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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 8h

donald trump holds only two principled position: that neither corruption nor rape should be crimes

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

I’m very skeptical of this — not because President Trump isn’t willing to grant pardons and commutations easily, but because there is zero interest from his base in this, and he has nothing to gain from doing it.

And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.

@TMZ
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is considering commuting Diddy's sentence as early as this week, according to a high-ranking White House official.
Details HERE: tmz.com/2025/10/20/don...

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 14h

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 10h

Picard during The Drumhead is peak liberalism (affectionate). But Picard during The Defector seems like the best place to be. Considered, thoughtful, always aware of the stakes, able to tell people exactly who they are, ready to fight, planning ahead for that fight, ready to throw vicious punches.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 15h

He's doing all of this while the government has been shut down to protect him from being definitively identified as a pedophile.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 15h

happy Furries Turned Off Their Pagers Day

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 15h

this tweet also remains the truest thing written about how the underlying architecture of the internet works

Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 17h

that sounds so relaxing

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mcc @dryad.technology · 1d

I'm sorry can I get. Can I get some clarity here on whether it would be more accurate to say "Trump shelled CHP". Or would it be more accurate to say "Trump shelled JD Vance" www.axios.com/2025/10/19/c...

Newsom slams "reckless" military display after shrapnel hits patrol car escorting Vance

A shell "detonated overhead prematurely, striking and damaging" the vehicle, California Highway Patrol said.

www.axios.com

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

I think we're all in a holodeck simulation, actually.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Just constantly, reflexively saying he's going to use state force against people exercising their rights.

Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

He's trying to harm his Vice President for old times' sake. Just a trip down memory lane.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Closest I saw was a Garfield.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

The only science fiction stories that can reliably forecast the future are bleak satires.

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · Aug 29

Science fiction is a poor guide to the future because no author is willing to make their stories as stupid, as amazingly, idiotically, rock-stupid moronic, as what actually ends up happening.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

"artificial intelligence has dawned. for the first time, humanity has created machines that can communicate. the president makes it create pictures of him taking a shit on the flag"

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

They had told Newsom to keep I-5 open during this stunt.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 1d

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

People don't need to be shamed for things that don't matter.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Being obsessed with cringe, cringe-watching, cringe-mocking, and other cultural policing is part of the reason why we're as bad off as we are right now.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Sarah Cawkwell @skullqueen.bsky.social · 1d

Receiving author copies of your books is a thing that never gets old.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

This is just the NYT's way of doing a poop spray video, sure it looks a little different but the sentiment towards the protesters is the same

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.

DEMOCRATS’ ADS
MAKE OLD PITCH:
STOPPING TRUMP
WELL-WORN PLAYBOOK
Louay al-Ali
Abdul Salam
Mahmoud
Fahd al-Freij
Issam Hallaq
Mohammad
al-Rahmoun
Aous Aslan
Qahtan Khalil
Using the Impasse to
Carry Out His Agenda
Some See It as a Missed
Chance to Advance a
Positive Message

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose I have to do the social media engagement thing since it's basically part of marketing yourself for a job now.

*pushes up nerd glasses*

Hi, political scientist here. It's generally considered a diplomatic faux pas to bomb your allies then call them crackheads when they complain.

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Commodore Jones Day! On this date in 1842, Commodore Jones of the United States Navy, acting on a rumor of war, took over the capital of Mexican California and gave it back after a day. This act of mistaken conquest is given a comic twist in my novel The Master of Monterey. #booksky

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 1d

Read the whole things, but some highlights:
- Their new median estimate is *5.5 million* people protested yday
- protest levels are 4x what they were in Trump's first term
- at least 12.8 million people, or 3.7% of the population, have demonstrated against the president since he took office

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

I have secured a better vantage point and THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM

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