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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

But we could also go much further. One idea might be to tax immigrants themselves at higher rates and restrict federal benefits until immigrants have met some threshold of tax payments or achieved permanent residency.6 This is not a prospect that brings me joy. But I do think that these are necessary preconditions to warming the public to the idea that the economic math of immigration works out in our favor.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/08/2025

But yeah, this is why spending the last five years embracing policing as a common-sense bipartisan institution, with critics being attributed to the result of some mass hysteria, was always going to end poorly. Because the police weren’t changing, and the violence never stopped.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“I understand that there are parents who are concerned about trans kids in schools. I hope those parents are more concerned about the Republican destruction of opportunity for your kids. If your greatest concern is trans kids, there is a party that will harass them to death for you. It won’t be us.”

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The "we have to put obstacles in the way to make sure that people who don't deserve help don't get it" bureaucratic strategy just puts obstacles in the way for people who DO deserve help and then nobody gets help. It's a centrist, neoliberal tactic that keeps the status quo in place.

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 08/07/2025

I normally don't do character redesigns but Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has been living rent-free in my head for thirty years and I finally decided to do something about it. #illustration #characterdesign

Digital illustration of a purple vampire with wavy hair named Sibella. She wears a purple and white varsity jacket with the letter G on the left breast, a black jumpsuit with a red belt, white socks, and white sneakers. She leans against a sports ball hamper, smiling and waving at the viewer.

Digital illustration of a mummy girl named Tanis. The ends of gauze strips form bangs, pigtails tied with red bows, a skirt, and socks that cascade over blue sneakers. She is looking off-screen with a quizzical expression.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

cop is the only job in the world where if someone points out they're actually bad at their ostensible job, it's considered an implicit argument for giving them all raises

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/understanding-the-intersection-of-medicaid-and-work-an-update/

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

Sorry for losing my temper lol I’m really just sick of these conclusions that boil down to ‘how are we going to pay for that’ but only for things that liberate people like freedom of movement or shelter when you can look around & see the incalculable costs we pay to do harm as a form of status quo.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025

i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/07/2025

What concerns me about renewed white-nationalist fervor in Western politics is not simply that it's genocidal. Most people recognize that. I worry that 'progressives' will struggle to move beyond "we should go back to when immigrants were simply precarious and not being actively rounded up".

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 02/07/2025

Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The fact that Democrats spent last year touting their support for Biden’s “border militarization and no path to citizenship” bill, I’m scared of how Democrats’ default will be to normalize these fascistic levels of ICE funding if/when they get back power. We will need the agency dismantled.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!

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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 27/06/2025

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The fact that anyone could believe that Trump was going to be "only targeting criminals" is a testament to how much the media skews people's impressions of crime and public safety (also how racist people are that they would believe there was so much rampant criminality!).

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Weekly Wheel News @weeklywheelnews.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Rosamund Pike singing “Coming Home from Tarwin’s Gap” from The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, the fourth book of The Wheel of Time

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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Is your child texting about Arthurian legend? LOL: Lies of Lancelot WTF: Way to Feud BRB: Bors Refused Brandegorre TTYL: The Tintagel Yule Log TBH: That's Bertilak's Head IKR: I'm King Rience

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/06/2025

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

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Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country

Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is a real tension in the right wing coalition. The racist wing wants honest to God deportations of all Latinos, the business wing wants *the threat of* deportations as a way to create a group of second class laborers they can exploit with no rights.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sawe the trendinge topic "Starship Failure" and thoughte it was the name of an actuale shippe yn a showe. THESE ARE THE CONTINUINGE ADVENTURES OF THE STARSHIP FAILURE, ON A TEN YEARE MISSIOUN TO NOT DO THINGES WELL.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It's Murderbot time!!! AppleTV+'s adaptation is big, fun, and feels true to the books. Read @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's review and recap of the first two episodes here! #murderbot #themurderbotdiaries reactormag.com/tv-review-mu...

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Murderbot Moves to a New Medium in Exciting Television Premiere - Reactor

The series gets off to a bright start, showcasing a wonderfully eclectic cast.

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hard at work knitting the Achievement Badge Shawl by Stephen West. I love the woodsy retro vibe. Some ambition to finish it before the next YAL pattern release next month 😅

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Latest spin - “Leaf Litter”? Paradise Fibers “Not Today” Merino/Silk Greenwood Fiberworks “Autumn Leaves” Merino/Cashmere/Silk

Skein of 2-ply yarn, colors brown, silver, orange, yellow, green

Close-up of the yarn. The silver fibers appear in slubs and wisps

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

when the sigur ros guy sang "achoo" 12 times over an aching and hypnotic three chord progression that lasted long enough to make a whole pot of macaroni and cheese...I felt that

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Finished the scarf! This is from the Parallel Play Wrap by Stephen West

I’m wearing a garter stitch knit scarf made of blocks colored different shades of brown and gray

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Traveler Cowl by Andrea Mowry, using my hand-spun

I’m wearing a green and purple neckerchief

Green and purple neckerchief laid out flat; it has a corrugated texture

Green two-ply yarn with streaks of purple, yellow, and blue

Smaller skein of yarn, shifting purples and greens

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Another chain-ply: Greenwood Fiberworks Polwarth “Arizona” This one went great because I was already used to drafting this fiber from the last one

Three-ply yarn in colors green, blue, orange, purple, yellow

Roving in colors green, blue, purple, orange, yellow

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Temperature blanket: Jan-March. Almost done; after April I’ll just add some length in the Oatmeal color and bind off.

A knit blanket in progress in colors green, purple, red, and neutrals, ranging irregularly from dark to light

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Three Parts Dead (Max Gladstone, 2012)

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Sulin just finished Warbreaker for the first time @sulingoshien.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I am a Moiraines hat advocate. It’s canon. It’s got that hot floppy casual summer vibes. It is perfection. All hail Moiraine’s hat. #TheWheelOfTine

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 20/03/2025

Watching WoT S3E1 and I gotta say, sexy dangerous women on opposite sides allying to save the Chosen one is pretty much my jam (aka Moiraine/Lanfear) Also Lanfear calling Ishamael "Ishy, a gentle soul with big dreams" is just LOL

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Katie C @spiffykt.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Wheel of Time is a show about powerful older women in astonishing outfits and in that sense it was made in a lab for me

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

sorry they should be called bleats

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jericho89.bsky.social @jericho89.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Learning to chain-ply on my spinning wheel! The purple skein got a bit mangled (tension issues), but the blue skein plied up pretty well. Blue is Polwarth from Greenwood Fiberworks, “Sandpiper” Purple is Corriedale from The Woolery “Lilac” combo-drafted with Merino from Sweet Georgia “Bouquet”

A skein of 3-ply yarn, blue, white, and brown

A skein of 3-ply yarn, lilac, orange, green, red

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

feel like this chart is example 1 in why "just do what's popular, based on polls" is so facile

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Stu O'Brien @sasmo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Why aren't more people talking about The Wheel of Time? I found out about the show completely by chance this week and have loved every episode.

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