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Joe Calhoun

@jbc3.bsky.social
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#Cville! Co-founder, organizer, Indivisible Charlottesville. Proud rural progressive. Recovering coder.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 4h
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 11h
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 2h
😂 very topical! 10/10, no notes
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 4h
Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
'What If You Did The Willie Horton Ad In Reverse' is one of those questions no one was quite brave enough to ask until now and UH
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 8h
At least someone in this administration is willing to admit the devastating health care losses for Americans caused by Trump and Congressional Republicans.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026
JCO is defending furries fyi
Joyce Carol Oates O @Joyce CarolOates
trying to think how an illegal immigrant- radical Islamic person in a bunny suit could be a threat to national security.
Coach Tommy Tuberville * ml @SenTuber... • 1d
Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots.
Lord help us.
11:14 AM • 9/27/26 • 5.1K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
person in a bunny suit is a "threat to workers paycheck." how, exactly?
fa Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender-6h They are a threat to workers paycheck. Not your though rich lady. So you dont care.
3:54 PM • 9/27/26 • 3.3K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
Mr. Mask, you are confused. the only creatures in bunny suits threatening field workers would be actual bunnies. to charge actual bunnies with wearing "bunny suits" is redundant.
Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender • 2h
LOL. You all think field workers and meat plant workers and hotel maids are OVERPAID in America and we should bring in 50 million migrants to lower their wages. Shame on you.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This happened. Every institution in the country, media, college, movies, music, democrats, republicans, law, sports, all conspired to make it illegal, de facto or literally, to not only try to stop, but even vocally oppose Israel massacring every Palestinian man, woman, child and infant.
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is freaking *awesome*!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where “get to” equals “steal”
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is excellent news.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
It's just Republicans fucking clean energy over & over again while people in the industry keep insisting "actually Republicans really like us!" It's such beta behavior it makes *me* want to bully them, and I'm on their side!
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John McLaren @johnmclaren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey, Dem candidates: When you are asked about “Boys in girls’ locker rooms,” here’s what you should say: (1/11)
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#earlyvote midday update 9/28: at least 383,781 people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, get fucked, @wsj.com. Now and forever. 🗃️
A fatuous WSJ editorial titled “The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction.” The dek reads:
“Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.”
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a remarkably lazy argument. I completely agree with the last two sentences, but how do we get there from here? Over the last 100 years we have created a society in the US that is dependent on private cars. SO: politically, gas prices are untouchable. GOP gonna lose midterms because of this!
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a good article, but we keep hearing about federal judges “chastising” or “admonishing” DOJ prosecutors. In a couple cases we hear about referrals to bar associations. Why aren’t judges holding prosecutors in contempt when they lie to the court?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s so routine and wild, the degree to which everyone knows the NYT steals stories and doesn’t credit and it’s just a thing we all know is happening to our stories.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
Yes!!!! Yes!!!
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walking out on Netanyahu sends a message. But symbolic protest is not enough. Governments that condemn Israel must turn their words into action: halt arms sales, restrict military cargo, challenge economic ties, and enforce international law.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Spotlight team was out in Charlottesville tonight…
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wild — and somehow even more wild than most of us thought at the time!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!
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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: David Flippo, a Republican congressional candidate in Nevada, inflated his military record multiple times in recent years. Experts on military awards say such exaggerations are tantamount to lying. Read for free: wapo.st/4d4OqPA
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Trump-backed Nevada Republican exaggerated Bronze Star award in two campaigns
Congressional hopeful David Flippo said his staff made a mistake in an announcement video in 2023. The video was deleted three years later.
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can't guardrails your way to safety on a system designed to be dangerous.
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Warnock calls for federal guardrails on Flock cameras: "Bring some some sanity to this system"
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock​ is pushing federal authorities to create action to stop potential abuse of Flock cameras by law enforcement across the country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks to M. Cohen for live-posting the hearing. For any of youse interested in how the legal sausage gets made…
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We will remember.
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We will remember.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to @1199seiu.org and the nearly 70,000 CDPAP care workers who filed for the largest union election in American history. These workers make it possible for New Yorkers to live safely and independently at home. I’m proud to stand with them in the fight for a union.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Over a year ago, farm workers across Southern CA endured weeks of illegal, racist raids. The UFW & our partners fought back. Last week we won a preliminary injunction against the Trump Admin’s DHS aiming to prevent them from making warrentless arrests. Watch to learn more.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
23 September 1938 | A German Jewish girl, Mirjam Helene Friedmann, was born in Berlin. The family fled to Prague in 1938. In 1941, Mirjam was deported to Litzmannstadt ghetto & in August 1944 to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
A vintage black and white photo showing a smiling girl in a hooded coat and white shoes standing next to a plush teddy bear.
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Listen, my northern friends, we USians *really* do not want you speedrunning the right-wing path to hell behind us! We *will* win, but de-trumpifying the US will take us decades and the harms already baked in are, of course, irreversible. So find your AOC and unite behind her!
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just lectured about the WPA this morning and it is absolutely a model we need to bring back, for this purpose and others too.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference."
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026
Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries
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