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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 9m

Ok so they're just strip mining at this point

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 12m

U.S. budget chief signals massive layoffs: Budget Director Russell Vought said the government is planning layoffs that could exceed 10,000 workers as part of federal cost-cutting measures. Vought cautions on critical services: He warned that the administration aims to avoid

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 24m

ceo jay trying to delete the whole app after realizing she can’t win back the user base

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 1h

They're going to argue over exactly how much we should not tax billionaires or hold anyone to account for war crimes?

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 1h

Why they're on the same side

Politico @politico.com · 1h

Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will debate Wednesday on C-SPAN.

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on “Ceasefire,” hosted by our Dasha Burns.

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on "Ceasefire," hosted by POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

www.politico.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 1h

You ever look at someone and just *know* they went to private school

Defector @defector.com · 2h

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

defector.com

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 18h

That young Republican group chat reminds me of every single police group chat that’s ever been leaked.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

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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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 2h

Again, if I were trying to dismantle a superpower, it'd look a lot like this

White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration reduces over 1,000 CDC jobs amid shutdown, but officials retract more than half the layoffs, according to union reports.

CDC employees sort through chaotic ‘outbreak of firings’ followed by some reversals

The Trump administration reduces over 1,000 CDC jobs amid shutdown, but officials retract more than half the layoffs, according to union reports.

www.govexec.com

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Lauren Gill @laurengill.bsky.social · 2h

Everything about this case shows how easy it is to send someone to death row.

Anthony Boyd was sentenced to death entirely on dubious eyewitness testimony. His lawyer had a month to prepare for trial. Alabama plans to execute him next week.

My latest @boltsmag.org:
boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts

No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

boltsmag.org

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 2h

I knew the names of Luigi's elementary school teachers about 4 days after yet I had to look up Tyler Robinson's name

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans love children's genitals
floridapolitics.com/archives/760...

Erin Grall files bill that would require minors to get guardians’ permission for STD treatment

With the Legislature reconvening next year, Sen. Erin Grall filed a bill to strengthen parental rights over minors' health care.

floridapolitics.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

You know you're from Tennessee when you're born with a tank top sunburn
www.today.com/parents/babi...

A very large baby with skin blotching that resembles a sunburn but let's give it a break it's new here

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that we didn't flatten Facebook/Meta and Zuckerberg after Cambridge Analytica will haunt us forever

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21d

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

www.advocate.com

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure the repeated use of Nazi language, symbols and tactics is all a coincidence

White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 4h

The DHS's use of "Remigrate" in a social media post sparks backlash amid concerns of ethnic tension and immigration policy debates.

Trump admin slammed for using ethnic cleaning euphemism: ‘Wannabe Nazis’

The DHS's use of "Remigrate" in a social media post sparks backlash amid concerns of ethnic tension and immigration policy debates.

www.rawstory.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

Man you should see how much ICE is offering to arrest brown people with no cause

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h

A official Border patrol Instagram reel uses the controversial Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics:

Jew me, sue me...
Kick me, k*ke me

We have a nazi government.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 4h

🎃 October 15 🎃
Urban cowboy

Large tortoise wearing jorts and a tiny black cowboy hat

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

So the idea is to defend the racist 30 year olds?

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 17h

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 4h

HE'S GOING TO MAKE GROCERIES AFFORDABLE THO

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 5h

"This University will be a constant assault on the senses"

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 5h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 5h

"Dating me is like sharting" is quite the draw

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 5h

Oohh the CNBC lady is SASSY… Bessent forced into making a full throated defense of government ownership of private corporations. He’s now on record as confirmed socialist.

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 5h

Flame Tree is surprisingly decent

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