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Joe Brockmeier

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"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain Graduate, Steven Wright School of Motivational Speaking.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 06/09/2026
Fatal Charm - Lucille (Extended Version) [UK, Synthpop, New Wave] (1987) redd.it/1vye1a7 youtu.be/d70cUXzA4kA
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Fatal Charm - Lucille (Extended Version) [UK, Synthpop, New Wave] (1987)
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
On one hand they murdered Luca Brasi, on the other hand they sent us this delicious fish
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Eric this is the same white house that subpoenaed you and your colleagues and threatened you with jail to try to illegally uncover confidential sources. I'm not sure you gotta hand it to em
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
TSA is alerting ICE about travelers with expired visas. An Oakland woman was detained recently before her flight home from Denver. ICE is targeting spouses of US citizens and people with pending asylum, green card, and visa extension applications. Airports are now potential deportation traps.
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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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calgal93 @calgal93.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“ AI is an obvious Trojan Horse” … I agree 💯. Especially when it comes to intellectual property rights and privacy…AI is coming to steal your shit if you invite it in. Don’t do it. I realize that Siri listens in on my conversations when I use “keywords.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
This is nuts: "Trump Media has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks ​& trading firms 'the fastest' access to posts from influential Truth Social ‌accounts Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders"
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Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
President Donald Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders and investors.
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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
a pencil
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've been chewing on this all day and honestly I think I undersold it this morning. To strike down a law as a violation of the 15th Amendment, federal courts have always required proof of intentional discrim. If evading a court order isn't that, nothing is. This effectively vacates the 15th A
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I've spent the last 8 years of my professional book critic career focusing my efforts on YA books by and about queer/trans and BIPOC experiences, and I have also noticed the decrease in these stories being published. It's incredibly dispiriting, as a queer Black adult and as a high school librarian.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 17/05/2026
anyways, the work of kurt vonnegut is a load-bearing pillar of why i am who/how i am & i am truly grateful that i discovered him when i did (🧵⬇️) & i can continue to read him again & again, every so often, until i die. (take 3 of this post: in which i didn't backspace the most critical words)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Not even a little bit.” Trump doesn't care if you can afford groceries or gas.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.
Because the inquiry was framed only in terms of whether a project "relate[d] at all to DEI" (whatever that might mean to ChatGPT), projects whose abbreviated descriptions contained general references to "history," "culture," or "identity" were frequently identified by ChatGPT as relating to DEI. For example, a project to recover and analyze ancient writings attributed to Moses but excluded from the canonical Hebrew Bible and preserved in fragmentary form (e.g., the Book of Jubilees and the Testament of Moses) was classified as DEI because it claimed to "provide important insight into Jewish thought from two thousand years ago, complementary to insight from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament." Dkt. No. 248-11, at 99, C461-1461 (emphasis added). The project description reflects a highly technical effort involving multispectral imaging,
textual reconstruction, and the recovery of deteriorated source materials. Id. Yet, the assigned
rationale consists of a single sentence linking the project to "Jewish thought," which ChatGPT
considered to be aligned with "DEI" goals. Id.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/05/2026
Every indie journo you know is probably stressing over their cancellation rate right now as things get more and more expensive. Some of us will not make to the other side. But you can help your favs if you can spare a few bucks a month.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/05/2026
someone’s gonna get killed by a flat rate medium priority mail usps box and you should never ever ever ever vote for a republican for any office
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/05/2026
this guy is bad
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littlenomad @littlenomad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The investigating agents are afraid they’ll lose their jobs if they don’t comply with a problematic investigation. Well here’s a clue, maybe your job isn’t worth saving if it requires you to break the law or otherwise cross an unthinkable line? Lose your damn “jobs” or resign, guys.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
No classified information. Pure authoritarian stuff. www.ms.now/news/fbi-inv...
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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Seems that Russian targeting information was slightly more relevant than the US admin has been making out, huh.
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C.K. Carpenter 🏳️‍🌈🌻🍉 @ckcarpenter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
If you're going to post your stuff on Substack, I really wish you'd post it elsewhere as well somehow (I'm no expert on that part). Because some of us refuse to support hate speech in its myriad forms on Substack, but a lot of you are turning out killer content I bet.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/04/2026
The obscene amount being spent on the war in Iran is like when your roommate claims they can't make rent this month and then comes home with like a pound of weed and two cases of craft beer.
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Joe Brockmeier @jzb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I figure this is how I’ll go, someday. A guy will show up from the Columbia House mob looking to collect on all those tapes and CDs I was supposed to pay regular price for, plus the vig.
A meme. The picture shows Death with a scythe ringing a doorbell while a person sneaks out. 

