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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23m

This can't even really count as entertaining, insofar it's a story both about the scramble to loot Venezuela *and* a story about the willful destruction of the Kennedy Center, but the sheer venom between two terrible people *would* be entertaining otherwise. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

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A Bitter White House Feud, Even by Trump-Era Standards: Alina Mildon and Richard Grenell (Gift Article)

Two Trump allies — Alina Habba Mildon and Richard Grenell — are locked in a raging dispute that has its roots in the battle for a share of the spoils in Venezuela.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Alina Habba vs Richard Grenell Susie Wiles Katie Zacharia Kimberly Guilfoyle the chaos is spiralling; the wheels are coming off; knives are coming out; people are scrambling to grab what can be grabbed. That has some entertainment value, but it was also true of the worst months of Trump1, late '20.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 21m

The thing about being left of center in America is that our poor have *uniquely* low standards of living among developed nations but at the same time if you make median income or above you have a standard of living unmatched by any nation on earth.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1h

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19m

“Combat boots, shaved heads and bomber jackets are coming back,” says Max Teske, a 34-year-old teacher at a secondary school in Brandenburg an der Havel, a town west of Berlin. Teske gained national attention in 2023 when he and a colleague wrote an open letter about conditions at their schools. He complained of being confronted daily with far-right symbols, slogans and song titles. School administrators and public authorities, he wrote, had erected a “wall of silence and lack of support.”

His coworkers branded him and his colleague as traitors. Strangers insulted them in the street. The police unit responsible for politically motivated crime advised them to vary their routes home and shop at a different supermarket to shake off potential attackers. Teske became persona non grata in his hometown. Eventually, he moved away.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

These are the most cowardly fuckers on the face of the planet

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

I’m conspiratorial enough to wonder whether the gop freakouts are an attempt to manage expectations so that anything short of a blowout is a disappointment www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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Dade Phelan Says Republicans Are “Freaking Out”

The former Texas House speaker on why he’s buying a blue wave.

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ashley (spooky) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 1h

yes.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10h

"Trump is a Russian agent" theory is a theory like gravity is a theory

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10h

"It was supposed to be a very quick war" does not make sense at all if you position yourself on the side of the Ukrainians

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10h

"It was supposed to be one day" is also a fun tell. Supposed to for whom

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like there is insufficient shock out here at Trump very clearly speaking from the Russian perspective on how the war should have gone

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

it makes sense when you realize they basically assume every MENA critic of Biden's policy was Uncommitted

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2h

Also Monday was a holiday so technically she lasted in her job for 72 hours lmfao

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2h

Idk if it’s actually a scandal but press secretary who deliberately timed her hits for the president to get hired only to get fired by lying about being a lawyer and being absolutely awful on tv in 96 hours is one of the funniest things to happen in this godawful era of politics

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

Wonder what they'll ask for in exchange *IRAN SAYS IT'S READY TO HELP RESOLVE SAUDI-YEMEN CONFLICT *IRAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN SAYS IN TELEGRAM POST

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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 2h

My only counterpoint is that my partner is the first person I’ve felt like…actually comfortable with lmao (that’s my only counterpoint generally honestly)

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Salty @wtalty.bsky.social · 6h

It would be really funny if the main takeaway the GOP has from this election is that the convention killed their chances instead of *everything else* they’ve been doing

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 6h

“According to GOP internal polling support for the party cratered after the midterm convention Dallas, with voters saying the party was not attuned to their economic concerns, according to a Republican strategist briefed on the numbers” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

really funny because it was totally predictable

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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 3h

I’m replaying Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and man, the Uberkommando assassinations and Enigma machine decoding is so much more fun this time around, my God.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h

Citizenship for Victims of the White Nationalist Occupied Regime would be a worthy cause

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 5h

Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, described by John Bolton as one of the "dictators [Trump] likes," escalates his attacks on a press that he's targeted for decades with prosecution, weaponized regulation, and media consolidation by his allies. NYT reports buff.ly/5pUGx91

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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 3h

It's amazing that they've adopted US Senate brain despite being in a country that deeply enshrines parliamentary sovereignty into their constitutional order.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 4h

If R voters actually flip, that's the ball game. Worse yet for the R party, this may not be a one of protest vote, but rather shaken faith, and that's more difficult to fix.

