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Man I'm gobbling up all the Elon stuff coming out. Watching the Gibney documentary, listing to an interview with his ex wife right now too. Dude is fucking bad shit.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 4h

Buying cantina chicken soft tacos so I can use up all the fire sauce packets I have at home. That's my excuse and I'm going to use it.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

He didn't "break the Talarico story." He just lied. And Talarico should sue his ass.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 4h

Seems to be a massive problem that a successful teacher or even something like a law enforcement officer makes jack fucking shit in contrast to success in tech and/or finance. Why is the former so much less monetarily valuable than the latter?

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 5h

Facebook is so dogshit. Not just the poisonous content and people but the UI is plain ugly to top it all off. How people justify being on twitter especially is beyond me.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump administration to stop DHS's pro-Trump propaganda ads immediately, including ordering the canceling of ads set to run as soon as this evening. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-does-n...

Based on the materials provided, the Court does not require the additional conference on
October 13, 2026 and such conference is adjourned. The Court finds that (1) the present motion
is not moot, (2) there is standing to proceed, and (3) the moving Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they are likely to succeed on the merits, will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction, the balance of the equities tips in their favor, and an injunction serves the public interest. A full opinion shall follow shortly. Therefore, the Court GRANTS the moving Plaintiffs' motion, and IT IS HEREBY:
ORDERED that under 5 U.S.C. § 705, the purchase order entered into on or about September 20, 2026 between Customs Border Protection ("CBP") and Lepugh, Inc., doing business as LMD Agency, Inc., ("LMD") ("September 20, 2026 purchase order") is stayed, including all future payments made thereunder; it is further
ORDERED that under 5 U.S.C. § 705, the Office of Management and Budget's ("OMB") apportionment of $20 million to fund the development, creation, and/or airing of the

advertisements covered by the September 20, 2026 purchase order, including but not limited to The Country He Loves, Celebrating the Enduring Spirit, Final Battle, To the Great Proud People of Iran, and Maduro (collectively "the challenged advertisements") is stayed; it is further
ORDERED that Defendants are enjoined from using, disbursing, or transferring funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") to develop, create, disseminate, place, distribute, publish, or air the challenged advertisements; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants shall cancel or cause to be cancelled any slot, placement, reservation, or arrangement for the airing or dissemination of the challenged advertisements,
including those placements for the evening of October 11, 2026;
ORDERED that Defendants shall not enter into, renew, or expand any agreement authorizing the development, creation, dissemination, placement, or airing of the challenged
advertisements; and it is further

ORDERED that the foregoing instructions bind Defendants' officers, agents, employees, contractors, and anyone acting in concert with them. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d)(2).
ORDERED that Defendants shall immediately provide a copy of this order to LMD,
under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(2)(C), and that LMD, as a contractor that is in active concert and participation with Defendants, is enjoined from continuing to run or place the
challenged advertisements; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants will file a status report within 24 hours of the entry of this temporary restraining order and Section 705 stay, confirming compliance with this Order; and it
is further
ORDERED that this Order shall remain in effect until 14 days from today, subject to an extension of this Court; and it is further
ORDERED that, in the Court's discretion, Plaintiffs shall not be required to post a bond.

Case 1:26-cv-08882-JLR Document 41 Filed 10/11/26 Page 4 of 4
This Order shall be effective as of 6:45 p.m. on October 11, 2026 and the Clerk of Court
is respectfully requested to close the motion at Dkt. 25. The Court will reschedule the October
13, 2026 conference to discuss next steps in this matter.
Dated: October 11, 2026
New York, New York
SO ORDERED.
Kanifer Rockon
JENNIFER L. ROCHON
United States District Judge

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 6h

Women's is different. The Hawaiians have had that on lock for a minute followed by some exceptional Aussie women. Yes there is a Canadian in 5th place.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 6h

Thing about Brazil is they're absolutely dominant at *mens* surfing right now. 4 of the top 5 are Brazilian and it's been this way for pretty much a decade.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 6h

Isn't Shatner in his fucking 90s?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

They literally passed a bill expanding sanctions on Russia a month ago. It was named after one of their colleagues. Vote was 86-11!

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 8h

Lol. Guys gotta work I guess??

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 8h

It is so astonishing to hear the dignified statements from a leader like this - while his country remains suffering a ruthless war of aggression against it - and comparing them against the filth that spews from the President of the United States.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 8h

Below on Netflix is good. Not great or anything but not at all bad either. It's fun!

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 8h

David Brooks currently getting a ton of emails telling him to fuck off is going to do exactly what we know it will do: the principal Skinner meme.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly curious what it would take to break the middlebrow addiction to politeness and civility, even when it is not offered in return or justified on the merits of

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not gonna hold my breath about this but I'll take it

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 9h

Vikings are 5-0 but they'll lose to the worst team in the division first round.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 9h

Oh I assure you this was intentionally leaked to Fox Business. It was entirely intended for public consumption.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10h

I thought people would learn after Monica but I guess not.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10h

People: We need tough Ds who aren't afraid to be mean. Mary Peltola: People: Not like that.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10h

For the last time, Democrats cannot win statewide in Montana. This has nothing at all to do with the Democratic candidate or the party. This isn't fucking personal. I want the D to win too but this isn't about me. Right now a D can't win here especially a female D. I know it sucks I hate it too.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Second Saudi airport attacked, this time King Fahd International, the third busiest in the country, and largest by area. Houthis appear to be focusing on the oil industry and airports — international commerce and the economic basis of Saudi power. This situation is going to get worse.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

Don't print lies in the newspaper.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 17h

It remains so weird that people don’t use Melissa Hortman’s name the speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives gunned down in her own home???

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 12h

Ah yea. Looks like it's supposed to start cooling off to fall temps on Tuesday.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Yep, no question. Let's recall that those arguing that 2024 heralded a multiracial working class realignment were expressly using that to argue that Dems had become too liberal on cultural issues and immigration. There will never be any reckoning for any of it.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 13h

If Ds end up underperforming in North Carolina versus the rest of the country, the ~$.40/gal drop in car juice will be the reason and @shoe.bsky.social will end up being proven right yet again

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 12h

Kudlow on Fox today: "Has the Marist poll ever, in any state, for any office, ever come out and said the Republican is going to win?" Kellyanne Conway: "Definitely not in the Trump era, Larry, which spans 10 or 11 years." Incredible how lazy these people are. Three 2024 Marist headlines attached.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 12h

Aren't the leaves changing there yet I keep seeing footage and it still looks rather green for this time of year

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 12h

It is hard to pick just one. I'd say hundreds if not maybe thousands of impeachable offenses. It really is so many almost everyone has a hard time focusing on just one particular offense.

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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 15h

“If they don’t attack us—kill our children, we won’t attack their diesel.” - Volodymr Zelenskyy The leader of a democratic nation shouldn’t have to beg America to not fund the war killing its children. The time is long past to choose good over evil. We should be ashamed of our leaders.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15h

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 12h

Congressional republicans need to be hounded about this daily

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

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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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

I’m not really sure what’s going to happen when admin officials stop responding to subpoenas under a Dem Congress.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13h

Zelenskyy: “This week was very difficult for us, not only geopolitically, but also because of massive Russian attacks on our civilian infrastructure. They attacked our energy sector 196 times, our gas and oil 20 times. So far, they've killed 153 civilians.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h

The ads don't "brag about America", however useless that sounds to me. They brag about the President and warn against his political critics and opponents.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Imagine being three weeks out and going on twitter with “boom! Years overdue cookie bill paid!” as your message of the day.

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