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Principled Uncertainty

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South Jersey / Philly. Lightly posted. Good for a reply or two. I don't agree with everyone I follow.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is an enemy of the West and everything it stands for
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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Principled Uncertainty @jameshasausername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hope Ukraine takes out every Russian refinery; the sooner the better.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump & ICE have done this to 25,000 people & counting. The government is abducting our neighbors and disappearing them to places with abhorrent human rights records. Often, they’re stranded there without money or identity papers. These aren’t deportations - they’re renditions.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on" “I have no one. I have nothing.” This is beyond grotesque. Shame, Shame, Shame on Trump and everyone involved in this horror.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I should add that in addition to being much funnier than anticipated--Musk is going to be intensely humiliated by this movie, it's going to attack the deepest wounds he tries so hard to conceal--it is also bone-chilling. I think he gutted USAID with DOGE to kill masses of people in the third world.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026
this is the story of the midterms I am not sure I have ever seen a more demoralized republican electorate, and the more irregular trump voters we can get to disconnect from the political system entirely the better
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026
if what’s alleged in this story is true, not only should collins lose, she should also go to prison
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The victim's lawyer is furnishing details: His name is Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, and he's a DoorDash delivery man. He was making a delivery when ICE agents attacked him, riddling his car with bullets and shooting him in the back. Don't believe a word that DHS says about this incident.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BREAKING: US diesel prices have hit a new record high of $6.5 per gallon
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude oil next month after the kingdom’s key pipeline to the Red Sea was attacked…”
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Saudis Tell European Refiners They’ll Get No Crude Next Month
Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude oil next month after the kingdom’s key pipeline to the Red Sea was attacked, people informed of the...
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Principled Uncertainty @jameshasausername.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dangerous scum
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Principled Uncertainty @jameshasausername.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any pretense that they aren't still conspiracy-brained freaks is a cover, a whitewash. They're the same they've always been.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ALERT: #GreatLakes and #Rockies regions are likely to see another price hike this week, even with price jumps that happened already yesterday and today due to huge jumps in wholesale gasoline and diesel prices. Gasoline could jump 25-75c with diesel rising 55-85c/gal
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Uh oh
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/09/2026
#BREAKING Houthis have seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast: govt military official
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is now the second time in a matter of months that a late-night host has disclosed they had to bury an interview because of FCC intimidation. No host, local affiliate, or network should have to weigh federal retaliation before booking a guest for a newsworthy interview 🧵
Text of Gomez statement on Kimmel interview and FCC intimidation campaign
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
WAPO: “.. The Associated Press is advising its reporters and others who follow AP style to continue referring to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite President Donald Trump’s order to rename it Lake America last month ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At more than $216 per barrel, US diesel futures are now at their highest level in history. We just busted through the prior record set at the height of the 2022 crisis.
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Crude flying this morning—Brent now above $104/bbl. Wheels coming off.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There is no serious denying that Elon Musk is a white supremacist. It's not a matter of alleged subtext or parsing unstated implications. It's just right there in his own unambiguous and explicit plain English.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump made $2.2 bn-yes BILLION- in 2025 while in office -crypto schemes, foreign gifts, selling early access to his posts for $100k/month. A million investors lost $3.8 bn in his coin. Experts call it the most openly corrupt presidency in history. That's looting & it’s impeachable. #OneV1 #Pinks
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Principled Uncertainty @jameshasausername.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On a lighter note, the Mandolorian and Grogu was enjoyable, actually. I assume people have stupid takes about it either because they have ADHD (it isn't paced like a Marvel movie) or cannot conceive of a movie that is merely meant to be entertaining, not subversive or shocking or groundbreaking.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/09/2026
US mortgage rates soar to a new high for the year, closing in on 7% cnn.it/4yhob0i
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Once again observing that the awed reverance that our society's elites supposedly had for Supporting The Troops when that was being used to bolster support for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was complete bullshit. Trump shits all over dead troops and they celebrate him. It was all a huge joke to them.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
I don’t know how many members of the military will receive the message but it simply could not be clearer that this administration doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone it’s putting in harm’s way
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 33% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone
A graph of US manufacturing construction
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