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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

thanks! as Online as i try to be i am no match for the VP of the US I guess

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

why mike johnson's *really* keeping the house out of session

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

why is the Vice President posting obscure beefs online

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 11h

we want them in trauma (mentally).

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 11h

there are slurs you've never even heard of for ethnic groups he thinks aren't grateful enough

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 16h

welp

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 19h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

and it’s from June.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 1d

resegregation

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 2d

aww! but love a resolution

jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · Aug 24

here is the post! i love sixteenth minute and am so proud of what we did. up next: my next book is finished, the special i filmed late last year is nearing the finish line, and i want to focus on writing and directing narrative stuff for the next chunk. Bechdel Cast and We the Unhoused continue!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 5d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 6d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Levitating

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 8d

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 2d

downloading this into my wedding registry thx

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 2d

this got me to read the article but not to agree with it. mainly that it doesn’t surface any particular insight into Weiss’ skills beyond creating a popular blog. what is “traditional journalism”? what is a “market of ideas”? why can’t the author advocate for her friend beyond “female founder”?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Feel like Waluigi would be on the Epstein flight logs but not Wario and I think that’s the fundamental difference between the characters

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 3d

i'm sorry it takes you how long to fly to Iceland? must suck to suck

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 3d

coastposting, like sportsposting, is good for bluesky (i say from the obviously superior east coast)

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

can’t hear you on the best coast, unlike the lesser coast, we don’t spent our days worrying about the opinions of east

Ed @ed3d.net · 3d

alright, alright, @golikehellmachine.com, I'm going to make a peace offering

you won't be Portland Inferior anymore

you'll be Transmont Portland

the other will be Cismont Portland, and this is fair and correct, because as we all know Boston is The Hub of the Solar System (also Universe)

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 3d

in my world, skeets ARE currency

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