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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 4h

Think they're trying to indicate they're quoting someone, but in the dumbest way possible, for the dumbest reasons imaginable

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 4h

am I doing something wrong or is there really no byline??

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

On Twitter, Sky News' account put quotation marks around the word 'dies'. It did not do so here though. Wonder why.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 11h

Palestinian girl, 12, dies after suffering from malnutrition for months

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 8h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 4h

Remember the scene in ONCE where, after recording and mixing the song in a professional studio, they run the REAL test, where they listen to the finished mix on crappy old speakers?

Don’t punish your audience just for not being able to afford the best set-up.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 14h

I am once again begging filmmakers to start lighting their night scenes again. Moonlight and starlight are both available, as are torches, campfires, and any number of plausible light sources! What I'm watching right now may as well be a podcast

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 4h

reminded of the most legendary sex song of all time (link in post)

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 4h

hate makes people so goddamn weird

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 8h

These people protested an event that ended with hundreds of people praying in Hebrew that today would be the day the hostages were finally brought home.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8h

Wikipedia is the last source of reliable, unbiased information that isn't controlled by right wing billionaires, and they really REALLY want to get their hands on that, too.

Please keep donating to stop that from happening. Even small amounts help.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8h

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5h

If you want to “radicalize” people against the state, do this. Obscene levels of cruelty on display.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Average NYPD salary with OT is well over 100K, you live like a king on that in Long Island ain't none of them going nowhere. Anyone who believes that is a stone cold idiot. How many other jobs are they qualified for where they could earn that? Zero. The answer is zero.

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

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 5h

reiterating my call to fire all headline writers

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

So tempting to teach an online course in rhetoric by just using NYT headlines

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 5h

there should be social consequences for journos and editors who do this sort of thing

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

during his two presidencies, things that happened in part or wholly because the tv pissed the president off

- briefly (sadly only briefly) ruined NSA mass surveillance
- bombed syria
- bombed Iran
- invaded different american cities

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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...

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 6h

toxic masculinity is so dangerous it's easy to forget how goddamn ludicrous it (also) is

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 8h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...