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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 4h

“Musk has set a new standard for being washed. Let us not forget that he bought and tanked a beloved website as part of a years-long campaign to get people to think he’s cool and funny.”

We’re Being Ruled Over by the World’s Biggest Losers

They effectively control our fates, but deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and inadequate, and it eats them up.

www.thenation.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs; the [Willamette River] shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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☕️Research&Coffee☕️ @drjbw.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine / the points of these protests is not to even gain *more* civil rights - the point is just to ask the government to FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION. Like, that’s all this is about, just about wanting to be subject to the rule of law.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 4h

This is what we saw time and again from Birx and Fauci.🤦‍♂️

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h

Suffering.. but in Italian.

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 5h

Surprised to see PHX and SLC on the list of airports refusing to play the video.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12h

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 12h

God this is exciting. A zero carbon grid is closer than we imagine.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 12h

One of the ways we know the perinatal dose of Hepatitis B vaccine makes a difference? NHANES & the people who powered it

ACIP recommended the birth dose in 1991. The prevalence of Hepatitis B among children 6–19 years old declined 68% from 1988–1994 to 1999-2006.

academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 5h

Morning Gunny!

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 5h

He’s the whiniest little snowflake.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

n.pr

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 5h

So he’s just as big of an asshole in his private life.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 5h

The folks at Fox were REALLY upset that Donald J. Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the first time I've heard Alfred Nobel's decision to create the Nobel prizes as "spin." He donated 94% of his great wealth to set up the foundation

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

‘Saying yes puts you in their debt’: narco gangs profit from Argentinian austerity

Drug traffickers gaining influence by stepping in and offering donations after Milei’s sweeping social cuts

www.theguardian.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

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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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 5h

Billionaires should not be a thing allowed in a functioning society. Tax them.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

The lawyer for Marimar Martinez (the woman shot by CBP on October 3) seems to think the communications that led to Tricia McLaughlin's claims about the shooting might start disappearing -- he's asking for a preservation order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MOTION FOR A PRESERVATION ORDER
Defendant, Marimar Martinez, by and through her attorneys, Cheronis & Parente LLC,
pursuant to the relevant provisions of Rule 2 and 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, as
well as the Due Process and Effective Assistance of Counsel Clauses of the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, respectfully requests that the Court enter a
preservation order for the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to preserve and
maintain any and all records, emails, text messages, documents, notes and other materials related to
the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Ms. Marimar Martinez and the gathering of
information for the October 4, 2025, press release from Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin issued
by DHS titled “Vehicles Again Used as Weapon in Attack against DHS Law Enforcement, Officers
Forced to Fire Weapon on Armed Woman in Chicago.” In support thereof, Ms. Martinez states as
follows:

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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 1d

It's all one enterprise. Musk, Inc. As Tesla shareholders will discover as soon as Elon can get his hands on Tesla's cash to shovel into the xAI cash incinerator.

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

God he’s an embarrassment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

MARCO RUBIO: This is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That's not an exaggeration

TRUMP: Only 50?

RUBIO: Maybe 100

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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome news!

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

The Chicago detention center has refused the Mexican Consulate access to visit detainees

Now what reason would ICE have for doing that?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Wut?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 1d

The outdated trans study still doing damage

www.indailyqld.com.a...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The outdated trans study still doing damage - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland

Walkley Award-winning journalist and founding editor of ABC Queer, Mon Schafter, reveals how a forgotten experiment from another era is still influencing the culture war over trans healthcare.

www.indailyqld.com.au

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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