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“M-cee-tee sonique, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way." Loud music & drums takes/sci-fi/InfoSec & Sysadmin takes. Feminist, Pro-LGBTQ+ rights, Anti-fascist. Pro-science.
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theonion.com
AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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alanrichardson.bsky.social
Handing the keys to the US Treasury to an organized crime syndicate was a very bad idea
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h
They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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washingtonpost.com
President Trump’s move to drop tariffs on groceries such as coffee, beef, bananas, and tomatoes — contradicting his claims that the levies weren’t raising prices — shows he is on the defensive over his signature policy initiative.
Trump goes on defense over tariffs as prices on everyday items keep rising
The rollback of import taxes on coffee, bananas and many other foods is the latest sign that the administration could be forced to shift course.
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Same is true on the LGBTQ healthcare front. Small Black-led LGBTQ health projects are sacrificing everything BUT THEIR CORE MISSION to fight…and winning. Meanwhile, hospitals chains & universities are folding…and making it harder for those w modest resources to fight the good fight
joshuafoust.com Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Remember how you told me that your childhood crush was Laura Ingalls Wilder? And that you think America is in the toilet? Well, you’re about to have all your home-churned-butter dreams come true because I’ve decided to become a tradwife."
Good News, Husband: I’ve Become a Tradwife
Our 9th most-read article of 2024. - - -Hi, sweetie. Remember how you told me that your childhood crush was Laura Ingalls Wilder? And that you thi...
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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oeming.bsky.social
www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/...
New museum honors Portland’s place in the comic arts
“We have more comic professionals per capita than any other city in the world. It’s time for the community to understand that and celebrate that.”
www.oregonlive.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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norbizness.bsky.social
Join the Armed Forces And Murder People in Exotic Lands To Draw Attention Away From a Presidential Pardon to a Convicted Sex Trafficker
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h
A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean.

That goes way beyond frighteners.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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joachimboaz.bsky.social
J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Chris Foss, 1978; R, James Marsh, 1985
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Drought. Seas have dried up. Ships are stranded. Cars. Two figures look at the massive shape of the ship stranded in the sand. Cover for Crash. Woman holds a whip with red lips and a collar.
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
I’m back.
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Johnny Cash giving a one finger salute Me
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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mims.bsky.social
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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meidastouch.com
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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deanbarker.bsky.social
Intolerable abuse of US citizens by our own government, legitimized by Brett Kavanaugh and his SCOTUS majority.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h
“I’m Hispanic and I’m dark (skinned), so that’s why they picked me up,” Diaz, a U.S. citizen, said. “It feels scary because I’m wearing a target — you know, pick me up because I’m this color. It shouldn’t be like that.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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gloomygus.bsky.social
We need to undo the pardons and put these people back in prison. If there are laws preventing this then those laws need to be circumvented, struck down or brazenly violated. Any system that allows this is a definitionally unlawful and illegitimate system.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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zacheverson.com
Have any tips about Trump's businesses or other money-in-politics info?

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freedom.press
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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zacheverson.com
There’s also a $150 record player that shows the unaltered presidential seal

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The record player
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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zacheverson.com
Federal law prohibits anyone—unless authorized under regulations prescribed by the president and published in the Federal Register—from manufacturing or selling likenesses of the presidential seal or “any substantial part thereof” in a way that could suggest a sponsorship.

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§713. Use of likenesses of the great seal of the United States, the seals of the President and Vice President, the seal of the United States Senate, the seal of the United States House of Representatives, and the seal of the United States Congress (a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (b) Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (c) Whoever, except as directed by the United States Senate, or the Secretary of the Senate on its behalf, knowingly uses, manufactures, reproduces, sells or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seal of the United States Senate, or any substantial part thereof, except for manu…
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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zacheverson.com
New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”

Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.

me, for @forbes.com

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Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law
A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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justinlawguy.bsky.social
Look, the Catholic Church are the experts on pedophilia, we should listen to experts.
getmoresmarter.com The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠 @getmoresmarter.com · 16h
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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wolfiesmom.bsky.social
This is me at 15. I’m a child.
I’m a CHILD.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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meidastouch.com
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
meidasnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.

And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
Key new court ruling - full report:
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM