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Josh Hutchinson 🥄

@joshhutchinson.bsky.social
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Witch trial history guy. Co-host of The Thing About Witch Hunts and The Thing About the Salem Witch Trials. Co-founder of End Witch Hunts. Lead for the Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project. #witchtrials #fms #cfs

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Josh Hutchinson 🥄 @joshhutchinson.bsky.social · 2m
Mailed me ballot today
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
For a quarter-century, a border tribe has staved off plans for a wall on their land by allowing DHS to use it as a testing ground for border security. But the Trump administration has cast off any pretense of cooperation with the Nation.
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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 4h
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson. buff.ly/v8VwPYu
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The ‘grandmother’ cottonwood trees bulldozed for the border wall - High Country News
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
that’s right
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 5h
Imagine living next to an AI data center that NEVER stops making noise. Ranchers are raising concerns about constant noise pollution stressing their livestock, harming their cattle, and threatening their livelihoods.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 16h
This is the man who decides how automated moderation treats trans people across this whole platform. On his own feed, with full control and 1,271 chances, this is what he built. Either he called it identity-blind and never checked, or he checked and shipped it anyway.
 Grid where each small square is one of 1,678 accounts that replied to or quoted him, filled if blocked, grouped by the harshest post they sent. In every group the trans-identified row is more filled than the row for everyone else: 38% vs 16% for very mild, 47% vs 34% for mild, 71% vs 46% for moderate, 77% vs 59% for harsh.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 16h
Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵
Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h
Is America's first car-free city a walkable utopia or a government-controlled prison? Grace visits Culdesac, AZ, to find out
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10h
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 15h
Your quote is logically correct, but frames 'AI isn't conscious' as the thing that needs proving. The extraordinary claim is that there's software that thinks, and it's up to the people making that claim to define what they mean and explain the mechanism. Hope that clears up your confusion.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 10h
I think she needs to go to the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 10h
The closeted members of the Republican caucus would have such happier lives if their leadership didn't so consistently traffic in playground-level homophobia.
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🦋FightForDemocracy!🦋 @budahsbaker.bsky.social · 11h
Important PSA
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h
Says the lazy slob who shows up to work midmorning, spends the rest of the day watching TV, and golfs every weekend.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 23h
Chief Shits His Pants can’t even fill high school gymnasiums in Ohio. LOL. 😅😆💀🪶
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Shanlon Wu @shanlonwu.com · 12/10/2026
Is there a difference between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth & Trump's wish to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan & the beheading videos promoted by terrorists celebrating murder in the name of a "cause"? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US Homeland Security defends Nidal Hasan livestream execution bid
Markwayne Mullin rejects concerns that livestreaming the execution of convicted killer Nidal Hasan could fuel radicalisation or make him a martyr.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13/10/2026
“An appalling attack on the First Amendment.” Federal agents got warrants to use controversial surveillance technology to find a 21-year-old who helped Don Lemon document an anti-ICE protest.
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‘Appalling’: Horror as feds got warrants to hunt Don Lemon’s producer with fake cell towers
Federal investigators have horrified civil liberties experts by obtaining previously unreported warrants to use controversial surveillance tech on a college student, according to a new report.Law enforcement agents earlier this year obtained permission to use cell-site simulators to track down Jerom...
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Noting that yes, Jeffries released a statement. It's not good. And he's not out in front of mikes and he's not sending his members out to do it either. He's not a leader bsky.app/profile/owil...
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themedici.bsky.social @themedici.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
FREE MAJOR WATSON!!!
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nothing to see here but the President of the USA protecting foreign powers helping the Iranians target and kill US soldiers....
