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just another Bay Area anti-fascist

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia has moved to a new level of warfare - a regime of constant drone pressure that it can sustain continuously. In 2025–2026, the Shahed evolved from a relatively simple one-way drone into an entire family of systems with different missions⤵️
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump gave a bigly ballyhooed address to the nation about how China stole the 2020 election two months ago and everyone including him immediately forgot about it.
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 22/09/2026
Ohhhh we're doing black people fleeing to Canada again.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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Jake @jake.sooscreek.productions · 23/08/2026
Don’t mind me, just training crows to recognize a new type of bird feeder www.printables.com/model/180491...
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Flock Camera with chamber; squirrel and bird feeder V2 by David | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Designed to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models
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tomm @aftom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Guard labor should be expanded to include PR. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_l...
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Guard labor - Wikipedia
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/07/2026
INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.
After nearly five incredible years, The Journal's last remaining dedicated science reporter (that's me!) has left WSJ. Following the dissolution of the miraculous Health & Science Bureau last October, myself and a small numbers of others worked hard to continue our former team's legacy, but the time has finally come for me to move on.

I am deeply grateful for all of the opportunities this publication -- and the journalist community I met there -- has given me. From stories about T. rex lips to primate booze problems to shrinking brains, to Nobel Prize and NASA mission coverage, Jane Goodall's obituary, winter storm, volcano and wildfire smoke stories, I left no scientific stone unturned, working constantly to inspire curiosity and wonder in Journal readers during times of increasing turmoil and challenge. I met some of my closest friends, wrote for two of the most phenomenal editors I'll ever have the privilege of working with, saw Evan come home, and learned (in retrospect, naturally) the gift it is to be on a team of professional nerds who drive the cutting edge of health and science journalism in America while uplifting each other and their craft.

Well, this is your counterprogramming kid signing off. Not sure where I'll end up next, but don't be strangers y'all. In the meantime, I'll be coaching roller derby across the U.S., South America and Europe!
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I do think we should stop using the term "unitary executive" in public discourse and simply call it what it is: dictatorship
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol
From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.
The complaint details instances of executives for the companies calling and texting each other in an effort to push prices higher.
Under the settlement, the state DOJ says the three companies must end their price coordination, adopt compliance measures and cooperate with
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tomm @aftom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@rezendi.com a post for you
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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
THANK you, KTLA
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Absolutely shocking how easy this is.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.
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Why Farmers Voted For Trump
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Regarding Callais, I think it would surprise the crafters of the 15th Amendment that when they wrote "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," they had left it up to SCOTUS—and not to Congress—to decide what legislation is "appropriate."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/04/2026
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
one reason you dont elect racists is they think “it will be so easy” to win a war in the middle east based on nothing more than what they believe is their superior dna
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The scale of the heatwave was so extreme that almost 1/3 of active US weather stations set a new record for their locally warmest day in March. The only other time such a large fraction of stations simultaneously set new monthly records was during the Dust Bowl. 10/
Time series from 1925 to 2026 showing the fraction of active us weather stations that set a new monthly record for the warmest daily max temperature.  Only stations with at least 30 years of prior observations at the time being considered are included.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c...
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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Vote for me. I will completely fuck air travel, start a war and bring back the measles
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It's not just them, it's Putin et al. too, but this admin being instrumental in shifting the world from a high-trust to a low-trust default setting is unfathomably short-sighted and destructive. Trust is so, so efficient & beneficial. But it's unbearable to President Liar's Dividend, so here we are.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Targeting desalination plants is an incredible double edged sword. Iran is extremely vulnerable, but so are the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. If pushed to the brink, Iran could easily depopulate much of the region. Iran already struck Israel’s largest desalination plant three days ago.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 24/02/2026
“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Mendeia @mendeia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New Trump admin slogan just dropped
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tomm @aftom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Gish gallop-gate: prosecuting a scandal takes 100x longer than doing it, similar to how refusing bullshit takes 10x longer than spewing it, exploiting the same time asymmetry. It's been remarkably effective, sadly. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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Larry Zerner @zernerlaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In a perfect world, the assigned judge will, sua sponte, dismiss the complaint with prejudice, sanction the attorneys, and declare Trump a vexatious litigant who requires court approval for any future lawsuits.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/01/2026
NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...
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Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island
Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose
NYT: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old
Minneapolis Man
The victim was an American citizen with no criminal record who had a firearms permit, the city police chief said. Videos of the encounter contradict the federal
government's description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”
Martyr Made & @martyrmade
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Anyone being cavalier about how this is playing with the general public doesn't care about deportations or demographics. They're nihilists who just want a good show. The number of highly-committed 3-time Trump voters I know who have stepped away over the past week is astonishing.
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DAMN: ICE grabbed a 17yo Target worker at his job, despite him saying he's a US citizen. After confirming he was, they dumped him in a Walmart lot 8 min away. Bystanders found him sobbing, bleeding: "They slammed me on the ground."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history. scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
Tweet by Dhillon calling conservative influencers “hoes”.“The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch "hoe." A "hoe," of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden's response. We have taken the liberty of changing "hoe" to "ho," a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps "You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies."”
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines
Hannah Rose Woods
@hannahrosewoods
Is it possible you misheard

And the it’s 

Naomi Wolf o @naomirwolf
Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding

Time Machine
Software
Time Machine is a backup software application distributed as part of macOS, the desktop operating system developed by Apple. The software is designed to work with external storage devices and most commonly used with external disk drives, It was first introduced in Mac OS X Leopard.
Wikipedia
Developer: Apple
Operating system: macOS 10.5 or newer
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
By Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social "The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
A social media post by Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) on X/Twitter. Nate’s comment above a shared post reads: “The UK says it won’t even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world.”

Below is a shared post from Cat in the Hat (@_CatintheHat) responding to guidance from NHS England. Cat’s message quotes an excerpt and says it’s shocking: “This has got to be one of the most 🧠 things I’ve ever seen written down…”

Beneath their comment is a screenshot of an NHS England document titled “Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases” (dated July 2024). Key text is highlighted in yellow, stating:

“it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”

The highlighted passage suggests rapid transmission, limited initial control, and challenges in preventing spread. The entire screenshot looks like an official government webpage with headings, bullet points, and formal formatting. The post timestamp shows 6:13 PM · Dec 5, 2025 with 111.1K Views.
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