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lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 10h

looking very

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

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lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 10h

is the violence against ice in the room?

also calling BS

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Lenée says #ProtectJhordin @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 20h

Raphael Saadiq lost his brother earlier this year. He loved and worked with Angie and D’Angelo. Prayers for his care and comfort, alone with all who knew his musical family. Goodness.

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lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 22h

apparently the kenneday family dont associate with them (him)

shes mentioned how it "makes her life hard"

not enough to stop with the bullshit however

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 1d

Cheryl Hines, also known as the wife RFK Jr. repeatedly cheated on, including with Olivia Nuzzi - appeared on Fox News tonight to promote her new book. "It's amazing to have Bobby leading this MAHA movement," she says.

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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social · 4d

I'm still crackin' up at Cheryl Hines' queefs about how she's mad that her in-laws won't treat Bobby like family and how it has made her life hard.

lady, if the guy's family- who has objective experience with fucknuttery- says your husband is batshit, take notes & run.

otherwise it's just a kink.

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Reenie Lynn @reenie.bsky.social · 22h

Ooof. This Cheryl Hines interview on The View right now is painful to watch.

a man is making a funny face and says `` welp this is awkward '' while looking at a woman .

Alt: a man is making a funny face and says `` welp this is awkward ''

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lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 22h

...being in the press room amongst other media that this admin okay'd doesnt neccessarily mean you are "in the room"

lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 22h

my inner mini prepper may have gotten a personal power station and solar generator earlier this year

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 23h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 23h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 22h

two people wearing hats are standing in a field of flowers .

ALT: two people wearing hats are standing in a field of flowers .

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lfresh @lfresh.bsky.social · 23h

Baby, I’m not flirting… I’m just curious.

Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 23h

Baby, I’m not flirting… I’m just nosy.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Baby I’m not flirting… I’m just southern

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: The People’s Law Office is representing Debbie Brockman, the WGN producer who was detained by feds.

“Ms. Brockman and her legal team adamantly deny any allegation that she assaulted anyone. Rather, Ms. Brockman was the one who was violently assaulted by federal agents on her way to work.”

Statement on Behalf of Debbie Brockman, WGN
Employee Assaulted by Federal Agents

Debbie Brockman, the WGN employee who was physically attacked and arrested in Chicago, Illinois by federal agents on October 10, 2025, would like to provide the following information to clarify any misunderstandings or misrepresentations that have been previously reported.

First off, Ms. Brockman wishes to clarify that at the time of this incident she was not acting in any professional capacity as an employee of WGN. During the morning hours this past Friday, Ms. Brockman was walking to the bus stop as part of her morning commute when she was attacked by Border Patrol agents.
Ms. Brockman, who is a U.S. citizen born in this country, was violently detained on Foster Avenue, on the north side of Chicago. As this occurred, individuals on the street began recording the incident and asked Ms. Brockman her name. In addition to providing her name, Ms. Brockman stated that she worked for WGN. She added this information because she hoped someone would notify her employer so her coworkers would know that she would not be arriving at work that day.
Ms. Brockman was detained and held in federal custody for approximately 7 hours before being released. She has not been charged with any crimes and she intends to pursue all legal avenues available to her to vindicate her rights and hold the federal authorities accountable for their actions.
Ms. Brockman is being represented by attorneys from the People’s Law Office in Chicago. Ms. Brockman and her legal team adamantly deny any allegation that she assaulted anyone. Rather, Ms. Brockman was the one who was violently assaulted by federal agents on her way to work. Ms. Brockman feared for her life multiple times throughout this terrifying experience.
“This incident should be alarming and horrifying to every single person in this country,” said Brad Thomson, one of Ms. Brockman’s attorneys at People’s Law Office. “If armed, masked, federal agents are sn…

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

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Matthew S. Bajko @politicalnotes.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10d

If you can afford a retirement account, do it. To hell with the grind. Get a boring or weird little hobby. Make time for your friends. Stop caring about cringe. Watch bad movies. Read silly books. Fuck vocational awe. Treat yourself. Tylenol and advil are your new besties. Wear good shoes.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 10d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10d

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

Law enforcement detains a protester near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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Franklin MacDougal 🐾 🫘 @frankieface15.bsky.social · 10d

Once again, the reason we got here is NIXON, REAGAN, & BUSH II. They got away with everything & paved the way for the most crooked piece of shit ever. We CANNOT let these assholes get away with it. They always talk about deterrents, let's fucking go!! What are those punishments for treason again?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10d

Otherwise former ICE agents will be running for office in a few years.

Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 10d

I so desperately wanted (still want) a Truth & Reconciliation Commission focused on the U.S. response to COVID-19.

Now here I am again.

I don’t know that I will live to see it, but THERE MUST BE A RECKONING for this fascist pivot.

We MUST create a space for rejection and repair to move forward.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12d

Imagine paying rent, buying groceries, and then get a bill with your insurance tripling. This could hit your inbox—and your future.

HOW IT STARTED: $307

HOW IT’S GOING: $964

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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vexorian @vexorian.dev · 12d

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Also part of a Sillicon Valley attack on Historians. They really want to believe history is something where we can ask an Oracle inside a computer about what happened; Rather than like, something that needs to be actually researched, through data that's not in openAI's set.

vexorian @vexorian.dev · Jul 30

Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs

But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?

I am sorry, but it's an image of a table. That's how it is being published.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 12d

If the shutdown is short-lived, it won’t be very disruptive. But if the release of economic data is delayed for several weeks or longer, it could pose challenges, particularly for the Federal Reserve. https://to.pbs.org/4o5h1aB

Vital economic data, including Friday's jobs report, cut off in government shutdown

The government shutdown that began Wednesday will deprive policymakers and investors of economic data vital to their decision-making at a time of unusual uncertainty about the direction of the U.S. ec...

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