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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 15m

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 15h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 6h

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 6h

sleeping outside the hair salon tonight so I can be first in line to replace my repugnant short curlies with long luxuriant nylon extensions

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 6h

this is vile

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is "probably more" (Financial Times)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 6h

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bloody bacon popsicle ☠️ @gupton68.bsky.social · 23h

I'm pretty certain my body will continue eating and drinking for at least 3 years after my death just through muscle memory.

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 11h

I am so tired of white people

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Jez @jez1.bsky.social · 1d

I simply cannot WAIT to go to bed tonight and lie awake worrying about shit I can't control

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 12h

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 17h

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 12h

I Appreciate This

Danny @mardigroan.bsky.social · 1d

Among Hawkeye's skeets were no bangers but some M*A*S*H.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 12h

“theory” doing a lot of work in this sentence

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "They have committed massive political crime. I hope they're looking at Schifty Schiff. I hope they're looking at all these people. And I'm allowed to find out. I'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer."

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 12h

abolish ice

phrebh @phrebh.bsky.social · 12h

Once again crafting for the theater.

Middle aged white man wearing a long beard crocheted from a fluffy yarn ranging from baby blue to navy blue.

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think you can brag that you fired somebody who very clearly quit

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 12h

is there anything more rewarding in life than being some dipshit online

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 12h

one day I’ll be in a starter pack, I can’t wait to retire on those bluesky millions

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · Mar 12

"I think about this every few months like clockwork" has become "I think about this every few weeks like clockwork" and is rapidly on its way to "I think about this every few hours like clockwork" and I don't know if the clock can stand all this work

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · Oct 26

Just thinkin' about ol' Hannah tonight for some reason

Hannah Arendt, from ORGANIZED GUILT AND UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY: "They felt (after they no longer needed to fear God, their conscience cleared through the bureaucratic organization of their acts) only the responsibility toward their own families. The transformation of the family man from a responsible member of society, interested in all public affairs, to a 'bourgeois' concerned only with his private existence and knowing no civic virtue, is an international modern phenomenon. The exigencies of our time...can at any moment transform him into the mob man and make him the instrument of whatsoever madness and horror. Each time society, through unemployment, frustrates the small man in his normal functioning and normal self-respect, it trains him for that last stage in which he will willingly undertake any function, even that of a hangman. A Jew released from Buchenwald once discovered among the SS men who gave him the certificates of release a former schoolmate, whom he did not address but yet stared at. Spontaneously the man stared and remarked: You must understand, I have five years of unemployment behind me. They can do anything they want with me."

From an excerpt of the German prisoner of war interviews after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps featured in Hannah Arendt's ORGANIZED GUILT AND UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY:

"Q. Did you kill people in the camp?

A. Yes.

Q. Did you poison them with gas?

A. Yes.

Q. Did you bury them alive?

A. It sometimes happened.

Q. Were the victims picked from all over Europe?

A. I suppose so."

From Hannah Arendt's ORGANIZED GUILT AND UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY:

"The mob man, however, the end result of the 'bourgeois', is an international phenomenon; and we would do well not to submit him to too many temptations in the blind faith that only the German mob man is capable of such frightful deeds. What we have called the 'bourgeois' is the modern man of the masses, not in his exalted moments of collective excitement, but in the security (today one should say the insecurity) of his own private domain. He has driven the dichotomy of private and public functions, of family and occupation, so far that he can no longer find in his own person any connection between the two. When his occupation forces him to murder people he does not regard himself as a murderer because he has not done it out of inclination but in his professional capacity. Out of sheer passion he would never do harm to a fly."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 15h

From 2020-23, the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer ↓ 168 ft, and >125 wells in Milam, Burleson, and Lee counties "either started sucking air or dried up." The groundwater management district has permitted vastly more water use than is sustainable. If they stopped pumping now, it would take 100 yrs to recover

THE CARRIZO TAP

Slated to deliver water to Samsung, some worry aquifer might not hold

www.eastwilcoinsider.com

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

normal pentagon shit

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

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

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Narrator: there was not one

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

it would be cooler if cnbc was Canadian nbc

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

it’s so nice to get a little like or reply, it’s almost like having actual friends

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Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social · 1d

what a nice sock man

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