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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

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“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.

Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires

As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 8h

Hey so I think if we want to exist as a society we need to regulate the fuck out of GenAI and I think a big easy first step is keeping it a country mile away from political ads.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

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Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 11h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 8h

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14h

BREAKING: The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials, a significant expansion of President Trump's original stated plan.

Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom

Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 20

They attacked liberalism because it seemed to them the prind·
pal premise ofmodern society; everything they dreaded seemed
to spring from it: the bourgeois life, Manchesterism, materialism, parliament and the parties, the lack of political leadership.
Even more, they sensed in liberalism the source of all their
inner sufferings. Theirs was a resentment of loneliness; their
one desire was for a new faith, a new community of believers, a
world with fixed standards and no doubts, a new national religion that would bind all Germans together. All this, liberalism
denied. Hence, they hated liberalism, blamed it for making outcasts of them, for uprooting them from their imaginary past,
and from their faith.
-Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair:
A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology'

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

Has to be understood as a threat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 1d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 1d

The death has been announced of influential theologian Phyllis Trible: myunion.utsnyc.edu/emailviewonw...

A towering talent and dedicated feminist biblical studies scholar. Our condolences to all who knew her.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

If cameras had been rolling for this it'd be the new succulent Chinese meal www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Just not the Trump Foundation “charity” — which was dissolved under court order after he “repeatedly used Foundation money for his own personal, business, and political interests.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 23h

"Several people familiar with internal administration deliberations said any initial land attack would probably be a targeted operation on alleged trafficker encampments or clandestine airstrips, rather than a direct attempt to unseat Maduro." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump beats the drums of war for direct action in Venezuela

The Trump administration has surged warships, fighter jets and troops to the Caribbean for drug interdiction. Many see the ultimate goal as toppling Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

honestly would watch a mr t documentary, this is all bananas

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 1d

The letter is signed by an unusually broad array of Christian clergy, progressive and conservative, including the Right Reverend Paula Clark, Episcopal Bishop of Chicago. ⚓️

religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago

(RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

The White House has moved ahead with the massive construction project despite not yet having sign-off from the National Capital Planning Commission, which approves construction work and major renovations to government buildings in the Washington area. https://to.pbs.org/3JaWF0Q

PHOTOS: White House starts East Wing demolition to build Trump's ballroom

The Republican president has said he's adding a 90,000-square-foot ballroom because the East Room, the largest room in the White House with an approximately 200-person capacity, is too small.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 White Afrikaners — and virtually no one else www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1d

I have long been convinced that the History Channel deciding that Nazism needed to be "exciting" was a bad turn for us all.

Jason @angryamadeus.bsky.social · 1d

Funny you mention the History channel. Firm believer that they (and other Discovery networks) had an outsized and overlooked role in landing us where we are now. Nazis, conspiracy theories, factual examples of times the feds lied etc etc. It's all there. Warpin brains behind a veneer of 'history'

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Standing with Immigrants
Oct. 21, 2025
My dear brothers and sisters, today I speak to you as your shepherd, but also as a fellow pilgrim who shares the pain of many of our immigrant communities. Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants.
We stand with a mother who crosses borders to feed her children. We stand with the father who labors in silence to build a better future. We stand with the young person who dreams of safety and a better future. Our parishes and schools will not turn away those who seek comfort, and we will not be silent when dignity is denied in the enforcement of the law, it is essential that we respect the dignity of every human being.
Now I want to say something directly to those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect. As the Archbishop of Chicago, I will insist that you be treated with dignity. Americans should not forget that we all come from immigrant families.
You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you.
God bless you all.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

And militant atheists' evangelizing has had the same impact on my beliefs as Christians' trying to convince me did before I quietly moved to their faith on my own: Zero. No human brought me to my faith; I'm not sure if one could.

My own faith is rather mysterious to me. I kind of like it that way.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

that outhouse was steaming, brother

It's no secret that the great Bambino had a voracious appetite, but he didn't just like to tuck into a sizable hunk of beef at dinner; the first meal of the day usually consisted of a porterhouse, and breakfast didn't end there. Ruth's steak was typically paired with four to a dozen eggs (though sources vary on the exact number), fried potatoes, a pot of coffee, and a pint of ginger ale mixed with a pint of whiskey, which is interesting considering his drink of choice was usually scotch.

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