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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 2h
She's a hundred billionaire who visited the White House to pledge 6 billion dollars for Trump Accounts? People will defend anybody
Time to leave susan dell alone
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 15h
will listening to this finally inspire me to spin the Paul Banks/Rza record? i have held strong thus far but…
bandsplain pod on interpol
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 15h
It(‘s Pat)
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
in every version, Robocop is a murdered police officer who was brought back to life in a robotic body, but what if he was a retired widower whose libido was brought back to life by an erotic lady and his name is Rob O'Cop
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Baffled by the reference to Liz Lemon as some sort of Frank Capra figure
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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BrainPilot YouTube video: TED LASSO Season 4 Episode 10 Ending Explained. Thumbnail is of Lasso with a circle inset of a female character with an arrow saying "Why He Did That?"
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃 @sporkboot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
saw a vanity plate today that read “RIPDADD9,” a potent reminder to say something to your father via mandatory car ID while he’s still alive
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why can't it be sex that you get from having diarrhea
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The problem with doing that math is that then you'd have to acknowledge that doing that same math, Israel has done about 320 x 9/11s to Gazans from Cast Lead to the end of 2022, and about 3500 x 9/11s since 10/7 (and that's going off only confirmed deaths, not counting undiscovered under the rubble)
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/10/2026
In the Bronx, just now, near the Marble Hill Metro-North station. Also: “City officials have been told ICE has been using a nearby Target parking lot on 225th Street as a staging area.”
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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
God I fucking hate these people. Here’s my whole spiel again defector.com/a-blue-wave-...
When I was coming up through undergrad as a poli sci major (ended up switching to IT for grad school and career, thank god) in the first Obama term, we - and I mean liberal staffers-in-training - were taught to view American politics as unfailingly stable and basically liberal, with three facts offered as proof. Not even proof! They were, you must understand, clearly articulated, immutable laws of political physics:
1.) The federal bureaucracy was vast, heavily unionized, and basically permanent below the cabinet level. This ensured continued function of government even after big election swings.
2) Voters would actively revolt with tremendous force against any party which threatened, even obliquely, to cut entitlements — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP. Once you gave people a treat you couldn't take it away without consequences.
3.) The Supreme Court would never overturn its precedents (could you imagine the disrespect to history?), and would slowly over time only serve to enshrine more and greater civil protections as constitutional guarantees.was the resilient machine of government, these things would never change, and not only was it absurd but it was kind of dangerous to act as though they might - because of the gerontocratic systems of seniority and patronage in professional politics, the Democratic leadership was rife (and still is rife) with people who were present to get their asses kicked so hard by Ronald Reagan, they came to believe his basic perspective on America and government had to become the starting point for any position. If you wanted better funded public works, higher taxes, less policing, whatever, you were insane, and you were going to get schooled again by the right. You had to go a third way: Government that does more with less.
It has been the great grim spectacle of my life to see each of those assumed laws - the fundamental safety nets beneath neoliberal governance - systematically, directly, completely destroyed. The precision and thoroughness has been breathtaking. The Democrats are in their version of hell, now.
And I believe the Democratic Party drummed out all capacity to even imagine a world beyond those tenets long ago. They still cannot believe that what is happening is happening, and they're more hostile to the suggestion that it is than they are to fascists (history, here, repeating itself. They - congressional Democrats - see themselves essentially as customer service managers; they do not lead and they do not build. Their job is to make sure the government works without voters ever having to think about how or why. They certainly don't want to be noticeable.I think a lot about why Schumer remains Democratic leader. The bleak probability is that nobody else wants the position; you could say that's because it's a thankless one, but I think the more plausible reason is because leadership in the legislature necessarily implies a forfeiture of any ambition to be POTUS.
If the party thinks you have juice as a leader, the legislature serves as a finishing school first and foremost: You'll be funneled toward a senate seat for one or two terms and be given important committee assignments to lend your presidential campaign some legitimacy (pure shitheel Elisa Slotkin is in the middle of this process currently). But if you're still there after 12 years, you've probably fucked up. No self-respecting model UN geek who went through the party's pipeline is going to throw in that towel unless they are well and truly washed.
And Schumer is the most washed of them all.
It's ironic, one of the romantic ideas they sold us about American politics was that, unlike parliamentary systems in Europe and elsewhere, we're supposedly quite stable - but only in the sense that in the UK, for example, the parties are far more willing to give leadership the boot if they fuck up (because the PM is meaningfully the executive as well as legislative party leader).
