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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The beeping sound you hear when a truck is backing up doesn’t mean the truck is asking for consent, but that’s essentially what tech bros imagine is happening when their surveillance device shines a light or plays a chime before recording. The beep says get out of the way or get run over.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

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Marcus Olang' @marcusolang.substack.com · 08/07/2025

"When you see our work, what are you really seeing? Are you seeing a robot's soulless prose? Or are you seeing the image of our Standard 8 English teacher, Mrs. Amollo, her voice reminding us to connect our paragraphs with a suitable linking phrase?" open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I kissed an astronaut and I liked it 🎶

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 09/11/2025

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Stunning work, honoring history.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

And that's why LLMs often present "NATO expansion" as a reasonable, even leading explanation of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Not because it's right or consistent with the facts, but because a ton of accounts are parroting Mearsheimer's contrarian/light-on-facts take and Ru propaganda.

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

CRONINESS: noun. The quality of being a co-conspiratorial buddy to a corrupt tyrant. Used in a sentence: “Overlooking obvious signs of untreated alcoholism and other troubling behaviors, Hegseth’s did not meet any of the qualifications for the job of secretary of defense, other than croniness.”

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The United States is Disappearing Human Beings. Disappeared People Tracker: 1402 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Oh, like… fire? That cavemen discovered?

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Also, cover all identifying marks, i.e. tattoos

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

There are are no "exceptions" to the requirements for the FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate; there are multiple ways to qualify. The ATP with restricted privileges, commonly called the “R-ATP”, is not a lesser pilot certificate. It is an ATP certificate with restrictions on privileges.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The trend of an INCREASE in hiring qualified pilots from historically excluded populations coincides with an overall DECREASE in fatalities from accidents at U.S. airlines. There is no evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between these trends. ⤵️

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Airline safety has seen significant improvement in modern times. While rare, accidents with fatalities still occur. Thorough investigations to determine causal factors and a relentless focus on improving risk mitigation and safety measures remain industry-wide priorities. ⤵️

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

U.S. air carriers excluded qualified pilots from certain populations from hiring for the first six decades of airline travel. Currently the airline pilot profession is estimated to be about 92 percent white and 95 percent male. ⤵️

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Passengers, air mail, and freight have been flown in scheduled air carrier operations since the earliest days of aviation. Accidents were common then, and records of U.S. scheduled air carrier accidents date back to 1927. ⤵️

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A disinformation campaign falsely links “DEI” to airline accidents. Does airline safety correlate with diversity? Let’s check the facts. ⤵️

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For the first six decades of airline travel, U.S. air carriers excluded pilots from certain populations from hiring, and the profession is currently estimated to be about 92 percent white and 95 percent male. ⤵️

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The U.S. reputation as a leader in aviation safety may become tarnished — and not for the reason you think.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

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Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts

A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Oh, I was alerting them about your post.

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We know what that’s really about, and it’s absolutely unacceptable.

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Everyone needs to be following @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and subscribing to her newly launched newsletter, which you can receive via email for free (simply select $0 at check-out).

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Jenny Beatty @jennybeatty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Everyone needs to be following @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and subscribing to her newly launched newsletter, which you can receive via email for free (simply select $0 at check-out).

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A foreign-born private citizen with unfathomable wealth & deep financial ties to our nation’s adversaries has seized control of our government and is currently canceling congressionally apportioned spending without a shred of authority. And no one seems to be able to stop him. So this is fine.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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