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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h
He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.
abcnews.com
Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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wickwrackrum.bsky.social @wickwrackrum.bsky.social · 16h
Westworld definitely falls into the 2nd category
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Anthony Man @browardpolitics.bsky.social · 17h
After a backlash, Palm Beach County Republican Party has backed away from its official, public support for Mike Caruso, the party’s nominee for county circuit clerk and comptroller who has been arrested and charged with sex abuse involving a young child. #Florida #politics gift link ...
sun-sentinel.com
After backlash, Palm Beach County Republican Party retreats from endorsement of candidate accused of child sex abuse
Under fire from top Florida Republicans, the Palm Beach County Republican Party dropped its official support for Mike Caruso, who faces felony child sex abuse charges.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This reminds me of how people would tell car companies they want fuel efficient sedans but they actually want The Killdozer But Street Legal
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wickwrackrum.bsky.social @wickwrackrum.bsky.social · 17h
Rice in peace, Jim Bakker. @vicbergeriv.bsky.social youtu.be/rOH37W0jPpA?...
youtu.be
Vic Berger Presents Jim Bakker's Buckets
YouTube video by Vic Berger
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h
Accurate and terrible headline. Record, buy, store physical media of every classic film and show you ever want to see again, because nothing is safe from sloppification.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026
“You thirsty mayo ass” youtu.be/jD3PjSMgJB0?...
youtu.be
No Country for Cancelled Men (Twitter reupload)
YouTube video by Henry Krinkle
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026
amazing how many Republicans there are down at the bottom of memory hole. him, GW Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tom DeLay, so many guys whose existence is/was very inconvenient www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
nbcnews.com
Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
The Illinois Republican, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after leaving Congress for scheming to cover up child molestation accusations.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excellent to see this case made in another outlet policymakers and campaigners read. I’d add that I think a lot of the NYT’s influence among Dems comes from donors, not necessarily rank and file supporters.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026
"Check to seniors = money for midterms" the way media outlets treat Trump bribing voters like it's a no big deal is mind-boggling.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 03/10/2026
Elon Musk ransacked and wrecked the federal government, is responsible for the deaths of millions of people, and is spending tens of millions of dollars to help reelect Republicans, and the Democratic Party has nothing to say about it. 
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Timnit Gebru: "So, for me, it’s very clear: Do not allow companies to put out unreliable products into the world, especially in high-stakes scenarios, without very specific tests and guardrails."
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also appreciate how Timnit Gebru, in her Democracy Now interview, criticizes both Bernie Sanders & Democracy Now for giving eugenicists a platform & legitimacy for promoting their dangerous ideologies.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Garth Marenghi Garth Marenghi'S Darkplace
Alt: I know writers that use subtext and they're all cowards.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Grift grift grift Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The 34-year-old Palmer, whose company is backed by Joshua Kushner’s equity fund, has acquired manufacturers of underwater drones, UAVs, and space technology, has been already been voluble about his philosophy on warfare. Earlier this year, for example, he said he thought warfare in the second half of this century would involve “subterranean” conflict, with vehicles that can “move through he crust of the earth the same way that submarines move through the water”.

He has claimed that his company has “working prototypes of subterranean systems”.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026
- Authoritarians have significant control of this new uh entity - Buy physical media from affected companies now; it is likely that a whole lot of their works will be disappearing soon - Support independent alternatives where artists/writers can publish, broadcast freely - Vote for a Dem congress
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 01/10/2026
History in the making: Before launching military strikes abroad, Trump consulted ... a megadonor’s AI chatbot. Of course, Trump didn’t need AI; he needed the patience to sit through a foreign policy meeting without falling asleep. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Trump reportedly sought input from Musk’s AI chatbot on military strikes
This was almost certainly the first time in U.S. history that a president consulted an AI chatbot about a provocative foreign policy gambit.
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/10/2026
this is completely unhinged, even by Trump's standards.
Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?

We did earlier.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Plot to Enslave America
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If your goal is to push people to a product or service (or ideology!), you need to establish that AI is coming to these conclusions on its own, and therefore more trustworthy than someone with an obvious agenda. Chatbots can be leaned on by their owners, but most users don't know that.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Plot to Enslave America is real and this is it. They're going for it unless we stop them
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026
Crusader is swinging the sword at you. Caption: HELLO SIR DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT JESUS CHRIST
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not mind-boggling in the slightest
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the problem with trying to imitate the opening speech from Patton is that you're actually trying to ape George C. Scott. And I don't care who you are, you will never sound tougher or more manly than George C. Scott. It's a fool's errand.
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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
everything is gambling now bsky.app/profile/fint...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is how a cartoon dog would stand if it was about to be lifted in the air by the aroma of a delicious pie
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wickwrackrum.bsky.social @wickwrackrum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s maybe the first person to stand in a true cubist style.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 30/09/2026
People want the exact opposite of 'personalized music'!!! We want to learn about an interesting new person (SOMEONE ELSE; IRL; FELLOW HUMAN BEING), their new ideas, sounds, way of being in the world damn these people are so dumb and awful
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.
john calvin thinks you're the elect of the machine god probably
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They really thought that Donald Trump didn't do a lot of crimes
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...
ft.com
Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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