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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3m

Katsuhiro Harada ®
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It's hard to believe, but Itagaki-san...my senior from university and my rival as a creator has passed away.
The last message I ever received from him was,
"Let's go drinking. Let's make some noise soon!"
To think that he's gone at just 58 years old...
Yes, everyone dies eventually ...that's inevitable.
But you... isn't it a bit too soon?
Didn't you say you were going to defeat me someday?
Didn't you come to my wedding, wearing your usual black leather jacket and sunglasses, and call me your comrade-in-arms?
Didn't you tell me to come to you whenever 1 was in trouble?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 20h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

If there were a perfectly straight line from conservatism to Trumpism, conservatives would have been cheering the removal of Elián González from the United States www.thebulwark.com/p/elian-gonz...

Elián González, Trump, and What Happened to “True Conservatism”

Toward a quantum theory of politics.

www.thebulwark.com

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 20h

didn’t the j6 guys kill a capitol police officer?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was a key figure during watershed moments of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, sacrificing her body at times to advocate for trans people.

She died Monday at age 78.

From Stonewall to MAGA, Miss Major was a ‘towering’ trans rights champion

Miss Major, who has died at 78, helped start San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange and established a sanctuary for transgender people in Little Rock.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 1d

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Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club @swocbc.bsky.social · 1d

If you like free stuff, nostalgia, and fan service, you should visit Patreon.com/SWONCBC right the honk now. For everyone else, you'll find out on Thursday...😏 #keepyourdroidsclose

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 3d

as an extremely lapsed Catholic, it feels weird to be into a Pope. just kinda nice to have this guy using his power to talk a bunch of shit right now.

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 3d

I'm loving this Pope.

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 3d

Because of course

Trump officials reportedly consider selling student loan debt to private investors

Experts say the move could eliminate the federal government’s power to cancel educational loans

www.theguardian.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 3d

Game Boy Color visions of a Bitter Coast journey to Vivec.

Trying out a lil Game Boy game jam Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan adventure game that's got a whole glob of talent and charm behind it.

A pixel GBC scene of a silt strider rising above a fittingly swampy and tall mushroom strewn landscape in horizontal perspective. A tall grey mountain rises above the dithered mist.

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 3d

This is siq as hell

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

When large numbers of people who used to have Medicaid coverage become uninsured, those health care providers will still provide health care to those patients.

They are required to, by law.
But these are nonprofit health care practices that have the thinnest of margins to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

And not just because people who lose their health insurance will die. They will, but that’s not the only reason. Rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and community health centers depend on Medicaid payments to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 4d

just google it if u wanna know

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Most Americans say Trump has improperly used his office to:
💠Punish those who say things he does not like (66%)
💠Encourage federal investigations of his political opponents (62%)
💠Enrich himself or his friends and family (61%)

new @pewresearch.org findings

Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents

49% of U.S. adults say Trump is trying to exercise more presidential power than previous presidents and that this is bad for the country.

www.pewresearch.org

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

Judge April Parry stated in her ruling that the deployment would “only add fuel to the fire that the defendants themselves have started.” Time to go back home to Texas!

Judge temporarily blocks National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying it violates Constitution

A federal judge granted a request to temporarily block a National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying the move violates the U.S. Constitution.

www.nbcchicago.com

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