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Marco Paradiso

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2025
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out Powell: You just added in a third building Trump: It’s a building that’s being built Powell: It was built five years ago.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.
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Omar @tictactomar.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
because its the playoffs
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“.. The slump is especially noteworthy because sales typically pick up in March as the spring buying season gets underway.” @politico.com $XHB www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump, asked about China’s denial of trade talks: “Well, they had a meeting this morning.” Reporter: “Who's they?” Trump: “I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is.” @calltoactivism.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
Stephen Miller is on Fox News and it's not going great
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The SEC's position at the moment is "Crypto tokens are unregistered securities and they're (almost) all illegal" and they've pursued that position quite extensively in court.
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
For example, Kraken, the crypto exchange blanketing Canadian TV with ads, reached a $30M settlement with the SEC last year & agreed to shut down part of its operation in the US. (And the SEC is still suing it to try to shut down more of its business.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Crypto Exchange Kraken Ends Staking Program in $30 Million SEC Settlement
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is basically what the SEC has done under Biden. The SEC has gone after tons of companies for tons of violations in recent years, but nobody reads the news any more so nobody knows that it happened.
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Did you know that the SEC and Justice Department rolled out a major crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges and various related frauds over the past few years? People in the crypto industry know, which is why they all lined up behind Trump.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
i'm a huge robby fan but no doubt he's sucked epically this year. And looking at today's practice lines (esp with reaves out) maybe for the first time since robby's been here i don't see a guy that i'm upset is playing over him. i still wouldn't toss him away tho. trade for some value sure.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The rhetorical slight of hand that made such revolutionaries come across as "conservatives" is that the presented themselves as "Christian patriots," just unmarked "real Americans" trying to defend "traditional America" from "the forces seeking to destroy it."
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The Forward @forward.com · 08/12/2024
SCOOP: The Heritage Foundation’s 'Project Esther,' a conservative plan to counter antisemitism, sees the problem as one in which a handful of “masterminds” including Jews like George Soros are seeking to “dismantle Western democracies, values and culture,” according to internal Heritage documents.
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Scoop: Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values
A presentation meant to win supporters for the Heritage Foundation’s plan to fight antisemitism draws a line from George Soros to pro-Palestinian protests.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I have not listened to this podcast and I’m sure how to read the question mark but, for my part, I don’t think there has been an American politician since George C. Wallace who has built an appeal around identity politics more than Trump.
Podcast: Did Trump’s win mark the end of identity politics (with Sam Harris).
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Aja Romano @bookshop.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...
Screenshot of transcript excerpts from the jury process for Martin Shkreli's 2017 fraud trial.

Juror no. 10: The only thing I’d be impartial about is what prison this guy goes to.

The court: Okay. We will excuse you. Juror 28, do you need to be heard?

Juror no. 28: I don’t like this person at all. I just can’t understand why he would be so stupid as to take an antibiotic which H.I.V. people need and jack it up five thousand percent. I would honestly, like, seriously like to go over there —

The court: Sir, thank you.

Juror no. 28: Is he stupid or greedy? I can’t understand.

The court: We will excuse you. Juror 41, are you coming up?

Juror no. 41: I was looking yesterday in the newspaper and I saw the defendant. There was something about him. I can’t be fair. There was something that didn’t look right.

The court: All right. I’m going to excuse you. Juror Number 59, come on up.

Juror no. 59: Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because —

The court: Okay. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime who has not been proven guilty?

Juror no. 59: It’s my attitude toward his entire demeanor, what he has done to people.

The court: All right. We are going to excuse you, sir.

