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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 15h

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Brendan Karet @badtakes.bsky.social · 17h

hit the "why am i even bothering with this shit" wall and have been strangely healthier ever since

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Brendan Karet @badtakes.bsky.social · 18h

no more listening to 5 hour rants from a rich person who struggles to invent life problems to complain about, no more listening to a drunk say "i love you" and then take it back when sober. bye bye

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Brendan Karet @badtakes.bsky.social · 18h

mfw one month has passed after blocking a sociopath on every method of communication

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Debbie Brockman, the WGN producer who was violently detained by Border Patrol agents in Chicago while on her way to work, has hired a law firm and "intends to pursue all legal avenues" over her arrest -- which resulted in no charges.

peopleslawoffice.com/statement-on...

Statement on Behalf of Debbie Brockman, WGN Employee Assaulted by Federal Agents | People's Law Office

Debbie Brockman, the WGN employee who was physically attacked and arrested in Chicago, Illinois by federal agents on October 10, 2025, would like to

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h

Down at Young Republican HQ

Succession "Have you ever read Mein Kampf" scene.

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Brendan Karet @badtakes.bsky.social · 22h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I made a horrible decision last night and told chat that I’d do a 24-hr livestream if we raise $100k with these streams by the 19th.

So if that’s an incentive to tune in… there you go.

Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social · 5d

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promises to do a 24 hr livestream if her campaign reaches $100k in donations. If you want an unapologetically pro-democracy Congress, please consider donating. If you want to see her stream for 24 hours, please donate to the stream specific url.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.”

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3d

I think I'm going to start a bit where I insist that both of the Red Scare girls are Polish and refuse to be corrected.

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 5d

Tesla's Full-Self Driving software is now under federal investigation, including its behavior at train crossings, after an NBC News investigation.

In September, NBC News found that Tesla owners repeatedly complained about Teslas failing to detect oncoming trains.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com

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Politico @politico.com · 5d

REAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump foe, is indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

She has been charged with one count of bank fraud by the same U.S. attorney who brought charges against James Comey.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump foe, is indicted by Trump’s DOJ

She has been charged with one count of bank fraud by the same U.S. attorney who brought charges against James Comey.

www.politico.com

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 5d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 6d

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 7d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10d

Genuine medieval peasant brain who gets to vote on whether we go to war

I've kind of dug into this a little bit more, and the way they do it is they do these scenes, and they switch them around very fast. In the old days [in the era of comedian and producer] Andy Griffith, it was just one camera and it was great. And [modern producers] do different scenes and it's moving around every second, and that releases certain things in young children's minds, and we need to find out why are they doing like this because this is contracting their brains, this is molding their brains.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 11d

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11d

The people have all the operational security brilliance of some 6 year olds planning a surprise party.

taber @kvetch.gay · 11d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12d

Musk has posted about the Southern Poverty Law Center six times in the past hour.

With the ADL taking down its glossary of extremism and hate, the SPLC appears to be the next RW target agaibst anyone who provides info about right-wing extremism.

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Incitement to violence by evil propaganda organizations like SPLC is unacceptable. This is getting innocent people killed.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13d

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12d

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Brendan Karet @badtakes.bsky.social · 12d

the standard response is "buhh he never do anything." okay, look at the world around you. look at american citizens getting rolled up in raids while they show passports, to no effect. what do you think happens next to you or your neighbors who happen to become NSPM-7 Non-Compliant.

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