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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 2h

#SpotTheScammer

@mattie878.bsky.social exclusively following & hitting on men, asking them to unlock DMs, & "Your striking presence evokes cherished memories of my late fiancee, who tragically passed away in a plane crash on his way to one of my house in Dubai before we could wed" to random men

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

this is very important, but not as important as making sure we never have a terminally online administration again

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20h

one thing we can never allow to happen again is making someone president who is rich enough to fund endless frivolous lawsuits

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12h

This is Colton. He started a fire at his house when he chewed through a lithium ion battery. He's not the first dog to do this, and he won't be the last, but unfortunately his dad is a firefighter, so it's probably going down as one of the most embarrassing instances. We're still giving him a 12/10

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20h

Last Sunday, @demiforillinois.bsky.social, @raygunsite.com and I hosted a No Kings protest sign-making party with the best problem:

So many people showed up, we ran out of table space.

This is what community care looks like.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

r/AskDocs
u/help...ed6-7 • 23h • Layperson/not verified as hea...
Think I took heart pills by accident
Physician Responded
Okay in my house we have what we call the pill drawer which basically is just a bunch of loose meds

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Azul = Blue @azulequalsblue.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

👇👇

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 14h

Racist pedo GOP

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18h

Nearly every media outlet is announcing they will refuse to sign the Pentagon’s new rule stating they cannot report information if it’s not government “authorized.”

Even Newsmax is refusing to sign.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 14h

“Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote.”

A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

ballsandstrikes.org

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Amy 💜 @amythehobbitplays.bsky.social · 19h

Destroy him until he’s got nothing left. Kids died and he has the audacity to call Sandy Hook a hoax. The parents deserve every last penny from this piece of garbage!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

bit.ly

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 8d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18h

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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John Blackwillow @blackwillow1.bsky.social · 18h

I've got no issues with tech that is used for beneficial purpose. It has the potential to do so much good, but while it's controlled by people who prioritise greed, hoarding of wealth, and are prepared to devote resources to manipulation and misinformation, tech will remain sinister and concerning.