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Gaston Phillips. NLG, lawyer, noob, nerd. Probably not your lawyer.

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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Death passes Mitch and eyes Lindsey.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Oberlin students didn't in their scariest nightmares imagine the extent to which EVERY DAMN THING could become about the performance of whiteness and masculinity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2026
it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+
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Roberto José Andrade Franco @randradefranco.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian Dior, Knicks down 24
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026
SPEECHLESS. LFGK
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is actually the secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hard to conceive of a less qualified, more dishonest, more reprehensible political hack but I have no doubt we’ll soon see one. She managed to do significant damage in her short time in the role because she is an abject liar. I hope her husband recovers quickly. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Tulsi Gabbard Takes the Exit Ramp
Excluded from Trump’s inner circle, she sought the president’s approval by spreading baseless claims.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Jesus to his disciples:
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the king of the divan @iconoplast.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
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Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help. I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This how I find out I have a son??
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the king of the divan @iconoplast.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Amazing Facts @amazingfacts.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Socrates literally only wanted one thing and it was fucking discussing.
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Eldritch Racasner 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x
The Jolly Roger flag
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/10/2025
well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
NOVEMBER 3, 2025
THE ART WORLD
RECONSTRUCTED
In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists.
By Julian Lucas
6:00 AM

Picture is the statue described in img 2•he hirst thing you see is a horses
- ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called
"Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 23/10/2025
Chauncey Billups' co-defendants include: Big Bruce, Pookie, Sugar, Albanian Bruce, Spook, The Wrestler, Flappy, and Spanish G. I'm 100% serious
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
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Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups has been arrested by the FBI for alleged illegal gambling, sources tell ESPN.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/10/2025
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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the king of the divan @iconoplast.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
@netw3rk.bsky.social Maybe Sam is Samantha? viterbo.prestosports.com/sports/wxc/2... Samantha Berndt - Viterbo University
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Samantha Berndt
Samantha Berndt
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Noel Mummy 🤕 @noelmu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New mild swear just dropped.
A recipe for "Ham Balls"
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Need sound on.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Happy Henry-Kissinger-Is-Dead Day to those who celebrate! 🥰
A pair of green striped legs with red shoes, a la Wizard of Oz, sticking out from underneath candy Ding Dongs
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 24/05/2024
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Drone @drone.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Idk how anyone can deny climate change is real when cop riot season is starting two whole months earlier than usual
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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
oj simpson in a coffin call that a juice box
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
I've told this story before, but when my paternal grandmother passed, her daughters fought for DAYS over who would get her precious ever-guarded recipe book, finally agreed they would share it, opened it to copy down the recipes and found it had only 1 entry which said "Book I pretend has recipes"
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the king of the divan @iconoplast.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
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Opinion | Where Is America’s ‘Rules-Based Order’ Now?
The United States’ failure to ensure enforcement of the U.N. cease-fire resolution regarding Israel undermines the international rules-based order.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
the editors were SO MAD that Kate was like 'cars go zoomy and Lewis is cool as fuck but haha these people could kill me with a word to their private security' and that wasn't the vibes they wanted for an F1 fellatio piece lmao its so good, go read it and read it twice
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Learning a new RPG can be tough, but it's not as tough as you might think. I've played dozens and dozens of RPGs over the years, and along the way I've developed a system that makes it easy to pick up and play new games. You can find it in SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME MASTER.
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So You Want to Be a Game Master
"I wish I had Justin's book when I was 15. It would have made me a better DM, like it will make you a better DM."- Matthew ColvilleHave you ever wanted to step into your favorite
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
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Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I swear every year the Godzilla posts come earlier and earlier
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
My pre-season Trump/Menendez/Adams indictments parlay looking pretty damn good rn.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 29/10/2023
We did it, folks. We make a ska-leton band.
It’s a punk rock skeleton leading a skaleton band in front of our houseIt’s a gold skeleton playing a trumpet. This is why it’s a SKA-leton band, see.It’s a black skeleton playing a black saxophone in the skaleton band.It’s the skaleton band in front of our house
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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
My article on Andy Ngo's flop of a civil trial is out now! Please read & share @lcrw.bsky.social leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/an…
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ANDY NGO LOSES CIVIL SUIT AGAINST Portland locals | Left Coast Right Watch
Far-right propagandist Andy Ngo lost his flimsy civil case against a PDX journalist and an activist.
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alex v @alexvalente.fyi · 07/08/2023
is it time for my favourite ancient textpost ttrpg meme yet
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Defeating capitalism can't be that hard. How much HP does it have?

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the World Boss Capitalism has 1,951,484 hp, but it also has a companion boss called The State and that boss has 2,487,313 hp and if you don't get them both to 0 at about the same time they just start spamming shields & heals on each other & The State starts using OHKO attacks on your entire group

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Damn, that must be why Marx recommends a party.

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We'd have finished this raid by now if SOMEONE didn't keep splitting the party

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Fourth International, rushing in alone: "LEEEEEEEEE00000000N TRRROOOOOTSSKKKYYYYY
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
That's a lot of personal growth to pack into 87 days
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Daniel Penny getting charged. These people
are animals, whether they're harassing
people in subways or walking around in
suits.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/06/2023
Underrated as the singular Twitter political insight of our time
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the king of the divan @iconoplast.bsky.social · 23/06/2023
@sweetbee.vip Dear Ms. Bluesky Manners, I sent invite codes to strangers on the other site who said they needed them. Neither has been used. How long is it polite to wait before offering them to other people?
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Rosemare “Eek” Looney 🎃 @bsky.dad · 21/06/2023
ACAB includes the ice cream shop that emailed my wife a receipt while I was out “doing errands” yesterday ★☆☆☆☆
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sadie 🇵🇸 @sadie.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
They have taken the bridge… and the second hall. We have barred the gates… but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Drums… drums… in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. Cracker Barrel has fallen.
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