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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 13h

It's AI slop. It's meant to destroy everything, not be accurate.

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 13h

Did the exact same thing to a clarinet player in Portland:

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 17h

George Lincoln Rockwell served with distinction in both theaters during WWII.

(If you don't know who that is go checkout Wikipedia.)

I know folks like this meme a lot but it completely ignores the long history of nazis and their ilk serving proudly and with honors in the US armed forces.

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 17h

97% collateral arrests sounds bad but I'm no expert

Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 18h

Black bloc walked so that inflatable animals could run

#DiversityOfTactics

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc

It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Trump just murdered six more people off the coast of Venezuela.

Donald J. Trump
@reaDonald Trump
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Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Genderless Rodent, but Halloween Themed @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder: you shouldn't be using AI.

No, not even for that.

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 1d

Crying.

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't get much but what they did take were things I care about, like my little Garmin GPS I used for my foraging and dispersed camping trips ☹️

Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody got into my car and took my stuff and that makes sad

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody got into my car and took my stuff and that makes sad

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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 2d

This sucks. A lot.

I know from my own experience doing it— it is NOT expensive to pay humans to do this. I got invaluable development working there. As did countless others.

But hey look at that, here’s a feedback form in case you also think it sucks www.mlssoccer.com/feedback/rec...

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 10d

You'll have a Sandwich
Annie Rémich

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 3d

Not me yelling WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU'RE NOT IN THIS ONE every time I see Liv Tyler in The Fellowship of the Ring

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 3d

Trump take ag!

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 3d

You let the magic smoke out??

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 3d

Just assume every surveillance tool available is being used in Portland right now

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d

“Although warrants are required to operate cell-site simulators, the devices can be used without judicial authorization in certain circumstances, such as when there is an immediate threat to national security.”
san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 4d

That's what the cointreau is for!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 4d

Every reporter not immediately asking Trump to name one single store antifa burned down is a hack and a fraud

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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