Juror no. 59: And he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 08/12/2024
I have a massive trade deficit with my local beer shop, so I am going to invade it.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
CNN's Clarissa Ward is now broadcasting live from Damascus, Syria. She says "the moment is just utterly surreal."
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 08/12/2024
NEW: Russian state media reporting that former Syrian president Assad and his family are being given refuge in Moscow. Putin giving safe harbour to one of his own.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
you can't even have assad anymore, because of woke al-qaeda
Caitlin Johnstone: Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In
 Only a matter of time before we start seeing former ISIS and al-Qaeda members chatting it up on liberal western talk shows with their preferred gender pronouns listed next to their names.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Yep
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Out best chance for oversight in the next two years is regimes falling.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Just as you cannot understand the growth of Hamas without understanding the Israeli occupation you cannot understand why secular Syrians were cheering on the HTS offensive against the Assad regime. You don’t have to ‘like’ any of the actors to understand why they exist. Again, please grow up.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/12/2024
The thing about the "we can't live in an echo chamber" dudes is that none of them has offered a single new opinion in ten fucking years. They're not interested in diversity of thought, they just want people to be forced to listen to their tired bullshit.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/12/2024
Have you noticed that when the fascists escape to platforms like Gab, nobody follows them there? But when we all come here the nazis try to crash the party?
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J. David McSwane @davidmcswane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Everyone should know about what's happening in North Carolina. Republicans are using Trump's playbook to try to overturn an election. I wrote about it last week:
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North Carolina Supreme Court candidate seeks to disqualify 60,000 voters — including his opponent's parents
In an effort to overturn the results of November's election, Jefferson Griffin, a Republican candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court, is asking state election officials to throw out more than 6...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Republican talking points and thus policies are impervious to facts. Because the talking points are just a cover for the things they really want to do.
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Jamie in PEI @paganforge.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Many thanks to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for this piece. I am a Canadian who was here during the Harper years and I agree with every word in this article. Back up whatever you can, and if you can store data on servers outside the US that's even better.
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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
No way 😂😂😂😂😂😂 We’ve heard of statues being destroyed or smashed, but sitting on them and tying them to a car? That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive.

Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 06/12/2024
NEW: Elon Musk spent a total of $238 million to elect Donald Trump
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Microsoft @microsoft.com · 04/04/1975
We've always been a fan of blueskies.
Originally the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP, this photo shows green rolling hills with a vibrant blue sky and white clouds in the background. Charles O'Rear took the photo in California, USA.
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Milo Rossi @miniminuteman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I am in fucking tears. Just visited some friends in Oklahoma City who made me aware of this sculpture affectionately referred to as the “OKC Cock Ring.” How the fuck this made it through an approval process, I have no idea. But it did make me laugh harder than I have in weeks.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
good in a deep bench role maybe.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I mean when a team is starting Bruno Fernando and Ochai Agbaji against the best team in the league it's not gonna be pretty.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
still photo of the alleged healthcare ceo shooter smiling, pulled from cctv
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Republicans Are Confused About the Concept of Bad Guys
Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
the first good musical acts in nhl history. and they're not just good they're great. wow.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
eh. flukes happen. But the Leafs' defensive numbers look good even with flukes like this counted. But it's the 5v5 xgf number that is just not good enough n this game (and on the season) no matter what defensive fluke you want to discount or not.
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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Ring in the new year with @chancetherapper performing at the @Discover NHL #WinterClassic live from Chicago on New Year’s Eve.
Top: Discover NHL Winter Classic logo above text that reads, "Headliner". 

Below is a photo of Chance the Rapper with his name below him on a brick wall background.
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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The @SmashingPumpkin are giving a special pre-game performance at the @Discover NHL #WinterClassic live from Chicago on New Year’s Eve!
Top: The Discover NHL Winter Classic logo. Below this is white text on a green background that reads "Pre-game performance". 

Middle: A photo of the Smashing Pumpkins. 

Bottom: The Blues and Blackhawks logos on a brick background.
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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Associated Press has officially joined Bluesky. Follow us at @apnews.com.
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Marco Paradiso @marcoparadiso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
wait....weren't you the star of that movie?
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are "confused," "offended," and "frustrated."
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