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Runner, climber, environmentalist, preservationist, bureaucrat, writer, baker, fan. BOFQ.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2h
“Some of us have been detained for months. Some people have been here for yrs. We are not serving criminal sentences.... We are afraid that what inspectors see will not show how we normally live. We have serious concerns about the food, sleep conditions, medical care, & the length of our detention.”
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 6h
I loved Toulouse! It was so lovely, and a real living city
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h
"No one wants to see a pasty bald man spew racist venom, or hear it delivered with the world’s most discomfiting “valley girl” affect, which tends to come out when his rhetorical flourishes approach Original German level." substack.com/app-link/pos...
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American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork: Inside Stephen Miller’s War of Terror
The world’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat is leading Trump’s wars on immigrants, civilians, the law, and human decency. It doesn’t matter that he’s made Trump historically unpopular.
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 7h
If a woman can quit her lucrative job at ESPN to not be part of selling gambling to men, surely a man can actively call out his buddies when they make sexist quips or racist sneers.
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
2. On Sept. 22, she spoke at a Democratic forum where Renée Good's family and an eyewitness to Alex Pretti's killing testified about fatal shootings by federal immigration agents. So the agency she's been pressing for accountability is the one that searched her home.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 8h
He was hella charming on Parks & Rec, but then he started taking himself seriously...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
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Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h
And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Definitely!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
dear future saint pope francis, please bless your earthly bestie bob from chicago with good health and a speedy recovery, that he may live long enough to excommunicate opus dei, lead the anti-AI revolution, and ideally ruin jd vance's career and life in jesus' name we pray, amen
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hugely overlong article summed up: “Song shot a cop,” a defense attorney said. “It was a clear opportunity for the Trump D.O.J. to overreach on everyone else who wasn’t Song. That is the story of this case. And it was ridiculous, until it became unspeakable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Inside the Group of Texans Accused of Being Antifa Terrorists (Gift Article)
The strange story behind the first federal terrorism prosecution of American protesters.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thanks for the deep dive, I've been underwater on so much i wasn't really aware of this effort. There's stuff I'm concerned about and things i doubt will work, but some is promising. Just wish it came with finding for federal positions, which would help a lot...
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Woah! Moved from Netflix to Hulu, i see...
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A Wizard of Earthsea and Young Wizards are RIGHT THERE!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've updated this post w/links to all five dockets of lawsuits against xAI for creating non-consensual porn -- in four cases, using images of minors. Among the things Elon's bot has done is make CSAM of school photos. emptywheel.net/2026/10/13/g...
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GOP Accepts $296M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor - emptywheel
At least 7 people have accused Elon Musk -- the African immigrant who donated a quarter of a billion dollars to keep Republicans in power -- of letting Grok disseminate child sexual abuse material of ...
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
oh no I'm so sorry
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
man I wish we had some kind of bureau that protected consumers in a financial way. some sort of government body that could stop a robot from pretending to be a lender or a debt collector trying to scam me into giving it my financial information, you know?
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TV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator
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TV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
holy crap
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judge Reyes has HAD IT
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Does he know CJ Cherryh is female?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I hadn't thought about it for a while, but the Jacobin essay seems of a piece. There's a kind of young leftist white guy who thinks women are a different species. (This is not *most* of the young leftist white guys I know, who are thoughtful and lovely.)
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But also, the public data suggests otherwise. Women don't avoid books by men, but men are more reluctant to read books by women. (And sure, not all men, but we're talking about directional trends re: who buys and reads books.)
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That plan had been forgotten and was not going to be funded (possibly ever) until Trump started this effort to turn a public golf course into an elite course he could host billionaires on. And a legit NEPA effort would have taken at least a year, with lots of public input.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
they spend a lot of energy making it look like the numbers are even; when they're not. Right-wingers are WAAAY more likely to make violent threats. And everyone seems to have forgotten about Timothy McVeigh...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It says something that: a) GOP SuperPACs have thrown a bazillion dollars at the Texas senate race; and b) Talarico was off the campaign hustings for more than ten days and the combined effect on the race appears to have been… zero. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate...
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are individuals which must not be referred to in posts here because, y'know, the posts get banned, you get kicked off the platform, that sort of thing. I will merely say that no one in my rpg recreation of the Assyrian Empire is interested in watching magically broadcast executions. But!
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I would be reluctant to see anything I truly love get adapted in this media environment. The potential for catastrophe is too high
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are absolutely exceptional Dems running, and they merit praise, but we do the truth and ourselves a disservice to say "Blue Wave" as it implies voters' actions are motivated by embracing Democrats. It's a "Red Wipeout" or "Republican Repudiation." (H/t Michael Podhorzer.)
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smurfsup | aka the sentient backpack @smurfsup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🏆 “Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative” 😝
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large.” – Hear @lilymasonphd.bsky.social explain why polarization is not the problem: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was there! 2 years ago!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
oh yeah. I studied Federal Indian Law, back in the day, and do regular tribal consultations. The idea of a 60-second notice chills my blood: that's intentionally spitting on the tribe's sovereignty. Not ignorance: it's malice. They want to destroy tribal sovereignty, full stop.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OH, that's why he's freaking out: the actual Peace Prize winner prosecutes international war crimes. He's jealous of the recognition, AND he feels threatened. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/w...
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An International Career Forged by the Struggles of Apartheid
Navi Pillay, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, fought racism in South Africa, shaping her international career as a judge and advocate for justice and human rights.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tribal sovereignty is constitutionally-protected: only Congress can remove it & it must be explicit. But most judges know little about it, even SCOTUS -- Gorsuch is the only one on the Court with experience, and he is otherwise untrustworthy. I don't know how they would rule on this...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Illegitimi non carborundorum
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I went to dinner in the Mission with a friend and there was still half the game to go. We headed for an official Valks bar, but on the way we saw a small bar with the game on. Had a nice chat with the bartender and the folks in the bar were great about the game! Big cheers, very SF crowd!
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kat @kathographee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m not watching the Valkyries game but I’m checking the box score every minute and omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Valkyries are like the villain in a horror movie. They keep coming at you. No let up. Relentless. The creativity of the Bay embodied. The values of the Bay embodied. The quiet toughness of the Bay embodied. BALLHALLA will be lit in the finals. S.F. will be at its best in the finals. 💜⚔️🌁
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Gabby Williams for the gays
ALT: Gabby Williams for the gays
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WNBA @wnba.com · 10/10/2026
In just their second season, the Valkyries are headed to the Finals ⚔️ They defeated the Aces 3-0 in the Semifinals to become the fastest expansion team in league history to compete for a title. #WNBASeason30
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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