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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2h

the never trumpers have repeated this bullshit so much that some people believe it

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 7h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 3h

When I worked at Express there was a customer who saved all her receipts and came in every week with them stapled in a big wad. And every week for the 60-90 days for each one managers scanned the bottom bar code to check for price adjustments. She walked out with cash every week

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3h

all NYT headlines include an implied chasing goose

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3h

incredible use of the passive exonerative tense

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4h

Every clause more exhausting than the last.

"... Mr. Lee, whom they came to view as a holdover from the Biden administration, though he had been hired during the George W. Bush administration and promoted during the first Trump administration."

Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 5h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 4h

The Sound that Candace and Klimpaloon make? That’s what my kids sound like to me after 6 p.m.

a cartoon character in a green and white striped shirt is standing in front of an ice cave

Alt: a cartoon character in a green and white striped shirt is standing in front of an ice cave

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4h

If his skin were any thinner it wouldn’t be compatible with life

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 4h

This is why I love sacred harp and shanties!

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 5h

"You always own the option of having no opinion"
- Marcus Aurelius

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

If you know of any litigation resulting from/related to this, please reach out. Email and Signal are in my bio.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

maybe this is Mike Johnson's way of telling us he's a nevernude

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 9h

ban it now

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 12h

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

One problem with FIFA being utterly corrupt is that instead of taking this bullshit seriously and moving the World Cup as they should, they’re massaging Trump’s ego and bestowing him with gifts.

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 9h

President Trump said that he could “take away” the 2026 World Cup games scheduled in the Boston area if he feels there are “unsafe conditions.” trib.al/SA9rK0a

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 11h

i don't claim toxicology expertise here, but given that their basis is still CA prop 65 which is something already fairly scrutinized and their report structure is the same, this feels like a legitimate concern area (lack of testing eg the two problem products) being reduced to snappy scary graphics

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

or as he put it “Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism”

readers shouldn't “doubt that the current court disavows, & condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, & statements”
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

ballsandstrikes.org

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 9h

I am once again reminding everyone not to confess your sins or share your most private desires with a company that can be subpoenaed or hacked.

The Verge @theverge.com · 12h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10h

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

publicola.com

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11h

Kansas Young Republican chair William Hendrix has locked his Twitter account after Politico reported his leaked n-word texts

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 17h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Nicholas Yenson 朱偉仲 @nicholasyenson.bsky.social · 23h

Staggering: "There are more than 80 data centres in Ireland and they consume around 22% of the country's electricity, a figure that is set to rise over the coming years."

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Tech giant Apple has announced an expansion of its clean energy projects across Europe with new large-scale solar and wind farms now in development in Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania

Apple announces new European renewable energy projects

Tech giant Apple has announced an expansion of its clean energy projects across Europe with new large-scale solar and wind farms now in development in Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania.

www.rte.ie

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 18h

Broke: young people like conservative Christianity

Woke: young people like progressive Christianity

Bespoke: The Book of Common Prayer 1979 of the Episcopal Church represents conservative Christianity in every way that matters (sacraments, Creed), and progressive young people like it

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Gen-Zers “bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare,” writes Daniel K. Williams, a historian of American religion and politics.

Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

And what that might mean for the future of American politics.

nyti.ms

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18h

Way to speak truth to power, Bari
www.thefp.com/p/donald-tru...

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Adam P @pulvdiggity.bsky.social · 18h

The obsession over the oyster planter from Maine is making me think no, you didn't all learn your lesson from either Fetterman or McGrath

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