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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

What's funny (not really funny) is that both Islamaphobia and antisemitism are worse than my old ass can ever remember them being and that's because there are White Supremacists running the government and White Supremacists running the media.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 6h

I can feel being on the e-mail thread that created it. Someone came up with a solid, concise tagline and immediately another person said, "Oh, but we have to mention healthcare..." and the floodgates opened.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 6h

We smuggled in some extremely potent, synthetic glutamates from China. This one is called MSGanyl. Cops are afraid to touch it.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

get in loser we’re hating leaf blowers

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 8h

What I really want to know is how he used to peel his kiwis. Mainly, did he use a wooden spoon?

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, Stephen, as anyone who's watched Celebrity Jeopardy knows, Mina is a proven winner. That said, the Jaguars pass rush will prove to be one helluva test for her in this new system...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/10/2026

I think, if Democrats ever get back into power, they have to make anti-monopoly a core policy focus (ideally, as part of a larger anti-corruption focus). This will be a very hard sell considering Ellison’s Saudi sponsorship, but a foreign-backed media monopoly is simply incompatible with democracy.

finance.yahoo.com

Paramount Skydance Secures $24 Billion From Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Funds for Warner Bros. Deal

Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, has received commitments of close to $24 billion to back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery from three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, Variety has ...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:

Cory Booker tweet:
@brett_mcgurk
is one of our nation’s great experts on the Middle East and has spent decades working at the highest levels of diplomacy through some of the region’s most consequential moments.

I’m really looking forward to reading Brink and learning from his firsthand account of the extraordinary efforts to free the hostages, and confront the extraordinary challenges of the region.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

will you people shut the fuck up

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are you sure? They're still get invited to the parties and sucked up to for access and quotes, so it really can't possibly be the news outlets...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TBF, the columnist vs. communist gang wars in NYC are out of control. Thankfully they are all physically incapable of physically harming another person.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course now that I say this, HBO is going to announce a Fukushima short-run that for some reason has precisely the same cast as and numerous painfully shoehorned callbacks to Chernobyl...

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'd say this is endemic for money-making shows. The shows that truly stick the landing (Breaking Bad, The Good Place) or remain short run (Chernobyl) are rare. The ones that wear thin (too many to count), get a dreadful revival (Arrested Development) or fall apart (Lost, GoT) are the norm.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?

CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION

Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.

The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/10/2026

anyway, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers remain winless ever since their owner accepted $4 million to let the singer of "Heil Hitler" perform in their stadium

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Only upside of AI stealing everyone's work and jobs is that posting online contrarian troll shit is likely one of the first jobs to go...

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kilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 05/10/2026

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh yes, Master Luke. Time for some human/cyborg relations

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People learning what KC fans have known for years. About every other game McDuffie gets called when it's an obvious OPI. Smaller guy in perfect position getting tossed aside looks bad to the zebras for some reason.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"And you claim not to know the work of these bootleggers, even when you have a picture of Smokey on your phone!"

Smug looking Senators Schmitt and Kennedy in front of a photo of Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be fair to Schmitt and Axios, this does seem like a plot from Veep

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

history has furnished us with a lot of characters who would've been incredible posters if they had lived in the Internet age. but I would put Jim Jones up against anybody you could name

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happens to the best of us -- even fairly disciplined folks can get an inundated inbox, skim over things and miss that you already answered their question. Big thing is whether someone can handle it with grace and (hopefully) good humor or if it turns out that they're a habitual offender.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump.

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🧟 Zomb Battry 🦇 @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Sits down, opens briefcase, takes out shockingly intact cocktail shaker that's still frosty and two chilled Collins glasses, which I begin to fill with ice that also mysteriously materializes from briefcase* "Before we get started with this interview, may I interest you in a Harvey Wallbanger?"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.

wsj.com

Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Following the shutdown of USAID, high-aid-exposure African regions saw violence rise: ‘conflict events increased by 10.6%, battle counts rose by 6.9%, and battle-related fatalities went up by 9.3%.’ Our new article explores aid's link to security.

rusi.org

Development Aid as Security Policy?

Recent cuts to foreign aid have raised serious humanitarian concerns. They also offer vital insights into the relationship between development and security going forward.

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