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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 4h

Everyone is talking about butt plug shirt guy, but don’t sleep on the super jacked dude behind him

A goomba from the Super Mario Brothers movie

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Jul 29

The character select screen from the original Mortal Kombat but with a shot of Tony Shaloub on the red carpet in the top middle square

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4h

flared bases loaded

CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 5h

….is that

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 4h

Reminder if you are not Black do not say in the stripped club straight up "jorking it" and by "it" haha well let's just say My peanits

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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 4h

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 10h

9/ That’s right — Jacob Frey wanted a “black friend” to run cover for him. Davis refused; the mayor acted like Davis owed him something for appointing him to the committee, in a cynically transactional calculation that twisted Davis’s volunteer public service into political fealty.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 10h

7/ Caught in a lie, Frey never apologized. Instead, we got his famously weasely “Language became more casual, including my own.” BTW this is the 1st election voters can hold Frey accountable for lying & Locke dying, but the incident is almost memory-holed in coverage. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Minneapolis Mayor Frey Admits To Being Misleading On 'No-Knock' Policy Changes

"Language became more casual, including my own, which did not reflect the necessary precision or nuance. And I own that," Mayor Jacob Frey said.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11h

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 4h

get into the DESIRE shinji 🦔

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 4h

idk, looks like a normal-sized Polanco to me

Screenshot of Jorge Polanco with a score bug that shows “Little (the pitcher)” and Polanco stacked

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🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · 4h

from the desk of ✨trash✨:

some things are very bad

but there are also some things that are very good

Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 5h

Asking everyone with over 10k followers to make an official statement about a random current event

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 5h

hey, do the thing.

thanks.

dictated but not read

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Mar 17

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A typewritten note that reads:

hey!!
it's time to fill up your pill organizer for the week!!
no! not later, silly!
now.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 5h

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💫 * 🎵 • * ✨ ★ . 👾 * ☀️ 🪐 . @benbusb.us · 6h

whit merrifield was OUT

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

I wish people in this country would be honest about the country.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6h

Oh, drugs

Kailee from firefly smiling cheerfully but toothlessly, having just said "oh, crime."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 6h

Dick Gregory

October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017

❝If everyone likes you, you're not real enough.❞‬

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 6h

Happy heavenly birthday to Black American comedian, civil rights, and animal rights activist Dick Gregory

October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017

❝I am so sick and tired of seeing a Black person shot in the back, shot dead, followed by people saying, 'Not all cops are bad.'❞‬

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 22h

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent thread on why the right yelling BUY AMERICAN is nonsense. I mostly wear heritage Americana stuff and buy jeans from stateside manufacturers. it's roughly 3x-4x the price of levi's, lee, etc. I just don't see people clamoring to spend $200 on each pair of jeans for the family.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 11h

characters leaving pornhub comments: thread

Cookie Monster eating cookies and talking about cum.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

Man said:

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