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Jerry Copus

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“We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Teutonic Titwillow⚘️ @teutonictitwillow.bsky.social · 4h
Each GD election in Wisconsin, its the Uihleins and Hendricks putting their stink on everything! Stop the super pacs and dark money now! And keep Elon F***ing Musk away from our state!
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12h
This is exactly why they are proposing public executions.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 12h
I posted this story about the dying MAGA bot armies yesterday, but it gets better by the hour as Ukraine keeps knocking out Russia's troll farms. (Not paywalled.) www.againstallenemies.net/p/the-death-...
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The Death of MAGA’s Troll Army
Inside A Dying Russian Data Center
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 12h
[P] "They're only Nazis if they come from the Nazi region of France, otherwise they're just sparkling fascists"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"What Trump is doing now is next level. He’s not just attacking Somali residents. Rather, he’s calling for Minnesotans to attack them as well. And of course, it’s all based on absolute lies." — @snipy.bsky.social
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Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 12h
There are a lot of reasons to VOTE NO on Tom Tiffany for Wisconsin Governor on November 3. Here are just ten: abwt-pf.org/10-reaso... #wipolitics #wigov
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h
I don’t care how conservative you are. Abandoning Ukraine to Putin spits on everything Reagan stood for. Tax cuts and party loyalty cannot excuse this betrayal. If your principles mean anything, this alone should cost Trump your support. Grow a spine. Some things matter more than the GOP.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 12h
This one’s a doozy. Link to the motion, which has more content than is usual; the brief in support is in the next post. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Motion for TRO – #76 in DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE v. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-00477) – CourtListener.com
Emergency MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order or, Alternatively, For a 14-Day Stay Under Section 705 of the Administrative Procedure Act by DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE, ALEX DICKSON, DAVE ROBERTS. (Atta...
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 11h
Wisconsin is home to 12 proud Native Nations, and I encourage folks to take a moment today to learn about and honor the immense history of those who came before us and the countless contributions of Indigenous communities today. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Wisconsin! youtu.be/bNZXbHULfws
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Gov. Evers Message on Indigenous Peoples' Day 2026
YouTube video by Governor Tony Evers
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 11h
This is awful, and it doesn't surprise me at all. Shapiro can't make these movies without misleading dozens if not hundreds of people -- cast, crew, managers, agents and so on -- about what they are and where the money's coming from.
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Jerry Copus @jerrycopus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just pre-ordered There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs and am willing to wait as long as it takes, but seriously, frak this timeline.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
The President vs. every member of Congress COMBINED. Guess who made more personal financial trades? Donald Trump — with 28,000+ trades. Stock trading by top government officials should be illegal—no owning, buying, or selling stocks.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 10/10/2026
Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Asked and answered 👀
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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/10/2026
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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TN Court Rules Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans
The ruling, the first of its kind in Tennessee history, revives elements of the infamous “trans panic” defense.
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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Editorial | Question 3 is a scheme to upend civil rights captimes.com/opinion... #wipolitics #wigov
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Editorial | Question 3 is a scheme to upend civil rights
Editorial: The U.S. and Wisconsin constitutions already have anti-discrimination laws; the so-called 'Equality Amendment' would undo social progress.
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Huh. I guess having a convicted sexual assaulter and all around piece of shit as a president has consequences.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026
In a loss for Wisconsin voters, a judge won’t let absentee voters cast a provisional ballot on Election Day if they’re worried USPS won’t deliver their mail ballot in time. Stay informed about what's happening to your vote with our free newsletters: demdock.com/474tc0V
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did the President of the United States yesterday reiterate that he was fine with Iran launching nuclear weapons at American cities? Did he sit in the Oval & assert he is a Mad King who can do anything he wants to whomever he wants? It's hard to know, with the "Reverse Emails" on the front page:
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
more business owners need to be like this
Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Jerry Copus @jerrycopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Simpsons: Ralph Wiggum's 'That's Unpossible'
Alt: The Simpsons: Ralph Wiggum's 'That's Unpossible'
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is why more survivors of sexual assault don’t come forward; because they know that in doing so, they will find themselves facing violence and indignities from strangers that compound their wounds and amplify the shame of their initial trauma... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/conservati...
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Conservative American R*pe Culture and The Second Assault of Jane Does
Warning: this piece contains language regarding sexual assault that may be triggering or uncomfortable to some.
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Jerry Copus @jerrycopus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reminds me of a similar setup: Walking through house, following noise (rap! rap! RAP!), finding old trunk in attic, opening it up and finding…wrapping paper! DUN DUN DUH!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“‘Learning happens as a consequence of cognitive processing. Cognitive processing is typically effortful, & that’s what AI effectively removes,’ says cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham at UVA. ‘People are really worried about that’.”🧪
“And science - in which people need to critically evaluate theories and data - is one important area that's under threat from the Al revolution in large language models (LLMs). "There is a risk that students outsource precisely the activities through which scientific thinking develops: formulating hypotheses, interpreting evidence, considering alternatives and struggling with uncertainty," says Thomas Nygren, who studies education and critical thinking at Uppsala University in Sweden.”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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