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Jay of the Commonwealth

@dowhilebreak.bsky.social
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Tea powered, code flinging, pie hoarding, politically dispossessed giant forehead, and master artisan of unwieldy sentences raging against the darkness.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Artemis II Return
NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 28/03/2026
Pittsburgh saw thousands of people take to the streets on Saturday as part of a No Kings day of action, the third such event in a nationwide resistance movement against what organizers and participants deem an increasingly authoritarian government. buff.ly/RgQsoTa
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Jay of the Commonwealth @dowhilebreak.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#nokings Pittsburgh
Photo taken as the No Kings crowd begins to march toward Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County courthouse is in the background. The photo subject is a protester holding a three dimensional sculpture comprising a golden crown inside a red circle with a diagonal red bar cutting across the crown.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We need a ticker showing the cost to the American taxpayer every time a bomb is dropped, a jet takes flight, a warship moves etc Seems to be plenty of cash for that, not for, you know, actual living.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today: —Democrats won HD94 by 63 points. (Harris won it by 30 in 2024.) —Democrats won HD42 by 35 points. (Harris won it by 17 in 2024.) [The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
What’s worse, Fetterman working harder to get a pardon for Netanyahu than healthcare for his own constituents….or the fact that he did the Netanyahu letter in secret?
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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 21/11/2025
My favorite piece of content today.
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serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with
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was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A blockbuster investigation by the AP, out today. So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/11/2025
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
President Trump has reportedly pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of effort by the Chinese-born Canadian businessman to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company […]
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
As bad as everything is, I think I hate the sheer stupidity of it the most
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 19/10/2025
Pittsburgh joined in on the nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests today, with thousands gathering in front of the City-County Building downtown and Allegheny Commons Park on the Northside...
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'No Kings' protests draw thousands in the Pittsburgh area - Pittsburgh City Paper | News, Dining, Music, Best Of, Arts, Film
Pittsburgh joined in on the nationwide 'No Kings' protests today, with thousands gathering in front of the City-County Building downtown and Allegheny Commons Park on the Northside. The downtown prote...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 12/08/2025
What is the Home Rule and what does it have to do with Trump’s federalization of D.C.? @bensheehan.bsky.social breaks it down
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We’re one more revelation away from MAGA telling us that sexually abusing teenage girls is good, actually.
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Jay of the Commonwealth @dowhilebreak.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The asshat's toadies run every branch of government, and they still can't fabricate a nothingburger document release after six months? Is the coverup really that complicated or are they just that lazy?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"A Muslim socialist won the Democratic nomination to be mayor of New York City by going on a radio show with antifascist conservatives" I say as I step out of the time machine in 2003 and am immediately institutionalized
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Not the most important part of this story, but the fact this Vance meme is currently circulating the globe at light speed is a moment of quiet joy.
Daily Mail story, headlined: 

Norwegian tourist, 21, is barred from entering the US after ICE guards find meme showing JD Vance with a bald head on his phone

Below is is a large photo of the Vance meme with him bald and fat.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
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ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court
"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025
Kari Lake (USAGM 'special adviser') is emailing ‘reduction-in-force’ (termination) notices to many VOA staffers who’ve been on paid leave since mid-March. She's also axing some who were brought back to implement her Potemkin Village VOA (reaching only 0.2% of our prior audience).
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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I... don't even know with this cat. this cat has just lost his shit entirely
a very fluffy grey cat with a white face mid-snarl, with one eye squinting almost shut and a fang bared
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Domestic terrorists
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Can someone help me understand why all these people on CNBC think tariff uncertainty's gonna fade? Seems...unrealistic.
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Jay of the Commonwealth @dowhilebreak.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Squatchy
Screenshot of a Fox News video where Trump is seen walking against a breeze with a forest behind him.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The answer is in ICE's selection of targets: * Democratic politicians in public * Immigrants attending court hearings, at work, or at schools None of those people will be armed. On the flipside, ICE is scrupulously avoiding raids on cartel affiliates, drug dealing sites, etc. They might be armed.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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Jay of the Commonwealth @dowhilebreak.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Oh boy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As they’re trying to do the right thing
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Tasha Coryell @tashacoryell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"Politicians from the opposition party being detained" has become a thing that happens on a regular basis.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is one of the main reasons they wanted Trump to win in 2024. The bosses were desperate to get workers back into a situation where they are desperate and easy to exploit, and away from the tight Biden labor market, where low wage workers were getting double digit % raises. Promises kept!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mayor Brandon Scott appears to be doing something right, but somehow this remarkable, record setting decline in violence doesn't quite make national headlines the way the opposite does www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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Baltimore’s homicide rate dropped to a historic low last month, defied racial trends
Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old? He said "I'm just beginning!"
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dmball70.bsky.social @dmball70.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com This is the best sign I saw at protests for no kings
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.
Photo from Carlin Stiehl from the LA Times. Dozens of people holding American flags on the streets of LA are in frame, with a massive cloud of tear gas billowing in front of them. One protester holds a sign that reads Immigrants Make Us Great.
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greenspringrise.bsky.social @greenspringrise.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings Pittsburgh
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Jay of the Commonwealth @dowhilebreak.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
My favorite sign of the day in Pittsburgh (and there were a lot of goodies) #NoKings
A protest sign that depicts Lady Liberty leading a protest on top of a chess board. The sign reads "Checkmate"
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Jay of the Commonwealth @dowhilebreak.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings Pittsburgh
Protesters march down Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/06/2025
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...
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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
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Hank G @neqone.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
For no reason, today I've been thinking about that time a bunch of GOP House members broke into a SCIF where classified hearings were being held with media in tow, refused to give up their devices, and live tweeted from inside. No one was escorted out or put in cuffs. www.wired.com/story/republ...
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Total SCIF Show: The GOP's Raid Puts National Security at Risk
House Republicans barged into a secure facility uninvited Wednesday, creating a host of problems in the process.
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