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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 42m

We are in an interstitial period where the networks and institutions that once sustained the social order and facilitated shame have collapsed. Everything is up in the air for now though I think it will eventually stabilize. Durkheim's "anomie" feels like an appropriate description of right now.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 50m

If Americans want a constitutional republic of free people rather than bow down to a monarch, you’ll break more laws and hurt the country?

Your terms are acceptable. I’d really prefer if you didn’t hurt the country, but if you insist, announcing that it’s because you hate freedom, so be it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 1h

It is genuinely disorienting to me that society is giving this much reach to a guy who had a Forums.SpaceBattles account

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 1h

T H R U S S Y

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1h

median no kings protester meanwhile:

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

when nuzzi defenders log on

I do not support all women. Some of you bitches are very dumb!

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

Little girl terminator meme, but the terminator is an inflatable frog and the little girl is holding a Molotov cocktail.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

lol

He may come to free himself from the worst of Francis’s legacy, one so full of doctrinal ambiguity and a unilateral progressivist interpretation of Catholic teaching. But at this point Leo seems to uncritically accept humanitarianism as his default position. His political theology is thus not in any decisive respect Augustinian.

This is on display in his Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”): On Love For the Poor. This is a document inherited from Pope Francis, but which no doubt has been marked by Leo’s own distinctive emphases and his more self-consciously theological and Christocentric approach. It contains a great deal of wisdom about the love of the poor that is central to the message of both Scripture and Tradition, without which the commandments “To love God” and “To love your neighbor as yourself” risk becoming very thin reeds, indeed.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

trust fund brunchlords are not allowed to fail

it's a big club

and you ain't in it

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2h

Going to need a purge of remaining JAGs and referrals to bar discipline when this is over. If it’s ever over.

Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

www.cnn.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13h

Holy shit they can’t even condemn someone explicitly praising Hitler

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 21d

Someone running a little webshop or supplier of badges and challenge coins for ICE officers would be a decent way to snag some uhhh archival records for later

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 16h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 17h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 15h

The formerly rare 🇹🇼🇺🇦🇵🇸 alignment is becoming the norm among normie liberals.

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 15h

I put away 22-24oz of black coffee any workday when I’m not having gongfu tea at my desk

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 15h

Just wait until you find out about his relationship with shoes

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

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.

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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.:
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 17h

Really waiting for a brave soul in DHS to blow the whistle on *exactly* who is working up these too-convenient, obviously fake intel assessments.

Seriously, the one remaining constant in the US-narcocartel strategic balance is "don't kill US cops, remember how bad they fucked us up for Kiki"

Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

abcnews.go.com

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 17h

An actual effective tactic for protests is to make this happen more

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

it is genuinely good that ICE is regularly tear gassing Chicago-area PDs

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21h

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17h

ICE is doing a wonderful job of teaching cops not to stick their necks out for the regime when things inevitably get hairy.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

it is genuinely good that ICE is regularly tear gassing Chicago-area PDs

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21h

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 1

Postmodern architecture was actually a very brief movement that emerged in the 1960s as a counter-reaction to modernism's austerity and uniformity. Examples of postmodernism include Michael Graves's Portland Building and Guild House. Also Phillip Johnson's PPG Place.

Michael Graves's Portland Building. The distinctive look of Michael Graves' Portland Building, with its use of a variety of surface materials and colors, small windows, and inclusion of prominent decorative flourishes, was in stark contrast to the architectural style most commonly used for large office buildings at the time,[8] and made the building an icon of postmodern architecture. It is the first major postmodern tall office building, opening before Philip Johnson's AT&T Building, and its design has been described as a rejection of the Modernist principles established in the early 20th century.

$Phillip Johnson's PPG Place. The buildings are recognized by their 231 glass spires, with the largest one 82 feet (25 m) tall. Also notable are the surfaces of reflective insulating glass, that served to advertise the project's founder. The buildings contain over one million square feet of PPG's Solarban 550 Twindow - 19,750 pieces. The primary building, One PPG Place, is a 40-story tower, with PPG Industries occupying half of the space. The complex also contains a 14-story building, and four 6-story structures. PPG Industries also uses space in one of the other buildings. The lobby of One PPG is a 50-foot (15 m)-high entrance that features red glass. The building has 21 elevators, each with walls constructed of clear glass panels enclosing fractured glass. In total, the complex cost $200 million.$

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