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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

And they‘re all such overt creepy losers. Subormals.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 1h

Some of today's worst Republicans were Young Republicans first. This story confirms what we've known about people like Brett Kavanaugh, Stephen Miller, etc.

Politico @politico.com · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1h

Apple has teased its M5 MacBook. It’s “coming soon” and will probably be announced this week www.theverge.com/news/799408/...

Apple teases M5 MacBook

“Something powerful is coming.”

www.theverge.com

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 1h

The only thing shocking about this is that there are those who find it shocking.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
#politics
www.politico.com/news/2025/10/1…

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

The WGN-TV employee detained by federal agents last week in Lincoln Square was released without charges and intends to “pursue all legal avenues” to hold the federal authorities accountable, her lawyer said in a statement.

WGN employee released without charges after she was 'violently detained' by federal agents, her lawyer says

Debbie Brockman, of WGN's creative services department, is a U.S. citizen not acting in a professional capacity when she was arrested Friday in Lincoln Square.

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 5h

I guess it should just be accepted that we're perpetual beta when it comes to Apple, even after the official release and we're not "running" betas. Seeing odd and random memory leaks caused by iconserviceagent and Control Center that are a bit baffling #Apple #macOS26

The image shows a computer system monitoring dashboard with two panels. The left panel displays memory statistics, indicating 45% pressure and 66% memory usage. Memory breakdown includes: app (5.0 GB), wired (2.9 GB), compressed (8.2 GB), and free (7.9 GB), along with a swap usage of 1.0 GB out of 2.0 GB. Below, active processes are listed with Safari (3.1 GB), ControlCenter (2.8 GB), Threads20 (1.8 GB), iconservicesagent (1.4 GB), and WindowServer (1.3 GB). The right panel features CPU statistics showing 3.23 GHz speed, 136° temperature, 46% pressure, and 67% memory usage. The panel also notes disk space (697.6 GB available on Macintosh HD), network activity (1 KB/s upload, 2 KB/s download), and hardware metrics: CPU at 136°, GPU at 130° (0.53 GHz), and fans at 5%. Both panels are styled in a dark theme with circular gauges and colored graphs.

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 5h

Your twice, and now continuing, weekly reminder that we're still in a Civil War

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 5h

DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia

An indictment says forced-labor compounds ran cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes that stole billions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.

cnb.cx

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 6h

Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

“His goal was to use the 187,000 images collected over the past 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator.”

#tech
www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-…

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 6h

🧵 Keep 'em coming

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

“It took me 15 minutes to reach customer service. The representative advised me that the wait was due to people protesting Publix’s gun policy.”

Publix idiocy
I called Publix to advise them that my family, with two households that spend more than $1,000 a week, would no longer shop there.
It took me 15 minutes to reach customer service. The representative advised me that the wait was due to people protesting Publix's gun policy. I pointed out the idiocy of the logic that they were just following Florida law, when that law allows private businesses to ban firearms on their property.
We will do our grocery shopping at Whole Foods, Target, Aldi, Costco, Walmart or Trader Joe's.
David J. Kingsley, Plantation

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Bleacher Nation @bleachernation.bsky.social · 6h

The Brewers Turned One of the Craziest Double-Plays You’ll Ever See … And Also Lost

www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/10...

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 6h

A bit of good news.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment abcnews.go.com/Politics/supre…

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 6h

Somehow this feels like a match made in hell.

Walmart teams up with OpenAI to allow purchases directly in ChatGPT
#AI
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/wal…

Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 6h

Good read. Worth your time, even if it is depressing.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
#politics
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder if the video of Tom Homan accepting a $50K payoff from the FBI is in the same lockbox as the Epstein files and the cocktail napkin that Trump used to write out his health care plan.

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 8h

Good morning. Fall continues falling. #Photography #Today #Fall #Chicago

A vibrant orange and yellow flower with a large, dark brown center stands in focus, surrounded by similar flowers and green foliage in the background, bathed in sunlight.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10h

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 22h

Well this is awkward

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22h

🤦‍♀️

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23h

Some good, brave stuff happening

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1d

CTA quietly announcing they're planning to charge more for tapping your credit card to pay your fare:

$3.00 to tap a credit card, $2.75 to tap Ventra on train, $2.50 to tap Ventra on bus

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 23h

No shit. We’re all tired of this “the sky is green, they said” nonsense

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.bsky.social · 23h

Oh my, this makes me feel old(er). We were quizzed by my parents on our and relatives’ phone numbers and we used the letter variation as well.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I can feel myself turning to dust just reading this. Not only do I STILL remember a bunch of phone numbers from my childhood, I remember that my Dad would use the *letter* variation for the first two digits, rather than numbers. Our home number started with "AR1" rather than 271.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

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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Staid Winnow @staidwinnow.bsky.social · 1d

So much for those who served:

Republicans celebrate the Navy's birthday — with photos of Russian ships

Monday marks the 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy and, to commemorate the occasion, some Republican lawmakers and others took to social media to share photos of ships. Unfortunately, they chose ones fr...

www.rawstory.com

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