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Brian Scally @brianscally.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Me to Zac Brown at the #Survivor Sanctuary:

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caroline conrad @cpconrad.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

it is the greatest and stupidest show airing now

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

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We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported
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Everything the Trump administration is doing right now depends on three key innovations of the Bush administration - the unitary executive, a shadow criminal legal system, the "terrorism" exception to the Constitution
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's worth pointing out that the Nixon administration aggressively tried to deport John Lennon (who was here on a visa, not a green card) because of his political speech -- namely, opposing the Vietnam War. The FBI also surveilled him closely at the time. There's a great documentary about it:

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Trailer HD)

YouTube video by Movieshop Thrauma.it

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

30 years ago, we did. They were called "local newspapers." Then the Telecom Act of 1996 allowed essentially unlimited corporate consolidation of media outlets and they killed off local news in the space of a single generation.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Dude was visiting his fiancé, who lives in Vegas. His English isn’t good so he misunderstood the border goons when they asked where he lives, he said Vegas, they took him away for questioning without a translator and now he’s been in a jail for two weeks.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"The move by Trump’s Homeland Security Department is the single most anti-worker and anti-union presidential action since Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981." prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

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Trump Rips Up the Government’s Agreement With Its Workers

Airport security screeners had a contract, signed just last year. On Friday, Trump trashed it.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10/03/2025

elon musk is probably the current largest threat to the climate, as he dismantles every climate program and defunds all climate science research supporting his downfall, even if it takes tesla with him, is a great pro-climate action. people can buy other evs that don’t enrich tyrannical nazis

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

You'd have to be completely ignorant to think that mass layoffs of federal workers in agencies such as the Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration, the IRS, the FAA, the FDA (food/drug safety), eliminating USAID and the Dept of Education is "theatrical."

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

ICYM this about the legislation that would leave EPA unable to use its collection of 500+ chemical assessments for rules, regs, permits or enforcement. Or to map out the nationwide cancer risk!

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The New York Post attempted one of their infinite hit pieces on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, and the result is quite funny.

The Queens state assemblyman, 33, said his plans for his socialist utopia involve subsidizing free transit and childcare with higher taxes on corporations and establishing city-run food stores, freezing rent for millions of New Yorkers and creating a new safety plan for the city.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is not a thing that happens if children had real human rights.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/03/2025

I think the more horrifying thing to sit with is this: the every-day operations of the jail, prison, and immigration detention systems are and have been dehumanizing, and we built them, and they lend themselves seamlessly to the fascist business of stealing and caging even more people

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The DIY pandemic continues apace. No more free COVID tests through USPS, no more reduced cost or free COVID vaccines for un(der)insured people, and the last effective anti-virals are now $$$$/dose.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The larger picture, as others have pointed out, is that the Biden administration and now the Trump administration have cast anyone who defends Palestine as "pro-Hamas" and anyone who defends the rights of the people saying it as "Hamas sympathizers" which makes it much easier to justify persecution.

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A reminder that a pro-Israel agitator drove his car into a line of Columbia student protesters last May and hit one of the people there to protect them. The charges against him were dropped.

thehandbasket.co

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car

A student eyewitness tells The Handbasket what he saw.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/03/2025

and what might be typical is no less terrifying for anyone who has been moved through this system, taken to far-off and isolated detention centers with very limited access to family and to community support, and near-zero access to the press

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"[T]he strike has been linked to the deaths of at least seven incarcerated people ... Someone dies inside a New York state prison every three days, and in most of these cases the general public never hears about it."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Recently, I’ve been really pushing back on the framing that all of this is “backlash” to #MeToo. Because the misogyny came first. When we call it backlash, we’re starting the story in the middle, which allows the perpetrators to cast themselves as victims.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In a note to colleagues, WaPo’s Ruth Marcus says she resigned from the paper after CEO Will Lewis killed a column she wrote expressing concern about the direction of the paper’s opinion section

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 10/03/2025

Columbia's Provost evidently sent this message to faculty forbidding them from moving classes offline or canceling them amid ICE activity on campus.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Every person with a working brain should be chilled to the bone by the government’s illegal capture and disappearing of this man. And every educator who works on a college campus should be enraged at this institutional cowardice and ready acquiescence.

