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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.

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jackson henry @jasonemry.bsky.social · 39m

executions will be televised until morale improves

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 56m

Is this meant to rally the base?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 58m

Still can't live stream Supreme Court oral arguments

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1h

I didn’t think it’d be possibly in this age of political polarization for a president to hit 80% disproval but by god he is determine to try

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1h

He’d probably be in the low 40s approval if he did the 1st term routine but he is a dawg (derogatory), you have to give him that

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1h

It is pretty remarkable that it took only 21 months for him to nearly hit 70% disproval

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 10h

And, much to my resignation, it seems that today's deadly attack may have been livestreamed, or at least recorded by GoPro camera. Well, now this is for sure a first in Poland. Inevitable given how much of shit is spreading worldwide, but grim nevertheless. Will be monitoring this.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1h

Surely it is safer for society if teenagers go through intervention, deradicalization & therapy at a young age rather than encouraging further radicalization & then sending them to prison, which will only increase radicalization by cutting them off from proper support and a healthy environment etc.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 2h

If the government find out from investigations of online hate groups that a 16 year old is radicalizing, why continue to communicate with, encourage & offer him opportunities to hurt people so that they can then arrest & jail him, instead of…intervening and trying to help deradicalize him?

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belugatooth.bsky.social @belugatooth.bsky.social · 1h

maaan, I have been thinking about this for a decade.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Lurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 1h

Edmonton's impressive efforts to enable and encourage more housing construction are getting overruled by a far-right NIMBY premier. What's your city's excuse?

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Lurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 2h

You know, it's really an indictment of most Canadian cities that Danielle Smith is forcing Edmonton to adopt the terrible housing policies that those cities freely choose for themselves.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Just the president urging Americans to take matters into their own hands to “fight back” against a small community of immigrants in their midst. No big deal.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)

Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this moist kidult shit is exhausting. snobs are an important keystone species, and if we're not allowed to hunt bad taste, the environment is degraded for everyone

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.

theverge.com

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sounds familiar, I think bsky.app/profile/lopa...

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

gosh, I wonder why some criminal rich guy doesn't want a system where normal people might potentially be able to have a voice

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 8h

usually columnists get stale after a couple of years but this is like if LeBron just stayed at his physical peak forever

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 9h

how does he do it

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 4h

In 1868 Louisiana elected first Black congressman. He was never seated In 1875 Louisiana elected second Black congressman. He served just one term It took 114 years for Louisiana to elect another Black member of Congress And now Roberts Court wants to wipe out Black representation across South

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 5h

So you hate waffles?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026

The kicker is *chef's kiss*

“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If our times have told us nothing else, it’s that the inability to understand a text is diagnostic of something

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 4h

this is also why we gotta exile bigots (of any stripe obvs, not just transphobes) from our movements, because by affirming these systems theyre enabling the exact talking points that then get used to maintain capital. its wrecker shit

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 4h

incidentally its actually impossible to smear socialism as gay shit in a society where gay shit isnt seen as bad

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 4h

its so funny to me anyone tries to make the argument of "we should exclusively focus on class struggle instead of identity politics" because the ways in which RWers use """unrelated""" bigotry to defeat socialism is extremely fucking transparent

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 8h

Very excited to share this new paper by my research fellow @zraresearch.bsky.social on homeownership and the racial wealth gap! Could promoting black homeownership be part of the solution? Before we even get into issues of program effectiveness or scale we need to examine assumptions about...

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 20h

Like I said

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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elon Musk is South African because Saskatchewan wasn’t white enough for his grandfather in 1950.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

man, reading about the Flying Tigers (US pilots flying for China during WW2) makes me feel like sobbing 😭

It was told by a Flying Tiger pilot who was shot down over enemy territory in China. Fortunately, he was picked up by villagers and hidden in a couple's house.

"The first thing they did was to take his boots away. He thought: 'They're going to take everything I have of value and then turn me over to the Japanese,'" Jobe told the audience.

When the Japanese came into this house, they mercilessly beat the couple, and then another Japanese soldier came and mumbled something, and suddenly all of them left the home and the town.

Touching story

The pilot later discovered that the couple had given his boots to a young man who left a trail out of the town; the Japanese believed the trail was left by the Flying Tiger, so they followed it.

The pilot waited at the home till a missionary arrived to help escort him back to his base. Before leaving, he asked the missionary to ask the couple why they risked their lives to save his. "Their answer was simplicity itself: 'When the Japanese come, we see fear in the eyes of the Chinese; when the Flying Tigers come, we see fear in the eyes of the Japanese,'" said Jobe.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

Anytime the Brits needed anything done in the Middle East, it was the Indians doing most of the fighting

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Mesopotamian campaign - Wikipedia

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Mike BOO-rnandez @burnorbrah.bsky.social · 9h

This explains as well what “American” means to MAGA as well. It’s really just white nationalism, but can certainly include nonwhite people under the right circumstances (mostly misogynistic ones).

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Concerns have been raised over the emergence of a new far-right group holding weekly training sessions in the south of Scotland led by a former military trainer 👇

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Concerns over new masked Scottish far-right group 'trained by ex-military'

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20h

I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And: -Is she allowed multiple relationships of different natures to different men? Does she have male friends at school, and a relationship to her father, and a relationship to the cute guy at the corner store? Are they distinct and uncollapsed? I think there's almost an inverse Bechdel test

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think there is a particular flavor of sexism that shows up in a lot of anime. To whit, does a female character -Have only one relationship to a single male figure? -Or have no relationships to men at all? -Or have an abstract relationship to all men? (this is the idol thing)

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of anime is culturally conservative, on a wide enough political spectrum. At the very least its hard to find "leftist" or feminist anime. You can explain this with some basic material analysis of the Japanese entertainment industry. A lot of the same stuff is true of American entertainment.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We have to talk about the fucking anime thing. There is something going on that results in anime being one of the primary visual languages of the modern youth Right, above and beyond just being the visual language of the youth generally.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And look, there's no getting around this, there's a reason why the anime aesthetic is the overriding look for this shit. Yes there's good anime, stuff with interesting and complex themes or that's just good entertainment. I own all of Satoshi Kon's work on Blu-ray. I love Hunter x Hunter. AND YET.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've resisted posting examples because, frankly, I don't want to fill people's timelines with this shit, but I think I need to drop a few here just to sketch out this constellation. These are all coherent interpretations of an underlying idea.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the interesting little bits of discourse I ran across on X was "Is it okay to make porn of Malfoid?" Is art of Malfoid fucking Harry okay, or is the fantasy supposed to be of a pure and innocent love? What about a clothed Malfoid showing the camera her feet? Ridiculous question. Its all porn

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