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🏳️‍🌈🫶🏻 Dusty Biker🇵🇸🍉🇸🇴

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He/Him, NorCal lifer Dad of daughters, dog lover, Justice enthusiast, beer drinker, likes bikes Democracy might be terrible , but it is better than the alternative.

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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 16h
www.thenationalnews.com/future/techn...
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AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
Data centre sizes and costs are doubling about every 12 to 16 months
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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 15h
if colleges had to refund the tuition of every student that had been raped during their time there, they would actually fucking give a shit about students getting raped.
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💀 Beignet Blanc 💀 @puckingladylike.bsky.social · 21h
Lol I wonder how much of this is from people like me replying to the absolutely insane amount of fundraising texts with "stop throwing trans kids under the bus and I'll think about donating again"
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 19h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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hvacguy.bsky.social @hvacguy.bsky.social · 22h
Meet my Missouri Senator, Eric DipSchmitt. It’s what we call him in his home state. National media should pick it up. @MOSenDipSchmitt
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 22h
angeladenker.substack.com/p/gang-rape-... My latest. Thanks to @espiers.bsky.social, who I quoted in this excerpt from my book.
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Gang Rape at Cornell
Violence against women in 2026 is not an isolated incident
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Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 22h
Powerful and insightful reflection from @angeladenker.bsky.social 🔥 ​"There is a straight line from Donald Trump and Billy Bush on the bus … to overturn Roe v. Wade, to keep us tired and sick and poor … to the Chi Phi fraternity house on Oct. 19-20, 2024." angeladenker.substack.com/p/gang-rape-...
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Gang Rape at Cornell
Violence against women in 2026 is not an isolated incident
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, has since deleted his profile. It's not the first time a politician has been caught out by the exercise app's tracking and mapping features. road.cc/news/cycling...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Alba" is a WA State farm worker. "I'm placing ties around the apple tree limbs so they don't get too heavy and break. I worry about my safety since the ladders can get heavy. I have to be careful how I place it to avoid accidents. I earn minimum wage for this work." #WeFeedYou
A farm worker placing ties around the apple tree limbs so they don't get too heavy and break.
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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 29/09/2026
[𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.
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Chris @chrismumbeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funny thing is the way in which allying with fascists is drying up revenue on along every axis. Fascism = no porn. Fascism = allies develop their own tech solutions. Fascism = tariffs and dead trade. Fascism = Hormuz energy crisis as DC need moar. Almost feel bad for them.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The unwritten next part of the headline is, of course: '...and watch them continue to deny genocide after spouting a couple of thought-terminating clichés they got from pro-Israel propagandists'
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You ever read a transcript of minor deportation hearing in the United States immigration system? The kids usually don't have lawyers. The judge is fucking asking a ten-year old if they understand immigration law. It's beyond ridiculous. It is state-directed abuse against fucking kids.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so." - Voltaire
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Jonas Goonface @jonasgoonface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
use what u got 2 get what u need
A peasant rascal armed with farming implements goes off to start a fight. The Lyrics to BlackBird Raum's "The Helm of Ned Kelly" are captioned: 
We'll be eating soup of stone till what we grow is what we own. But we won't steal from the land what's freely given. Tear up the deeds to the land, throw the debts into the furnace. Debts to god, to the banks, and to the landlords.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 29/09/2026
ICE agents involved in two Colorado arrests deserve to be punished for violating order, federal judge says
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ICE agents involved in two Colorado arrests deserve to be punished for violating order, federal judge says
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Lady Becky, Baroness of Bunzy, Bestie of Kim, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @beckybunzy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping a woman than there are trans athletes competing in NCAA sports, but sure, let’s have a moral panic about trans athletes.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026
Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel fans chanted IDF and made monkey noises at black Irish players during the game against Ireland. Ban Israel.
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🏳️‍🌈🫶🏻 Dusty Biker🇵🇸🍉🇸🇴 @balme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This up there with not passing the ERA on the spectrum of absolute idiotic oppressive BS 🤬
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
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Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's fine if people don't want to have liberal arts education. Go ahead, have large gaps in understanding the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Live your life ignorant, incomplete, undeveloped, inadequate. You have the right to be a worse citizen, a shallow dullard, a lesser person.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOW 👏 this needs to happen in every state www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-legis...
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Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
Supporters of the bill say citizens, rather than corporations, should have more power in elections.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have experience FOIAing cities for airport cameras, I need help please.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Q&A I did recently with Ashoka and Forbes - Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka...
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Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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Genjibear @genjibear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sam Altman belongs in jail if for no other reason than for all the suicides and murders that continue to happen because of his product.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why i have been disgusted by a certain prolific poster INSISTING the ai are sentient. It's the most obvious trap that capital has ever set up. They obviously want you to think that these AIS are thinking so that the people who made them don't get punished! Use our brains!!
