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Charl Peter Gerida

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Philadelphia held its first parallel parking championship over the weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Siri Dahl @siridahl.com · 25/06/2026
Everybody wants to talk about how “addictive” porn is while Kalshi, Polymarket and Draftkings are sponsoring & advertising at every major media event, targeting primarily men, and bankruptcy rates have risen 30% since online betting was legalized
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/04/2026
prohibition but for sports gambling, now you’re only allowed to do it if you go to a dingy bar and place your bet with a guy named vito four fingers who makes it extremely clear that if you welch on him you’re going to join him in the four fingers club
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
because we tried alcohol prohibition back when and it didn’t work well, and because we had gambling prohibition in recent memory and it did work well
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death
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lurker.quest @lurker.quest · 20/07/2026
how it feels to not be addicted to gambling in 2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...
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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story
Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account
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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry
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Juan Robber @jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
becoming this lady but for anti-gambling
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Bryce? @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling
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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 14h
Seventh party system LFG
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h
If we're going to have the death penalty, a failed execution should commute your sentence
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 21h
We are at the peak of ICE's ability to organize support for its activities before Democrats start taking more power & disrupting their efforts. And even when we do places like Florida will double down on state support to help facilitate whatever Congress tries to prevent.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
please give me the democratic party of republican fearmongering, part one million
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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 22h
real ball knowers agree that if CIA is dumb enough to give all this to you, you should get to keep it as your “emotional support gold bars”. to argue otherwise is not trauma-informed and frankly ignorant
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yea the elections havent happened yet
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one thing that's fascinating is that Yarvin used to take pride in distinguishing himself from Nazis. you can see in him a one-man demonstration of how snobbish Prussian elites accommodated themselves to the rule of an idiotic little Bohemian corporal.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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@DiscussingFilm
David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.

Assets:

• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network

Film Rights:

• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"bribes are only illegal if you call them bribes and make it super explicit that you're doing bribery and even then eh have you considered letting it slide" (McDonnell v. US) was a unanimous holding joined by Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer btw
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
I still think '2025-esque polling miss' is the most likely scenario on the table for the midterms, if we get a polling miss if you will recall, the VA/NJ polls missed bigly in favor of republicans
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
delicious slop yum yum
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h
And listen, I hate that fucking guy, but "moderately reactionary and endemically corrupt car-brained suburban conservatism" is just Eric Adams.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h
The structural trends towards the assimilation of non-Black nonwhite communities into whiteness are real, but have we considered that the white nationalists really fucking hate that shit and have blown it up at the first opportunity?
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/10/2026
Early voting turnout in Virginia is jaw dropping stuff among Latino voters. Across all other demographics, numbers are well ahead of 2022 at the same point but Hispanic/Latino turnout is 50% higher than it was in 2024-- a presidential election year!
Race, 2022 Count (Share), 2024 Count (Share), 2026 Count (Share)
Asian or Pacific Islander, 7,293 (3.61%), 19,832 (3.43%), 15,827 (4.59%)
Black, 27,395 (13.54%), 85,589 (14.82%), 56,985 (16.53%)
Hispanic or Latino, 4,260 (2.11%), 14,508 (2.51%), 21,577 (6.26%)
Native American, 71 (0.04%), 285 (0.05%), 509 (0.15%)
Uncoded, 818 (0.4%), 1,512 (0.26%), 87 (0.03%)
White, 161,779 (79.99%), 455,802 (78.9%), 249,021 (72.22%)
Unknown, 639 (0.32%), 169 (0.03%), 820 (0.24%)
Total, 202,255, 577,697, 344,826

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Gov. Jared Polis passed over other deserving inmates to give clemency to Tina Peters, according to two members of his clemency board who revealed Polis overruled the unanimous recommendation of his experts. Polis has now fired both of them.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026
congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean, the polls weren't great for Lula and they aren't quite as bad for Bibi as we'd hope, but here in the US of A they are apocalyptic for Dear Leader and his minions. We should be worried about what can go wrong. But what evidence we have suggests things are going to go quite well.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The real million dollar question for Israel is what it will take for the anti-Bibi parties to realize that the alternative to working together is that sometime in the next several years they get another Oct 7, but instead of jihadists doing it it's Kahanists, targeting both liberal Jews and Arabs.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/07/2026
In 2015 IL was first of now 37 states to criminalize the constitutionally protected right to boycott Israel In 2025 IL State Rep Anne Stava Murray signed onto House Bill 2723 to repeal this unconstitutional law. IL Dems retaliated by killing her bills in committee open.substack.com/pub/letsaddr...?
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Illinois Democrats Punished a Representative Who Believes in Repealing Harmful Anti-BDS Law
State Rep. Anne Stava supports the right to boycott Israel. Illinois Democrats killed her bill on neural data protection in retaliation.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Illinois was one of the first states to pass legislation cracking down on the BDS movement. Now, as Israel’s popularity plummets, state legislators are looking to make their state one of the first to repeal its anti-BDS law. jewishcurrents.org/overturning-...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11/05/2026
Activists and lawmakers in Illinois are pushing to repeal the state's anti-BDS law, the nation's first such law. The campaign could serve as a model for more than 30 states that have since adopted anti-BDS laws. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/offi... #Palestine #Israel
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Officials and activists are working to overturn Illinois’s anti-BDS law. Could their campaign become a national model?
Activists and lawmakers in Illinois are pushing to repeal the state’s anti-BDS law, the nation’s first such law. The campaign could serve as a model for more than 30 states that have since adopted...
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how the new CBS keeps people from remembering that the longest serving GOP Speaker of the House ultimately went to jail for covering up child rape. Which is apparently always in season.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Twin Peaks: It Is Happening, Again
Alt: Twin Peaks: It Is Happening, Again
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Life will be so much easier when people accept that the median voter has a group of political beliefs that can best be described as nonsensical and screaming treats over and over again
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is wild. also very bullish for 2028 and beyond.
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Dj @djsoke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republican state rep in Texas:
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PEDOPHILE
DOWN!
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
good review and also, there is still something to be written about Sarah Palin as a key figure in creating the political space that trump seized just a few years later.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
YES! The Hastert Rule is THE SOLE REASON the House did not pass immigration reform in 2013-2014 when Boehner had every opportunity to pass immigration reform. Even factoring out the pedophilia (which you shouldn't), he did just as much damage as Gingrich did.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 06/10/2026
RACE RATING CHANGE: North Carolina Senate Likely D → Solid D Roy Cooper currently has an 95% chance of winning in our model. His projected margin is 9.6 points.
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