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

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READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Elon Musk got so mad about the FAA's caution around his exploding rocket facility that he bribed Donald Trump to fire all the safety personnel there & now 60 people are dead.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The people who didn’t vote withheld their support not because they thought it was going to make something happen; people couldn’t stomach casting a vote for someone they knew wasn’t going to make anything happen but more death.

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caroline conrad @cpconrad.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

if we have to be led by reality tv stars, couldn’t we at least get Boston Rob on the job?

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caroline conrad @cpconrad.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

i thought this was a joke but it is not. the new secretary of transportation is also a former reality tv star

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In 1997, Duffy appeared on The Real World: Boston, the sixth season of the MTV reality television show, and on Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, where he met his future wife Rachel Campos. Duffy later appeared on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, which aired in 2002. Both appeared in a filmed segment on 2008's The Real World Awards Bash, while Duffy served as district attorney.[8]
Duffy has been an ESPN color commentator for televised competitions and in 2003 appeared as both a competitor and commentator on ESPN's Great Outdoor Games. He was named Badger State Games Honorary Athlete of the 2004 Winter Games.[6]
In December 2022 Duffy and Dagen McDowell were named co-hosts of The Bottom Line, a show on Fox Business which premiered on January 23, 2023.[9]

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A good reminder about the need for people w/ experience and expertise running government agencies. Also why we need staff stability across Presidential transitions. The folks managing this, across the relevant agencies, are career staff because the new appointees have no idea what they're doing.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/01/2025

it is an enormous waste of time and energy trying to make people who will never respect you do so. look for the people who treat you well from the get-go and foster those relationships instead

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Sanya Kamidi @skamidi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Pretrial defendants, who are considered legally innocent, make up the vast majority of the local jail population in Maryland today. Unlike Maryland, Illinois has seen the intended results of bail reform: fewer people sitting in jail before trial. baltimorebeat.com/bail-remains...

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Bail remains a never-ending problem in Maryland. Is the state searching for a solution?

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. On a foggy day in mid-December, a y...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In addition to everything else, all of these people are incompetent and useless at doing anything.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025

regular blogger: i don't want to suggest Altman is lying :/ maybe they work out generative AI :/ me:

Personally, I genuinely want OpenAI to point a finger at DeepSeek and accuse it of IP theft, purely for the hypocrisy factor. This is a company that exists purely from the wholesale industrial larceny of content produced by individual creators and internet users, and now it’s worried about a rival pilfering its own goods?
Cry more, Altman, you nasty little worm.

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Sally Jane Black @fuchsiadyke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

don't view these recent attempts to cut all social services as "what trump voters deserve". view them as the opportunity to radicalize them. viewing them with disdain only strengthens their movement. do you want to be smug, or do you want liberation? you don't get to have both.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

one extraordinary thing is that no one is discussing the fact that a foreign billionaire bought control of the US government by being more or less Donald Trump's sole donor as being anything particularly scandalous

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

people who say "they can't be serious fascists or pose a real threat, look what dinguses they are!" are unfamiliar with how authoritarianism actually works in practice newrepublic.com/article/1907... good @melissagiragrant.com piece:

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Welcome to Trump 2.0: Stupid and Evil at the Same Time

Don’t be fooled by the clownish incompetence of people like Dr. Phil and Tom Homan. These sorts of people now hold the fates of millions in their hands.

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Aspartame Valerian @aspartame.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Repeating the phrase "arts and culture" in my head with an extreme Masachusetts accent over and over again.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s really frustrating how even as so many people are working so hard for the rights of immigrants and trans people and everyone else this administration is endangering, Democratic politicians are like: “If they don’t knock it off, we will be forced to ask permission to tell them to knock it off!”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/01/2025

thinking again about how Elon went to one of Twitter's data centers and literally started unplugging servers at random. that's our model of government today medium.com/@noahkingdav...

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The Unbelievable Tale of When Elon Musk Personally Removed Servers from a Sacramento Data Center

Back on Christmas Eve of last year, there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data…

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caroline conrad @cpconrad.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

ghosting someone you went out with once or twice is morally neutral but ghosting a good friend is a sign of deep cosmic rot

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