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Benjamin Esserit

@antinoun.bsky.social
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🤖 cognitive science 🤝 data science grad student 🐐 hardheaded. ❤️ softhearted for: art. liberation politics. plants. dune. westworld. scifi. 👄 mouthy in: 🇩🇪 ع (almost) 🇧🇷🇨🇳🇿🇦 🚴🏾🚌🚇🚅 transit everywhere 🙅🏾‍♂️ x @anarchoqueerism

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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-dec...
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The Declaration of Independence says we have the right to overthrow the government
The right to overthrow a government remains an important principle to uphold, as it serves as a check on government power. It is a reminder that governments ...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I hate how accurate this tweet is.
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Kurt Weldon @kurtweldon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Alt: He's continuing the forever war that we started against Iran 72 years ago.
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Jeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie @mojochefjeff.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... "...individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because states determine what powers corporations have...the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states..." #blueCrew
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How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All
The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Democratic leaders think they are minority party of governing coalition, rather than opposition party to authoritarian regime.
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weisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The fake news will say I said what I said in the previous sentence.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19/02/2026
Every time Labour created a modern parliament – Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London – they chose proportional representation writes MP, Jenny Riddell Carpenter. Why is Westminster the exception? If PR is good enough for devolved Britain, it’s good enough for the UK. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Electoral reform is the key to Social Democratic renewal
With four parties tied in the polls, our first past the post electoral system is failing. How should progressives respond?
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
DHS spokeswoman who became a face of Trump deportation campaign steps down www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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DHS spokeswoman who became a face of Trump deportation campaign steps down
Tricia McLaughlin is leaving just over a year into Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem’s tenure leading the department.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2026
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 13/02/2026
A casual reminder that the federal government in 1974 killed a plan to build a 75-mile, BART-like rapid transit rail system in Detroit, which called for 3–12 minute headways and a 150-mile BRT system feeder system, for being “too ambitious.”
SEMTA plan by Jake Berman
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s 𝚌𝚑 𝚛𝚕 𝐥𝐦𝚗 𝚗 @schrillmann.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
bitch 𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 kennt dieses so ergreifende wie einfache Latein the audacity
Denken wir an den Anfang der Bekenntnisse des Hei-ligen Augustinus. Jeder kennt dieses so ergreifende wie einfache Latein: "quia fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te / geschaffen hast Du uns zu Dir, und ruhelos ist unser Herz, bis dass es seine Ruhe hat in Dir."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) blasts Justice Dept for revealing identities of Epstein sex crime survivors
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Elly @invalidhandlebunny.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I think all leaders should be around the average age of a country’s workforce
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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"I've built a computer vision model to classify customer shirt color, hooked it up to a predictive model that finds a strong association between purple-shirt-wearers and making a purchase. Therefore, every time a customer enters our store, we should make them put on a purple shirt. I am very smart."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/02/2026
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/01/2026
They won’t reveal who Alex Pretti’s murderer is because he’s probably a pardoned J6 proud boy.
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EcoInventos @ecoinventos.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Investigadores chinos alcanzan eficiencia récord de 26.6% en células solares de perovskita gracias a un recubrimiento molecular, evitando la degradación por calor. ecoinventos.com/investigador...
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Investigadores chinos alcanzan eficiencia récord de 26.6% en células solares de perovskita gracias a un recubrimiento molecular, evitando la degradación por calor
Células de perovskita mantienen el 98.6% de su potencia tras 2.000 horas a 85 °C con un nuevo recubrimiento molecular.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"Clearly, Schumer and the leadership of the Democratic Party still, even now, have no real conception of what is happening in our country. Because these are not normal times, and we are so, so far from a normal America." - from today's First Draft
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First Draft: Imagine If There Were No Video!
