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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

It’d in fact slap if Idaho had more mosques and camels in it.

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3h

Call me old-fashioned by I think race-baiting like this is bad and any account engaged in it is suspect as hell.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h

Well Idaho, you DID vote for this.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Psst:

A reminder for American writers: High tea is not fancier tea, it’s supper. It’s a more substantial meal with a main dish, rather than tea, biscuits, scones, little snack foods. And it’s high because it’s served on a high table — dining table height — not a low, tea or coffee table.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 5h

feels worth reviving this (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/o...

Opinion | Neo-Nazis in Your Streets? Send in the (Coup Clutz) Clowns (Published 2017)

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 10h

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

the correct response to scaremongering about trans kids in sports is:
1) kids should be able to play sports with their friends
2) you want the government inspecting yr kid’s genitals? asking for chromosome and hormone tests? seems messed up!
3) sports governing bodies also already figured this out

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Valiant 🏳️‍⚧️ | Follow BOOM Goes the Bride on Backerkit! @valwrites.ca · 11h

Peter Thiel analyzes the Very Hungry Caterpillar:

"The caterpillar is christ-like in his rapacious need for food, in the same way as we desire and deserve wealth. The leaf is the anti-christ, because it signifies living simply, without demanding growth and profit. It is the death of capitalism."

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 12h

I want to take this opportunity to connect some dots. This is not a mistake. This is on purpose. The right wing ethos hates government oversight. They try to take over government precisely so they can make it less effectual. We see this everywhere that has Republicans in charge.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

Furious that I don’t know French, their memes must be INCROYABLE right now

NYT Breaking News
President Emmanuel Macron of France reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister days after Lecornu resigned.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

“No public access line”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New LMS platform adopted

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13h

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

But even pointing this out merely feeds back into the grievance and victimization machine that surrounds young men and tells them that they’ve been unfairly maligned. “FemiNAZI tells young men that their FEELINGS are TOXIC.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h

A shocking amount of men seem convinced that if they evince enough self pity they will be delivered of respect, status, and the sexual attention of women. Really can’t overstate that this is not how it’s going to work out.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12h

Literally everyone: Here's a pile of scholarship, observations, and anecdata (plus polling) that demonstrates the effect the post COVID inflationary period had on voter behavior. Spoiler: incumbents lost.

Will Stancil: ACKSHUALLY, THIS IMPLIES VOTERS ARE PIGS HOW DARE U

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 13h

Actually it's him who thinks people are dumb and easily manipulated here. People were saying "wow prices are high, I have less money at the end of the month than I had two years ago" of course they do appreciate inflation rates dropping, that's telling "it could be worse!"

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 13h

No inflation was actually high and once prices are up and interest rates are up people simply do not appreciate prices rising less steep.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 12h

as an elected Democrat im urging all my constituents to call me and beg me to do the right thing

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12h

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Maria Langholz @marialangholz.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago native Chance the Rapper in DC: “FUCK ICE.”

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