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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

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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Ivana Knapp @ivanaknapp.bsky.social · 4h

story ideas for journalists - compile list of youth pastors, priests or pastors guilty of pedophilia, compile list of republican (state, local, national) representatives guilty of rape or assault, compile list of judges or cops guilty of rape or assault. Lead w/ Epstein & treat it as *one* story

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Ivana Knapp @ivanaknapp.bsky.social · 8h

JUST DO IT - who cares if it doesn’t work people respond to conflict and the person who initiates it

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 14h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Real-Life Dracula Recoils After Seeing Woman On Dating App Wearing Crucifix http://theonion.com/real-life-dracula-recoils-after-seeing-woman-on-dating-app-wearing-crucifix/

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 22h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

The Trump admin mindset is the same as that of an instagram influencer: visit cool places, eat beautiful food, do amazing things not for their own sake but to capture them in posts and turn them into a social windfall. Except Trump isn’t going to Santorini but committing war crimes and treason

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

"Copyright growing pains" is an interesting way of saying "they stole a bunch of intellectual property"

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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The Amytyville Horror @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 1d

I SAID I KNOW ENOUGH MEN

The Amytyville Horror @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · Jun 19

[looking around the internet squinting, hands on my hips]

i’m…i’m good i think i know enough men already

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Ivana Knapp @ivanaknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me something I dont know

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Ivana Knapp @ivanaknapp.bsky.social · 1d

so talented too young

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 1d

D’Angelo has passed away at the age of 51 following battle with pancreatic cancer.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Ivana Knapp @ivanaknapp.bsky.social · 2d

This is correct !!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Who was president in 2020? There appears to be a concerted effort to get you to forget

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

www.cnn.com

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BrujoLoco☠️🖤🏺 @patnspankme.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t deal with Mountain Dew people

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Wyeth, American (1917-2009), Maplejuice Cove, 1942, watercolor on paper, 45.7 x 55.9 cm, private collection

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Ivana Knapp @ivanaknapp.bsky.social · 2d

Oh nothing just watching Doctor Sleep for the 8th time while this morning’s colonoscopy drug wear off

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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