Reposted by Asad MarginsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3hCLAIM: 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? 14832154
Reposted by Asad MarginsGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2hi 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. 2034930
Reposted by Asad MarginsRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 9hVibe shift update: Dems getting endorsements from legendary Texas high school football coaches 301968329
Reposted by Asad MarginsMicah @rincewind.run · 2hsomething 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 738551
Reposted by Asad MarginsPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9hIn 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. 12652151
Reposted by Asad MarginsElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5hThis looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas. 311562314
Reposted by Asad Marginslamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One 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 227837
Reposted by Asad MarginsNicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 6hFor 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...projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe 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... 9505248
Reposted by Asad MarginsRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17hwe built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course 603203611
Reposted by Asad MarginsWill 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. 5538127
Reposted by Asad MarginsWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This 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. 311609281
Reposted by Asad MarginsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One 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. 4337103
Reposted by Asad Marginstmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I 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 381206225
Reposted by Asad Margins DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is clearly not acceptable 83194083193
Reposted by Asad MarginsJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It 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.comWhite House Floats Russ Vought’s Deputy to Lead Congress’ Watchdog ArmOMB Deputy Director Eric Ueland has presided over massive shakeups to the federal workforce that the Government Accountability Office has deemed detrimental. 22519
Reposted by Asad MarginsAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026its 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 341771333
Reposted by Asad MarginsWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 09/10/2026This 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.comHow 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... 6630142
Reposted by Asad Marginslauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026The 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 311572140
Reposted by Asad Marginsthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026god forbid a mouse come to this place for magic 381301148
Reposted by Asad MarginsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️ 15258751558
Reposted by Asad MarginsBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So 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 2053766
Reposted by Asad Marginsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 457172622659
Reposted by Asad MarginsKyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yeah 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. 1293
Reposted by Asad Marginse.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026it's Adam and Intelligence not Steve and Intelligence 1149267
Reposted by Asad MarginsBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye 231051209
Reposted by Asad Marginsthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/10/2026if there is a withered fragment of a soul within Bill Lee he will commute this woman's sentence 27811
Reposted by Asad MarginsKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry 321704305
Reposted by Asad MarginsMaking a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 08/10/2026In honor of Margaret Hamilton, you can play with a browser emulation of the Apollo computer here svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.h...svtsim.comOnline Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator 13315
Reposted by Asad MarginsAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I 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... 8650721843
Reposted by Asad MarginsGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026fwiw 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 682367387
Reposted by Asad MarginsInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Drive 2011 but he wears this 16510
Reposted by Asad MarginsDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In 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 20678114
Reposted by Asad MarginsfranciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026it's like a caravaggio 1367
Reposted by Asad MarginsChris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio 451596
Reposted by Asad MarginsEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Easily my favorite detail: 6470123
Reposted by Asad MarginsThe Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lads. Bad news. 16992111
Asad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I appreciate the Mad Libs approach to this website 010
Reposted by Asad Marginsmichael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lots 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 439567
Reposted by Asad MarginsYu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This 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. 411120
Reposted by Asad MarginsTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tragic 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.mississippitoday.orgWrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers diesAfter Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him. 17695257
Reposted by Asad MarginsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not beating the eugenics accusations 17956297
Reposted by Asad Marginsone dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yankees and Braves eliminated on the same night 11730121
Reposted by Asad MarginsJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026Yet another reminder that the world's richest man and GOP's largest funder still controls federal computer systems 04822
Reposted by Asad MarginsAlex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026they look like they were both arrested after a Thelma & Louise-style crime spree 2718
Reposted by Asad MarginsMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it 4541351005
Reposted by Asad MarginsDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026NEWS: 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.prospect.orgFederal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American ProspectA Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States. 416959
Reposted by Asad MarginsSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Reminding voters right before they submit their ballot about your idiotic war of choice that is causing all your political problems 1646465
Reposted by Asad MarginsChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No 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 422037
Reposted by Asad MarginsBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 07/10/2026Man, you gotta not act like your opponents would claim you would in bad faith. You gotta know how to treat your allies. 828720