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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 4h

But, y'know, America First,

Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 4h

In Britain "half three" means 3:30

In Germany, "halb drei" (half three) means 2:30

It's all cultural

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 5h

The Eagles will not like it, but they were only ever going to get spanked

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 5h

Scotland's 85-0 defeat of the USA at Rugby was the biggest ever win at Murrayfield in 100 years of history at the ground, and their third-biggest win of all-time:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c3rjj29dpddo

Note for Americans: Rugby is like American Football with less body armour.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 7h

US government plans to offer kopfgeld.

Image of an older post of mine. Text reads:

Gregg Levine
@greggjlevine.bsky.social

People are really bad at answering the question "How much worse could it get?"

October 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everybody can reply

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 6h

Never been a problem for me. Couldn't stand Collin Peterson, Blue Dog piece of crap. But Michelle Fischbach is so much worse; she can rot.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 6h

Ho ho hozymandias

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here.

Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.

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Zeroisanumber-Still kicking it against the pricks @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 8h

It's rather unusual for a bishop to personally take part in a protest and suggests that the Vatican has given at least tacit approval.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.

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

FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

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Punished Rep. Holden Disperra @punishedholden.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky discourse: Nazis are bad

Twitter discourse: Nazis are good

Big Brain pundit: I’m glad people aren’t seeing this terrible discourse on Bluesky.

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 3d

It is so lucky for Democrats that this kind of discourse is no longer on Twitter where the national media and politicians would see it. Better for it to be sealed off in this asylum. This is genuinely just insane.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Byrd seemed to genuinely repent for his past and spent decades atoning for it, to the point where the NAACP mourned his death as the loss of a civil rights champion. People can indeed change.

But there's no sign of a similar arc of sincere repentance and reckoning in Platner's case.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

CULTURE TRENDS
SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown
One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as
SNAP benefits face cuts
By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News
Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 1d

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

This really is part of it. So many of them rolled over without putting up a fight, so scenes of ordinary folks demonstrating and standing up to ICE goons are foreign and a bit shameful to them

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

The "elites" of our country have exposed themselves to be fascist and/or cowards and can't comprehend millions of normal people telling the wannabe king to go fuck himself

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 17h

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 10h

There's a 100-year-old redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in an arboretum 30 minutes north of our house

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 20h

Witnesses: Film everything you can.
Then post the footage on every platform you can.

Others: Share footage you encounter.

As a 30yr crim defense investigator, I'm telling you -- it could absolutely turn a criminal case upside down... or give a civil case legs to stand on.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 1d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20h

This was written in 2017. The current political moment was completely avoidable. ”the pain of looking back and seeing that there was a small window in which it was possible to act, and then discovering how suddenly and irrevocably that window can be slammed shut.”

www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig

I wonder how far along the scale of moral degeneration Zweig would judge America to be in its current state.

www.newyorker.com

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 10h

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 10h

Adam did feel as though the others' faith was pushing him out. There was a lot of soul-searching that led to them eventually describing themselves not as a 'Christian group' but a 'group of Christians'.

'Gloria' is obvious, but 'Scarlet' is one of my favourites that straddles that line.

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 11h

Literally every single day over my two-week break I have had moments of stress and anxiety about planning for the upcoming term.

I really think there is something wrong with me, when I cannot relax at all. I can't even do my hobbies, because, in my brain, they'd distract me from planning correctly.

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown.

'The helpers need help'. Food banks brace for impact as SNAP cliff looms

Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown.

n.pr

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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 12h

Translation: "I've driven the Hungarian economy into the ground, I'm extremely unpopular and I can't rely on Russia to bail me out"

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