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Jes

@armeddragons.bsky.social
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Another digital nomad love is love, people are people We all have human rights, or no one has any rights Sick of the hate Living near Halifax/Kjipuktuk, NS with Kelly Sharing doesn't mean I agree I don't "Like/Love" posts I've seen them. Star, not heart.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Well the last time multiple age cohorts were fucked up by a global pandemic was...immediately following World War I. Nothing bad happened in those 30 years, right?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
Wall Street Journal: Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment
Tech leaders at WSJ’s Technology Council Summit said it’s nearly impossible to measure the impact of AI on business productivity. And when we try, we’re measuring it wrong.
By Belle Lin and Steven Rosenbush
Sept. 16, 2025 9:33 pm ET
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt
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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Friends, we need to appreciate the situation of the wilfully ignorant as an equity-deserving group. Long excluded from the corridors of power by their own ineptitude, banished from political influence to the sound of the cruel laughter of voters, marginalized and ultimately ejected from colleges...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
NEW: Mexico could displace ALL US gas imports for power generation, with solar and batteries ☀️ The country’s abundant sunshine means it can become a global solar superpower and boost its energy security at the same time:)
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Aliyya Swaby @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
It's hard to write about a complex visa program in a way that can resonate with everyone. But @maxblau.bsky.social and Zaydee Sanchez did it with the narrative of a single woman, told with such respect and care. Read the thread and the story below: projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Mendoza forced her to live at his house and sign a marriage license. He threatened to have her deported. He repeatedly raped her. But then she escaped. She called the police, and Mendoza was arrested.
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. But the farmworker visa that allowed her to come to the U.S. legally ended up being a trap. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
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A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵
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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com: “But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are? The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].” LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Federal forces just tear gassed myself and the other peaceful protestors here at the Broadview ICE facility. This is a terrifying escalation, but we will not back down.
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"Mooch" Calucci 🤞 @moochcalucci.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Viktor Orban had his most loyal oligarchs buy up all of Hungary's major media outlets to establish a propaganda network. It's happening here now. www.ap.org/news-highlig... www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billi... archive.ph/2025.09.17-2...
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How Hungary's Orbán uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark | The Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In the months leading up to elections for the European Parliament, Hungarians were warned that casting a ballot against Prime
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Coming this fall. "Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots. U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“Its hybrid warfare is not the strategy of a strong power but of a weak one trying to mask its fragility. We should see it for what it is: not the projection of strength but the confession of weakness.” tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
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Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness
Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/09/2025
I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing Comes As Feckless TV Networks Lobby Trump To Destroy Remaining Media Consolidation Limits
As Mike just got done noting, our major media companies continue to respond to authoritarianism by being pathetic and feckless little shitweasels. First with the ABC and CBS bribery payments to our…
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19/09/2025
fun fact the government only very recently gave up on claiming I committed a felony in the creation of this Sinclair Broadcast Group video in 2018
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
THIS is the kind of order judges should be issuing against performative complaints.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 19/09/2025
Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that…
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Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel
This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that keeps the FBI loaded up with anti-terrorism dollars, thanks to its ability to radicalize people just so it can arrest them. But it's the expected forward movement by the Trump administration, which has empowered the State Department to engage in…
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A deeply important read.
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They’re kidnapping people off the street cartel-style
I've become accustomed to being lied to every day by now. About Israel and immigrants and trans people to name but a few. But there has been a superlative concentration of lies this past week. A novel...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19/09/2025
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The agents eventually do successfully transfer the vehicles. Meanwhile, the @abc7.bsky.social news van gets gassed.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/09/2025
An ICE agent unholstered his gun at a protest this morning. Please don't let yourself become numb to this.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This dude absolutely radiates a vibe of "if you do what you love for a living, you'll never work a day in your life" and what he loves is physically abusing women.
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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
In the end there’s no absolutely safe way to oppose a regime like this, but we can minimize the dangers we face. I think it behooves us to listen to the one who was there 3000 years ago when the strength of men failed.
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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Because even if you don’t mind being arrested, not everyone can afford it, and not everyone has the protections you think you enjoy. Your sloppy info sec might lead the feds to some one in a much more vulnerable position. Don’t do the CIA’s homework for them, don’t leave people hanging out to dry.
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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
She’s not saying don’t go to protests, she’s not saying don’t sign up to mailing lists. She’s saying don’t leave a paper trails that says “I was at this specific event, connected to these specific people” and especially don’t do this in a way that will be useful to law enforcement.
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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Folks have been in Ms. Gandy’s mention of late telling her it’s fine to register for a protest. They call her various names mostly having to do with cowardice. But she’s not telling any one not to, she is telling, or trying to tell them, about the nature of the threat.
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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2025
I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/09/2025
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away theonion.com/fearful-americans-stoc…
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Johnny Carson in the early 1970s: "Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2025
According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document." Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Frankly at this point, this stuff needs to be the longest, loudest, sharpest running joke in the history of showbiz. It should be considered the mark of a quisling not to include a Kirk bit in your set. I'm being hyperbolic but only a little
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
GOOD
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Kneecap to take legal action following Canadian ban
Irish rap trio Kneecap have said they are planning to take legal action against a member of the Canadian government for making statements about the band that they have branded "wholly untrue and deepl...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/09/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons
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dominictiano @dominictiano.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Wednesday Mailbag: Preseason Here we go! With the Prospects Challenge and rookie camp now in the rearview, the main training camp kicks off today. As anticipation builds for the upcoming season, questions abound—about the rookies, the prospects, and what lies ahead. That’s why I’ve opened up this…
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Wednesday Mailbag: Preseason
Here we go! With the Prospects Challenge and rookie camp now in the rearview, the main training camp kicks off today. As anticipation builds for the upcoming season, questions abound—about the rookies, the prospects, and what lies ahead. That’s why I’ve opened up this mailbag: to dive into your questions and share insights as best I can. Let’s get right to it!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
SNL should run a normal show, with the slight addition that every sketch has three or four men dressed up like ICE agents and FCC officials standing in the background looking menacing. Maybe they disappear Colin Jost in the middle of Weekend Update too.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 19/09/2025
The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I love that the NYT made themselves into an example for all of us to see what happens when the Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring the Media to Heel
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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