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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 11h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 1d

Win10 users, today's the day they make all big holes in your PC and all the hackers swarm into them...

...unless you click "no thanks actually" in which case they just actually keep supporting Win10 for another year for some reason. here's how:

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

Windows 10 users in the EU and UK, you can get free Extended Security Updates for a year just by:
> Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates. Click.
Scroll down to Enrol in Extended Security Updates (or similar wording).
Click on it.
Follow prompts.
Bingo, you're good for a year.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i've had it podcast, i wasn't familiar with your game

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 1d

NOT A DRILL! ! ! NEW JOJI

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Mills is 77 and Democrats need to knock it off with the gerontocracy.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

nyti.ms

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juni/ico @aetherflow.bsky.social · 2d

adding on

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 2d

I do think the new deep dungeon is good but I lowkey think that most people wouldn't enjoy it as much if they hadn't done a BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY w/ the Shadowbringers music\lore\zones.

Like I think same system but Eureka Orthos and it wouldn't be getting as much love.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 2d

Imagining Jack Frost, Pikachu, and Agumon having a conversation

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

Dang ffxiv on ps6 looks sick

Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

Folks i started getting buzzballs ironically but I fear they are a very effective drinking tool.

A store near me sells them like 3 for 10 lol

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

who wants to be her friend you do not have to worry you are not in danger you probably will make it out alive

Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 5d

Good chance she kills you.

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

is it a good thing when you run into several old coworkers who tell you things like "wow you actually look happy \ alive \ like a human being" ever since you left your old soul crushing job lol

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

it was AWESOME is what it was

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Nichola2k @nichola2k.bsky.social · Sep 2

Athena

#ffxiv

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3d

This *ought* to be a clarifying moment for the evangelical right

Sure would be if anyone else said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Bob w/ the heat.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

every time someone compliments my tattoos in public I wanna Do It For Real less.

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

on the phoenix down note

I kinda think they should've introduced a new version of phoenix down instead of changing the old one so they could drop a bunch of those in the MSQ.

a decade of the item being useless means people STILL don't know it does anything bc nobody reads patch notes lol

Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

kinda funny how matchmaking 71-100 feels possible only so long as you are getting people who can raise or know what phoenix downs are

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Ranor @ranor.bsky.social · 3d

kinda funny how matchmaking 71-100 feels possible only so long as you are getting people who can raise or know what phoenix downs are

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