What's clear now, obviously, is that American liberalism wasn't more stable, it was just more complacent, more willing to buckle.
And it has.Anyway as sympathetic as l am to calls for "no amnesty", the prosecution of all these Nazi ghouls, and the packing of the SCOTUS, I am no fool. Chuck Schumer would literally lay down his life before he admitted, through impeachment and legal proceedings, that his grand and amiable Team of Rivals dream has died.
His Democratic Party already ushers through Nazi federal judges regularly, they will Respect The Court and bow to its legitimacy.
He will absolutely keep the chairs warm for the next fascists. The fascists we have will go on to make lavish amounts of money on TV and speaking circuits. He and his leadership will continue to yearn for bonhomie with them, more than anything else. Impunity, impunity, impunity. They cannot and will not be part of any forward motion in this country.
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if every video game could be personalized exactly to one’s preferences then why would anybody ever need to buy a second game
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026
waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.
"but you've automated your hobby"
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no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.
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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Queen Hayley
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rage Against the Machine discourse is one of very few recurring topics of which I rarely tire so many different flavors of dipshit find overlapping ways to make fools of themselves
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
baby brain post
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ton cruise flopping in an extremely bizarre old man suit movie causing him to fast track a film where he then blows up on a rocket w the Elon musk imprimatur and paid for by taxpayers seems like where we’re headed, as the decade winds down
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Damn I really hope that the lackluster opening for digger doesn’t deter this sure-fire slam dunk
IMDb entry for Untitled Tom Cruise/SpaceX Project
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just mathematically kid rock is either 1% of the way 2 jesus or 80% there there’s no way he’s in the middle of whatever it is he’s doing
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
listen. sometimes the entire purpose of a woman's life is to be used and discarded in service of A Man learning a very special lesson
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No idea who Jacob gellar is but people seem to have latched onto an idea of ‘kindness’ that is framed by their parasocial relationship w some YouTube rapist and are twisting themselves in knots to excuse their continued fandom. sick behavior just watch a different guy there’s a million of these
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ordinarily I’d say “you can simply think things without posting them” but if you thought this you should have immediately shoved a butter knife into an electrical socket
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ya none of these guys ever mention the product they used AI to make and I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a reason for that
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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the series finale of this era was the discovery that the guy "Home Halfway" was running a puppet account pretending to be a long covid suffering sex worker just to slide into group DMs it was the perfect swan song to the decade that was the online accountability telenovela of Twitter
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there are so many songs I love w my entire life but regardless of the season I am playing ‘spring again’ by biz markie
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if I saw this asshole on the street I would absolutely throw whatever piece of pavement I could find at his head
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
all-time shit sucker how does that feel at the award ceremony
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh wow i once almost did a thing too
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My pitch for a Jay Leno’s Law sketch is that he’s an authoritarian Judge Dredd character who within the first minute is inexplicably rolling down a hill for like two more minutes à la Hot Rod
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
happy Miketober to all whom celebrate
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every network host starting a lengthy late night monologue w “so Jesse Farrar is in the news. Have you seen this have you heard about this?”
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"At this point, Affleck and Netflix are deeply in bed together when it comes to AI. Affleck sold his AI company InterPositive to the streamer for nearly $600 million, so he’s much more bullish on the technology than your average Hollywood heavyweight." Blegh
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I had too many unfinished and less difficult games at the time so it was easily to bail and then increasingly hard to pick back up
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I honestly don’t remember it’s been so long some flying guy that was a big version of some other easier guy
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i gotta pick Silksong back up i fell off after obsessing over one optional boss when other ostensibly more accessible (and necessary) choices were available really blew it on that one
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m a Pilot. Landing Isn’t as Important as We Think. I’m a Structural Engineer. We’ve Become Too Focused on Whether Buildings Stay Up. I’m a Lifeguard. There’s More to Swimming Than Surviving It. I’m a Historian. The Past is Yesterday’s News.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
you seem like someone who flips the board before the rules of any game are even explained
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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i am pretty resistant toward Uplifting Social Posts by Government but they absolutely got my ass w this one
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Mike O. @mikeodenthal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
in the fine print it seems that Infinity Vision means you get to stay at the theater in perpetuity. Endure it once you have squatter’s rights
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