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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 10h

Also, when you have no concept of music

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Potemkin arsenal, Potemkin command structure

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Claude never saw the Cramps at CBGBs

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Andy Beshear forever, man

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

El-Sayed’s interviews are the new Masterclass on how to highlight how Republicans are predictable & pickle-brained. He broke the mold. He bet that on the day that we won, Trump, JD Vance, Mike Rogers etc. would go on talking about his name & faith. He's getting my vote in November. #pinks

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If they were really smart, they'd have them playing on the gas pump screens. That would work big time

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bernie has never known how to pick his aides or interlocutors. His approach to AI is just further evidence of this major flaw.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gee, if only the major papers had spent more time calling out the danger he posed instead of burying it on A16

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is when we realize that humans are going to be assembled into racks of batteries for the data centers, housing shortage solved

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.

Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking away people’s healthcare: bad. Taking it away before an election: politically stupid. Thinking that saying “FRAUD” will fool people: something you only do if your brain is totally Fox-addled. IOW, a perfect encapsulation of Team Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump officials cut 760,000 enrollees from ACA, claiming fraud

Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force concluded that the people were wrongly signed up for the government health care program.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great article on how sheriff's deputies in Durham, N.C. are referring people to ICE for very minor offenses. The cooperation between local cops and the immigration goon squads is a growing stain on America indyweek.com/news/durham-...

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Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes

Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This reminded me of the old Brian Morton piece "How Not to Write for Dissent," which was a tongue-in-cheek study of "Strategies of Subversion: Discourse, Desire, and The Other in ‘Gilligan’s Island."

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨the Department of History at the University of Toronto (St George campus) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the history of early modern or modern South Asia jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Assistant Professor - South Asian History

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

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Thieves in the Temple

Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You know he's talking about his own tour

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"How Do You Sleep," by John Lennon

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Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Event: Looking Back at Walterina Markova: Trans Misogyny and Modalities of Living in the Japan-occupied Philippines Website for registration and detailed event description, including speaker bios and abstracts: www.econ.aoyama.ac.jp/laboratory/2...

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

欲しがりません勝つまでは

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone who has seen Park Avenue's long-vanished (pre-1927) central medians—with pedestrian paths & seating—has longed for their return. I hope it works. Midtown traffic is *horrible*! Thanks to Uber & Lyft, there's 1000s more cars on the avenue today than there were 20 years ago—let alone 1927.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 18/09/2026

Action Alert: The Department of Education has proposed changes to higher education accreditation that could weaken scholarly standards, treat ideological diversity as a measure of educational quality, and undervalue faculty expertise. Submit a public comment by Sept. 21. 🗃️

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Action Alert: Tell the Department of Education: Protect Academic Accreditation

The Department of Education has proposed an overhaul of the accreditation system for higher education in the Federal Register: Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization: The Secretary’s Recognition...

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dem political wisdom: When your opponent is drowning, throw yourself an anchor

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Nichole Christoff @nicholechristoff.com · 18/09/2026

My uncle survived polio as a toddler in the mid-1940s, but lived the rest of his life with a severe limp and brain damage from extreme fever. His siblings were sent to their grandparents for months because caring for him through polio was a 24/7 job for his mom.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"You fucked up, you trusted us. Now do it again"

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bernie once again showing his incredible lack of judgment

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reminds me of the Monty Python skit about the architect's presentation of a model tower of flats that collapses, at which point he says it will be fine if the tenants are quite sedentary

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pretty sure the name hasn't been removed, and that's why the scaffolding is still up

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ILWCH call for papers. Changing the Waters: Labor in the History of Rivers, Lakes, Deltas, and Wetlands www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Changing the Waters: Labor in the History of Rivers, Lakes, Deltas, and Wetlands

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In response to this, the DeSantis administration releases a statement saying that they'd make this outrageous cage "even smaller if we could." The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said it violated every detention standard and posed a significant danger to health and safety.

"At least ten million illegal aliens entered our country under the Biden administration. Florida decided to do something about it," Lanfranconi said. "The left-wing media wants to focus on a confinement area for violent criminal aliens who have proven they cannot remain peaceful while awaiting deportation. While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we'd make it even smaller if we could."

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

O'Donnell so happy to have walked on the WH press banquet red carpet that Trump pissed on, now she's happy to eat the shit that Hegseth and Bari have plated up

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All of them to the Hague, starting with DeSantis

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Columbia has been violating its 1953 agreement with the city that allowed residents to pass through their campus since they shut down the Palestine protests. The school caves to the bullying of Trump but won't honor its commitments to its neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/n...

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New York City Supports Push to Reopen Columbia Pathway to the Public

Community members and students sued the school last year to reopen the gates, which were closed during protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If Whatley needs help in his home town, things are really bad

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12/09/2026

extremely funny to suggest that where stalin, hitler and mao are in the afterlife, charlie kirk is right there with them

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