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Felonious Monk 📚 @thefeloniousmonk.com · 2h

If your go to attacks on horrible people are about their weight, their appearance, their mental health, their able bodiedness, congratulations...you're doing the same thing they do.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not trying to be a dick.

But they picked two fat republicans for a bunch of jokes when the young republicans said the worst shit imaginable.

My fat ass is out there fighting for what's right.

Stop equating fat with bad or less. Stop telling ME I'm one annoyance away from being your target.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2h

pointing out this hypocrisy to the admin won't accomplish much of course because, as i argued here, the *hypocrisy is the point* zeteo.com/p/if-trump-c...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 4h

"...to have accomplished this hunt would have taken the kind of database scan that fascists dream of, one cataloging the free speech of Americans."

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/15/t...

The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor - emptywheel

It's bad enough that the State Department using free speech about Charlie Kirk to exclude purported visa holders. It's still worse that two of six claimed accounts don't do what State accuses. But the...

www.emptywheel.net

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 5h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 18h

Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think that he believes that there's a line to cross.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 6h

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 17h

True story, one of the things I wasn't allowed to put in my Police Brutality online course was a section about how many dogs cops kill.

What was extra wild is you can look at departments' pages for 'lost in the line of duty' and a good chunk of them are K9's shot by their incompetent partners

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 15h

This was never a goodwill exercise for the public.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t wait to find out if the deal Trump gave to the Hamas leaders was as good as the one he gave to the Taliban.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 17h

I thought the regime was making porn illegal

The Verge @theverge.com · 23h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 19h

Over at Reason we have a "puppycide" tag for cop-shoots-dog stories going back to 2012. Easiest way to get a normie 4th Amendment-pilled against the cops is to show them this stuff reason.com/tag/puppycide/

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 17h

wait what

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 17h

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JohnMaun ❌ @johnmaun.com · 20h

Everyone, from the White House to the person who pushed the button, involved in the murders in the Caribbean knew they were illegal orders but carried them out anyway.
#TribunalsWILLCome

Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 20h

So far, I see the military obeying illegal orders off Venezuela.

But what do I know?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

US generals and admirals now weighing how to respond when Trump issues illegal orders

Historian Sean Wilentz and former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal have some keen insights on the rapid deterioration of civil-military relations under Trump, in a YouTube video posted by Legal AF on Su...

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 22h

Which is why not giving a narcissist and deranged psychopath Article II powers (which include control of the biggest guns in the world) mattered more than any policy dispute or disagreement.

🏳️‍⚧️ m e g a n 🏳️‍⚧️ @megagarbage.bsky.social · 1d

a gun, dude. credible threat of violence whether wielded by u know the state that can inflict it via imprisonment or whoever else. christ. literally like "power being wielded by people with power" that's what it looks like, credible threat of violence whether abstracted or not

Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 1d

Right, but what would've stopped Trump from re-banding it exactly? Talk me through the process.
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 20h

So far, I see the military obeying illegal orders off Venezuela.

But what do I know?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

US generals and admirals now weighing how to respond when Trump issues illegal orders

Historian Sean Wilentz and former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal have some keen insights on the rapid deterioration of civil-military relations under Trump, in a YouTube video posted by Legal AF on Su...

www.dailykos.com

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 20h

Anything about how this is illegal, @reuters.com ?

Or are we just shrugging our shoulders and rolling with him taking over the Constitutional powers of the legislative branch?

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

Trump says he will unveil list on Friday of 'Democrat programs' to be shut reut.rs/46S83b1

Trump says he will unveil list on Friday of 'Democrat programs' to be shut

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday at the White House that his administration planned to produce a list on Friday of "Democrat programs" that will be closed as a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20h

Not casual.

Not "nobodies."

This is who MAGA-GOP is and has been.

#NoNAZIS #NoKings

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 20h

These chats are from the *leaders* of Young Republican groups in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

"Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 1d

Jack is right.
For every day that the shutdown continues, Dems should add another demand.
Trump won’t let the Rs negotiate. He’s deliberately trying to break our congress and make them irrelevant.
Trump needs to be impeached.
Oh-and release the Epstein Files!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20h

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 21h

Watch this quick explainer on the Hatch Act and you’ll see just how far the regime has gone—propaganda in airports, partisan emails, and political orders from the top. It’s not “messaging,” it’s a full-blown assault on the law that keeps our government nonpartisan.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

it’s illegal, but, also, this didn’t happen, and if someone *did* tell him this, they were lying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 23h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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