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ICE had claimed Belgal had "a superficial wound to his neck."

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"As long as young women have to enter male-controlled spaces to fully participate in campus life, fraternities will have a form of power that no student organization should have." - essential reading from my @uwsoc.bsky.social colleague Chloe Hart www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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It’s time to end the fraternity monopoly on campus nightlife | Opinion

Fraternities hold a functional monopoly on nightlife for students under 21 at universities. Break them up.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11h

Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile, back where we started. I said this morning: Notable that Anthropic is more interested in protecting Claude from humans than humans from Claude. Not just Anthropic. The misdirection of empathy says a lot.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 7h

SO it seems that in this case, more empathy than most for lines of code aligns with less empathy than most for actual people.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

Hank Hill with speech bubble pointing to quoted post.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 7h

The drip on this truck my god. Plus it hauls a lot more than some tricked out touch screen super duty or cybertruck

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

And if you say that these are not by "the state" - well what are police? They are the gatekeepers of the state.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

People are too obsessed with Nazi Germany as their fascism template. Well, this is US Federal fascism in 2026. Yesterday's Livestream execution Pay Per View edition is U.S. fascism 2026 style. We're here now. We have to internalize this.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Need a sleep analysis, to find out if he is playing for the All Blacks in his dreams, injuring himself during REM sleep.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Are you taking notes on a criminal f-ing conspiracy?" ~ Stringer Bell, _The Wire_

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

God damn these fucking fascists. God damn them all to hell.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Samuel Alito invented an entire history of birthright citizenship.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Mind, I'm only advocating that members of the House of Representatives commit treason. I don't want members of the Senate to commit treason, because we are too important to risk losing."

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Kriste Kline @kristekline.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thom Tillis should be a bit more...careful. He is dangerously close to advocating treason. He knows, or should know, that if the Ds win the House, Mike Johnson has FA to say about what happens next. He'll just be a mediocre Rep from LA again, with no more power than any other Rep.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in 5 years Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just 5 years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first 8 months of 2026 after a summer of scorching heatwaves.

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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Important thing wrt political science and the NSF, it isn't just about 'woke' in the usual race/gender theory sense. Republicans have been angered by hardnosed quant findings that have been inconvenient to the GOP on things like gerrymandering, campaign finance, voter ID, political violence, etc

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Reagan was LMAGA. Totes different. Plus, he only went senile at the end of his second term."

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dr. Annie Andrews is really something. Darline Graham is ... uhhh ... something else. I mean, bless her heart.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't nobody dare input this into an AI. We need to start the hunt for a proper successor to Kafka to write it up proper.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Let's Screw Over Blue States from 2024 like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa." - DJT "But, Mr. President, you won those states. Some of them were your margin of victory!" - Trump advisors #KITM @kagrox.bsky.social

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow. In new ad, Mike Rogers runs away from Trump's trade war with Canada, declaring: "Canada is not our enemy." Confirms reporting in the piece/thread below on Midwesterners seeing interdependence with Canada as a good thing, repudiating right wing nationalism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJO...

youtube.com

AD: We Need to End The Tariff War — Now

YouTube video by MikeRogers

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... and since PACs have to pay top dollar, the "spot rate" for ads in the time of the election season when demand for ads is highest, it seems likely that there's some kind of fraud in the process somewhere. Of course, "Trump is involved" implies "likely some kind of fraud".

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... but more critically, Public Service Announcements are normally without charge from the broadcaster, because they are meeting their community service obligations for use of the public airwaves, while regular federal agency advertising is often under lower longer term negotiated rates. ...

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social Basic check kiting is writing a check before making the deposit that it requires, in whole or part. I'd argue that having another party make a payment that you know is going to have to be made good from your accounts later is a fancy kind of check kiting. ...

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"As a punishment, the next time you cheat in this way, you have to be much more careful not to be caught."

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... I presume the rest of the former Gulf of Mexico then becomes the Gulf of Cuba.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of course, it's only the part of the former Gulf of Mexico that the US has sovereignty over, so it's only the US waters that we can rename by executive dictatorial fiat ... obviously Mexican waters in the former Gulf of Mexico can continue to be the Gulf of Mexico if Mexico wishes. ...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn’t it great that free speech advocates are in power now? After the dark days of America’s Free Speech Crisis (2015-2024) it’s a breath of fresh air. Congrats to the people who stood tall despite the brutal crackdown of the US Cultural Revolution, banged the crisis drums, and helped get us here.

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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They keep on reinventing buses and trains, except not the best buses and trains, so I predict once they start reinventing books, they'll keep on reinventing books, except not the best books.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mind, it's only two days since the last game. But, yes, contrast that with five games over 9 days, Saturday & Sunday, midweek, Saturday & Sunday, it's not frequency we've become accustomed to.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026

We're all 38 on Bluesky, it's just that some of us are a pretty old 38

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Disney’s Mark Griffiths @askwxm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last Sunday's home match against TNS saw Wrexham provide Audio Descriptive Commentary for Visually Impaired fans for the first time. As always, Kerry Evans is the genius behind the idea, as she pushes to make all Wrexham games as accessible as possible. youtube.com/shorts/dHSgy...

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Another First for Wrexham AFC! #football #wxmafc #askwxm

YouTube video by #AskWxm

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Someone from a surname-first country who missed that day of language class?

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Philip Roberts @realdreadpirate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#askwxm Congratulations to Lucy Farrell on being called up to the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 team. Proud moment for @wrexhamafc.co.uk with our goal keepers playing for both senior national teams!

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Philip Roberts @realdreadpirate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Props to Windass for agreeing to this promo (which I wouldn’t have though was his type of thing). Gotta keep the sponsors happy, eh? #askwxm youtu.be/4zqKi5NlskM?...

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Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds Meet Wrexham AFC's Newest Signing

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The club paying for tow trucks to haul away illegally parked cars wouldn't be popular with illegal parkers who are club members, but teaching people the hard way not to do it might be the only way to work. I'm glad I don't have to manage that kind of parking headache.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, above and beyond people whinging that spaces that they don't actually own become unavailable to them, there is the serious problem of people parking where there is not, in fact, *actually* room to park. It could be that's baked in at 5,000 & the extra 2,500+ aren't going to change it much.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, there's another complaint, "there's so many people coming, the early birds are taking "our" street parking before we move our car, and we have to drive eight blocks away to free up space for the paid parking on our driveway."

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