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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 20m
Tuesday morning update: After a backlash from the state’s top Republicans, the Palm Beach County Republican Party has backed away from its official, public support for Mike Caruso.
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After backlash, Palm Beach County Republican Party retreats from endorsement of candidate accused of child sex abuse
Under fire from top Florida Republicans, the Palm Beach County Republican Party dropped its official support for Mike Caruso, who faces felony child sex abuse charges.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 14h
Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso, suspended after his arrest on allegations he molested a young child, said he still “intend[s] to win” the November election. And the Palm Beach County Republican Party endorsed him today. Via @miamiherald.com
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Palm Beach County GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
Suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said he has not abandoned his campaign, nor has the local Republican Party abandoned him, even after his arrest on child sex abuse charges.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 55m
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 14h
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 19h
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h
When you finally get good new pens
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Jon Hamm Ooh
ALT: Jon Hamm Ooh
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 9h
David Mitchell from Peep Show with a speech bubble
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 9h
My friend and I tried to go there once, and there was this ancient, snarky Filipina nun working behind the desk who hustled us until we bought some pumpkin bread and said it was made in an oven that was “so big YOU could fit in it” and then we left and it turns out we’d gone to the wrong convent
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 19h
NEW @ms.now: The White House blocked Politico from flying w/ POTUS on Air Force One to Nebraska today, in the latest escalation in the ongoing feud between the federal government and media outlets, including MS NOW.
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One
The news outlet was supposed to travel with the president to Nebraska on Monday.
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 10h



right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother






right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother
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🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟‍♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 13h
gotta take my meds
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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 20h
"women never contributed anything to science" and then you look under the hood and it's men stealing women's ideas over and over again
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 9h
Wow. So it is possible to write clear headlines
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 17h
Screen shot from a YouTube video by someone named MEpearl, an older woman with short hair wearing a red long sleeve shirt and a dark floral scarf. She sits before a wall of books, though it may be a photograph of a wall of books, but the important detail is that in her lap is a beautiful possum, and that possum is eating from a plate of fruit on the table before them. The title of this video is “is your possum a narcissist.” It has 31k views and was posted 5 days ago.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16h
tell me the vibe you are seeking and i will recommend you a gay romance novel (pls note if trashy is ok)
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HIGH LORD FALCON, OLIVKA RHO @livvywivvyy.bsky.social · 16h
"i would die for you, i would kill for you" okay but would you go to the store for me. would you goto the. store ive just had a really long day and theres nothing in the fridge. would you go buy ingredients and. and cook for me and would you get snacks too. also i need you to do the dishes
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mx. clara sparks @xgdr.net · 17h
“The tent hasn’t gotten any bigger: it has simply shifted, leaving [us] out in the rain.” Thank you for this.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you wanted to mist up (in a good way)
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Joy Content 🏳️‍⚧️🐒 @joycontent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
decided to hop on the latest art trend how did I do
Just words that read 'Trans people matter more than doing a Harry Potter art trend'
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
there’s too much likability in this photo, you can’t look directly at it
Yo-yo ma being embraced by Zohran Mamdani
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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John Breen @breen.tech · 05/10/2026
“Everybody is using it, you’ll be left behind if you don’t” is the same logic teenagers use to pressure each other into drinking and using drugs
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God @thegodshow.com · 05/10/2026
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the main guy from schitt's creek! he'd be fun. or here's a wild card- tony shalhoub. i personally think tony shalhoub would be incredible on taskmaster
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026
only 12 people have ever smelled the moon
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Ornamental matt 🦜 @ornamentalmatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why did the crab go to jail? Crimes
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/01/2025
elon musk:
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please if you have the opportunity, 🗳️VOTE EARLY. 🗳️ It’s a way to avoid any long lines or other tomfoolery. 🗳️ (Thank you for your attention to this matter).
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
@chefjoseandres
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© Translated from Spanish by Grok
Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Mighty Haunter @mightyhunter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tommy Wiseau standing on a roof saying his iconic line "Oh, hi, Mark." I've set "Oh, hi, Julie." as the text instead since I just got followed by a Julie bot.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it is very rare that you need an app to notify you of anything, for any reason
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Lauren @laurenlangston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well *now* we’re not getting permanent DST, thanks for ruining everything jerkbutt
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 03/10/2026
the way some of these bitches talk about clankers i stfg
Robot, 2001, Siobhán Hapaska

a man seated atop a hill with a city in the background has a long white drape over his lap, atop which is a robot with his insides ripped apart, in a scene evoking the pieta
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why would you allow this in court ever in a million billion years
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
asking the pope "how many local models do you run" and still thinking i'm going to see the pearly gates
Pope Leo XIV # @Pontif.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce.
There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack th Show more
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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand?
You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
yknow what i mean? west coast people you know what i mean. especially if you're friends with skaters or surfers or whatever. like you can say "whoa shit, what the fuck" or "whoa shit, what the fuck" and it could mean "i'm so sorry your grandma died" or "i can't believe we saw an orca!"
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Sure, we've all heard of Inktober. But what if there was a WINKtober *winks at you*
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you can’t pay for gas or groceries but here’s a few rolls of quarters, don’t forget to vote republican or something
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