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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1h

You're all in my thoughts.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2h

okay one time talking about heaven is just a random thought word vomited into the world. This is what? the third or fourth time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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ghosty @ghostymost.bsky.social · 2h

he must’ve done some sick shit with jeffery epstein

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Crazy week.

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Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 5h

If you don’t think this is evil, there is nothing anyone can do to save your soul.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

Utterly disgusting and sadly very indicative of this shameful, current moment in our history.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 8h

My attitude on Linux after spending 2 decades messing around with it:

I am 30 or 40 years old and I don't need this

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

“America First.”

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Adrien Brony’s Nightcrawler @xtpd.bsky.social · Jan 13

(*offer void for any 616 Spider-Man comics*)

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · Jan 13

The Virgin Detective Comics Comics: NO WE HAVE TO DO A REBOOT EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS EVERYTHING IS TOO CONFUSING

The Chad Marvel Comics: That thing you hated? It never happened, don’t worry about it.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · Jan 13

To reiterate a prior point:

Spider-Man is the Marvel’s most DC comic (derogatory)

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my god

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 9h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 9h

This is correct, and the purpose was to entertain at most a few dozen people, who happen to control a few trillion dollars between them.

Long Live the Gerontocracy @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 9h

The FP is only financially successful if we judge it as a project designed to entertain. If we view it through the lens of journalism, it isn't a success by any metric.

Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 10h

Not here to ratio you, but I am here to respectfully disagree. Building something as financially successful as FP is genuinely impressive, but it doesn’t necessarily demonstrate competence at running a real newsroom with real reporting and real journalism standards.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h

I realize her team is just making content off what she said but this is the message.

AOCs Facebook page makes a graphic that says they are weaker than they look with trump on an orange background

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 12h

So much of modern conservatism is either deliberately misreading children’s media, or just this meme.

1994
RESPECT MINORITIES!!
spidow man...

2024
RESPECT MINORITIES!!
FUUUUUUUCK!!
they FUCKING
RUINED IT with their WOKE trash!!
it wasn't like this when I WAS A KID!!

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 12h

I think it is very clear that Thiel correctly identified revelations inside of Watchmen and One Piece, and it is sooo typical for the liberals of bluesky to haughtily mock it.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 13h

doctor manhattan is literally an omniscient god and he is not hinting about Rorschach's manuscript. he is informing Veidt of the vast scale of the universe and that, from a god's-eye view, the things he has done are forever frozen in the moment when they happened and cannot be undone

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 13h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

Consider this an intervention into the conversation regarding what @himself.bsky.social calls partyism.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a piece on one of the underrated keys to YIMBYism's success and what other political organizations, including the Democratic Party, could stand to learn from YIMBY. (In short: host more happy hours.) www.firesidestacks.com/p/yimbytown-...

The Place Where Civic Life Still Feels Fun—And What It Teaches Us About YIMBYtowning Our Politics

A visit to YIMBYtown tells you why the movement has been so successful. The lessons it offers may even point the way to a broader democratic renewal. Progressive groups and policymakers should study Y...

www.firesidestacks.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

They like him and want to help him.

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Eugenics, all the way down www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me of how, for some strange reason, a good chunk of creationism "experts" are from the exact same profession: electrical engineering.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 1d

I've long felt hat Wreck-it Ralph is the legitimate sequel to TRON.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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