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 4h

They just have to do this 100% of the time with no mistakes. Should be fine.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 4h

especially because it's basically the first impeachment just way way way worse?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 4h

this starshield scandal seems to me like the kind of thing you might have to impeach a dude over even if you dont feel like it and it's monday.

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 3h

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

Tesla stock is up on expectation people will pay $250,000 "reservation" cost for a non-flying model.

Screenshot of a dark-themed Roadster reservation page showing three vehicle variants. At the top, “Performance” is labeled “Reserve,” with the description “Road ready with seating for two. Includes active aero and a multi-mode suction system.”

Under the heading “Augments,” the “Thrust” variant is selected, highlighted by a thin gold and white rectangular border and labeled “Limited” in gold text. Its description reads: “Race ready with seating for two. Includes Performance active aero and a multi-mode suction system, plus acceleration thrusters.”

Below, “Rocket” is labeled “Invite Only,” with the description “Air ready with seating for one. Includes Performance and Thrust, plus a full flight system.”

A notice explains that Thrust reservations are limited to one per customer, duplicate orders may be canceled, and availability depends on regional laws.

The payment section shows “Due Today” — “$5,000,” marked “Fully refundable,” and “Due within 10 days” — “$245,000.” Additional text states that reservations are not final until payment is received, unpaid reservations may be canceled after 10 days, and refunds for modifications will not be issued. The bottom of the screenshot shows partially cut-off reservation agreement and terms links.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 8h

This is not a serious country.

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Brosemite Sam @brosemitesam.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking of how in 2008/2009 Elon stole all the pre order deposits and only wound up not in prison because the actual founder of Tesla managed to convince Congress for a bailout.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 7h

In other news, an area baby waved his hands and giggled at a set of jingling car keys

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 6h

This is gonna be the dumbest merger of two wildly overvalued companies in the history of dumb mergers of wildly overvalued companies.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Here is a member of the pro-Israel lobbying front 'Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' claiming that the attack was staged while quote posting the literal footage.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

also a minor point amid the violence, but a photojournalists' camera and equipment are a significant expense to replace for someone in a profession that is very financially uncertain nowadays. She's a freelancer, but I hope WaPo does the decent thing here and covers the cost.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

Heidi Levine is in her 60s. I cannot imagine how low a person you have to be to beat up an 60-something woman, let alone to hit her while she's on the ground, but it is par for the course for settler mobs.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Liberal Currents reading/writing clique are doomed to be the only people to actually remember Trump’s first campaign or presidency The first Trump term was, if anything, an effort to resurrect and make worse the cultural consensus of the Bush years and kill the one Obama presided over

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

the political side of mil policy is one of the main reasons why I don't take all the "hey now, we're not all ghouls, be more precise in your critiques of the DOD" defenses too seriously. Knowing details doesn't exonerate the scene from being Utterly Fucking Shitty

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 4h

It's worth noting that the post pandemic inflation spike was more-or-less over by summer 2023. That's 3 years ago, for those new to linear time.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5h

the law in the West, generally speaking, arose for disputes and crimes about property, which at one point in time also included many women. the methods of justice and repair are mostly for arms length problems, not for best handling crimes from people we may love or love with.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5h

My ex, who works with DV victims and manages victims advocates, had an almost mantra to help her get thru her job “the law is not designed for intimate partner violence or interpersonal relationships”

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 4h

The annoying ass part of all this is when this is all over, Colby is going to slink off into a fellowship at Heritage while being welcomed to CSIS or CFR or whoever with zero professional consequences

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17h

if I was an AD FGO working directly for the SD I would not want my name routinely in multiple newspapers of record read by a whole bunch of pol types saying dumb shit

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17h

lol adam does not understand how this is really not good for him that defense beat journos go and check his xitter by default anytime they're doing anything about pete just to see what idiocy he's said on whatever the topic is

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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 4h

But but I thought the military chain of command WASN’T ambiguous about democracy

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 5h

The entire Chain here should be breaking rocks in Leavenworth for the rest of their working lives.

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