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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 1h

The law of war doesn't require civilians to prove their innocence, regardless. IMO better to just say killing civilians, rather than bringing up innocence.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 1h

Same argument used by most Israeli politicians regarding people in Gaza supporting Hamas, therefore they deserve to die

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 1h

Right, Cannon's cases were repeatedly appealed to higher courts

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 3h

Saw this at a gun range in Texas (CA was also marked, but I took the photo because I was handing over my NY license at the time).

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 13h

convergence of different kinds of far-right bigot

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 13h

He said it like an applause line and got applause the first time. Less so on the repeat

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 13h

Did the Ming dynasty revenge-invade Mongolia? Mostly no, except to stop raiding, IIRC

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 13h

Silicon Valley seems less practical in comparison, with a lot of weird assumptions. But I'm not sure how a Chinese company gets paid for developing an open-weights model anyone can easily copy

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 13h

China's AI development: open weights, focus on practical applications, industrial uses, widespread adoption. "When firms download China’s AI models to build on them, they absorb Chinese technical assumptions and help make them industry standards." archive.is/202610072120...

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 14h

Nah, let them run with it Let them oppose every attempted successor because Trump is supposedly still alive

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h

KEEP YOUR FU*KING HANDS OFF OUR VOTE! Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 17 to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18h

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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ElectionCord @electioncord.com · 18h

2 interesting things from a new poll by Centerline: 1. Only half of all likely voters said they could name their current representative, and out of those, 16% did not get their representative correct. 2. 65% of likely voters think that most of the House should be replaced.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Imagine thinking America is not enough "it's who you know" and too much "it's what you know"

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He's Budgets Steve, the guy actually running the nuts and bolts of the Pentagon

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If we use state resources on these operations, it'll be something different. State resources are not used on partisan politics in a democracy. E.g. Trump's use of Treasury $ on campaign ads is a sign of non-democracy. But we should do it to foreign competitive authoritarians.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Europe should be running influence ops here so we can run influence ops against Bolsonaro in Brazil so Brazil can run influence ops against Le Pen in France

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

now is a good time to remember how some military observers, including an academic at a british university, kept telling us that we were underestimating us military power due to negative polarization and iran was going to collapse from bombing and subversion

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The administration hates and punishes those that would sacrifice themselves for others.

Lincón spent seven weeks getting specialized outpatient care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, before being sent home to Kansas. Shrapnel is still in his back because it was too close to his spinal cord to remove without risking being left paralyzed. He struggles with dizziness that disrupts his life, he said.
He was awarded the Purple Heart and is back on active duty as an instructor at Fort Leavenworth. But his troubles continued beyond medical care.
Lincón, who was born in Texas to Mexican parents, was issued only a temporary one-year passport after his passport was blown up in the attack and he was asked for additional documentation to prove his U.S. citizenship. After the AP reached out to the State Department to inquire about his case, the 1995 West Point graduate said he received a call saying the request for more information was a mistake and he would be receiving a passport that would be good for 10 years.
"I'm American enough to have fought in three different wars," Lincón said.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel like punishing the political opposition is bad on its own terms, not because of collateral damage among regime supporters. I even prefer if Trump has bad aim when he's trying to hit me.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh. I meant the current momentary swing, not anything larger

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So this is a kind of reverse stove touching or vicious cycle: Trump breaks post-WWII order, creates chaos and disrupts world economy, hurts himself politically but also the world status quo

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump's war is hitting a lot of places harder than the US, probably

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is crazy how quickly they’ve shifted from arguing about the purported cultural pathologies of black people to arguing that those exact same alleged pathologies are virtues in white peolle

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We should, but not because of one case of a well-understood disease.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, between government shakedown of corporate donors for Republicans and government spending on campaign ads, that's gonna happen

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

negative polarization against Covid denialists / antivaxx?

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Great Leap was an economic failure The opposite policy in the 1980s - the turn towards the market and private property - was the economic success

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People fought 4chan by becoming like them, too acting like blood feuding clansfolk on the lawless internet

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My mistake: the couchfucker says it's merely Abundance of Caution! at the Airbase Or it could be pretextual, I guess, if they wanted to withdraw from Europe anyway

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Pentagon officials" are telling media it's because of "threat"[

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most Mainers (or anywhere) don't vote in primaries

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Right. So should there be a "reckoning" for the center as a result of nominating a candidate they didn't want? They should be honest that she ran the kind of popularist campaign Matt Yglesias would recommend...

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Biden and Harris both had voting records as Senators, and Biden was well to the right of Harris. Nominating her was definitely not the party shifting to the right (which is why the moderates wanted some lightning convention, any way to not run her)

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The guys who called the cops on themselves are super scary

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Plot causes character is the opposite of Character causes plot

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Trump followed my advice and also gave me a pony, he would win

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When he's lost the nostalgia grandpas

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