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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Middle aged women, they are fucking done with it. Aunt Deb from Friends of the Library is to the left of Zohran

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

The moment when he starts giving his canned response and she goes “that’s such bullshit” lmao I have no idea who these ladies are but they rock

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 9h

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milo @ventdeiji.bsky.social · 9h

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 9h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 11h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 8h

lmao

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 8h

Holy shit they can’t even condemn someone explicitly praising Hitler

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 9h

“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”

From: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/crop30-why-burning-food-for-land-hungry-biofuels-is-fueling-the-climate-crisis

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 8h

This is a real “or barbarism” situation.

Value the work you wish to reward. With dollars and clicks and attention and time. Or suffer the consequences of the world you’ve built.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Pope of Spooky Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 8h

This breaking news update is just the warning label on every package of acetaminophen

Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 8h

What are we even doing here

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

These issues have been a part of litigation already this year — over the student visa revocation efforts.

This statement essentially admits that the State Department is engaging viewpoint discrimination in revoking these visas.

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An Argentine national said that Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" and deserves to burn in hell.
Visa revoked.

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just came on here to say charlie kirk can rest in f|
piss and yet again if you have any
empathy at all for people like this you can ahead and remove yourself as my friend. i do not give a f about the death of a person who devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric. it's hot as fut where this man currently is and it's deserved

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A South African national mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying
"they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom" and alleging "he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash."
Visa revoked.
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Neanderthals can't have their cake & eat it... This weekend they went openly anti-black racist & now they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom? Charlie Kirk won't be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!
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A Mexican national said that Kirk "died being a racist, he died being a misogynist" and stated that "there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead."
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A Brazilian national charged that "Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him" and that Kirk "DIED TOO LATE."
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A German national celebrated Kirk's death and attempted to justify his murder, writing "when fascists die, democrats don't complain."
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Wenn Faschisten sterben, jammern
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A Paraguayan national charged that "Charlie Kirk was a son of a b**** and he died by his own rules."
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•@POTUS and @SecRubio will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws.
Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11h

only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

Is the Voters of Tomorrow group chat a little too obsessed with Taylor Swift? Yes.

But Young Republicans are literally Hitler youth.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12h

for whatever else you think about Pelosi, she literally meant directly the opposite of this when she said that

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 13h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. 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 lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 11h

the power vacuum of everything getting sucked into the whims of either Donald Trump or his teenage pervert Nazi fan club is the result of a weak party as opposed to a strong one. I don’t necessarily think it’s up to the Dems to save it from itself but that’s banally true that’s what’s happening.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12h

I saw some references to a study showing fewer young people were trans. The author is "Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science" who recently published "The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism."

His "science" has the credibility of a wet fart.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

The "study" is by Eric Kaufman, a DeSantis supporter who left his post at the University of London citing "cancel culture." He believes that trans identity is a social contagion.

Here's what he believes his study proves.

Executive Summary
• After surging in the 2010s and 20s, trans and queer identities are in decline among young Americans
• The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from
nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent
• The share of students identifying as not heterosexual fell by around 10 points in the same period
• The decline in non-heterosexual share is concentrated in the queer or other sexual categories (i.e.
pansexual, asexual) and, to a lesser extent, bisexuality
• Today’s freshmen are less BTQ+ than seniors, suggesting that decline will continue
• The decline in BTQ+ identification does not appear to be connected to lower social media use, religious
revival, a shift to the political right or lower support for woke ideology
• There is evidence that improved mental health has reduced BTQ+ identification

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 11h

trump take laoganma

George Pearkes @peark.es · 14h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 13h

don't go in there, he's making weird tables for himself

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 12h

He forgot to duck, and that's sad. We are making great progress on the new ballroom.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 13h

This is some excellent aviation (check thread for recording playback)

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 15h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

rip to ur grandma but im different

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 12h

very mild expression