The White House fails to warp reality around Alex Pretti’s murder, Marco Rubio gets spanked on Capitol Hill, and MAGA’s new power couple is... Donald Trump and Nicki Minaj. 🤢
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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Good night, Bluesky! Crescent Moon aligned with the Space Needle, Seattle, Washington 📸 www.sigmasreedharan.com
Moon over the Space Needle
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Masking is not about doxing. That is the excuse. They are wearing masks so people cannot identify agents who engage in abuses, civil rights violations, and crimes. You can’t report someone or hold them accountable in any way if you can’t identify them.
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Paul Schuierer-Aigner @pablodiabolo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ich wäre immer gern ein Mäuschen im Weißen Haus. Aber jetzt, wo Trump in zwei Wochen zwei Mal von Vance und Miller ins Desaster getrieben worden ist und deren Leute aus Schlüsselpositionen abzieht, dürfte es dort besonders interessant zugehen.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Bovino's exit is just the very first and smallest of a long string of dominoes that will end with the nazis seeing gas stations from an entirely new and exciting perspective.
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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is the whole ball game bc whether use of force was reasonable under 4A is decided by the entire encounter and not just the moment force was used This was actually a pretty recent unanimous scotus decision (Barnes v Felix) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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Pretti Shooting Was Flawed From the Start, Policing Experts Say
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Revista Fórum @revistaforum.com.br · 26/01/2026
Biomedicina, vestuário e realidade aumentada podem ser transformadas com inovação da Universidade de Fudan Leia na coluna #ChinaEmFoco: revistaforum.com.br/global/china...
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Mais fino que um fio de cabelo: cientistas chineses criam chip que pode revolucionar indústrias - Revista Fórum
Pesquisadores na China desenvolveram um “chip em fibra” eletrônico, flexível e em formato de fio, capaz de integrar funções computacionais diretamente em um
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
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Mar-rick @marrickg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The party of law and order literally just wrote themselves a memo that says they don't have to follow the 4th Amendment. That's right, ICE intends to perform illegal search and seizures without a warrant. Add that to the list with "we had to beat up the police on Jan 6 to defend our democracy".
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
There is no "Golden Age" — only the Second Gilded Age.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 20/01/2026
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
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AGrippa the Younger @bluejayflyes.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026
I love a fucking map omg
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Since Congress passed a law requiring Trump to release the Epstein Files, Trump has: - Tried to start a war with NATO over Greenland - Threatened to use the military to suppress free speech in Minnesota - Illegally withheld 99% of the files and heavily redacted the ones that were released
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
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michelethistle.bsky.social @michelethistle.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
youtube.com/shorts/cVcfL... Congress! Rein this madman IN! Now!
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BREAKING: European Union set to block Trump’s trade deal in retaliation to Trump tariffs.
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026
Last Quote skeet: I always think how if there wasnt all this discrimination that we had to waste time fighting, we could accomplish so much more but that's not to say bad things will never happen.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists, pelting them with water balloons in the freezing cold
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Anti-ICE Demonstrators Chase Off Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter With Water Balloons At Minneapolis Rally
Some in the crowd tossed water balloons that soaked the right-wing demonstrators as temperatures hit -4 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill.
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Charlene | ArtiZenSoul @artizensoul.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This piece is a propaganda master class. Schumer may be decent at recruitment but he is clearly out of his depth as leader of the minority party of a rising fascist regime in a myriad of ways. It’s obvious to most Americans with eyes & ears as evidenced by party approval & overall disillusionment.
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jdt3237 @jdt3237.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The best thing the democrats could do in an attempt to retake the Senate would be to dump Schumer and put a real leader in the job. Is Mark Kelly available? MS NOW believes that the t admin is so bad that the populace will fall all over themselves to put the democrats back in power. Still wrong.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
When you lose Piers Morgan.
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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I would simply not have collapsed the fact/value dichotomy from the commanding heights and then expected the normies to keep carrying on as if there were facts. archive.org/details/coll...
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The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays : Putnam, Hilary : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Spot the difference
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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
it's woke to remake the entire world to your benefit and in such a way that a lot of the countries you sort of control are fine with it because they also benefit
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