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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12m

There’s vomit on his sweater already, Curt Cignetti.

Matt Fortuna @mattfortuna.bsky.social · 28m

NEWS: Indiana and coach Curt Cignetti have agreed to an eight-year contract with an average annual compensation of $11.6 million.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 6h

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1h

Poor guy slipped on the ICE.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry to Bother You 6.9
Anora 7.5
The Substance 7.2
The Favourite 7.5

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1h

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 1h

…and not the current guy or the guy before him or the guy before him who’s also the current guy somehow c’mon seriously how did we do that to ourselves

Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 2h

There has been one U.S. president born after the admission of Hawaii and Alaska to the union in 1959

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 3h

Same

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 6h

He rocks

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 6h

“i was married, but i’m not married anymore. women don’t like the vehicle.”

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 7h

“i was married, but i’m not married anymore. women don’t like the vehicle.”

homer simpson in the homer, the incredibly ugly green car he designed

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty please

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 17h

We’ve known for forever that they don’t think gendered violence is a really serious thing but it’s still wild to hear them say it so plainly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Ivan the K ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 8h

IYKYK.

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Chris Turner @chrislturner.bsky.social · 8h

Connor Lamb lisan al gaib forgive for our 2022 sins

Axios @axios.com · 9h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 18h

Dune or Dune not; there is no try

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 18h

dune 2 others as you woudl have others dune 2 you

jesus with the weird nose thingy and blue spice eyes i dont know i never watched spice i only learned about it form social media

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees let Mississippi kill Charles Ray Crawford tonight, despite treatment at trial that was of the same type that SCOTUS later held in another case is unconstitutional.

All three Democratic appointees, in a lengthy dissent, would have kept him alive.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25-385 (25A378)
CHARLES RAY CRAWFORD v. MISSISSIPPI ON APPLICATION FOR STAY AND ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
[October 15, 2025]
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is de-nied.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.
Charles Ray Crawford will be executed tonight for a crime that his own lawyers told the jury he committed, despite his express instructions not to do so. Had this case come to this Court on direct appeal, Crawford could have proved that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated under our decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414
(2018), in which we held that lawyers may not override a defendant's explicit and unequivocal decision not to concede guilt at trial. He would also likely be entitled to a new trial, as a McCoy violation is a structural error that mandates reversal.

Charles Ray Crawford has identified an important constitutional issue that this Court has not addressed and has divided courts around the country. The Court refuses to
Cite as: 607 U.S.
(2025)
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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
resolve that question, even though a man's life is in the bal-ance. For these reasons, the Court should have granted Crawford's motion for a stay of execution and petition for writ of certiorari. I respectfully dissent.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d

Bed Bath and Batman Beyond

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Chris Turner @chrislturner.bsky.social · 20h

bad day of news. one for the record books for sure

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 20h

Ro Khanna is so fucking stupid lmao.

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty wild that a large chunk of the Republican playbook is:

- make up a scandal about Democrats, often skewing the facts wildly out of proportion

- do exactly what they accused the Democrats of

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 20h

Only took 20 days for Peacemaker to do this big reveal to a similar version hanging in our actual Congress...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

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