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Asad Margins

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I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet PFP: Detail from "Artists Examining the Work of a Rival" by Honoré Daumier Banner: "Brueghel/NASA Mashup" by @richardlittler.bsky.social

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h
CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h
i will cop to having believed this when i was younger; i mistakenly believed that being exposed to the barbarism would make people turn away from it. now that anyone can watch any kind of barbarism they want on demand and we see what it does to them, i have changed my position.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 9h
Vibe shift update: Dems getting endorsements from legendary Texas high school football coaches
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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h
something we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9h
In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h
This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.
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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the great, underrated dramas we find ourselves in is the cold Civil War between Christian sects over what living in the 20th and 21st centuries should look like, which is how you get Christian Nationalist backed ICE agents assaulting mainline and Catholic ministers
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 6h
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17h
we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the biggest routine lies by the Trump admin is that if someone in detention gives up, they'll be immediately deported and can leave detention. That is just completely false.
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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It would be a complete capitulation of Congress if it were to confirm the person who has been helping lead the Trump administration's takeover of Article I to a position that is supposed to be Article I's lead guardian against such takeovers. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
washingtonsun.com
White House Floats Russ Vought’s Deputy to Lead Congress’ Watchdog Arm
OMB Deputy Director Eric Ueland has presided over massive shakeups to the federal workforce that the Government Accountability Office has deemed detrimental.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 09/10/2026
This is pretty funny. This is the story of conspiracy theorists trying to document their conspiracy to clear the lowest of legal bars, but they keep discovering that their theories don’t fit the facts. These people then quit, to be replaced by new conspiracy theorists. Repeat forever.
nytimes.com
How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026
The Woke are coming off a down season but the core remains intact and they've called up some young talent. Advanced metrics suggest their stars were underperforming their peripherals for much of the summer. Expect contention as early as next season if they sign some high heat relief over the winter
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
god forbid a mouse come to this place for magic
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Currently in a theater that's being invaded by mice. I saw one. But then saw others. Kind of distracting. I am going to make a list later: movies where I encountered mice in the theater. I think this is the 4th time it's happened while I've been in NYC.

and then it’s just a photo of an innocent little mouse watching a movie on the big screen, the way scorsese intended.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So after Robinson Crusoe was written it inspired an entire genre of people stranded from society called “Robinsonades” and the guy who wrote Swiss Family Robinson couldn’t even be bothered to come up with a different name for his. It’s like calling your vampire novel Doug Twilight
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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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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yeah and the second coolest thing is how a good game shows how you're part of a shared cultural experience that includes you, other people who've played the game, decades of game design, and millennia of cultural history. Or we could destroy all that for a weird scam that doesn't work.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
it's Adam and Intelligence not Steve and Intelligence
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if there is a withered fragment of a soul within Bill Lee he will commute this woman's sentence
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 08/10/2026
In honor of Margaret Hamilton, you can play with a browser emulation of the Apollo computer here svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.h...
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Online Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Drive 2011 but he wears this
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times
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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it's like a caravaggio
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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Easily my favorite detail:
There was the incident that became known as "the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with
the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch
P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were
integrated into the program.
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lads. Bad news.
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Asad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I appreciate the Mad Libs approach to this website
Fake movie summary from tentpolegame.com
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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lots of people will weigh in with thoughts on Anne Carson in the coming days, but I will just note that she wins the epigraph game
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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a perfect illustration of how the dangers of AI are overwhelmingly not about bad model alignment with pro-social human values, but bad user alignment with pro-social human values. AI didn’t make this guy value getting in another 20 minutes of low-productivity work over bonding with his kid.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yankees and Braves eliminated on the same night
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026
Yet another reminder that the world's richest man and GOP's largest funder still controls federal computer systems
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they look like they were both arrested after a Thelma & Louise-style crime spree
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEWS: A federal judge has ordered DHS to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, 5 months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, where he has no ties. The decision that could have implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s 3rd-country removal scheme.
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reminding voters right before they submit their ballot about your idiotic war of choice that is causing all your political problems
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
most cucked man alive
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No better legacy than a life well lived, but she didn't stop there. My daughter has her as a LEGO minifig. Her example will inspire generations
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 07/10/2026
Man, you gotta not act like your opponents would claim you would in bad faith. You gotta know how to treat your allies.
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