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Adam Jacobson

@adjacobson.bsky.social
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Researcher, writer, editor. Good at words about people doing bad things. Sometimes funny. He/him.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.
A drab pop art painting of a sinister man driving a car, watching a stoic blonde in leopard print fur. The proportions of the guy's face are offThe original image, from Girls' Romances 78 by Tony Abruzzo. The guy has a more sinister leer, while the woman has heavier mascara and feels both sadder and more determined. A caption reads "I vowed to myself I would NOT miss my appointment -- that I would NOT go riding with him--yet before I knew it..."
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 13h
“Two white supremacists who attacked two U.S. Marines and a third man in a brutal assault in Oceanside, California, last summer were charged with federal hate crimes…”
courthousenews.com
White supremacists charged with federal hate crimes in Oceanside attack against Marines
Two purported white supremacists and a third man have been charged with federal hate crimes and obstruction after authorities say they attacked three men, including two U.S. Marines, in a racially mot...
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gavin Newsom hates you and your freedom.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chardon Murray at Eradicate Hate on algorithmic encouragement of extremism and the roots of far-right radicalization: youtu.be/Wg5zqR0b514
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Research Spotlight - EHGS 2026
YouTube video by Eradicate Hate
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 30/09/2026
The 2001 AUMF was not supposed to be a blank check for any president to wage war, writes Wells Dixon. "The only way to ensure greater transparency and restore an appropriate balance of power among co-equal branches of government is for Congress to repeal the AUMF," he writes.
justsecurity.org
It's Time to Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force
Successive administrations have stretched the AUMF beyond any reasonable interpretation to wage worldwide war, without foreseeable end.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rove was certainly happy appealing to racist Republican voters to get/maintain power for his guys. I guess it's good he's saying this, but without any self-reflection, it just reads like quibbling over optics.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay, site of the offshore war court where a defendant may not go free even if his death-penalty jury were to declare him not-guilty. My latest dispatch here. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/158987/guant...
justsecurity.org
Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free
Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold the suspect in the USS Cole bombing case indefinitely.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I had been publicly taken apart as completely as Elephant Graveyard did Duncan, I'd probably retire. But then again, I have shame and morals.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Italy raids neo-Nazi network over synagogue attack plot, finds bomb manuals and weapons
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Italy raids neo-Nazi network over synagogue attack plot, finds bomb manuals and weapons
Fourteen of the 17 suspects are minors; investigators say the groups praised Hitler and the SS, spread antisemitic, racist and homophobic propaganda, shared mass killers’ manifestos, denied the Holoca...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
thecityreporter.nyc
DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Frightening Brian ☠️ @briangeorge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is true
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kids today have no idea how few animals we had when we were young. None of us ever heard of an axolotl or quokka. We had to make do with sea horses and kangaroos and such.
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A former Canadian soldier who opened fire on a police officer outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur shouted “you’re going to die for the Jews” moments before shooting, police said Thursday, declaring the attack was motivated by hate.
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Police say gunman shouted antisemitic threat before opening fire outside Ontario synagogue
Police say a former Canadian soldier who opened fire on a police officer outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur shouted “you’re going to die for the Jews” moments before shooting.
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A network of 75 right-wing Facebook groups is being used to spread anti-immigration rhetoric between Northern Ireland and Scotland, reflecting growing links between the two countries as racist violence escalates thedetail.tv/articles/fro...
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From Facebook to street patrols: the growing anti-migrant networks linking Northern Ireland and Scotland
Northern Ireland is becoming a “model for far right activity to be emulated elsewhere”, a human rights charity has warned
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Newsom hates you and your rights.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.wgbh.org/radio-podcas...
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The military prison and war court at Guantánamo Bay, 25 years after 9/11.
John Ryan joined GBH’s All Things Considered to discuss covering the Guantánamo Bay trials and the decades-long search for justice after 9/11.
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The latest in a continuum of US torture never facing accountability. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Back to the Dark Side: Explaining the CIA’s Repeated Use of Torture
Since the CIA’s inception, elements of the Agency have researched, used, and taught interrogation tactics for national security and counterterrorism purposes. These have sometimes constituted tortu...
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gaming the ref, pure and simple
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026
ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Keep it
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
sherman, for the love of god!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I saw people talking about how they need to "link arms around the Center" and I'm like, man, it's a BUILDING. How about you link arms around the actual human beings under threat in your community? If only we mattered as much to you as plaster and metal and wood and stone.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 18/09/2026
In her first exclusive Guantánamo Dispatch for Just Security, Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
justsecurity.org
Guantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward Trial
Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In case you felt even an inkling of forgiveness for him, Bush famously bragged in his memoir about authorizing torture and said he would gladly do it again.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026
For @vox-pol.bsky.social, I wrote about the styles of participatory online communities and how they are used by extremists voxpol.eu/extremism-in...
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Extremism in Participatory Online Communities - VOX - Pol
considering and classifying online communities, especially in the context of how those communities are exploited by bad actors.
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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Bruh
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The trick is replacing trans people in this equation with any other historically marginalized group and see how it sounds. Doesn't sound great!
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Surely shaming people for voting against politicians who concede their humanity is the way to gain their votes!
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Others have said this, but "trans people" are not identical with "the left" and it's dishonest to argue as much. This is, literally, identity politics: A group of people are being targeted on the basis of their identities. Some are leftists. All of them have human rights that are being restricted.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran and Kid Rock duet on an acoustic version of Bawitdaba at the Trump-Kennedy Center in front of an AI picture of Charlie Kirk hugging Bibi Netanyahu. Let the healing begin!
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No no, hear me out: Ed Sheeran acoustic set at the Kennedy Center. It's time to heal some wounds and build some bridges!
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My "I am not complicit" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My article about preventing another #torture program and the weaknesses of US torture prohibition (free access): digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol10/is... #Guantanamo #cia
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Could the United States Reinstitute an Official Torture Policy?
In 2015, the United States passed legislation that reaffirmed its ban on using torture and abusive techniques in national security interrogations. However, the Republican president-elect Donald Trump ...
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