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Gayle Force

@gayleforce.bsky.social
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Queer, feral street Jew. Contortionist without a circus. Capital public defender. Amateur potter and maker of little guys. ACAB includes prosecutors.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 16/10/2026
October 16, 1968
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists on the medal stand at he 1968 Olympics in Mexico City; Peter Norman looks on
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h
Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
idk i think the inherent desire to personify and empathise with the world around us, animate or otherwise, is fundamental to our humanity. i love it. that companies would prey on that urge and leverage it against us disgusts me
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Update
An African wild dog pup sculpted from porcelain and gone through raku, mostly black but splattered with crackle white and orange glaze
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/10/2026
it is shocking that more people in perimenopause don’t simply walk into the woods
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
He GLOW
A porcelain African wild dog pup in a raku kiln waiting to be put in wood shavings
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
BREAKING: In an interview w/Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia admits that despite describing herself repeatedly as a lawyer and working as General Counsel for a non-profit she has never been licensed to practice law and failed the California bar.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/10/2026
If these frat boys were holding up "Stop The Genocide" signs on campus instead of raping women, universities would have expelled them and banned the frats already
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James @elchopo99.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
i want to eventually see the insanely long elon musk documentary, but in the interim, this short 2 paragraph nuclear bomb from @karlbode.com is about the single best description of elon ive ever seen
Quick reminder: Elon Musk is an unremarkable and virulent racist who cosplays as a supergenius engineer. He leveraged the money he lucked into at Paypal to opportunistically glom onto actual innovators and take singular credit for their work while consistently cutting corners in ways that put human lives at risk.

There's bottomless evidence he doesn't know how anything works, yet has found unsurprising financial success in a country being devoured alive by artifice.
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
we live in hell
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Also I know from where the case is procedurally there was no way that December execution was going to happen, but that Trump was pressured enough to walk this back I choose to take as a good sign
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
wired.com
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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/10/2026
so many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:
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The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
The U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets.
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I am sure there are snarky jokes to be made here but as someone whose job it is to sometimes witness executions, I am so fucking relieved for all of us
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Also it is against the law for her to say she's a lawyer, so *technically* only the paper can say this bullshit, not her
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Literally *against the law* for her to call herself a lawyer in possibly every state but certainly DC, NY, and CA, congrats to the paper of record
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And here’s the trailer for BEING HEUMANN. In cinemas Nov 6, streaming on AppleTV Nov 13. I saw it last night at the London Film Festival & it’s a triumph.
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Dustin @dustinheron.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
DiCaprio pointing knowingly meme but his face is Karl Marx
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Almost like the boat strikes are just performative murder and not a serious counter-drug tactic. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
wsj.com
Why U.S. Airstrikes Are Failing to Stop the Global Cocaine Boom
Smugglers are shifting routes and using new tactics to evade military targeting, resulting in record supplies and plunging prices.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Boromir is tempted by the one ring
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hi there is currently no ethical way to use genAI. Hope this helps.
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yeah so here quality of life = how white the city is, don't it
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Everything about this is delightful including the bird automaton actually for sale (and going to a good cause!) youtu.be/7f6xlHh1fok?...
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Kelly Clarkson Brooklyn Store Video, Revealed: What REALLY Happened? | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OSSOFF: Mike, you just confused Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act despite reading from your notes ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's a good evening to review the Save the Academy coalition's action items and pick a few to do tomorrow during business hours (or send some emails tonight) 👀 save-the-academy.org
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026
It’s a politics of white reconciliation premised on anti-Blackness.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I feel like "but X is the relevant app! it's where it all goes down!" is not a good sales pitch to the users of this site, all of whom are a couple bad days away from moving to the woods
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you've had shingles as an adult but don't meet the age requirement, you can ask your doctor to write a prescription for the vax. Those shots will make you feel like shit but it'll be nothing compared to shingles
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How it’s going
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
AI is a very particular thing to the boosters: A Sin Eater A consequence absolvement machine. See: AI "going rogue," Roko's Basilisk, this... all tied up in some transhumanist eschatological fervor for an uploaded rapture without death, pain, or the vaguest discomfort of someone telling you no.
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
used to be able to google a line i sort of half-remembered and get the quote but now it just takes the thing I half-remembered unaltered and hallucinates a play & character to attribute it to (or just another author and century entirely!) the line i wanted (w HIS affections and TEND) is from hamlet
twelfth nightpride and prejudiceactual quote: hamlet
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Turns out Rainbow Capitalism is good because the alternative isn’t Rainbow Communism
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Radley Balko is a national treasure. He also hates asking for subscribers. If you’re in a position to do so, subscribing to his newsletter would free him up to do what he does best: reporting on criminal justice. radleybalko.substack.com/p/four-years...
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Four years of The Watch: And an appeal for your support
A thank you to the paid subscribers who make my work possible. You should join them!
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 12/10/2026
Imagine if losers like this were in charge of the union during the civil war. “The armed seizure of Fort Sumter raises serious questions about our Southern friends and neighbors continuing their upsetting rhetoric about secession”
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I can't put it better or more succinctly than Dan Levy puts it here. There's an idea among misogynists like Shane Gillis that the only context for a woman's existence is her sexuality in relation to him. It's an attitude, promoted and amplified by SNL, that perpetuates violence against women.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Gayle Force @gayleforce.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The only response
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