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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10m

Most people who actually live next to immigrants are just fine. It’s the people never exposed to anyone different from them who get angriest — and to whom Vance is appealing here.

Also, Vance is a sociopathic ghoul whose nativist bullshit would have prevented his own children from existing.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 18m

What an embarrassing thing to say out loud.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 56m

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 20h

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
People

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

"I'd be allowed to do whatever I want."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?

TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2h

Hey girl, are you an airport ladies' restroom? Because you are defying gender stereotypes by being surprisingly disgusting

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deirdreruth.bsky.social @deirdreruth.bsky.social · 2h

The cover of The Cure's 1989 album Disintegration

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Bloody Hield 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 21h

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

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deirdreruth.bsky.social @deirdreruth.bsky.social · 4h

A baby possum among bright green grass. The opossum has bright eyes, perky ears, and a very pink nose. The grass is taller than the opossum so you know they're REALLY small.

deirdreruth.bsky.social @deirdreruth.bsky.social · 4h

One of the biggest struggles for me in this era is balancing "we are well past that point and can't possibly address everything unacceptable they're doing" with "if we ever want to build a functional society again we have to maintain a belief that ethics and the rule of law do in fact matter"

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

Reminds me of when Republicans called Obama uppity for correctly pronouncing Pakistan.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14h

Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana
Studies Major at Bowdoin
The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.
Listen to this article • 12:37 min Learn more

By Jeremy W. Peters
Oct. 28, 2025
Updated 3:17 p.m. ET
It wasn't so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it.
"We're going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!" the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary.
Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation's name "AH-ee-tee" - near-perfect Creole elocution.
"When I heard him say that, I smiled," recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani's former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani's reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti's status as the first republic founded by former slaves.

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deirdreruth.bsky.social @deirdreruth.bsky.social · 4h

It is breathtaking how fucking stupid this guy is. The dumbest motherfucker that ever lived. What the fuck.

Jersey Craig @jerseycraig.bsky.social · 15h

The White House pressed U.S. Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during an elaborate military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration apnews.com/article/trum...

White House urged firing live bombs, not dummies, for Trump's visit to Navy celebration: AP sources

The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that Presiden...

apnews.com

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 11h

It’s a building of pipes going back and forth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Massive plants. And they're doing unbelievably. LNG. It's like the Empire State Building lying on its side. And all I know is I looked at. I said, 'What kind of a building is that?' All it's got is pipes going back and forth. I never saw anything like it. But whatever it is, it works."

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deirdreruth.bsky.social @deirdreruth.bsky.social · 5h

A little opossum trying to eat a bright orange pumpkin. The opossum's jaw is open very wide, but the pumpkin is too big and the little guy is struggling to gain purchase.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 7h

every detail in this story is incredible

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Geena Can Blow Me @geenacanblowme.bsky.social · 10h

A tweet by Jack Bernhardt )@jackbern23), dated 10/19/22:

My favourite aspect of Halloween is the playlists, where people clearly add songs like Zombie by the Cranberries on name alone, so at parties it goes Monster Mash, Rocky Horror, Beautiful Elegy About Intergenerational Trauma of English Violence Against Ireland, then Thriller

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

@nytimes.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

Heartened by the return of one of the classic Trump bits, which is when he sways faintly and says "I'd like to see low IQ [person of color he saw on TV] try to pass the test that's regularly administered to me by medical professionals, the famous unbeatable Test To Determine Extent Of Brain Trauma,"

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2d

Could god make a sax so yakkety that it would speed up even his motions to the point of silliness?

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deirdreruth.bsky.social @deirdreruth.bsky.social · 2d

Kaitlin Bennett still shitting herself in public all these years later

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 2d

I wish the LA Times and the media would focus on the fact that 42 million people will lose their food assistance in less than a week.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 2d

Newsom, Harris both considering runs for president in 2028

Gov. Gavin Newsom says he’s considering a run for president in 2028 — a day after former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made the same pronouncement.

www.latimes.com

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merisa @cambrianera.radical.town · 2d

I feel this should be obvious but we do understand the reason for the focus on gender affirming care for incarcerated people, right? The goal is to get people to admit that they think gender affirming care is *not medically necessary*.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

A screenshot of a bluesky post from Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) with a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying “At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

there is something genuinely wrong with rightwingers, their entire base line of their entire political project on every level is making sure people are suffering and take joy in that

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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Rogan is confusing measles with chicken pox

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.

(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

What’s worse, the NBA Players cheating at cards, and probably much else, or the Democrats cheating on Elections. The 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen, is a far bigger SCANDAL. Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our “President!” We now know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much “gusto” as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history! If not, it will happen again, including the upcoming Midterms. No mail-in or “Early” Voting, Yes to Voter ID! Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop Vote is! Millions of Ballots being “shipped.” GET SMART REPUBLICANS, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

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