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Spaldy

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Enjoys digesting Supreme Court opinions, training for tv marathons, and waiting for slush mugs to freeze to an edible consistency | she/her

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3h
The thing about Gillis's monologue isn't just that it's misogynistic; it's that it's misogynistic in the most unoriginal, dated, cringe-ily 1982 would-be Andrew Dice Clay way. Like, wow slut shaming women in workout clothes, where'd you dig that fossil up
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h
Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social thinks we should "turn the page" on these guys even though they're literally doing "show me your papers" shit after raiding the house of someone he works with. Every day. Who has the same job as him.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 5h
Given FEC spending totals, 5.6% of all the money spent by Republican campaigns this election cycle - candidates, superPACs, all of it - was donated personally by Elon Musk. That's up from 3.8% in 2024.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 5h
I can't put it better or more succinctly than Dan Levy puts it here. There's an idea among misogynists like Shane Gillis that the only context for a woman's existence is her sexuality in relation to him. It's an attitude, promoted and amplified by SNL, that perpetuates violence against women.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So...The same Trump administration which has no problem OKing a merger allowing a single company to control local TV stations reaching 80% of U.S. households suddenly cries antitrust when a press pool refuses to cover the president after he unfairly bans one member? loom.ly/KOU127A
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "hidey-ho mother fuckers!"
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A brilliant example of the craft of investigative journalism, from the evidence gathered to the descriptions of the people & places. And then there's the story itself, which is horrifying, but ultimately inspiring. God bless this young woman for persisting. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That moment when your dog looks up from sniffing the grass, his eyes alight. “Dad! I’ve found it! I’ve finally found it!” And whatever it is, whatever he has found, you realize in an instant… he will be rolling in it.
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The Handlen, The Zack, And The Crypt @zhandlen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
all right, what is it when you know should eat, and you've got frozen dinners in the freezer, and they're fine, you don't _hate_ them, but you don't really want to eat them either, and you could order out but that's $ and you don't want pizza tonight, and you already went to the store.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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Spaldy @spaldy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This feels…familiar.
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Betty Kraken of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Two corrupt politicians who stole $10M from sick kids are on the ballot: Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
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Ruling makes Hope Florida an even bigger political issue a month before election
DeSantis’ inner circle and state Democrats are both seizing on the Hope Florida saga.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It really is too perfect that the same people who claimed participation trophies were ruining our children and keeping them from actually achieving things have devoted their lives to a man who demands the world’s most prestigious trophies for doing nothing at all.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A.I. will never be him.
Micro Machines guy
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My Lai Massacre-ass administration. Between this and retaliating against any FBI agents who worked on the Trump cases, they’re trying to set the precedent that doing the right thing ever at all will be punished.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 10/10/2026
In 2025, the Trump administration prevented the EPA and HHS from distributing more than $1 billion appropriated by Congress, in prohibitions known as impoundments, according to decisions the Government Accountability Office sent to Congress on Wednesday.
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Congress' Watchdog Finds Trump Illegally Withheld More Than $1 Billion in Federal Funds
The White House impounded funds from the EPA and HHS last year, the Government Accountability Office reports.
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Spaldy @spaldy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Guess FOX is leaving the subtle lying propaganda behind and really going for the blatant now.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Trillions of dollars invested in a media environment exactly as meaningful as your coworker telling you about the dream they had last night.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
DOJ “has hastily hired a new crop of 130 people -- some w/ criminal records, minimal experience, tarnished work histories, hyperpartisanship and downright bizarre public statements.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man looks like Neo waking up in the goo pod
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 09/10/2026
there's gonna be a guy who does the sound check for the first livestreamed state execution. they'll probably have someone stand where the guy is gonna be shot to death by the state so that they can make sure the lighting, color, and framing is "correct" when people watch a man die.
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Spaldy @spaldy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He can’t believe it because he knows how that worked out for him.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
god forbid a mouse come to this place for magic
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Currently in a theater that's being invaded by mice. I saw one. But then saw others. Kind of distracting. I am going to make a list later: movies where I encountered mice in the theater. I think this is the 4th time it's happened while I've been in NYC.

and then it’s just a photo of an innocent little mouse watching a movie on the big screen, the way scorsese intended.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Im a tired Democrat and it makes me feel something to see someone hate these fuckers like I do
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Spaldy @spaldy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Killian in Running Man: Time to Start Running
Alt: Killian in Running Man says “Time to Start Running” as he throws his arms up to signal for the exhibition killing to begin.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Spaldy @spaldy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Agreed. And yet somehow no one annoys me more in all this than Stephanie and her endless whining. You almost shot a woman! Be thankful the consequences weren’t worse in 20 different ways!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you‘ve studied history, you know what Trump and his fellow fascists are doing in Minnesota. They’re calling Somali Americans “garbage” and “enemy combatants“ because fascists need to create enemies and foment hate to excite their sick supporters.
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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There was a 5-year-old in the car and it isn't in the headline or subhed.
ICE Agent Shoots and Wounds Man in New
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Federal officials said that they were attempting to take into custody an undocumented Dominican immigrant. They did not indicate what prompted the shooting.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
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Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Systematically destroying US hegemony in higher-education may feel like "owning the libs" but (1) Education is massive export for US (2) Best & brightest from around world stay in US and start businesses here (3) Higher-education is key employer & medical life-line in many *Republican* states.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People keep thinking they can automate the type of admin work often done by women... bc they think their institution is a machine and not a brain. They think it can be recreated as a set of tasks executed w/ rules, and that we can skip the parts relying on relationships, memory, and judgment.
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