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Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

CITADEL: “.. Credit is not done resetting. .. It’s going to be very tested. .. AI’s rising tide will sink some boats, and it’s a wavy tide.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

News for 38 Year Olds@newsfor38yearolds.com

Germany news: Fire flares up at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat DW English https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-fire-flares-up-at-hitler-s-eagle-s-nest-retreat/live-79749353?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf

dw.comGermany news: Fire flares up at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreatDW English

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️@arepublic86.bsky.social

Hitler's Eagles Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) deliberately destroyed today. Part of me likes history being preserved, but another part of me doesn't give a shit, it was a monument to one of history's most evil men. Thoughts?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

Reuters@reuters.com

Trump to tout crackdown on overseas crypto scams reut.rs/4icpdo6

reut.rsTrump to tout crackdown on overseas crypto scamsPresident Donald Trump will highlight his administration’s efforts on Wednesday to crack down on foreign criminal networks that ​lure Americans into fraudulent crypto investments, a White House official ‌told Reuters, as part of a broader event about cyber crime prevention.

Micah@rincewind.run

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

*HASSETT SAYS PEOPLE 'EUPHORIC' ABOUT STRENGTH OF ECONOMY *HASSETT SAYS DISCRETIONARY TRAVEL SIGNALS CONSUMER OPTIMISM

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

also, and I know this is not the point, but knowing a few canadians IRL: their healthcare system kinda sucks. it's not transferable between provinces without a 3 month waiting period (and for short trips, for quebec), it doesn't cover most drugs, and then there's the "you should kill yourself" thing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

NEWSMAX: Do you trust Netanyahu? TRUMP: I don't trust anybody

Outspoken™️@out5p0ken.bsky.social

Mike Rogers’ wife is handing out $10 gas cards in Michigan while asking people to vote for her husband. Republicans made gas unaffordable. Now they’re offering $10 to keep them in power. #BlueWaveIn20Days

WIRED@wired.com

for one side of the internet, lowercase writing is feminine. the virality of instapoet rupi kaur and foundational tumblr blogs like “justgirlythings” cemented lowercase as an expression of femininity in early social media.

wired.comthe case for lowercasea certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "The polling is wrong ... Republican don't want to respond to polls anymore"

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

motherjones.comPete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industryCo-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social

Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

News for 38 Year Olds@newsfor38yearolds.com

Fire ravages oldest covered food market in Paris France 24 https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261012-fire-ravages-oldest-covered-food-market-in-paris

france24.comFire ravages oldest covered food market in ParisFrance 24

The Associated Press@apnews.com

BREAKING: Longtime Chicago Bear and NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has died at 86.

bit.lyMike Ditka, the quintessential Chicago Bear, dies at 86Mike Ditka, who won NFL titles as a player and coach with the Chicago Bears, has died. He was 86. Nicknamed “Iron Mike” as a player, Ditka helped revolutionize the tight-end position, then moved to the sidelines and took over as Chicago’s coach.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Plug THAT into your discounted cash flow model. $SPCX

Snowden St.@snowden.st

The mode of political writing or rhetoric that got you good grades in poli-sci and philosophy classes ≠ effective or convincing work with regular people

Grass Toucher Georg@avengingfem.me

let me start by outlining those problems, that i observe in myself. some people aren't like me, and may have no problems, or different problems, than i do, but a lot of people seem to have pretty similar problems to the ones i do with microblogging social media, and they're the problems i know best.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

nytimes.comSoaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many SchoolsWhen a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

Global bond sell-off resumes as 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002 ft.trib.al/PE7Fzxz

ft.trib.alGlobal bond sell-off resumes as 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002French, Italian and UK government bonds also come under pressure in volatile trading

Lane Stellmaker@hipcrimevocab.net

This goes back to the Founding (probably before) and became most pronounced in the Antebellum South.

ProPublica@propublica.org

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff.bsky.social

Oh brother.