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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

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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As within, so without @tippedbeaker.bsky.social · 5h

The treatment we allow the government to impose on one of us is the treatment we allow the government to impose on ourselves.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 14h

Frog and Toad Are Gonna Fuck Shit Up

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

In another life, I wrote a whole novel about bunker building doomsday preppers and managed to interview several on background for research. My overwhelming conclusion is that they do it for fun. Because Diggy Diggy Holes.

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 1h

PSA: The whole doomsday bunker fantasy is fortunately one of the most painfully obvious aspects of these billionaire's delusional views of reality. It's a self-propped up fantasy that I'm guessing people who build bunkers are getting well paid for. As is the "computer intelligence" takeover.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

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."

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Matt Ghoul @mattgill.me · 1h

elon's bound to hit a new demographic periodically as he works his way down the niemoller poem

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 4h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 4h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 17h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Dawn of the Dead 💀 @502eire.lol · 1d

Andy said trans rights, y’all

pretty decent chance we will have the Governor of Kentucky running to the left of the Governor of California on this issue in 2028. it’s a wacky world, folks

Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY • 23h
A little bit about me, my values don't change based on who I'm talking to. I'm a proud pro-LGBTQ+ Governor who vetoed anti-trans legislation in an election year and still beat Trump's hand-picked candidate.

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Dawn of the Dead 💀 @502eire.lol · 23h

we love to see it

Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 23h

Lexington, Louisville among airports not showing Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

More than a dozen airports around the country are refusing to air the video blaming Democrats for the shutdown due to being overly partisan, including in Lexington.

www.lpm.org

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7h

Bandit had hoes before he met Chili

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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 7h

The reason a lot of laypeople are so confident about AI is they think AI's current "bugs" can be patched like traditional software. Unfortunately, there's no "missing semicolon" in AI code causing hallucination, and fixing the problem is nearly impossible.

boydkane.com/essays/boss?...

Why your boss isn't worried about AI

Can't you just turn it off?.

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taxgirl @taxgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Home stretch! Reminder to taxpayers that the October 15 filing deadline remains in place even though the IRS is largely shut down.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

should the government allow journalists access to them? yes. of course. but it's always been a carefully curated version of reality. denying access shouldn't be a death sentence to reporting. if anything, it should make you want to work even harder to figure out why they're keeping you out.

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