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adamserwer.bsky.social
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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greenwell.bsky.social
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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tankgorl.bsky.social
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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unraveledpress.com
It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation.

Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.
sorenspicknall.bsky.social Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18h
Bovino left LA to come to Chicago and it's not like LA saw immigration operations stop - just less showboating from his crew. So even if these circulating rumors over the last week turn out real, I'm pessimistic about how much change to expect on the ground.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be reminded of the timelessness of the human need to create beauty and connection.
Cave art of the outline of a human hand
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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moultano.bsky.social
The existence of the phonics debate is strong evidence that English needs spelling reform. In an actually phonetic language this would be completely obvious.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
Triple labubus
Nick O'Neill 2 c @chooserich X.com I'm the best dressed on X. Total fit: $29,429 - Burberry hat: $600 - Triple Labubus: $950 - Rolex: $25k - Cartier ring: $2.5k - AMI Shorts: $1k - Crooks & Castles Shoes: $800 - Galerie shirt: $250 Single, Rich, & No Kids: Priceless Skinny lil white guy dressed like a kid who would get shoved in a locker, he's wearing three labubus, big purple clown shoes and the ugliest smile imaginable
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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matrueblood.bsky.social
It’s inarguably hilarious, to anyone who’s actually spent time in a city, to imply that the murder rate affects downtown shopping districts. Like that’s where the murders happen. But since he’s just talking to dipshits who don’t go to cities at all…..
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
I dunno about that.
Text excerpt from Sun Times reporter Jon Seidel's story, reading: Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote on social media Tuesday morning, “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” claiming that the feds’ campaign lowered homicides, shootings, robberies and other crimes in the city. The claims of lowered crime because of ICE/CBP activity have been highlighted
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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thwphipps.bsky.social
My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 21h
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
bombycillacedrorum.bsky.social
apparently I donated blood 6 times in 12 months (aka the maximum allowed) and got a t-shirt 🅾️🩸
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Rhetorical pleas against infighting are always begging the question about who's actually on the same side as you.
whitehouse.senate.gov Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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snufkinlib.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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dly.bsky.social
the nectar of the dogs (puddle water)
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
More blending in. They were made for this environment!

(American Robin) #birds 🌿
The top half of a gray and orange bird is visible among many fallen brown and leaves.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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maxwaughphoto.bsky.social
One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.

(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
Black Crakes chasing each other in South Africa
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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nied.bsky.social
Dennis Villenueve with a word bubble pointing towards the quoted post
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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dsquareddigest.bsky.social
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
freydalpishti.bsky.social 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 21h
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.

Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.

Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.

Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.

But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
I guess the other thing I'll say is that by january 2025 I was like "america is over. america is full of placid cucks who will let their country go to fascists without a fight" because the bulk of the country and the media didn't care about doge taking over payments infrastructure, and i was wrong
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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annebillson.bsky.social
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM