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Laura
@wompanafrank.bsky.social
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I also like Necco Wafers. She/her
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selenalarson.bsky.social
Friendly reminder to anyone who is gonna be around babies this holiday season to please make sure your TDAP is up to date!
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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cameowood.com
I had to find out how cute this was. Turns out: incredibly cute and I needed to know this. I put some time into these alt-tags
Beautiful eye brown cows are walking toward the camera and are the deck with evergreens and beautiful summer flowers. The cow in front has the most beautiful nose you’ve ever seen and has her face pointed shyly down. Behind her is a long row of similarly beautifully dressed cows. Two young adults, a girl and a boy made a parade of decorated cows through a traditional street with old-fashioned Swiss buildings. Everyone is smiling and delighted, except for the boy. The cows are lovely and their noses need to be petted. A white valley with a country road with a parade of cows walking toward the camera. The cows have Tal or Nate towers of flowers and evergreens on their heads and they’re walking in a row. They are brown with white faces. On the left walking near them is a man with a black blazer and pants and a white shirt and a hat. He has a pink flower in his lapel. These cows are walking down a country street with a Swiss chalet style cabin on the left. The cows have truly ridiculous Christmas tree. Tal flower arrangements on their heads that are laughably huge. They also seem to have massive bells underneath them almost the size of their heads. These cows also have noses that need to be booped.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
wompanafrank.bsky.social
I think people like this truly buy their own master race bullshit, because believing they could possibly be successful in this plot is entirely unmoored from reality. Superlatively evil and fully delusional.
redeyedjedi.bsky.social Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 2h
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."

www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
remember *earlier today* when the president threatened to kill members of congress?
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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hannahposts.bsky.social
My phone is trying to make a fool of me
An apps screen on a phone with two different apps both called "Wallet"
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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self.agency
i done been sayin
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 5h
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 17h
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
wompanafrank.bsky.social
People always attribute the wrong shit to the Puritans. Grumble grumble.
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
PULLET TRAIN
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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professorkiosk.wtf
neutral milk flophouse
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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ryan.helegrod.dev
"Virtue ethics as communicated by what you post about" gotta be one of the worst inventions we ever did
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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lampsofgold.bsky.social
the worst leftists not beating the “gender is a little treat you get for good behavior” allegations
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
After DHS denied the hate symbol reclassification story, wash Post reporter Tara Copp says the coast guard is changing it back — and questions how this happened in the first place.

Jon Favreau says they lied again. (Also DHS feeds have regularly been putting out hateful stuff)
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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mikezaccardi.bsky.social
Manufacturing payrolls down 5 straight months
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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caitlinkelly.bsky.social
NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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philplait.bsky.social
For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.
A display of cheeses. Two in the front are vaguely torus shaped, sliced in half so you can see the shape, like a bagel cut in half to make two u-shapes. They look like drawings of the disk of matter around a black hole, narrow in the middle and flared on the outside.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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followtheh.bsky.social
Remember when Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cage match and Zuck said sure let’s do it and Musk chickened out. Anyway we should do it for the laughs.
followtheh.bsky.social Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 1d
Today I Learned
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
With no options for therapy, she started her son on the Adderall dose he was prescribed, she said. The medication has generally helped her 8-year-old's impulse control, but he still struggles with emotional ups and downs at times.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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isobel.top
i'll never get over this
Jimmy Trillstein @JimmyTrillstein I love the fact Crazy Town never acknowledged that their drummer was like a 60 yr old man who was actually a prolific jazz fusion drummer from the 1970s. They just threw an oversize beanie and Dickies workshirt on him most of the time so no one knew
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
A Chinese immigrant named
Chaofeng Ge died in ICE custody.

He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position.

Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years.

Abolish ICE
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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molly.wiki
i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
Ahmed allegedly made the following search queries: embezzled defi hacks fbi defi hacks prosecution wire fraud how to prove malicious intent evidence laundering can I cross border with crypto how to stop federal government from seizing assets buying citizenship Criminal mastermind. However, the brothers' Google search history in the weeks after the theft for phrases including "how to wash crypto”, “top crypto lawyers”, “wire fraud statute / wire fraud statue [sic] of limitations”, and “prison or jail worse” suggest that perhaps the brothers had some clue that their actions could be interpreted criminally, as do the brothers' own descriptions of their plan as “sus”. Prosecutors, on the other hand, have pointed to his decision to buy a plane ticket out of the country the very next day, and to his Google searches for terms including "market manipulation criminal elements" and "FBI surveillance", as evidence that he knew quite well his actions were not merely "highly profitable trades".
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM