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Greg Burke

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

His Nobel pitch needs a little work

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Mary Claire 💙🩵🇺🇸☮️ @claire9389.bsky.social · 1d

💯💯💯 (sound up)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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sassafrasgirl @sassafrasgirl.bsky.social · 1d

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8h

how to topple tyrants
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1d

In a new video, Pope Leo tells U.S. bishops they must be even more united and forceful in fighting Donald Trump’s abuse of migrants.

Pope Leo Presses U.S. Bishops to Fight Harder Against Trump Deportation Raids

While some bishops have spoken up, the pope says the entire Church must act “with one voice” against cruelty at the border.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Epstein files:

"This has been so suppressed, it has been so covered up, and it makes no sense."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Tim Dillon: "Children being zip tied, or a grandmother being zip tied, people who've maybe lived in a community 30 years and they're not committing a crime...showing up to a high school graduation and deporting someone's father, seems to a lot of people to be inhumane."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negations to reopen the government because they're desperate to raise premiums on people in this country by 75% to finance tax cuts for the wealthy...JD Vance and Donald Trump's number one priority is raising healthcare premiums."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Chris Murphy: "There are no negotiations happening in large part because the House of Representatives isn't even here. They've been on an unprecedented 5 week recess because they do not want to risk their billionaire tax cut."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Chris Murphy: "You cannot trust this administration...This shutdown is happening because Republicans are desperate to protect their billionaire tax cuts...and raising healthcare premiums."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 21h

George Retes is an American citizen and Army veteran who served in Iraq.

He was jailed by ICE and held for three days. He was never given a phone call — much less an explanation for why was detained by ICE.

He shared his story of abuse by the Trump administration to
@timmiller.bsky.social:

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 15h

This incident has proven very useful for training MAGA spokespeople in the various dark MAGA arts of lies, deceit, denial, hypocrisy and obfuscation. It conditions them into the MAGA norm of feeling no shame for a public display of having no integrity.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 18h

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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