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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

LOL I remember my best friend's phone number from my early grade school years who I haven't spoken to in decades.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 14h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 12h

Hi from Vermont

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 15h

NEW — The House and Senate passed a resolution marking Oct. 14 as a “National Day of Remembrance” for Charlie Kirk.

A coalition of Chicago churches and community leaders instead will spend Oct. 14 honoring George Floyd and others whose lives are at risk of erasure.

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Charlie Kirk gets a ‘Day of Remembrance;’ Chicago organizers will spend it remembering the forgotten • The TRiiBE

A coalition of Chicago churches and community leaders will spend Oct. 14 honoring George Floyd, Wadee Alfayoumi, and others.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

zack polanski is so good and i genuinely think if the left rallies around this guy and the green party in the UK, they can easily beat back the hysteria of the reform party

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18h

in my tiny town in Colorado, the white granny Boomers are out on Main St across from the brewery and often not on protest days.

I love living in a town that is akin to Mystic Falls or Stars Hollow just a little bigger

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 16h

For them to stop ceding ground they need to have actual principles

onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

it will always baffle me how democrats will cede all narratives to the far right on topics like immigration, whenever the right gets in office public opinion slides against them on this issue and you’ll see your average american protesting against ICE. dems need to stop ceding ground

Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 16h

And wishing that a lot of white leftists would swallow their pride and follow the lead of black and brown organizers who have been doing the work for generations

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 1d

What do you mean become? That’s what they’ve always been

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Sally Jenkins is pulling a rage-bait grift. She told you it was a rage-bait grift. And yet, so many people quote-reposted this, sharing it, and giving her exactly what she wanted. 🫣

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Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
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Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv..
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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 1d

*fuck all

Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 1d

LOLOL Chicago cops said the same shit about Brandon Johnson. That they’d mass walk out if he won. What’d they do? Fuck y’all. They love placating to white flight

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

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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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 1d

Lololol cuomo is so cooked

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also hard to buy when he’s investing in Israeli hotels

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite YouTubers went live bc he was so angry sbout how it treated black women and talked about how his wife responded youtu.be/Spp84ovOMPE?...

This movie gave me the Ick...

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Johnny Townsend @qarchivist.bsky.social · 2d

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 2d

Boost gets second chances quite like Jared Leto

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe stop assuming Jared Leto and Mr.Beast can sell people on a franchise rather than it leading to them googling why no one likes them in the first place

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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david s. pumpkins 🎃 @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 3d

prog frogs 🐸

George Soros paid.. 48m

Aren't frogs a symbol of white nationalism?

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StuffAboutHockey... 39m

That's Pepe, a specific frog.
Frogs arent a monolith.

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Ro Laren RED57... 13m

These are prog frogs, they're cool.

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah!

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 3d

Im so shocked that a man personally responsible for ripping the heart and soul out of the city and the bay writ large would want this. Shocked.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 3d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Shane Novoa Rhoades @shanenovoarhoades.bsky.social · 3d

Like, this would be dope AF if dems ACTUALLY cared to do this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "