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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

no this seems perfect

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

this doesn’t seem great!

‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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richard @richardnormal.bsky.social · 5h

the powers that be want you to know less about your computer. they are taking away your beautiful file pathing, keyboard inputs, considered mouse clicks, and expertise of your OS. everything will soon be done by mumbling into the open air and praying it works correctly. this is a nightmare.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 5h

mmhmm

Myron Gaines on X:

Yeah we like Hitler. No one gives a fuck what you woke jews think anymore.
Bro was a revolutionary leader and saved germany. The jews declared war on Germany first.
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof, I'm questjoning everything you guys have said about the painter during WW2.
11:49 AM • 10/15/25 • 513K Views

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 4h

Serious question: What's the risk of just sticking with Windows 10 after they cease support? I know there's no more security updates so you're much more vulnerable to viruses and malware... but are they gonna flip some kind of kill switch on us? Cause that sounds like something Microsoft would do...

J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 4h

Is the part about shooting a printer cause they're paranoid its spying on them or just cause printers are such unfathomable cunts you want to be ready to kill it at a moment's notice?

Cause I'd relate a lot to the second one.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5h

The U.S. Democratic Party was a warning Labour failed to heed.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 6h

The party of government, that won a generational landslide just over a year ago, is polling at just 15%.

Starmer will be remembered as one of the worst prime ministers in British history, and a willing midwife for the fascism to come.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID?

And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina.

Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 5h

We all know why but probably less legal hassle if she doesn't put it on record.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 7h

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16h

I'm stoked for this mask. Willing to be a walking billboard if that's what it takes

Rack mask showing their new top voted design, white filter with black frame crest and words "it's airborne" on middle left

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

cat poop dude hardest hit

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 16h

Also "more harm than good" describes EVERY decision Elon Musk has ever made. Not just with Twitter or even other business, EVERYTHING. Everything he does just does makes thing worse for everybody, himself included.

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 17h

I never did that... but then nobody respects me either...

J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 17h

Probably pretty easy to cost more than "nothing", so yeah, that's my guess too.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees let Mississippi kill Charles Ray Crawford tonight, despite treatment at trial that was of the same type that SCOTUS later held in another case is unconstitutional.

All three Democratic appointees, in a lengthy dissent, would have kept him alive.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25-385 (25A378)
CHARLES RAY CRAWFORD v. MISSISSIPPI ON APPLICATION FOR STAY AND ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
[October 15, 2025]
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is de-nied.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.
Charles Ray Crawford will be executed tonight for a crime that his own lawyers told the jury he committed, despite his express instructions not to do so. Had this case come to this Court on direct appeal, Crawford could have proved that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated under our decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414
(2018), in which we held that lawyers may not override a defendant's explicit and unequivocal decision not to concede guilt at trial. He would also likely be entitled to a new trial, as a McCoy violation is a structural error that mandates reversal.

Charles Ray Crawford has identified an important constitutional issue that this Court has not addressed and has divided courts around the country. The Court refuses to
Cite as: 607 U.S.
(2025)
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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
resolve that question, even though a man's life is in the bal-ance. For these reasons, the Court should have granted Crawford's motion for a stay of execution and petition for writ of certiorari. I respectfully dissent.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 21h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 17h

"Mecha Hitler" whipping up a lynch mob for nothing made me realize I don't want to even leave my old account intact since I don't trust any amount "locking" while Elon is in charge. I don't trust big companies with our data in general but HOLY SHIT, Twitter feels like full-on malware these days.

onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

twitter is just unsafe and quite literally should be making exit plans from the platform as long as doxxing nazi groups are explicitely allowed to exist there

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 17h

He's gonna legally own the stuff people post on Twitter in the near future? Is that some new nightmare EULA about to go into effect?

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

twitter is just unsafe and quite literally should be making exit plans from the platform as long as doxxing nazi groups are explicitely allowed to exist there

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 21h

Bill Burr and Whitney Cummings are about to get a sitcom

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