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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Lars Hansson @romabysen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dudes rock.

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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨Peter Ortiz serves in the French Foreign Legion before joining the Marine Corps, then a spy during WWII, and fighting the Nazis alongside the French Resistance, all while dual-wielding pistols, in full dress uniform, and wearing a cape. soundcloud.com/llbdpodcast/...

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Episode 425 - Peter Ortiz, The Marine Murder Cryptid

TICKETS TO OUR LIVE SHOW IN CORK, IRELAND ARE NOW AVAILABLE! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-cork-26th-september-tickets-1993823733459 CAN'T MAKE IT? NO PROBLEM!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Trump is saying a different thing every time someone asks him because his brain is fucking melting and he can't hold the same thought for more than a few moments at a time. Being manipulated by whoever the last person he spoke to was. It's really not more complicated than that.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Back to back, two top Biden officials openly admit Israel is exempt from law: Jake Sullivan: US calls Russian strikes “war crimes,” but not Israeli ones, because they’re not as hard on “friends” Antony Blinken: US could’ve cut weapons to Israel, but it would’ve just continued razing Gaza anyways

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Faizah Malik (she/her) @faizahforla.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

There are so many red flags and legitimate concerns about Flock cameras - privacy, due process, data sharing with ICE. But of course our councilmember doesn’t care too much about any of that. LA needs to cut ties with big tech surveillance companies like Flock.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 25/03/2026

Members of Contract Faculty United, a @uaw.org local at NYU, have won a tentative deal for their first contract that includes— ✅ 95% of members will get >$100,000 ✅ Lowest-ranked faculty will get $91,000 ✅ Every member will get a raise of ≥$14,000 starting the next academic year #ShareGoodNewsToo

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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New on Knock: While cities across the country have rejected Flock and other surveillance companies, Traci Park has begun to install 100 automated license plate readers across CD11. knock-la.com/100-automate...

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100 Automated License Plate Readers to be Installed in CD 11 - Knock LA

“This is how we get ahead of crime instead of chasing it after the fact,” says Councilmember Traci Park.

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I want every word of this in massive letters of fire in the sky. Thank you, @moryan.bsky.social.

I am sick to death of this — of the tech industry deciding it can do what it wants without consequences. Everything is a subscription, everything is harder to use and enshittified. Everything is built on something that was stolen or degraded. So-called AI – which is not intelligent at all – is being shoved into everything, and makes nothing better (quite the reverse). “Move fast and break things” now extends to the reputations and identities of respected professionals and creative people. And you have the nerve to presume we should all put up with every outrage, with every act of destruction, with every theft. I don’t. I won’t.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 02/03/2026

Reaching 100-year-flood levels of ”is that good?”

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

From: Casey Wasserman < To: ''Maxwell, Ghislane'
Subject:
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:06:04 +0000
Where are you, I miss you.
I will be in nyc for 4 days starting april 22... can we book that massage now?
*** Because email may be altered electronically, the authenticity of this message
Casey Wasserman voice
fax

To:
From:
Sent:
Subject:
Casey Wasserman
Thur 4/3/2003 2:14:44 PM
Re: RE:
Title: Re: RE:
Never... take me!
Will you be in nyc when I am there?
-Original Message-.
From: gmax
Sent: Wed Apr 02 23:19:49 2003
To:
Subject:
Re: RE: Umm - all that rubbing - are you sure you can take it? The thought frankly is leaving me a little breathless. There are a few spots that apparently drive a man wild - I suppose I could practise them on you and you could let me know if they work or
not? + just for the record the cigar concept currently has pride of place in my bedroom!
+ Just in case you are curious, I am now in Brazil - have you been here?
Gix
Original message attached.

To:
*gmaxign
From:
Casey Wasserman
Sent:
Mon 4/7/2003 11:30:08 PM
Subject: RE: Title: Message
or something like that.
*--Original Message--
From: gmax [mailto:gmax1@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:34 PM
To: Casey Wasserman
Subject: RE: What foggy enough so that you can float naked down the beach and no one can see you unless
they are close up?
At 04:23 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote: june gloom is the common phrase...very foggy in the AM, usually burns off in the
afternoon...but still in the high 70's, low 80's...
I like Carbon Beach the best, and of course, that is where my house is...and it is the best and nicest
beach and closest to the city which is nice. ---Original Message---
From: gmax [mailto
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4?28 PM
To: Casey Wasserman
Subject: RE: Max will be relieved - Stephen Shapiro just called and is going to find out what is available in June to rent in the 3 different areas along the beach. I said I would look at all 3 and would make a decision based more on the house than the area probably. Do
you have a view? I don't know anything about Malibu or LA for that matter. Anyway, regardless of that, Stephen told me that the weather is normally lousy in June -Is that right? What does lousy mean? Is it just hazy? Plse explain to the
foreigner
Gx
PS - I can't sleep - where are you when I need you?
- At 04:06 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
that can be the exception...but only one. ----Original Message-----
From: gmax [mailto:
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:12 PM
To: Casey Wasserman
Subject: RE:
What about Max? - At 02:39 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:

