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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 13h

If you’ve paid any attention to Trump, you can plainly see he’s terrified of dying. His death marks the obliteration of the only thing he’s ever thought about.

This sudden obsession with the afterlife sure is, uh, notable. Doubly so now that he thinks he’s bound for hell.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 12h

Now more than ever it is important to find community.

A sign hanging in S&P Lunch reading "a proud member of the consolidated sandwich group."

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

the flanavere is quite good - some misses but at least he swings

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

One consequence of Netflix putting out so much slop is that the geniunely good stuff they do put out gets overshadowed. ‘Midnight Mass’ was geniunely really good, the first ‘religious horror’ series that took the ‘religious’ part actually seriously, rather than just using it as an aesthetic.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

demi + gianmarco podcasting together is content made Specifically For Me

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

hmm honestly i would love a frivolous topic to take my mind of of Things In the World

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 video essay collection thread 🚨

here ye here ye - plz put ur recent fave video essays below

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

oh i loveddddd this one - i started going through his old back catalogue as a result and have been loving it

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

@LA City Council plz listen to zohran and the growing public grocery store movement instead of being corrupt and getting federally indicted every 2.5 years

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8h

Glad to see the City Council looking into this. It's a great idea to address food insecurity, and Zohran is right to have put it on the table in NYC. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Boston City Council to explore publicly-owned grocery stores

Rising prices and impending SNAP disruptions mean that a discussion about publicly-owned grocery stores is more necessary than ever, some officials say.

www.boston.com

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

turns out you also don't need things like pesky "journalistic ethics" or "search for the truth"

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

i'm sure this friendly interview on the Regime's chosen media platform will counteract the public perception that SCOTUS is nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Regime's agenda

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

Caitlin Flanagan never reckons with the actual critiques of Bari Weiss, creating strawomen like the idea that Bari's critics merely believe she doesn't have "enough experience" rather than pointing out that Bari's journalism is so well paid for because it is tailored to the egos of billionaires

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

Police union leaders defending jan 6 after watching what those cops went through should have been the clarifying moment if nothing else (and there had been plenty before) bsky.app/profile/nota...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

this, to me, is poetry

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Crazy week.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 8h

play posting games, get posting prizes

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

a lot of people on the internet don’t realize that if you quote-post someone, they may decide to respond to you

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10h

Why would you fuck with this guy

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

watching donald trumps administration be the most terminally online presidency in history has made me realize that we can never have this again. it’s way too soy, and so so annoying in a completely inescapable way that will hopefully backfire on them

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 9h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

the virtue signalling vs. not discussion just strikes me as a social drama that makes sense within the class of people that don't think they have anything else at stake in these discussions other than clout, some of whom also can't imagine any other way of relating to these discussions

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of the propriety of their decision to talk to the NYT, the fact that federal judges did so — reportedly more than three dozen! — means they are pulling the proverbial fire alarm.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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