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🦋FightForDemocracy!🦋 @budahsbaker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
MOOD
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 13/10/2026
Senator Murray is right. If the next Senators fail to take action on Social Security before 2032, then there will be an automatic benefit cut. You need to vote for candidates you trust to protect and expand your earned benefits.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Personally, I couldn't care less about Bluesky competing with X. I don't care if Bluesky doesn't have the same reach. I like the people here better, period. If that ultimately isn't profitable for Bluesky and it fails, then I'll just quit social media. But I'm not going back to Elon Musk's X. Ever.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Google searches for health disinformation plunged after Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers. How much “turbo cancer” & ivermectin nonsense is fueled by Russian bots, and how many Americans have they killed? Bots spread disinformation. Humans search for it. When bots go down, so do searches.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We're at the "torturing my enemies" part of the authoritarian takeover of America, if anyone's keeping score.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/10/2026
i dunno if i were a member of the press or punditry with a national platform, in the wake of this fascist government attack on Ilhan Omar, i would start asking all kinds of questions about and doing deep investigations into Melania Trump's and Elon Musk's immigration issues
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Elon Musk bought the 2024 presidential election. Now he’s trying to buy the 2026 midterms. He won’t succeed this time. Still, there’s no good reason that one man - in this case, a far-right extremist like Musk - should have this much political power in America. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/e...
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Elon Musk gives $276 million to Republican groups, becomes biggest known 2026 midterm donor
Musk’s record midterm election spending comes as the Tesla and SpaceX CEO rebuilds his relationship with Trump and has business ties to the federal government.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I guarantee you, Husted would have given anything to not have Trump come campaign for him, but he couldn't say no. Then he had to stand there smiling and laughing at Trump's weird jokes while his campaign went down the tubes.
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Josh Hutchinson 🥄 @joshhutchinson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Don't bother trying to get me to forgive nazi enablers. Once you step across that line, there's no coming back.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Checking in on the sponsors of Prop 314, the unconstitutional revival of SB1070 aka the “show me your papers” law. Let’s see there’s RidersUSA (local hate group), FAIR (national hate group) the Project 2025 architects, and the Arizona Sheriff’s Association. And polling well so far, pain.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026
One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.
Pope Leo XIV • @Pontifex• •4h
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Will's Mum @willsmum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"There are some situations where the common ground is not worth standing on, let alone hiking to." - R. Solnit How are we more than six years, and STILL we hear about working across the aisle? As the brilliant historian Joanne Freeman said this weekend, "There is no aisle."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Free Palestine” banner flown over Gillette Stadium during the Patriots-Raiders game today. I’m told it was put on by a group of Boston locals “who are pissed off at Robert Kraft.”
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azcentral @azcentral.com · 12/10/2026
Firefighters rescued three dogs and three cats from an Oct. 11 house fire near 37th and Van Buren streets. Three residents escaped.
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Firefighters rescue 3 dogs, 3 cats from Phoenix house fire
Firefighters rescued three dogs and three cats from an Oct. 11 house fire near 37th and Van Buren streets. Three residents escaped.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Josh Hutchinson 🥄 @joshhutchinson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Destroy all the Russian data centers and the world will be a saner place.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also, the Alberta independent movement basically disappeared after the Yandex site was bombed. Fancy that.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... apnews.com/article/drug...
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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026
Trump’s big lie this morning unraveled FAST. Zelenskyy says the announcement was “NEWS TO ME.” Now a senior RUSSIAN lawmaker says he knows NOTHING about the deal—and suggests Trump is making fake announcements to manipulate oil prices.
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Trump’s Ukraine ‘Ceasefire’ Exposed as Kyiv and Moscow Rebuke Him
Zelenskyy says Trump’s ceasefire was “news to me,” while a senior Russian lawmaker suggests the announcement was a ploy to drive down oil prices.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026
🚨 WHOA! Steve Bannon is sounding the alarm about Democrats taking the House: “I think you'll see Bobby Kennedy impeached. I think you'll see Pete Hegseth impeached. I think you'll see subpoenas flying every day. They will look to destroy President Trump, and we’ll be bogged down for two years.”
A disheveled Steve Bannon, gray hair unkempt and brow furrowed
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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