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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 2h

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

When all of this is finally over, I hope the people who ordered and carried out these extrajudicial assassinations are given the due process they don't believe in before they're punished for murder.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump's Venezuela Military Strikes Hit a Colombian Ship: Report

At least one Colombian ship has been struck by US Military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

www.newsweek.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 4h

I mean if that's the issue, as it often seems to be to a lot of people, which I think is a result of too much horserace thinking. I wish more of us would also be asking ourselves who would do the best job in office, of course.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 14h

If Lawrence O'Donnell needs to know about communists existing thousands of years ago, he should check out the communes organized by Saul/Paul of Tarsus as reported in Acts and Epistles in Greek sites and Rome

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 15h

yep

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 15h

I really wanted to be hopeful. Not even for political reasons.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump Doctrine: Narcissism as fundamental principle.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders

www.theguardian.com

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 16h

That's my thought. What primaries are for. Don't fight against the primary, fight for the candidate, and put up with the fucking result. The actual issue is "We want the Democrat to win, which one will win?" So figure it out and vote for that one.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sorry but Honig is full of it. www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

James campaigned on getting Trump successfully, because New Yorkers were aware that Trump was a criminal and we wanted him charged, because we've understood for years he's a criminal. She did the right thing.

Ex-federal prosecutor weighs in on the indictment of New York's AG at Trump's urging

What are the implications of the indictment of New York's attorney general? NPR speaks with Elie [[elly]] Honig, a former federal prosecutor, about the dangers of a "weaponized" Justice Department.

www.npr.org

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 16h

This is a little crazy. They are looking for people whose bodies are "under rubble". They're victims of IDF bombing! They're not easy to find!

And the response isn't to punish Hamas, but as always the ordinary people of Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostage remains as ceasefire faces test

Hamas accused of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of hostages but Palestinian militants say they face obstacles in retrieving them

www.theguardian.com

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 22h

hundreds of billions of dollars to reinvent porn. Good resource allocation there.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Miller kills again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says six were killed in US strike on another boat allegedly carrying drugs near Venezuela

UN has condemned US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executions

www.theguardian.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 21h

*Bouillon, dammit

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 21h

Ah, and I didn't know anything about Antioch, so thank you back

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Nancy LeTourneau @nancyletourneau.bsky.social · 1d

This is so great!

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

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

Only if he can remember who was president then. He might think it was Obama, or himself.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

The Emperor's New Abs

Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a trivial lie, but a brazen one, and in a way those are the most dangerous sort. Lies like this are a public declaration that the speaker can lie about literally anything and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

But he also says Brett McGurk refused to show Biden the plan. There are a bunch of inconsistencies in there. I think the plan Netanyahu rejected and Witkoff plagiarized was likely the one MBS and Blinken were hatching in January 2024 www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Trump used to send him out for burgers?

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 4d

Brett Kavanaugh :“The government can hit your car, crack your skull and disappear you, an American citizen, for no fucking reason (to check the immigration status wink wink)”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

Iirc they started by making Jerusalem Judenrein, a thing Muslims had not imagined. There's horrific stuff online about Godfrey of Boulogne and his desire to kill Jews.

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En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1d

the biggest most pathetic whining man-baby ever handed significant power in the USA, and yet believed to be a manly virile warrior-Christ by the right

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

In the middle of his victory tour overseas, where he is touting his success at getting Israeli hostages released as part of the Gaza ceasefire, Donald Trump took time off to rage about how a recent magazine photograph captured his hair.

'They disappeared my hair': Trump flips out over 'worst of all time' magazine photo

In the middle of his victory tour overseas, where he is touting his success at getting Israeli hostages released as part of the Gaza ceasefire, Donald Trump took time off to rage about how a recent magazine photograph captured his hair.The culprit is a photo on the cover of Time magazine, shot at a ...

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a report of the meeting where it's clear in hindsight that this happened www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...

Netanyahu meets Trump, capping US trip marked by Gaza protests

Israeli PM seeks to mend ties with Republican presidential candidate after meetings with Biden, Harris.

www.aljazeera.com

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