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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/01/2026
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
if you vote for another cent for this you are a collaborator. this is a litmus test for every politician for the rest of my life
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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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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
for too long, news has meant connecting viewers with facts, context, and expertise. but here at cbs, we are committed to making sure the news is just whatever you already believe.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2025
Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/12/2025
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
How do we get more political things displayed this clearly so Republicans can’t lie to people about what they’re voting for
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I see a lot of "ICE is doing this to even CITIZENS!!" responses, and… who cares if it's citizens. Who cares if it's people undocumented or here The Wrong Way. The lustful violence is incommensurate with any possible justification no matter the targets. They are evil. Fundamentally, biblically evil.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock.Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
random but I actually noticed several hundred people ransacking a prominent Washington DC government building a few years ago, any chance we can get started with them? it was on video so it should be pretty easy to track them down
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 08/07/2025
whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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orinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/06/2025
"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters. The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups.
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Lola Ebola @lolaura55.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@ityslmemes.com
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Amazing how many people will hear a police official say "If you throw a brick we will execute you" and instead of saying "We should get rid of the system that produces these fascist cops" they will say "Don't throw a brick, that's the lesson here"
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
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Alden Diaz @thataldendiaz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Nathan Fielder with his laptop harness.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/05/2025
the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 25/04/2025
i wrote about the cold war between the pittsburgh pirates and their remaining fans, which has reached shambolic off-field lows lately and now threatens a more than century-old tradition of baseball in pittsburgh. read + share with friends and members of congress www.theringer.com/2025/04/25/m...
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The Pittsburgh Pirates Are a Unique Blend of Bad
Wasting Paul Skenes is just the tip of the Pirates’ terrible ownership iceberg
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
new gender neutral greeting just dropped
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Sara B. @saraboboltz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
@ABC
Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was murdered by a migrant without legal status in 2023, criticized her senator, Chris Van Hollen, for flying to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an unrelated immigration case. https://abcnews.link/vxXfL69
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/04/2025
Every person with a spectrum disorder has a more valuable life than RFK Jr, and every trans/nb person has a more valuable life than JK Rowling. You are a human with dignity and they are sunken demons
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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