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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A protest against the detainments of immigrants at 930 e towne in LA beginning to escalate. Detainees are being filed into trucks. Large protest is here. Tear gas has been deployed. More to come.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

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The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think

Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

new york democrat: corruption is BAD. we should RID the city of these VENAL LIARS and make PROGRESS new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars: today i would like to announce my support for corruption

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

DOGE used *cheap, outdated* AI to "munch" the VA contracts. The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts. It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value. It concluded more than a thousand were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

tbh, this perfectly comports with my recollection of 2024.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Said it before but the worse things get it bears repeating. You are not a ‘creative’ or a ‘maker.’ You’re an artist, & if you choose to distinguish, a playwright, painter, whatever. These words have a lineage, they mean something. They’re politically important. Take responsibility.

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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

For those of you who scoff at the idea, there will be no elections under the GOP, here it is. Black and white. This is how the game is played by the dirty side. Time for the Democrats to wake up.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

McMahon: Wasn’t that when Junkyard Dog destroyed Randy Savage at the Tulsa Memorial Coliseum in 1989?

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/06/2025

it’s almost like courage in the face of fascism is rewarded by voters or something

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is the *real* rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Ah, so that's what 'AI' stands for...

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Proud of these people. “Hit the bricks!”

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Armed FBI agents knocked on the doors of two pub defenders at SEVEN AM, asking to talk w them, having made no earlier effort to reach out. Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE. FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true. HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month… “By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Weakened courts, happy heirs, and work requirements. The House-passed version of Donald Trump's tax plan takes from poor, gives to rich.

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

Reggie Watts statement, 1 of 2:

“I was disappointed to see that Thom's statement centers his hurt feelings and frames his fans' demands for him to speak up as a "social media witch hunt," instead of recognizing the urgency of their call for him to speak out against the world-historical humanitarian crisis in Palestine. I hope Thom will reflect and decenter himself from the public outcry against the genocide, because if he and his artistic legacy stand for love and humanity as he asserts, he can come to see his fans' actions as an act of loving solidarity with suffering people-a needed affirmation of our humanity in these dark times.”

Reggie Watts statement 2 of 2:

“I also want to address Thom's repetition of a common rhetorical tactic of those who are devoted to maintaining the status quo, that one cannot speak up or demand an end to the genocide unless they fully understand the deep
"complexity" of this historical conflict. I urge Thom's fans to reject this conviction-neutralizing, demobilizing sentiment and trust their hearts. You don't need to be a geopolitics scholar to know that starving children and slaughtering families is wrong. Your membership in the human family gives you authority and, indeed, responsibility to speak up. All positive change starts with conscious and loving people raising their voices and working together to bring a better world into existence. Please keep fighting until our sisters and brothers in Palestine are free.”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry. 2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry. 2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry. 2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

What's bad about what's going on has nothing to do with what relationships these people have or what they're ingesting. It's that people are being disappeared, erased, that people are being made to suffer and starve and die Keep your eye on the ball. These people are messy and it's easy to get lost

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 30/05/2025

excited that my little niece lost her dream job at the EPA in one of the poorest areas in the country because this guy was out of his mind on cat tranquilizers and The Turner Diaries

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/05/2025

The Trump administration is canceling a nearly $600-million contract to the drugmaker Moderna that was intended to develop a shot for humans against bird flu.

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U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Remember that Emil Bove made sure that the case against Eric Adams would be dropped so that Eric Adams would do something exactly like this. Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...) Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.

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StoptheButterflyRevolution @bluestockings59.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"The administration will also use its education muscle to privatize K-12 education. Tucked into the budget reconciliation bill, the Educational Choice for Children Act, is a private-school voucher scheme that also functions as a tax shelter for the wealthy."

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

And yet prestige journalists will continue to write stenographic stories and headlines dutifully and uncritically reciting what Measles McBrainworm has to say at every turn 🤡

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

the template for the new round of elon musk puff pieces is baked in

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Bob Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 28/05/2025

He must be polling pretty well if the "his platform is too ambitious/unrealistic" pieces are dropping.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors say influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged with rape.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The WaPo piece references neither of these events. 🤡

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer. The US is now undeniably a rogue state. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

In a statement in response to a Chalkbeat inquiry and later posted to social media, schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos said, “Our hearts go out to the student who was detained by ICE, and we are deeply saddened for their family. While this incident did not occur on school grounds, we want to reassure our families: we will continue to speak out and advocate for the safety, dignity, and rights of all of our students.”

In the five days since he was detained on May 21, Dylan, who suffers from severe stomach issues, has been shuttled between four different states — New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania, according to his lawyers and mom.

The rapid moves have prevented his lawyers from making contact with him, since it usually takes several days after a transfer to set up a consultation, according to an attorney from the New York Legal Assistance Group, or NYLAG, which is representing Dylan. Raiza, who has spoken to Dylan by phone, said he has not received medical care and has spent most of the time with his hands and feet cuffed.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.

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Cinema Strikes Back @cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Aw man, I heard he was not doing well. First really started reading his stuff when he took over X-Factor in the ‘90s and somehow turned it into my favorite X-book in that weird transitional era, and then he grabbed me with Spider-Man 2099. Only met him once, but he was lovely. RIP.

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Miguel O’Hara Co-Creator and Comic Book Legend Peter David Dead at 68

Peter David, the comic book writer and creator of Miguel O'Hara who worked on 'Spider-Man 2099', 'Supergirl' and more, has died at the age of 68.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.”

The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration:
• February: 53.8% (7 out of 13)
• March: 74.3% (26 out of 35)
• April: 76.1% (51 out of 67)
• May: 96.3% (26 out of 27)

The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president:
• Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36)
• Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92)

Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL
Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Since the dawn of information technology - literally the Gutenberg era - tech entrepreneurs have been trying to convince people that their new way of delivering information would be killed if they had to actually pay for the information they were making money delivering. This story is 400 years old.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 25/05/2025

These words and actions send a clarion message of impunity to people considering political violence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

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