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s @stahl.bsky.social · 1h

If I was a dem I would be saying “knock down the ballroom” like Trump said “build the wall”

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3h

Quite a day.

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 9h

lol

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

* BESSENT: CHINA 'CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN'

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 9h

execution inspired content 📈📈📈

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 10h

a perfect line and perfect delivery

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 14h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 1d

Triumph of the Will. i. am

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

Chills...

Already Michael was developing into the musical connoisseur that D'Angelo is today. His Uncle CC was a truck driver who moonlighted as a DJ, and he had a huge record collection. This was the beginning of what D now calls going to school"_ delving deep into jazz, soul, rock, and gospel history, from Mahalia Jackson to Band of Gypsys, from the Meters to Miles Davis to Donald Byrd, from Sam Cooke to Otis Redding, from Donny Hathaway to Curtis Mayfield to Sly Stone to Marvin Gaye. When Michael was 8, Gaye had just made a comeback with Sexual Healing and won two yY Grammys. "Everybody was talking about him, = Angelo recalls. "Everybody. So gy just after Sunday sermon on April Fool's Day 1984, when Michael learned Gaye was dead at 44-shot by his own father- he was crushed.

That night, D'Angelo had the first of many dreams about Gaye. It was in black and white and took place at Hitsville U.S.A., Motown's Detroit headquarters. was playing piano while a bunch of famous Motown stars milled about, waiting for Gaye. "When he finally showed up, he Was
young, very handsome, the thin Marvin, Clean-shaven. Very debonair," he told an interviewer back in 2000. "He came straight to me and shook my hand and looked me dead in the eyes, and he said, Very nice to meet you. He grabbed my hand and wouldn't let go."

After that, whenever Gaye's music came on the radio, Michael felt a chill. The opening bars to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" made him get up and leave the room. It was as if the power in Gaye's music had been linked, somehow, to his tragic end. "I would be petrified," he says petrified that his mother took him to -sO a therapist. But the dreams of Gayc himself a preacher's son- didn't go away until Michael turned 19. That was the year he changed his name to a moniker inspired by Michelangelo. That was also the year that his demo tape found its way into the hands of Gary Harris, then an A&R ecutive at EMI Music.

The church warned D'Angelo against secular music. "I got that speech so many times," he says. " 'Don't go do the devil's music,' blah blah blah." But his grandmother encouraged him to use his gifts as he saw fit. Not long after Harris signed him, D_dreamed his last Marvin dream, this one in color. "I Was following him aS a grown man, he tells me. "He WasS a bit heavier, and he had the beard. He was naked, and all I could see was his back and that cap he used to wear all the time. And he got into this whirlpool Jacuzzi with his wife and his daughter and his little son, and that's when he turns around and looks at me. And-he-goes, 'T know you're wondering why-you keep dreaming about me.' And Iwoke up.

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 1d

think of all the advertising possibilities!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Today in luxury surveillance.

“They’ll [ai wearables] be embedded in what we already wear: glasses, jewellery, clothing. Fashion will play a critical role in normalizing them.”

Style Meets Surveillance as Agentic AI Redefines Wearables

Are we seeing the rise of smarter accessories—or sleepwalking into a future where data privacy is out of style?

threemagazine.com

s @stahl.bsky.social · 1d

Look on our works, ye mighty, and despair!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Gov. Bill Lee says Trump’s military-police occupation of Memphis “may never end.”

“We have just begun. We do know this is going to last for months… In fact, I will tell you that it will last forever.”

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

the magic: the gathering card "bagel and schmear" from the spider-man magic: the gathering set. Yes this is a real card that is legal to play

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 1d

Back from the grave - it's Larry Hauntedhouseholder!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Gotta flush twice to make sure the entire legacy goes through the U-bend

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Saying nothing would’ve been a better option

Joe Biden I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally get the chance to rebuild their lives.

The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety.

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 2d

Josh Naylor subtweet

Waikiki Wanda @wanda.bsky.social · 2d

Asking my husband which of these baseball players is THE big butt guy and eventually he did have to admit that I’m right and multiple of these guys have big butts.

s @stahl.bsky.social · 2d

shit. Fuck. I was just about to unveil my ape based NFT OS. I think it’s pointless now.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an "agentic OS" (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 2d

this guy has always been a weirdo

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s @stahl.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard clips of her talking, her tone of self aggrandized victimhood is even worse than I thought

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

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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s @stahl.bsky.social · 2d

Salò (1975)

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

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JF @jessefarrar.com · 3d

ios26 is a busted buggy piece of shit but at least it looks like windows vista for some reason

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

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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s @stahl.bsky.social · 3d

“we intend to avoid deciding anything for real until we see how this all plays out”

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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