been unavoidable by the time you arrived. But it's still a failure. Spend six months driving a desk thinking about how the situation could have been prevented.

If we run out of officers on the streets that just shows the magnitude of the failure.

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4d

The State using force against its constituents is, at its most basic level, a violation of the core principles of democratic governance. The State exists to serve the People.

If you unholster a weapon or in any way violently interact with the public, you have failed as an agent of the State.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4d

Any member of law enforcement who so much as unholsters a weapon--lethal or non-lethal--should, minimum, be flying a desk for six months, even if an investigation determines force or threat of force was necessary and, critically, unavoidable.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4d

Once again putting out there that the bar for charging someone with assaulting an officer should be rather high and the bar for charging an officer for assaulting a member of the public should be extremely low.

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