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Cyberluddite @cyberluddite.bsky.social · 5h

"During the rally, a protester wearing a shirt reading 'Release the Epstein files' was escorted out of the venue after a group of audience members appeared to attack her." The GOP cannot make it any more clear: it is a party for pedophiles and their enablers

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes I have an intrusive thought hoping for The One Horrible Disaster to happen in the hopes it will snap people to their senses. This is stupid of me because if the pandemic and insurrection have taught us anything, it is that people do not learn from horrible disasters. People just die.

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Cyberluddite @cyberluddite.bsky.social · 5h

“MVM, a federal contractor, physically seized, transported, and confined Ms. Galvis and her infant son. Sonesta knowingly provided and maintained the hotel room used as a [...] detention cell, profiting from the arrangement while [they] were locked inside.” www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts...

injusticewatch.org

Chicago mother sues ICE contractor that jailed her and her baby in a hotel room

This story was published in partnership with The Intercept, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless,

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 6h

Sure grandma let's get you to bed meme, grandma is saying "it was called steak and we ate it once in a while"

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h

it turns out that the economic principle of middlemen being an economic drag on the efficiency of a transaction is, in fact, undefeated

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 20h

A Kansas group got threatened with charges for give 25 dollar gift cards to kids that registered to vote. Not register with a certain party, not in order to vote. Just register, period.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 18h

thousands of law enforcement agencies have looked at what ICE has been doing and said "sign us up." simply ending 287g is not an adequate response. this should be a sign that law enforcement is as culpable as ICE and DHS. abolishing those federal agencies will not be enough.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 18h

RIP Stars and Stripes S&S is an example of real democracy. We're confident enough to allow a free press inside our own military and let the chips fall where they may. Doesn't mean their coverage is always perfect, but it's always credibly independent. Ending that is a sign of democratic weakness.

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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is so true. Every municipal office I've ever worked in won't provide us with free coffee bc that's your money and that's not what it's for and yet somehow police run absolutely roughshod over this in so many ways.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis Donovan visited Peru for talks with military leaders on expanding counternarcotics cooperation, intelligence sharing and joint exercises.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it

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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

nydailynews.com

ICE never identified themselves during NYC shooting of Oscar Belgal, who still has bullet in neck: lawyers

The Legal Aid Society, which now represents the 28-year-old father, filed a habeas corpus petition in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, seeking his “immediate release on reasonable conditions.”

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Cyberluddite @cyberluddite.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The platoon sergeant got so mad when the lieutenant sitting shotgun next to me keyed the radio and blasted the classic Rebecca Black banger to our convoy to celebrate another Friday rolling through Helmand.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14/10/2026

Warning me away from their patrol

Three soldiers patrol an active ballot box, October 14, 2026. Photo: Brad Johnson

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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Cyberluddite @cyberluddite.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Well, sure this looks bad but its not like the opposition party spent two and a half decades rubber stamping islamophobic right wing federal policies that supercharged the surveillance state. Let me just take a big sip of water real quick while I read up on 21st century history...

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

biden's natsec and foreign policy deputies experienced zero consequences for arming & covering up the gaza genocide, helping set the middle east on fire, & of course this. they are still actively involved in the highest level of party politics today

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

a lot of people warned this would happen when biden signed those huge contracts with starlink for the ukraine war, the US military more broadly, and rural US internet expansion. he ignored those repeated warnings throughout his entire presidency. foolishness

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New — Rashida Tlaib introduces the "Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act." The bill would: —Ban use of federal funds to buy or operate automated mass surveillance systems, like Flock. —Require state & local govts to divest from such systems to remain eligible for certain law enforcement grants.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced the Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act today with community leaders in front of a Flock camera in Inkster, Michigan, whose city officials just signed a long-term contract with the mass surveillance company.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Every day you gotta Figure Out Lunch. It is both the day's greatest pleasure and worst burden

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Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The amount of damage that Boers and the long tail of Apartheid in South Africa have done globally is immense.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Funny story: After Maryland Rep. Andy Harris blocked marijuana legalization in DC, residents would call up his office to complain about potholes and stuff. When the staffer would explain that they weren't constituents, they'd yell something to the effect of, "Then stop fucking with our weed!"

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyone who uses AI in their work (or requires it of their employees) is not only benefiting from the theft and exploitation used to create it, they are contributing to the alienation of labour and the immiseration of the very people whose work went in to training the AI in the first place.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

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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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

www.cjr.org/the-intervie... "My brother died thirteen years ago on the sidewalk in downtown Las Vegas. ... The tragic arc of being brought there as kids so our dad could gamble at sportsbooks, to then surviving on the streets there as a homeless person and dying at thirty-six."

cjr.org

Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”

Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.

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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Books cannot be killed by fire. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons. (Office of War Information, US), 1942.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

ctinsider.com

The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?

Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares

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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 14/10/2026

“Chris brings unmatched expertise, strategic vision, and a commitment to ensuring Stars and Stripes maintains editorial independence…” sure this will work out great

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happening now: 100s rally outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK, where 100s of our neighbors - including Oscar Belgal, recently shot by ICE - are inhumanely detained. @indivisible.org @bradlander.bsky.social @jumaane.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Elected officials speaking at a press conference

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 13/10/2026

Every person dead, every family separated, every community terrorized, and every dissenter targeted and persecuted. There’s more than a million reasons to dismantle DHS.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gavin Kliger also, on Feb 2 2025, sent an email to all USAID staff from a fake usaid.gov email account telling us not to come to work the next day. Prompting me to send this email to a contact (amongst many, many other things)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The beauty of this for bosses is that AI doesn't even need to be good enough to actually replace you. All they need is the threat that it could replace you just over the horizon. That's the three years. Better not ask for a higher salary since AI *could* replace you.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.

forever-wars.com

The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon

It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

this is an almost literal textbook example of how and when not to use anonymous sources -no reason given for granting anonymity -quoting her directly -no value to her quotes, because she is -just criticizing people behind her anonymity -and it's opinion, not fact -plus the obvious hypocrisy

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Strategic bombing doesn’t work?” Does it not? Or was Ukraine simply the first country to discover the enemy’s true center of gravity?

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