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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 18h

This announced impoundment is best viewed as a confession. The Admin is claiming a non-existent right to NOT use the funds provided by Congress for their lawful purpose; it is employing a timing gimmick that relies on having ILLEGALLY withheld the funds up until now.

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resistance1955.bsky.social @resistance1955.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe --- just maybe, mind you --- we need to have a long conversation about Schmitt's "criminal falsification of evidence against a witness." Which, as I believe, violates 18 U.S. Code § 1519, (falsifying records in federal investigations) with the penalty being "imprisonment for up to 20 years."

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Emily Chang talked about the sex parties and pressure to attend in her 2018 book Brotopia. She mentioned a San Francisco party where pills with the Tesla logo were offered.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminize a band name 10,000 Hysterics

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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fun Fact: In 2014, Tuberville started a charity for veterans. But it turns out it was basically just a scam. The vast majority of donations went to hosting golf tournaments so Tuberville could network for personal gain. He also ran 3 Ponzi schemes. But sure, Furries are the real danger. Right.

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NYT Investigation: “Tommy Tuberville’s Financial Fumbles” Raise More Questions About His Judgment, Integrity - DSCC

Tuberville “Has A History Of Involvement With At Least Three People Who Were Later Convicted Of Financial Fraud In What Were Described As Ponzi Schemes” A Review Of Tax Records For Tuberville’s Charit...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Impeach the motherfucker.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah: the Unitary Executive theory of removals is dumb because the President must faithfully execute the laws—including civil rights law—and firing people because of race and gender violates civil rights law. People really need to read Federalist Paper No. 69.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 17/09/2026

This place needs more “look at this stupid thing I made because the idea amused me” and less “here is my position on the recurring social object”

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Add a letter to a sausage and make it terrible.

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Sharon Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The panic/anticipation of the AI IPOs feels...off? Someone who is smarter at the economy tell me, is it typical for companies to keep delaying their IPOs without publishing a prospectus like Anthropic is doing? (at least, as of an early Sept report in Forbes) www.forbes.com/sites/jonmar...

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Anthropic Delays IPO And Expands Credit Line To $15 Billion

Anthropic pushes its IPO to mid October while securing a $15 billion credit line, signaling lender confidence and a stronger balance‑sheet strategy.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

U may see Greta Thunberg's lifework & think "wow this kid really embodies the Christ Consciousness" but what if I told u a white German South African American man who made his riches selling the blood of young people to now fund AI war machines & turn the US into an open oligarchy said she is Satan

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What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026

To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I understand the “absolutely nots”, but then I also think a lot of 1960s dems in congress were either outright racists or hedgers on race on the campaign trail, but who voted with the majority on civil rights laws and confirmed Thurgood Marshall et al to the court. And I feel like I’d take that.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Of course.

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Even here in Maryland, this story hasn’t been getting enough attention. Read this thread. Watch the videos. Share it widely. This is what solidarity looks like Showing up for your neighbors and protecting them from terrorists like these is fucking rad as hell. Heroes, all

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What a shock--Trump sends Witkoff and Kushner to meet first with Putin and reach an understanding, and naturally the Ukrainians have to say no. The idea that the US could be an honest broker in this war is madness. It is a stalking horse for the Russian dictator.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Helpful, they alphabetized all of his letters, so it’s 82,000 As, followed by 10,500 Bs, 28,000 Cs, and so on.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I'm reading this correctly, the President is threatening the Fed with tariffs.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

***Letter-Writing Campaign Against NARA Closures*** The federal government recently announced that it will be closing National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) branches in San Bruno, CA and Chicago, IL and move historical records to Missouri with no research facilities. A thread - 1/

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1. A Senate Republican super PAC tricked a grieving father into appearing in a political ad. A GOP operative targeted A SUPPORT GROUP FOR THE PARENTS OF MURDER VICTIMS offering an opportunity to speak about their children and gun violence. 🧵

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The truth will set you free But first it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem rest in power and thank you

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Steinam story: She was Commencement Speaker for WashU's Brown School a few years ago I honored her by wearing "ERA" button She smiled, said thanks. Then said: "you know why ERA failed?" I said "Schlafly's opposition" She said, no, health insurance industry fearing it would require equal premiums.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our limited time and resources are best spent doing that traditional training. Not gambling to see if Gemini or whatever can help.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

How did the USA become authoritarian? Two ways: Gradually and then suddenly.

Graph of incarcerated americans showing rise since 1920 and very sharp rise from 1980 at half a million up to two million

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A lot of you are think once Trump leaves office things will "go back to normal." It's not that easy. You are forgetting one thing: the people he radicalized are STILL radicalized. The normal you want is comfort. It wasn't comfortable for a lot of us. Some things will have to change. Are you ready?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sometimes I can’t even fully process the catastrophe that RFK Jr. has unleashed upon the United States. It is infuriating and demoralizing that tens of thousands of scientists and healthcare professionals banded together to oppose his confirmation, and Republicans just blithely ignored us all.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If the Dems have a Jeb!, It’s Gavin.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 27/08/2026

No one's forgotten that Trump Media has been a dud of a stock. Often overlooked: Truth Social has been relegated to a money-losing side hustle. The main business is a money-losing crypto treasury, down about $450M. Since $DJT announced it was buying $BTC, its shares have dropped 65%. 11/

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” -Jennifer Nelson (quoted in the linked booklet, alongside other extraordinary pieces)

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I hope the space he escaped to is never corrupted by capitalism. #timcurry #commandandconquer

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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you think this is not a problem, bc mail voting may not favor Democrats, or bc it's too late to affect voting, or any other argument related to the actual voting, you're missing the point. The point isn't to affect the results of the election, it's to create the conditions for contesting them.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There are also 4 TT librarian positions open: careers.ua.edu/jobs/search/...