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Glad to see some of the better parts of Twitter here. Formerly a library tech guy. Now doing library adjacent things but a little less adjacent than before. Wolves Twitter. Loons. Spurs. Disc golf nerd. Took up TTRPGs. Fully support 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 5h

The disqualifications have become qualifications, the destroyer of worlds.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5h

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be 'tossed into the seventh circle of hell' and said he has 'a Nazi streak'

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

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 12h

The new army with the 7th largest budget in the world is ramping up arms.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12h

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

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Formerly Libraryben on Twitter @bbtwlvloonspr.bsky.social · 11h

“Slurping down raw sourdough with these pigs… “

a woman in a denim jacket is holding a cell phone with the word bae above her

ALT: a woman in a denim jacket is holding a cell phone with the word bae above her

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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 1d

It’s always intermittent fasting…

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Hello, 28th precinct, I was just yelling slurs at a bunch of people on a public sidewalk and some little skater kid snatched my transitions lenses and when I tried to chase him I fell flat on my face. Yes I’ll hold

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 1d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23h

The first time I publicly criticized the NYT as being a horrible institution was on Twitter a month or so after I quit. I did it because of the Tom Cotton op-ed. The number of messages I got from ex and then current nyt employees about the abuse they had endured was... more than I could take in tbh

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Formerly Libraryben on Twitter @bbtwlvloonspr.bsky.social · 1d

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan

Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

For the wealth class to continue hoarding and consolidating resources it requires fascism.

The wealth class owns all corporate media, so the coverage normalizes fascism while vilifying even the most moderate reform or change.

That’s it. That’s the game.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

MUST SEE: San Francisco really spelled it out — literally. “NO KINGS. YES ON 50.” stretched across Ocean Beach.

A whole crowd just told Trump’s regime to fuck off without saying a word.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe all along it was a poop tape.

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Mark Simon (he/him) @marksimon.bsky.social · 1d

We had it in Bethlehem, PA. There was a 2nd sign

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Men, women, children are separated." - Anne Frank (1943)

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

So I’ve been busy with a ton of other stuff, but basically, China just purged, basically all, of the senior leadership of the military - He Weidong was CMC Vice Chair, Miao Hua was head of the political department. Seeing some stuff about key branch leadership also going.

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He Weidong, Miao Hua, and 7 others have been expelled from the Party and the military for serious violations of discipline and law.
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何卫东、苗华等9人严重违纪违法被开除党籍军籍
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10/17 17-25 泉鱼北京市
10月17日下午，国防部新闻发言人张晓刚大校就近期涉军问题发布消息。
张晓刚：党的十八大以来，全军和武警部队坚决贯彻党中央、中央军委决策指示，坚持无禁区、全覆盖、零容忍，重拳惩贪肃腐，军队反腐败斗争不断向纵深推进。经党中央、中央军委批准，中央军委纪委监委陆续对中央政治局委员、中央军委副主席何卫东，中央军委委员、军委政治工作部原主任苗华，军委政治工作部原常务副主任何宏军，军委联合作战指挥中心原常务副主任王秀斌，东部战区原司令员林向阳、陆军原政委秦树桐、海军原政委袁华智、火箭军原司令员王厚斌、武警部队原司令员王春宁9人立案审查调查。经查，这
9人严重违反党的纪律，涉嫩严重职务犯罪，数额特别巨大，性质极为严重，影响极其恶劣，依掘相关党内法规和法律法规，党中央决定给予9人开除党籍处分，将涉嫌犯罪问题移送军事检察机关依法审查起诉。其中，给予何卫东、苗华、何宏军、王秀斌、林向阳、泰树桐、袁华智、王春宁8名中央委员开除党籍处分，待召开中央委员会全体会议时予以追认。此前，中央军委已决定给予以上9人开除军籍处分。对何卫东、苗华、何宏军等人的严肃查处，再次表明了党中央、中央军委将反腐败斗争进行到底的坚定决心，彰显了军中绝不允许有腐败分子藏身之地的鲜明态度，是党和军队反腐败斗争取得的重大成果，人民军队更加纯洁巩固、更具强大凝聚力战斗力。
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail
www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

After striking the blockbuster deal in 2023, several top Microsoft executives told colleagues around that time that they thought OpenAI’s business would eventually fail, even if its technology was good, according to a former manager who discussed it with them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

The record protests are the 6th headline down on the NYT mobile app.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...

Social Media, Pleas From Allies and Prison Essays: How Santos Won His Freedom

On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. “Good luck George, have a great life!” the president said.
Santos’s Release Frustrates His Former Colleagues and Constituents

George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. On Long Island, in his former district, some people called the decision an outrage.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

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Formerly Libraryben on Twitter @bbtwlvloonspr.bsky.social · 2d

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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 2d

In Minneapolis, a network of big $ political committees—All of Mpls, We Love Mpls, and Thrive Mpls—share donors, staff, and messaging.

In July, We Love Mpls was cited by the Campaign Finance Board (CFB) for violating disclosure rules.

Here's why all of them could be in violation of MN laws. 👇

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Heidi Tasker @heiditasker.bsky.social · 2d

Seen in Auburn, Maine #NoKings

A woman at the 10.18.2025 #NoKings rally in Auburn, Maine. She’s wearing an American flag themed fist hat, and her sign reads: They’re eating the CHECKS. They’re eating the BALANCES.
There is a dog and a kitten on either side of her sign, each with large googly eyes.

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Formerly Libraryben on Twitter @bbtwlvloonspr.bsky.social · 2d

Bulls on Parade was the best song they played

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3d

the only people trump feels sympathy for are people who’ve actually suffered consequences for being corrupt fraudweasels like him

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 3d

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 3d

The replies you are getting are not random people. They are not a statistical sampling of the audience.

They are aggressive deranged participants in harassment who are either bots using it to cloak themselves as human, a hired bot network, or just genuinely universal malcontents who hate ice cream.

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