🇮🇹 Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto warns that Russia is already waging a “hybrid war” against Europe—targeting infrastructure, elections, public opinion, and supply chains—and says Western inaction is “absurd.” — POLITICO

🔴 UPD: 12 people were killed, 49 were injured as a result of the Russian attack on Ternopil, according to local authorities. The search and rescue operation is ongoing.

There was a massive spike in Japanese posts on Bluesky when Twitter went down this morning

She's REALLY trying to make it seem like a bad thing is happening with the frog behind her standing like this 😂😂😂😂

Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes

mas falando sério, bluesky é a unica rede social que eu não tenho medo do meu conteudo chegar num supremacista branco (e vc não tem ideia de como chega semanalmente desde quando eu comecei a ficar grande) eu queria TANTO que isso não fosse sinalizar virtude que chega a doer

The gay man who co-wrote the 1939 screenplay for The Wizard of Oz also wrote a song called "You're So Cute, Soldier Boy," and I'm obsessed with this art for it

To anyone dismayed about not getting Muppet Knives Out don't worry because they basically already did that in 1979 with Liza Minnelli and it's a perfect (Emmy-nominated!) episode of TV that you can enjoy right now!

Twitter is down down

Twitter is down down

A viral TikTok from Ivano-Frankivsk shows elderly sculptor and art teacher August Pylypovych gently feeding nutria by the lake.

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

its genuinely impressive how committed to being awful Meta is

Q: You voted for President Trump in 2024. Do you regret that decision? North Carolina Voter: Yes, 100%…DHS agents harassed me simply for being Latino

It used to be so much easier on the internet. You’d have a video of a dramatic chipmunk and everyone would agree it was perfect but then you could add a little lightsaber to him and everyone would go huzzah now the text is even richer

A clearly exhausted Trump returned to the White House tonight where the American flag is being allowed to lie on the ground. Fitting for this anti-America administration.

MEESA PROUD TO BE ACCEPTIN THE NOMINATION OF DE GREEN PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OF THESE-A UNITED STATES

LMAO "blending family and governance". That's one way to say corruption

What the hell is this Newsmsx nonsense?

Hank Green has to explain to us that racism is wrong. May this be the beginning of the end of anti-woke. youtu.be/RbXzz3oZDr4

Even people like Bovino who just violate the hatch act left and right deserves consequences, because if the civil service suffers zero consequences for being partisan hacks, than trying to do anti-corruption more broadly is doa

"Charlie, having somebody making wild decisions that make no sense, that benefits nobody."

“The monkey was supposed to shoot down burdensome business regulations, not the rule of law…”

Ukrainian forces struck a Russian air defense unit in Novorossiysk overnight, hitting two S-400 battalions and one Pantsir-S1 system.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

I feel like a lot of Trump's success has come from people in media genuinely liking him and being entertained by him. After these emails I wonder if the media will cover him differently now they have to reckon with he probably was an actual pedophile.

With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...

Eva Longoria is absolutely thrilled to be introducing Korn on Saturday Night Live (2005)

Or if you're transit oriented, hop on the Trax blue line at Fort Union and ride it to the 600 South station to pass though all 4 districts. Or Bus Route 200 in a completely straight line down State Street from 800 S to 7300 S. So many possibilities!

Posting to celebrate the recent news: Throwback to that time four years ago when I ran through all 4 of Utah’s Congressional Districts in under 30 minutes.

It is incredible hypocrisy for Hasan to claim he cares about the lives of Muslims in Palestine and then visit and praise China which put hundreds of thousands of Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps

Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.

Was the promise "stop doing so much coke that you'd sweat in a walk in freezer"?

I guess where I come down is the real problem in our society is the deranged morons who make up the Republican base. How can you negotiate with people who's constituents think all government employees are commies and all SNAP recipients are illegal gay Muslims robbing Good White Christians?

Blueskyism is actually a fantasy of Bluesky, formed by ignorance and reactionary hope (that this place is full of stereotypes that justify them hanging out with the less objectionable Nazis).

really appreciate Nate Silver giving us a unifying point during what is otherwise a pretty unpleasant couple days of Bluesky

who up burning they american eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks: -Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility -They did it for nothing -They caved to Trump Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.

The people googling why they aren't getting their food stamps will see headlines about Democrats caving and agreeing to a deal and assume it was the Democrat's fault all along

The media now smells blood in the water from spineless Democrat senators and will blame the shutdown on Democrats for not caving earlier

No, this is the problem. The minute Democrats made the fight about ACA subsidies there were only two acceptable ends - with getting ACA subsidies or the GOP nuking the filibuster. "Democrats give up" is the exact wrong message. It needs to be either "Democrats win" or "Republicans cheated".

And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Obviously the worst part of murdering 600,000 people as your genocidal revenge for the fall of Apartheid is the murdering 600,000 people as your genocidal revenge for the fall of Apartheid, but to do it with a Reddit meme older than the kids you killed gets you an extra ten degrees of heat in hell.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Sandwich assault goes unpunished. It’s open season now. Nobody is safe.

Look at the death toll from the USAID shutdown and tell me to give a shit about protecting crypto owners.

JUSTICE IS BEST SERVED LIGHTLY TOASTED