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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK Labour parliamentarians literally, unapologetically criminalizing political dissent on Israel
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The irony of Benny Netanyahu (né Milekowsky’s) minions talking about the origins of people’s names
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Israeli Minister for antisemitism and diaspora affairs responds with to accusations of racism ….. with hardcore racism
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026
The usual suspects aren't panicking about the bond market gods the way they do when someone proposes spending a million bucks to feed children
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026
And doctor's offices seem confused when their very elderly patients find this difficult. I get that they might bave no control over what system they use, but they should comprehend the issues
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Neither sitting NY senator endorsed the party’s candidate for mayor either. One (Gillibrand) instead attacked him with such gutter racism, calling him a “jihadist” that she was forced to apologize
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chuck Schumer’s buddy, the sitting Democratic Governor of Maine, declines to endorse the Democratic candidate for US Senate, because vote blue no matter who unless they say anything remotely progressive thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Mills declines to endorse Jackson in Maine Senate race
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Tuesday declined to endorse Troy Jackson, the state’s Democratic nominee for Senate, months out from the general election.  “We haven’t spoken, but clearly …
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Right” of “return”
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gaza has no army, no air force, no navy, no tanks, no artillery, and no missiles. Stop calling this a war. It’s a genocide.
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Western values
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
POV: you’re “targeting Hamas”
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was Biden’s “red line” that they don’t even attack Rafah. The sheer cuckoldery of these complicit enablers from both parties is just mind blowing
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A 1000 year old city utterly razed by these genocidal freaks, using our weapons and diplomatic immunity
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/09/2026
‘Israelis branded Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham as traitors, not Jews, “Kapos”. There were calls for violence against them, for them to be ostracised, sent to Gaza or exiled elsewhere.’ Alona Ferber on the frenzied response to the documentary 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Alona Ferber | Layers of Denial
The frenzy in Israel surrounding the documentary NAZA is fundamentally undemocratic. That is what happens after years of...
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oopsie I guess huh No reason to put a guy who killed 100 school girls on trial www.propublica.org/article/hegs...
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On the left is what promoting democracy looks like. On the right is the what was sold to Americans by both major parties for 2 generations
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
u need to do a poll first
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
POV: you’re a thoughtful professor guy just seeking truth www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/u...
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Why Scott Galloway says professors who are protesting should be fired | CNN
NYU Stern School of Business professor and author Scott Galloway explains to CNN’s Michael Smerconish why he believes professors and students participating in pro-Palestinian protests should be held t...
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as the largest-scale mass slaughter of civilians that has ever taken place in that region in a comparable period of time, it is a permanent stain that won’t be erased ever and it’s a permanent schism in whatever version of this community assholes like this want to try to gate-keep
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
19 members of my family didn’t get killed in nazi death camps for frauds like Scott Galloway to claim their identity and suffering as a weapon to support genocide against others this is not a minor policy disagreement
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a perfect encapsulation of the problem with centrism. Being loved by some and hated by others is much more effective than being regarded with indifference by all
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most brutal massacre of the South African apartheid era killed 69 people
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is now so much worse than apartheid South Africa. Which is something the ANC leaders have observed for years
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scott Galloway’s feelings are more important than acknowledging the deliberate ongoing killing of tens of thousands of civilians People like this are why the holocaust could happen. I never understood it before but I absolutely get it now
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This overt policy of outright murder of civilians may not make the top 10 atrocities that the Trump administration has committed, but it’s the one that is the most open-and-shut criminal case
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Don’t let anyone call this a fringe position
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 22/09/2026
The AGs are cowards. All of the work this thread recapitulates, all of the legal fighting, all of it? They folded. They caved. They're supposed to be the champions of democracy and they're just fucking cowards.
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to Bari Weiss, the Ellisons and the obvious circle of people happy for them to control both CNN and CBS
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very serious presidential contender Gavin Newsom
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I understand. I don’t agree tho. Machines can do this work and in my view it’s perverse to triple the amount of time it takes to post, for no reason
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mazel tov
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If people are “anti AI” then just call it OCR. the US Post Office shipped it in 1965
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cc @pfrazee.com - feature request !!
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bluesky should just ship AI transcription of images. I’m not manually transcribing every post - there is no reason for it. It’s extremely old tech to be able to do this
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James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re learning a lot about the people around us from what - if anything - they do or say about this
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026
This really gets it. Why aren't they mad?
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