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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

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Jesse SingalO @jessesingal

1/ For the last 80 minutes I've been on a fascinating Twitter Spaces (or whatever they're calling them now) with Rhein Amacher, who broke the Talarico story. I was on the call when everyone found out the hospital was flatly denying it. Some interesting nuggets: 8:24 PM • Oct 11, 2026 • 329.2K Views

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 1h

The 4000+ comments under his post are mostly asking the government to shut down the school and deport all Jews from Kyrgyzstan. Social media is truly such a cesspool of misinformation, I’m truly at a loss for words

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 1h

There’s a single Jewish school in Bishkek that is open to children of all faiths, but is being bombarded with hate messages. Their listing on the local equivalent of GMaps is filled with pictures of Nazi uniforms and Palestinian flags. Some Kyrgyz kid posted about it on Instagram and it went viral

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1h

and not at all surprisingly, the target audience got the memo. this is a video on the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION official account

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Incredible. They even used the song.

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Germany for the Germans, foreigners out!

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2h

The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...

a screenshot from x. the U.S. department of education account has posted a video. in the screenshot it’s conquistadors with a cross from the movie apocalypto.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1h

ok but enough about the cat, tell us about you!

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1h

Is this really a restaurant that takes your money and serves hot dogs through a glory hole?

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Bobby @bmcc2.bsky.social · 2h

Do y’all wanna see a dead body?

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 3h

used to be able to google a line i sort of half-remembered and get the quote but now it just takes the thing I half-remembered unaltered and hallucinates a play & character to attribute it to (or just another author and century entirely!) the line i wanted (w HIS affections and TEND) is from hamlet

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI

The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 6h

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 9h

Is Singal treating this story as legitimate? lmao

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

*Even if* there was some factual basis for that suspicion, and there is absolutely none, there is no plausible basis to think any related evidence could be at her home all these years later. And the statute of limitations would have long expired even for any theoretically possible criminal charge.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

The supposed basis of this "criminal investigation" is a twitter-grifter conspiracy theory about her immigration and naturalization, paperwork filled out by her father when she was a child.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

This obviously violates the longstanding DOJ policy about a lockout on taking actions against candidates in the weeks leading up to an election.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 10h

You can’t get more Gestapo than this…. “a criminal probe into her immigration paperwork, which her late father filled out after the family emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was a child”

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 23h

Tubi apparently has a Breaking Bad parody featuring bears inexplicably voiced by Brendan Fraser and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

A poster for the Tubi original series Breaking Bear.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 20h

cannot decide if the food on the board in front of Ben is a dessert or some type of bread situation but either way I would like some

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 20h

perhaps he’s sleepy?

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

(this will never happen again after the initial miniseries but don’t think about it too hard)

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

If your spine is glowing red like this, you may secretly be a very sexy Cylon seducing your way into getting access to the defence mainframe

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

By the time they find out who he is, he’s already pretty firmly established

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

Can he be a nepo baby if they didn’t know he was Scott’s kid until he was already an old man and then for a while they thought he was the kid’s clone?

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

Not like THAT. They just accidentally got dosed with Pym particles and are Magic School Busing your circulatory system.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile, Talarico responds that he’s never been to Ohio at all.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

If you are parsing the mental hospital’s statement to argue that when they say he “never received treatment from the [center]” he still could have been there because he received treatment from the *doctor* and not the center more generally, you have lost touch with reality.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

and while this tendency is more pronounced on the American right, the average social media poster aligned with the left and the centre are also prone to sharing without verifying, eagerly believing fake screenshots and AI videos etc.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

Nobody trusts in depth documented verifiable rigorous research done by scientists or journalists or subject matter experts but everyone is eager to believe absurd speculation based on dubiously-sourced fragments of information promoted by random online hacks so long as it confirms their priors.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

Conspiratorial thinking is now the default in American political discourse.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21h

Republican ‘journalists’ are taking the position that a mental health facility in Ohio is actively lying to help Talarico cover up a mental health crisis so serious that he was institutionalized for almost two weeks but for which he flew 1285 miles to seek treatment

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/10/2026

there are at least two jewish epstein victims who have come forward

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

In case you aren't knee-deep in the latest MAGA conspiracy theory, this is a response to the "bombshell" that James Talarico spent the past week-plus secretly seeking treatment at an Ohio mental health facility, and a GOP operative broke the case with a late-night phone call.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The way his shadow trails back to the open cabinet.

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

is it good when the NYT photo editor makes this the header photo for their story about how you, Senator Debt Collector, are a six-years-delinquent debtor yourself? asking for a friend

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A Senator Facing Re-Election Settles a Bakery Bill, 6 Years Later

Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

From this day in 2014: fan art I did of some off-brand Mario sweaters I photographed while walking around West Edmonton Mall with friends.

Drawings of two very off-model Marios based on hand-knitted sweaters.

The original sweaters which are... vaguely Mario-like.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the MAGA fever swamps to Trump pipeline is so short now that Stephen Miller is already tweeting about this, so it’s only a matter of days until Trump gives a speech claiming Talarico was in an asylum

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is the idea that he has been hiding serious mental health issues for years by exclusively getting treatment from psychiatrists in Ohio?

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m sure their answer is that he sought treatment in Ohio to keep it a secret and hide it from Texans but…people going through a theoretical urgent mental health crisis usually don’t get flown halfway across the country

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