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Atticus West

@atticuswest.bsky.social
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Attorney and Counselor at Law. Litigator. B.A. Philosophy. Phish. Padres. Occasionally wry. My posts: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qr2uvymrek…

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 6h
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 4h
*opens up a six-pack of whoop ass* *spends afternoon steam-cleaning whoop ass out of the carpet* 😕
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Feel free to correct me but I'm pretty sure he is the only politician in history where the actual words coming out of his mouth do not matter in the least to his supporters. Coherence is simply not a requirement.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Creepy af
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
He’s listing port-side. 🤨
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Hurry up, Arnold! The wolf just took down your brother’s house and it looks like he’s headed this way!”
A pig pokes its head and shoulders through a hole in a roof created by a displaced shingle.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elon Musk is helping both the Russians and the Republicans. Not a coincidence.
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Sudden Starlink Restrictions Deepen Ukraine’s Vulnerability as Russia Escalates (Gift Article)
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
SpaceX’s Starlink speed cap is confirmed at 60-70 km/h on Ukrainian terminals which kills connectivity for all medium-range kamikaze drones: FP-2, Darts, Hornet, RAM-2 and others. It also impacts Ukraine’s drone interceptors that rely on Starlink to shoot down Russian Shahed-type jets.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
💫 PSA 👇
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
omg this is a good ad
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Alt caption: “Breaking: Cornell Reads Room”
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Something something horses, stable doors something…
Screen capture of a Time magazine news alert that reads: “Cornell halts fraternity parties after Jane Doe’s lawsuit.”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
forever-wars.com
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Shade shade?
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
See for yourself.👇
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Very few people are capable of standing at a lectern and reading aloud from a piece of paper that blondly.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A clean Backwards Down the Number Line. Crisp, even. #Phish #CouchTour
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Don’t blame me for how everything sucks, I voted for it to suck slightly less
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🎶 Aruba, Jamaica, oh I wanna claim ya Bermuda, Bahama, gotta beat da Gama 🎶 - Christopher "Kokomo" Columbus
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here's the explanation Elon's robot gave when someone asked why Katie deleted the tweet (validating, btw, that she did post it). 😎
Grok

@grok
Katie Miller deleted the "Promise made, promise kept" post after it circulated, switching to neutral praise for HSI agents. The original wording implied advance knowledge of the raid on Omar's home as part of the immigration paperwork probe. Emptywheel flagged deposition risk because that phrasing could suggest coordination or prior awareness that would be difficult to explain under oath.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.
My RT of a Katie Miller tweet which RTed the NYPost coverage of the Ilhan Omar raid. 

She said: Promise made, promise kept.
I said: Katie Miller is not going to do very well in a deposition.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤔 🤔 🤔
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”
After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Authoritarianism.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Enjoy the “interruption”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Twitter folks posting angry shit about Bluesky are like a billionaire who's bitter because the guy he was hunting for sport escaped
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Crazy that it’s taken a decade to officially confirm that Russia interfered with our Brexit referendum. archive.is/zyNbm
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As I’ve often said, my first fear, on learning that the UK had voted for Brexit, was that it might even be possible for Trump to be elected.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 12/10/2026
BOB THE BEER DROPPER: I make the worst decisions ME: hold my beer
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12/10/2026
Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.
Acrylic paint on a roughly 8x8-inch canvas. Yellow and brown grass background with a couple of pumpkins and white sheet-style ghosts floating over top.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
True colors.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Update on the ceasefire Trump announced this morning.
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Atticus West @atticuswest.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
American Stasi. Abductions, torture, abuse, assault, and battery, all on U.S. soil. Arrogant flagrant criminality conducted under color of law. Abolish ICE, and arrest, try, and convict every last one.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/10/2026
Millions of dollars are being spent on camera towers, drones, ground sensors, and other forms of surveillance tech at the U.S.-Mexico border—all to the detriment of those who live, work, or seek refuge in the borderlands. You can learn more in our zine: www.eff.org/issues/bord....
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Border Surveillance Technology
Government officials refer to surveillance technology at the U.S.-Mexico border as a “virtual wall,” when, in reality, it is a digital dumpster fire for human rights and civil liberties. Hundreds of
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