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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h
I was curious in light of this take that seemed pretty confident in declaring misinterpreted without doing 10 pieces of light forensic analysis.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h
This is even more insane than I remembered.
Did Biden call Trump supporters 'garbage? It comes down to an apostrophe.
Republicans have long strained for a new Hillary Clinton-"deplorables" moment, but Biden's defense is entirely plausible.
October 30, 2024
• Footage of Biden's disputed
'garbage' comment
President Joe Biden was on a call with Latino voters on Oct. 29 when he brought up a Trump rally speaker's recent insult of Puerto Rico.
October 28, 2024
• Harris responds to question about Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to reporters before boarding a flight on Oct. 30 about President Joe Biden's remark that some intrepreted as calling former president Donald Trump's supporters
"garbage." The White House said Biden was referring
"to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square
Garden rally as garbage."
October 29, 2024Harris seeks to distance herself from Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris tells reporters she rejects criticism based on how someone votes. The White House says President Joe Biden was referring to racist rhetoric, not to Trump voters.
October 31, 2024
Biden visits Philly amid lingering furor over 'garbage' remark
The White House stenographer's office complained about how press office officials handled the transcript of Biden's comments.
November 5, 2024
or Trump and Rubio react to Biden's 'garbage' comments
At former president Donald Trump's rally on Oct. 29, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said he hoped President Joe Biden would apologize for his "garbage" comments.
October 28, 2024Opinion
Take all this garbage out to the curb
Two comments have created a dumpster fire of partisan outrage this week.
October 30, 2024
White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters garbage'
The disputed remark came in response to racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally in New York City.
October 30, 2024
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Kamala Harris's Joe Biden problem
Kamala Harris stood on the Ellipse and delivered a clear and unifying message to a thundering crowd.
Moments earlier, in the White House illuminated behind her, Joe Biden had sat alone at a computer.
October 30, 2024
Opinion
The 10 worst things Biden did in 2024
Among the president's lows: pardoning Hunter Biden and calling Trump supporters "garbage."
January
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s really funny to say you’re going to use AI so you don’t disappoint the bros but then post all day about how they’re sportsball loving morons who like doing boring things for losers that you actually hate
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
when @letsgomathias.bsky.social pitched this to me, i knew it would be evergreen. but i didn’t expect it to be relevant already like four times in the less than two months since it was published.
thehandbasket.co
You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
trying to imagine how i’d react at my job if i asked an adult their address and they were like, huh! i don’t remember
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
ballsandstrikes.org
A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
nytimes.com
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
well the good thing is it's not like we live in the most car-brained society in the world and all our infrastructure wasn't built around driving and parking and everything is walkable and we have lots of efficient and dependable public transportation. at least there's that
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
???????
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
McCarthyism by and for strip mall handjob recipients.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This may have been true before COVID but since 2021, partisanship has become a better predictor of anti-vaxx beliefs than race. www.brookings.edu/articles/for...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ust days before casting the vote that clinched Pete Hegseth's confirmation as Secretary of Defense, Republican Sen.
Thom Tillis of North Carolina reportedly urged Hegseth's former sister-in-law to testify against him.
Tillis reassured Danielle Hegseth, the ex-wife of Pete's brother, that her damning statement would likely persuade three Republican senators—Tillis included —to vote against the former Fox News host's confirmation, the Wall Street Journal reported. The senator then voted to approve Hegseth, even as Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cast their promised "no" votes.
In her sworn statement, which detailed allegations that Hegseth regularly drank to the point of throwing up and passing out, Danielle Hegseth said she was only coming forward, and exposing herself to "public scrutiny," because someone had assured her that her testimony would tip the scales against Hegseth.
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes. We are. On purpose. We know why adult right wing men are pushing for 15 year olds to be having more sex and getting pregnant.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For many years, ICE didn't have its own medical claims processing for detainees, running 3rd party medical bills through the VA's system. Last year, right-wing influencers convinced the Trump admin to abruptly cancel this contract. With no replacement, ICE specialized medical care has gone unpaid.
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.

Hospitals and ambulance services told the Chronicle they are owed millions of dollars, while many detainees have had appointments for lifesaving medical care delayed or canceled. Medical providers say they have continued to provide care out of moral obligation, although some observers worry that fear of nonpayment could deter them from offering services to detainees.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just our tax dollars being wasted on the dumbest stuff
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026
Two ex-DHS officials described the practice of repeatedly rebooking immigrants into two Florida jails as an attempt to evade detention standards. “What it shows is that they were very aware that they were breaking a rule,” a former DHS staffer said.
propublica.org
These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.
Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 31/08/2026
This summer's food recalls are broader in scope, longer-lasting, and more severe than past years as regulators are slow to respond. The parasite surveillance staff at the CDC, which responds to outbreaks (such as cyclosporiasis), was downsized last year by DOGE from 11 people to three.
minnesotareformer.com
A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net • Minnesota Reformer
Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
the retconning is to support the argument that "trump won in 2024 because of anti-woke." but other than some nebulous "vibe shift" and the prominence of a few podcasters, there is vanishingly little hard evidence for this claim.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Hegseth, more than ever, now owns every aspect of the Pentagon’s dysfunction.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches Off the Rails
The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is the latest sign of severe dysfunction in the Defense Department.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/09/2026
Bari Weiss is a cancer on journalism.
To most people, El-Sayed's social media posts were likely innocuous. In fact, top politicians, including then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and mainstream news organizations, including CBS News itself, had pointed out at the time that the pandemic was killing more Americans than 9/11. But in Weiss' eyes, the news organization had apparently uncovered a scandal worthy of attention from a national news outlet.

Indeed, Status has learned that Weiss praised the story during the network's daily editorial meeting Monday, signaling her support for the piece to the entire network. In fact, I’m told that Weiss even personally directed that the headline be tweaked to specifically mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Elsewhere inside CBS News, the story was not received so well. According to people familiar with the matter, many employees inside the David Ellison-owned newsroom viewed the story with disdain, believing it served as yet another blemish calling into question the organization's objectivity under new ownership.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bari Weiss "praised the story during the network's daily editorial meeting ... Weiss even personally directed that the headline be tweaked to mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the Sept 11 terrorist attacks." via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cbs-news-e...
status.news
CBS’ El-Sayed Scandal
The Bari Weiss-led outlet is being pummeled by a storm of outrage over a story about Abdul El-Sayed—and Status has learned that within the network, some staffers have raised the matter with standards.
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...
lataco.com
Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The unpopular President calls upon government regulators of the media to make the bad polls disappear" is a statement that can only possibly describe an authoritarian regime.
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