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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 1m

Mike Johnson is such a delicate flower.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17m

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2h

“If Charlie had only believed, maybe he could have skilled up and done it himself”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 6h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 4h

The NY young republican who said that rape is "epic" looks like a fuckin ventriloquist dummy

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The Guy with a Great Dane @mfloydthaut.bsky.social · 7h

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 4h

Doctor Who looks to be on the way out so this would be an awesome premise for a new show.

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Stinque @stinque.com · 4h

Not the first time, but we’re once again a murderous regime.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

Breaking News: A U.S. military strike killed six people on a boat in international waters near Venezuela, President Trump said, asserting without evidence that they were drug smugglers for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Another Attack on Boat, Trump Says

In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 5h

They’re claiming she’s a Mary Sue when her opsec is shit and that gets a whole lot of people murked?

Why are functionally illiterate people allowed to have YouTubes?

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 6h

This entire “society” we’ve built is fucking useless.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 7h

“Altamides leaves no trace on the phones it targets, unlike spyware such as Pegasus. Nor does it require a target to click on a malicious link or show any of the telltale signs (such as overheating or a short battery life) of remote monitoring.”

Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 7h

Today, with more than a dozen global media partners, we’re exposing a surveillance firm whose untraceable phone-tracking tech has been used around the world to target politicians, journalists, and executives—and maybe even you. Check out this extraordinary investigative reporting. 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.

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AC @ahmadchildress.bsky.social · 18h

FFS...

apnews.com/article/cali... governor vetoes bill to restrict kids' access to AI chatbots

California governor vetoes bill to restrict kids' access to AI chatbots

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed landmark legislation that would have restricted children’s access to AI chatbots.

apnews.com

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 18h

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword!

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 21h

And Happy Birthday!

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 21h

You went to two of my favorite spots!

(I’m lucky to live right by them.)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 1d

They are out here using the entire media apparatus to shift the Overton Window back to the Dark Ages.

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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 1d

That doesn't even make sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 1d

Jaysus.

They’re fucking with Jack Parson’s legacy.

Ans it’s not like Pasadena & Altadena need another blow after January.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

"we spent years gleefully angering and shitting on our core reader demographic of educated Democrats, and now we're shocked they're not giving us money anymore"

incredible work

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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