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the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'the purpose of a system is what it does' remains undefeated
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How is it a brag that Trump gets along with Putin and Kanye "Ye" West? So Trump gets along with crazed antisemites who hate women and dictators who murder their political opponents and slaughter civilians. Bill Maher is just 🤷‍♀️ who could care.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
who gives a fuck what the hologram wants? is everyone suffering from a series of brain injuries
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just enjoying a little Saturday Tucker viewing, like you do, and admiring how easily he moves from "Trump has no control and is corrupt" to Ukraine fighting Putin is part of a *globalist* conspiracy to destroy fossil fuel, build 15 minute cities, and force people to eat bugs. Great work, everyone.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joel Tenney is an Iowa pastor who gave the invocation for a Trump rally there in 2023. He's been to Mar-a-Lago and campaigned this summer with IA GOP gubernatorial Zach Lahn. He's got pics of himself with Trump and Vance. Oh, and also, he's an antisemitic white nationalist Holocaust denying Nazi.
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Standing by the man who stood by his promises! It was such a great honor to pray over The Greatest President of my life time. Believing for 4more yrs! I will be opening the Coralville lowa Rally in prayer before The President Speaks, on Dec 13th @ 6pml hope to see you all there!
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Zach Lahn for Governor, Had the honor to march with this lowan Patriot in the fairfax parade today!... moreDid you know that Auschwitz had a swimming pool, dentist, hospital just for inmates. swimming pool, theater, orchestra, sports fields, and soccer team
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Is that Rolfe from Sound of Music?
Because that sure is a young Nazi if I ever saw one.
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Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Far-right settlers divert West Bank spring water as Israel backs heritage site takeovers
Israeli settlers have intensified efforts to seize natural springs and heritage sites in the occupied West Bank.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Random Man James @jamesds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"NO HIGHER BETRAYAL" than a Senator, from the ostensible opposition to the current lawless Executive Branch, abandoning her oath of office to come out and say that we should compromise with the fascists and that we shouldn't seek impeachment and removal. Resign from your Senate seat.
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diggleruk.bsky.social @diggleruk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Laws don't exist unless they're enforced.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mahmoud Khalil filed a motion to reopen his case in front of the Board of Immigrations Appeals on the grounds that the process was preordained (true) and thus denied him the neutral magistrates required by due process (true) and they responded with basically “how DARE you cite the FAKE NEWS at us.”
As the primary new evidence in support of the motion, the respondent presents a May 8, 2026, New York Times article ("Article"), a May 13, 2026, affidavit from Andrea Sáenz ("Sáenz Affidavit"), a May 13, 2026, affidavit from Dana Leigh Marks ("Marks Affidavit"), and a May 14, 2026, affidavit from Ryan R. Wood. In general, a domestic media article consisting primarily of opinions with minimal (and anonymously-sourced) facts will almost never be sufficient evidence to warrant reopening. Nearly every well-known domestic media outlet operates with a particular ideological valence which must be accounted for in assessing the persuasiveness of its reporting and its evidentiary weight. See, e.g., AllSides Media Bias Chart, AllSides, https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart (last visited Sept. 25, 2026); cf. Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 316 (1974) ("The partiality of a witness... is always relevant as discrediting the witness and affecting the weight of his testimony.") (citation modified); see also, e.g., John K. Maciver Inst. for Pub. Policy,
Inc. v. Evers, 994 F.3d 602, 611 (7th Cir. 2021)(recognizing that some media outlets are traditionally viewed as conservative leaning, such as the Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and Washington Examiner, whereas others are viewed as liberal leaning, such as the Capitol Times, New York Times, and Huttington Post). Media coverage of judicial decisions warrants particular skepticism because it is often focused on perceived nonlegal issues rather than the applicable law and legal reasoning actually at issue before the court. See, e.g., Barry Sullivan and Christina Camody Tilley, Supreme Court Journalism: From Law to Spectacle?, 77 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 343, 343-344, 437-442 (2020) (concluding that contemporary media coverage of the Supreme Court by newspapers including the New York Times focuses primarily on the justices' presumed political and policy preferences rather than the legal issues they confront in the case before them, which can undermine public confidence in the Court as an institution). To be sure, "[a] publication can be accurate but still biased." AllSides Media Bias Chart, supra. But a publication that is (1)based on anonymous factual sourcing* supplemented by opinions of only individuals whose biases are aligned with that of the narrative of the story and who lack any firsthand knowledge of the facts at issue, (2) contains disputed facts, and (3) is clearly biased against the agency and in favor of the subject of the case warrants minimal, if any, weight, and is unlikely to be persuasive enough to warrant reopening. Further, taking action based on such an article would likely violate an Appellate Immigration Judge's ethical and professional duty to act in a neutral and detached manner. See Ethics and Professionalism Guide for Members of the Board of Immigration
Appeals,
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https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2017/08/24/bia_ethics and professionalism guide for board members.pdf ("A Board Member should not be swayed by partisan interests or public clamor.") (emphasis added).
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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 24/09/2026
A record 1,548,191 public school children were identified as homeless in 2023–2024—a staggering 28.5% surge in just two years. More than 1.5 million American kids are doing homework in cars, crowded motels, or on friends' floors. #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingJustice #HousingFirst #ProtectChildren ​
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