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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 33m

Thank you. That's what i get for binge reading (actually binge listening to the audiobooks). Im curious about that too.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

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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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 2h

I like Coe, too. His injuries in the book would make him difficult to watch so I'm glad they've redacted them in the TV series.

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 2h

I thought "Rube Goldberg" repeatedly throughout that whole scene. Really cracked me up.

I've read the book so when I didn't initially see the paint can I though they may have changed it. But no, they just added Rube Goldberg to great effect.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 3h

"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy

Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 9h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a day.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 6h

I'm getting set to follow today's hearing in State of Oregon v. Trump. I'm also begging the Northern District of Illinois to start making their hearings available for those covering the case remotely!

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 8h

seems maybe significant that after the gop went all in on “cancel culture is over” just a few months ago republican politicians are now canceling their youngest crop of freaks for being too honest in the chat

Politico @politico.com · 8h

Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after we published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.

‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies

POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

www.politico.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re like me, you sat up on your chair when S-tier character actor Kevin Tighe turned up in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I had a wonderful conversation with him about it for The Reveal: thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

thereveal.film

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 9h

SCOTUS conservative justices say you can engage in racial profiling in immigration stops but can’t consider race under Voting Rights Act to remedy centuries of racial discrimination

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 8h

They met in a kosher coffee shop.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Markwayne Mullin: "I even met with some Jewish leaders in Oklahoma City and it was amazing because I walked in and they just wanted to hug and say 'thank you.' And one of them even said, 'I don't understand why so many Jewish communities vote Democrat.'"

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 8h

I think she's still being salty about this:

Excerpt from a 2021 article from Yahoo News by Kelly McGovern- Jones

The reprimand stems from Bowden’s actions during a 2021 legal fight involving Fort Worth’s Huguley Hospital. When hospital officials refused to allow the use of ivermectin for Jones, Bowden, who did not have privileges at Huguley, coordinated with Jones’s family and attorneys to try to administer the drug through a nurse. A court order temporarily permitted the move before it was stayed by an appellate court, though Bowden and her lawyer said the stay went unnoticed because it was sent to junk mail.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

A foundational truth of this republic is it has no king.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

In case you are wondering if she looks like she's ready for her Fox gig, yes, of course she is.

Riley P. Podleski with long blond loose curled hair

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

broooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 10h

WILL ONE PERSON ON BLUESKY CRITICIZE RFK JR PLEASE!

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 18h

Good luck with it Sarah despite the idiotic scheduling.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight
▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 18h

A militarization of the domestic space of the state

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one.

Fascism.

📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

A masked armed agent points a pepper gun at protestors. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A fed Pokice officer wearing a gas masks is surrounded by smoke and it’ll about to throw a tear gas cannister. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

Around 20 masked armed agents are seen with guns drawn, surrounded by smoke, about to advance on local residents. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A local resident is seen being knelt on and cuffed in the background as two armed Police with automatic weapons are seen standing in the foreground. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 18h

One side or the other should probably want to dismiss me from a jury for most cases.

That now includes any case that involves theft from a company that uses LLMs. Because it’s okay to steal from them.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

Absolutely love hearing John Cleese slagging off Fawlty Towers. Especially "The Germans", one of the most famous episodes.

(Taken from the Series 1 DVD commentary.)

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

I expected this post to do well - unlike my stupid in-jokes and personal stuff, I actually WANTED it to be flung into people’s Discover tabs- and it did not.

I can only assume that the entirely erroneous warning label Bluesky attached to it is partly responsible.

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

Absolutely love hearing John Cleese slagging off Fawlty Towers. Especially "The Germans", one of the most famous episodes.

(Taken from the Series 1 DVD commentary.)

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