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Space Tadpole

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Hertzsprung Rustler. Occasionally writes fiction.

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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Make a war film rubbish The Great Escape from an Uncomfortable Conversation
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The arXiv limit Putting my community service hat on, I thought I would relay an announcement on the an announcement on the arXiv blog that it is introducing a limit on the rate that any individual can submit papers to arXiv. To start with, the limit will be two per month. This limit applies to the…
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The arXiv limit
Putting my community service hat on, I thought I would relay an announcement on the an announcement on the arXiv blog that it is introducing a limit on the rate that any individual can submit papers to arXiv. To start with, the limit will be two per month. This limit applies to the submitter, not to all the authors, so I think large collaborations will find a way around it by having different co-authors do the submissions.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Before you can convince me we need to win some AI arms race, you need to demonstrate some kind of benefit of the tech in the first place.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
👇🏽🤷🏼
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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brian pillion @anaphoristand.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
They should be impeaching him every single day. New crime, new impeachment. They should keep impeaching him once he’s out of office. They should keep impeaching him after he’s dead.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/02/2026
"Two clients Lawyer Eric Lee visited last week, a boy and a girl who are twins, turned 5 in the detention center....The twin 5-year-olds, and their family members who are 9, 16, and 18, have been there for an appalling eight months."
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Why a Scared 5-Year-Old Boy Shook Our National Conscience
What the image of Liam Ramos, grabbed in Minnesota and thrown in detention in Texas, means for our democracy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/01/2026
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump sold the oil from a seized Venezuelan tanker for $500,000,000.. Where is the money? He deposited it in a bank in Qatar where Congress can't get to it. He stole the oil from Venezuela, but he stole the money from America. Why has Congress not impeached and imprisoned him for his crimes?
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
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NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
About half the country is buzzing with a decade of frustration and humiliation at this bullshit. Before invoking the insurrection act, this administration should ask itself what's gonna happen if we suddenly have no choice but to fight them. Can. You. Count. Suckas?
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a man is standing in front of a crowd and asking can you dig it ?
ALT: a man is standing in front of a crowd and asking can you dig it ?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Trump really thinks his decrees are law.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/01/2026
i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/01/2026
BREAKING: ICE shooter identified as Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026
i think this professional liar is one of the most disgraceful people in media
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/01/2026
🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A constituent was just murdered you dingus
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.
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UN4GVNONE @un4gvnone.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Continuing to insist everything he does is just to distract from the Epstein files is an insult to the people he has killed. He can do more than one horrible thing, and you need to be able to recognize that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Anything but admit that republicans tricked you into not voting and letting an open fascist take power. Just because you're part of the everyone who's suffering from your dumbass decision doesn't obviate the duty you had to everyone to help stop it.
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Space Tadpole @astrojamz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
However the Venezuelan people feel about Maduro, I bet they'd like being an American client state even less.
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Ruth @bouledenerfs.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I'm going to come out and say it: I don't think Kamala Harris would have done this.
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