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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Thank you, @jazzrobertson.bsky.social, for reading my book & taking a pic of it while journeying upon the freakin’ Nile.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.

ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Pinky toes and sharp corners exist to keep us humble.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"There is a robust and fast-growing body of interdisciplinary research that comprehensively debunks the claims that tech companies — and those who shill for them — make about these products, and exposes the global corporate power grab that these claims are being used to enable."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die in ICE detention this year.

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 16/03/2026

SINNERS stats: • 4 Oscars • 3 BAFTAs • 2 Grammys • 2 Actor Awards • 2 Golden Globes • A on CinemaScore • $370M+ worldwide • 4 Critics Choice Awards • 97% on Rotten Tomatoes • One of the best reviewed wide-release films of the decade

A still from sinners, a lone house on farm land.

Michael B Jordan as Smoke and Stack in Sinners

A still from Sinners, Miles Caton at a church.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

See now, this is why I forget all about that 5:15 AM wake up call #blackskyoutdoors

Woman on the edge of a rock, LA in the distance

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Yes. Lemme note..the author's a lil out over his skis. To speak of "Christ" as *teaching* Christianity is weird. There's is no indication I know of that Jesus of Nazareth imagined his gospel (good news) was anything other than an extension of the gospel of Isaiah. But yes, Christian Zionism's wild.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If you want to understand why this war with Iran is actually happening, one must understand the weird, pseudo-relgious reasoning upon which U.S. foreign policy rests. uoj.news/man-and-chur...

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Our ‘Judeo-Christian’ Holy War

The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran has less to do with national security or even geopolitics. Rather, it has to do with religion. The War in Iran is a Judeo-Christian holy war.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him. Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs. Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This last hike reminded me that you can’t give what you don’t have. Stay grounded. Stay present, open, and awake. #BlackSkyOutdoors

Sign at the start of a trail:

May your search through nature lead you to yourself

Photo from the base of a waterfall looking up

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war

Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say
By Aleena Fayaz
Updated Jan 24, 2026

NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance
January 27, 2026

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

That’s true. I shoulda known better than to place before you a “should.” And yes, conscience in context always. Stand where you must stand…be human there.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Baseline moral seriousness demands clarity of thought and language. Anything else is bollocks.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

To put it another way: Courageous jurists on the lower courts have held back Trump from inflicting even more damage on civil rights and liberties. This timeline sucks, but the one in which the judiciary doesn't even try to push back is FAR worse. We insult these judges when we dismiss their impact.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/01/2026

IMMORAL… This drawing was made by one of the 5 year old El Gamal twins. It shows children behind bars with the caption, “I’m 5 years old.” An immigration judge denied them bond, citing “insufficient assets.” These children could remain in detention for years while their case is appealed.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

It is absolutely by design. Theyr’e tired of white people sympathizing with Black and brown folks. That’s why they’re so mad and confused in Minnesota. All the nice white people yelling at them to get fucked. It’s like their dads are yelling at them in a bathrobe. They can’t cope.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Do whatever you can, however you can.

Protestors on a highway overpass with signs:
No Kings
Save America Abolish Ice

Sign on highway overpass:

EPSTEIN FILES

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Photographer
@mostafabassim1
photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/01/2026

You're paying for this. Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs. Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.

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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 08/01/2026

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Joy! Joy! And next to Merton! Thank you!

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We need more cats like Mister Rogers.

Mr. Rogers mug featuring the man himself, along with some of his classic encouraging words; on a bookshelf with books in the background.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Great question. Leaning into the/my feeling function. Dory gave me a bracelet that reads "Amor Fati." I think of it as taking all the feels (which are like no one else's feels) & giving them the form only I can give. Here's more on "Amor Fati." What do you make of it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_fati

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Amor fati - Wikipedia

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

“A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity.” ― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

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Capt. Kandy Franklin ⚓️🍬 @captkandy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Tonight* is the longest night of the year, not tomorrow. We get our powers as soon as the sun sets. This is written in the ancient texts.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

TBH, when the nerds said ”AI” would revolutionize the world, this isn‘t what came to mind…

AI summary of a text thread
“Gratitude conveyed”

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Before reading this, I thought I was fairly familiar with 14th amendment. My immediate conclusion after reading it: the Fourteenth Amendment should be a semester-long class, with follow-up clinics. Thank you, @sifill.bsky.social 🙏🏽 howard-law-journal.scholasticahq.com/article/1539...

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Reviving the Promise of the 14th Amendment | Published in Howard Law Journal

By Sherrilyn Ifill. 14th Amendment

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia

Filmography
1986 - Stand By zme
1987 - The Princess Bride
1989 - When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Misery
1992 - A Few Good Men

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/12/2025

Tapping the sign again.

@jasonc_nc:

I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.

Max Dubler:

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It seems to me that a pastor being threatened after *checks notes* “walking the walk,“ is what religious persecution looks like. Stay safe, everyone.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Collective, racist punishment.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The number of children who are dead because of POTUS, Rubio, and Musk is estimated to be approximately 400,000. It didn’t have to be this way and the people who voted for Canks tell me they didn’t think this would happen. I don‘t have a response to that nonsense that doesn't include expletive.

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Jazz Robertson @jazzrobertson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

“Side effects include, headache, runny nose, mild to moderate death, and upset stomach.” Incidentally, my husband and I often joke about doing a set with nothing but covers of drug commercial songs 😂

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