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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 6h

This motherfucker absolutely deserved it

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 6h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 6h

King Salmon, *chef's kiss*

Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 10h

anddddd the follow-up

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 10h

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Pope of Spooky Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 11h

You do not, under any circumstances, want the newspaper to refer to you as an “adult stepson.”

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h

churchleaders.com/news/2206049...

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 12h

The 9/11 era "free speech zone" as portrayed on Arrested Development

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

Bibi: i am in a partisan alliance with republicans and gonna play to the clock to fuck you over

Biden: sounds good

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 15h

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 15h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

The controversy over Columbus Day used to be kind of Tony Soprano type guys who were taught that Columbus was a great explorer in grade school and just didn't want to think hard about it. Trump by contrast explicitly likes and endorses the genocidal stuff

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

"President Trump issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13 'Columbus Day.' The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trump’s previous proclamations." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

open.substack.com

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

Ben Shapiro: "You guys won't believe what this fucking scorpion just did to me."

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3d

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives. The post Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

We live in a world where pop stars can make more money performing private shows at a billionaire's birthday party than doing a world tour. Everything is top-heavy.

The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

For these people "raised 15 million last year" IS a business success. It doesn't matter that the money isn't coming from viewers or whatever, if anything it's better that it isn't because they're harder to keep happy than a few benefactors.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

Why, if the people saying "this is wrong" were anything other than hopeless radicals then, that might mean the people saying "this is wrong" are something other than hopeless radicals today!

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

It's all part of the greater conservative project to rewrite history so that no atrocity is ever the result of a moral failing, merely a "product of its time".

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

George Santos finds out the warden is money laundering and takes it upon himself to add even more money laundering.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to be the best Shawshank remake ever.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

He really is Roy Cohn's son.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 2d

@krassenstein "If Innocent, RIP OJ Simpson."

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 2d

NYT: Trump Takes Powerful Stance Against Linear Time, Experts Divided

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

[Jiminy Glick interviewing Johnny Cash] It says here that you're not cool, have you thought about wearing a leather jacket or maybe smoking those really long cigarettes?

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