To:
From:
Casey Wasserman
Sent:
Mon 4/7/2003 5:04:09 PM
Subject: RE: Re: RE:
Title: Message
Among all my desires, that combination is pretty low on the list..
ХОХО *-Original Message
From: gmax [mailto 1
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 2:51 PM
To: Casey Wasserman
Subject: RE: Re: RE: Thank you - I'll call Stephen tom and see what he has available and then make a plan to come out and check out the local real estate. I'll let you know what he says, and then you can guide me as I really know nothing about the area - if there is a better bit etc. Now I have just made you my LA tour guide! I am going to go to London from here and then back to NY - can I bring you anything from London? I know you probably do not have the same Kitkat, cheddar cheese or baked bean problem I do - but you never know. My friends who come to visit me always bring a red cross
(that is what they call it) food package for me
Kisses
Gx Stephen Shapiro is the best agent for the beach, his phone is
picking a week to be in LA is a really good idea..
i think you
The only thing that i want from paris is you.
---OriginalMessage
From: gmax
Sent: Sunday, Apnil 06, 2005 6:56 AM
To: Casey Wasserman
Subject: RE: Re: RE:
I am looking forward to seeing you to -
JE has just asked me to find a house to rent for 2 weeks (I am sure I will have to take it for longer) in Malibu in June. Who is the best real estate person to talk to - let me
know. JE says I should pick a weck to go to LA and look?
Thought you might like to know I am now in Paris - can I bring you back anything from
here?

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A few hundred people arrived to the Portland ICE facility a few hours ago, marching in remembrance of all killed at the hands of ICE. The energy was high, for over an hour the feds would randomly shoot pepper balls. And then they came out and heavily gassed

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Really brings home the fact that the delay in producing files was absolutely part of an effort to protect Trump versus the DOJ's oft-touted explanation that they were ensuring protection for victims.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested

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Rev. Rae Huang @raeforla.com · 30/01/2026

Looking forward to it!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/01/2026

“There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest

Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

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Sam @very-simple.com · 30/01/2026

People are over-reading this. The judge dismissed the *federal* murder charges because his (alleged) actions didn’t fit within federal law. He still faces *state* murder charges because it’s usually a state crime. The feds stepped in because they were mad NY doesn’t have the death penalty.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/01/2026

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Read the highlighted sentence a few times, jfc From @lukeferrell.bsky.social's "THE MEANS-TESTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

Again, new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people. As the other 55 states and territories are now forced to join Georgia and implement new work requirements, millions will lose their healthcare and Deloitte will cash in.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A lot of people are going to claim that they are against fascism without ever considering that they support all the cultural conditions that would bring about fascism.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Andy has cultivated a readership so stone stupid they’re willing to contend that someone writing a slogan on a clipboard is attempted murder

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

this is a small thing but it would be nice to feel good about paying taxes. i would like to write a check to the government and think about kids going to school and freshly paved roads not all the death squads my income helps fund.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The man killed by ICE was Alex Pretti, a 37-year old Minneapolis resident, UMN graduate, and licensed nurse. The Star Tribune with information we know at the moment: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

NYT: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old
Minneapolis Man
The victim was an American citizen with no criminal record who had a firearms permit, the city police chief said. Videos of the encounter contradict the federal
government's description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Just escalation after escalation

Screenshot from a New York Times live blog entry by Ernesto Londoño: “Superintendent Evans said federal officials have refused to disclose the identities of federal agents involved in Saturday’s shooting, as well as the names of federal agents who have shot people in recent days in the course of the continuing immigration crackdown.”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026

This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

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Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds

Researchers watched how men treated women during 163 plays of the video game Halo 3.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

For weeks, I was watching LibsofTikTok and the rest of the right-wing internet post some of the most insane shit I've ever seen about the Minnesota Somali community. "Inciting a pogrom" is the only way I can describe the tone of it. I really do feel like that propaganda has been rejected now

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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Some of our members also organize with @vetsaboutface.bsky.social If you’re in uniform and asked to do something that violates the law, the constitution, or your conscience, reach out to them.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/01/2026

a straight up criminal gangster conspiracy. except worse because you can’t call the cops

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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

not really keeping my ear to the street since I haven't been home in 3 years and haven't lived there in 8 years, but you know what? When this all gets sorted out I feel like Americans in America can decide for themselves if they want to Judgment at Nuremberg everyone who worked at CNN

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Destroy it and salt the earth where it stood

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The curse of the leftist is to be correct before it’s polite

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Don't worry, they're not just mean they're also very stupid

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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