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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning! 🪶

Three burrowing owls looking at the camera, one with his head tilted to the side.

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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 9h

Shot. Chaser.
(Is that still a thing? I'm not up on memes under autocracy.)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

Chapeau to France for holding corrupt politicians accountable.

When TF will it be our own corrupt politicians’ time to face justice?!

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, great. Our “intelligence” Chief is going after something that doesn’t exist. These people should never work again.

www.reuters.com/world/us/wid...

www.reuters.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2h

Join us at Ramapo College tonight, where I'll talk about the history of concentration camps: how they rose out of forced dislocation of indigenous peoples, technologies that enabled the shift to modern camps, their use on 6 continents across >100 years, how we got to Auschwitz, and where we are now.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 10d

This is going to be an incredible event. Please join us in person!

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🕸godhatesyeeeest🕷 @godhatesyeast.bsky.social · 7h

i thought you might find this interesting

this the 100 year anniversary of the wanton destruction of a cherokee monument in the name of the confederacy and the us government’s commemoration of that destruction in official silver coinage

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_M...

Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re a journalist who started following me bc of Paul Ingrassia this week, you should start with this story I wrote over a year ago.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Aug 2

I wrote about seeing Paul Ingrassia at a Nick Fuentes rally last year. He threatened to sue me in response. 😭

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Ginny Hogan @ginnyhogan.bsky.social · 2h

ok i’m revamping my YouTube with political humor, check it out if you even like that kind of thing!! www.youtube.com/shorts/5kLPY...

It’ll be fine #politics #zohranmamdani #jokes

YouTube video by Ginny Hogan

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 15h

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

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Arepa Auntie @breadbae.blacksky.app · 14h

Are we allowed to contact The Hague? Like on our own behalf?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

All the time, I tell people who aren’t journalists that the conversation we just had was off the record.

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Berni Johnson @bernij.bsky.social · 13h

The metaphors are on the verge of gaining sentience and taking over.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14h

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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AtheisticSnail.bsky.social @atheisticsnail.bsky.social · 15h

😂😂 LMFAO james Gunn once again predicting the future

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Daniel Johnson @danielfjohnson.bsky.social · 15h

It's literally in the new Superman movie.

Lois Lane telling Superman "You have to say 'off the record' beforehand, not after."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 15h

Wild way to find out I have more media training than the interim US Attorney

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.
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I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

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.

techcrunch.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Charlie Kirk's murder really has become a one-size-fits-all excuse for the right.

No matter what they want to do -- crack down on free speech, let Trump rule like a king, even gerrymander their states* -- they point to Kirk's assassination and pretend it was all about their current grievance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h

NEW RESEARCH confirms:

Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right.

(I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about stealing from the Louvre? know the signs:

RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

This is well-stated, and most welcome

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Some Trump administration officials, including Marco Rubio, who is both the secretary of state and the national security adviser, have argued that designating a drug cartel as a terrorist organization brings with it the authority to use military force against it.
rhat is false as a matter of legal reality; the law that empowers the executive branch to deem foreign groups terrorists enables steps like freezing their assets and making it a crime to do business with them — not to attack them.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Abbott is operating under the assumption he’ll never see a real election again.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.”

This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.

Texas professor ousted from admin role over "ideological differences"

Art Markman had served as a senior vice provost for academic affairs since 2021.

www.axios.com

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 1d

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Denise C.
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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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Daniel Johnson @danielfjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem Looms In Background During Entire Episode Of ‘90 Day Fiancé’ — theonion.com/kristi-noem-...

Kristi Noem Looms In Background During Entire Episode Of ‘90 Day Fiancé’

WASHINGTON—Describing the secretary of homeland security’s cameo on the reality show as “highly unnerving,” viewers reported Friday that Kristi Noem can be seen looming in the background of an entire ...

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