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djharvey81.bsky.social

@djharvey81.bsky.social
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Just a guy using Bluesky to follow interesting and informed people on a wide range of topics. I am not Richard Nixon.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15h
Another HBCU student athlete has been snatched up by ICE. hbcugameday.com/2026/10/08/h...
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HBCU basketball player with Chinese nationality detained by ICE
An HBCU basketball player faces detention by ICE as concerns grow for international student-athletes navigating immigration issues.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20h
Whatever clout you think you get for always asserting the maximally cynical "it's always been bad and I've always known as much" perspective is worthless and actually making you much stupider as a person and more useless as a political agent.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense. After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
he is notable in his personal life for bragging about committing atrocities he could not possibly have had anything to do with. stealing dishonor.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It can sometimes seem like stating the obvious that the Trump regime does things that are evil, but this is evil. There's not another word for it. It is so corrosive and degrading that it will permanently disfigure the society which permits it. It is sheer barbarism.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i don’t think “less food safety” is what the average voter had in mind after the lettuce debacle
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
objectively pro-diarrhea regime
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The performative logic of a public execution is the same as the images of boat-strikes in the Caribbean - state violence as pure spectacle. It is the strategy of a government that rules through coercion rather than consent. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026
As Walmart attempts to debunk research into its pricing practices by watchdog group Groundwork Collaborative, the organization released a new report highlighting 14 separate patents the $833 billion corporation holds or has applied for — all aimed at monitoring customers and upcharging them.
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New Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech
Walmart’s US CEO said customers’ order value jumps 40 percent when they use the company’s AI shopping assistant.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I’m glad more people are pointing this out. I talked about it it a few weeks ago w/ @janus.bsky.social Companies are attempting a sleight of hand where they capture data but argue because of how it’s processed it’s not “recording” and is thus private. They are still surveillance devices!
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We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so old I remember when this poll/metric inspired a thousand hot takes about the Dem Party image being irretrievably damaged by cultural excess via @simonwdc.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter... www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/dems-up-11...
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's really quite dire. And it's happening at every level -- no federal funding, no nonprofit funding, no state funding. Plus harassment at every level, federal and state. People who do good work are being put in positions where it is nearly impossible for them to continue.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Intimidation and threats from the current administration have led funders who once saw themselves as allies to our movement to reassess political risk and pull back funding.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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WA immigrant support organization gutted by mass layoffs
The nonprofit laid off more than half its staff amid a unionization effort. Leadership blamed poor fundraising and a depleted budget.
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
...inconsistent with the relevant standards of review, where the inconsistencies have a remarkable tendency of benefiting Republicans, and all while insisting that what little the Court says after such a truncated process should have precedential effects below._ Samuel Alito pretends, falsely... 2/
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CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior contradicts nearly all his claims...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The problem with the Supreme Court’s corrupt Republican majority’s use of the “Shadow Docket” is this: _In too many high-profile cases, the justices are handing down significant rulings on scant briefing with little internal deliberation and little public explanation, in ways that at least... 1/
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CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior contradicts nearly all his claims...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
like, this isn't rocket science. He takes steps to kill Democrats. He says he wants to kill Democrats. You're allowed to believe him.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s funny because he sucks so bad at all of this that he clearly starts out trying to say “we are doing this so that they *won’t* take out Los Angeles,” but halfway through saying it, since his brain is mush, it turns into “fuck Los Angeles.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a big deal for me and, as I've said a thousand times on here, I think the doomer-narrative of nothing being a win bc Trump and his people lie and cheat is dangerous. They lose. A lot. And rightfully so because they're doing illegal things. And taking those wins is important for democracy.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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No I didn’t say Hiroshima was good I just said it helped push the Japanese towards surrender
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow, this article makes terrific points to rebut the notion that there's supposedly no energy transition, since clean energy merely "adds to" growing fossil fuel production. But without new wind & solar, we'd have around 30% higher CO2 emissions annually. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-if-th...
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think that @aselrod.bsky.social is right that the attention economy does bad things to our brains, whether or not those things qualify as addiction www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026
He’s gonna be James Carville’s Wario, dining out on one election for decades, except somehow it’s not even an election he won
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BROKEN: Everything.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not the most important thing about Brazil because no electoral system can save you from voter choices, but... a) two-round runoff is not a great system, and b) their effective electoral threshold for PR in the legislature is too low, and c) these two things in combination are especially unstable
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Always be impeaching. ALWAYS be impeaching.
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