Text says: “Columbia House looking for their 1 cent per CD from 1992.”
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Joe Brockmeier @jzb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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a black and white photo of a man in a hood saying no it 's pronounced i-gor
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a hood saying no it 's pronounced i-gor
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Bea Westrate @grammabea.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
politico.com
Trump Is Going After Birth Control. Here’s Why.
Contraception was politically untouchable — until now.
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 26/04/2026
I am once again calling on our alien overlords to reset the simulation. I’ll lay still in my pod while you sap my body’s energy to powerful the AGI supercomputer. Just please do it soon. Sometime in the 1990s would be good.
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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Israel alone killed over 75 journalists in 2025, something many of the people I'm currently reading breathless posts from have still said nothing about.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
There's free shipping at Bookshop.org this weekend to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day, if you're looking for a new read bookshop.org/p/books/meta...
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Metallic Realms: A Novel
A Novel
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Joe Brockmeier @jzb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Time for a career change
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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “The Texas gerrymander freak out. What’s happening in Texas is not a threat to democracy.”Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.”
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/04/2026
And I'll be damned if I praise a thing that is threatening her job in an industry my wife spent TEN YEARS, working UNPAID in addition to her full time job, to get into. And you know what else gets me angry? They train their plagiarism machines on her work, without permission or attribution.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/04/2026
You think a robot can write with her feeling, her wit, her intelligence? You think a computer program can describe history with the same style and emotion? An AI won't write about Black trailblazers the way she can. An AI won't write about ANYTHING the way she can.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/04/2026
It is very strange that people call me a fascist for saying generative AI is bad and I don't use it. My wife is a journalist in an industry where AI is replacing people. She's a BLACK TRANS INTERSEX journalist. Who do you think they'll replace with a robot first?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats
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Joe Brockmeier @jzb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Imagine being on the team asked to create this. This is the professional equivalent of being told to dig your own grave. "Hurry up, Bob. I have a layoff to plan, and I need the ad ready before that's announced."
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/04/2026
There are billboards in SF that say “stop hiring humans“ Today in the Bell Riots are coming news
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/04/2026
The Fifth Circuit flatly states that when the First Amendment says Congress may not create an "establishment of religion," it means the Church of England. They then argue the Founders intended states to have their own churches unaffected by the First Amendment (!!!).
The key phrase—“an establishment of religion”—was readily 
understandable to founding-era citizens. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 
554 U.S. 570, 576–77 (2008) (relying on a phrase’s “[n]ormal meaning . . . 
known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation”). The reason is 
simple. At the time, establishments were “a familiar institution.” 
McConnell, Establishment, supra note 12, at 2107.13 Someone on the streets 
of 1789 Boston, reading that phrase, would have instantly thought of the 
Church of England, the colonial established churches, or the current state 
establishments—in other words, a polity’s official church or religion. Ibid.Although the colonial establishments became more tolerant of 
dissenters as independence approached, their essence remained unchanged. 
The original state constitutions reflect as much. Far from rejecting 
establishments, many states preserved the core components of their 
establishments, such as public financial support for the official church, 
regulation of religious institutions, and religious qualifications for civic 
participation.36 Most explicit was South Carolina, whose 1778 Constitution 
declared that “the Christian Protestant religion” was “the established 
religion,” requiring religious societies to subscribe to enumerated articles of 
faith to receive legal recognition. S.C. Const. of 1778, art. XXXVIII, 
reprinted in Poore, State Constitutions, supra note 36, at 1626.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/04/2026
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy. The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/04/2026
McClatchy has fallen.
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Joe Brockmeier @jzb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
There has been a bit of drama at The Document Foundation, the org behind LibreOffice, that has been brewing for some time -- but became public when TDF ejected 30 members employed by Collabora. I dug into it, in detail, over on LWN. #TDF #LibreOffice #OpenSource lwn.net/SubscriberLi...
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Digging into drama at The Document Foundation
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the nonprofit entity behind the LibreOffice productivity suite [...]
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21/04/2026
A more correct way to write this is: "Republicans, who famously love gerrymandering in every other case, are flooding Democratic and Black voters' phones and mailboxes with ratfucking mailers and texts falsely claiming that Obama, Spanberger, and the DNC are against the ballot measure."
Republicans, for their part, have cast the push for a new map as a Democratic power grab.

“Richmond liberals want to eliminate competitive elections in Virginia,” says an ad from Virginians for Fair Maps, the main Republican-aligned outside group in Virginia.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21/04/2026
What is "remarkable," @nytnickc.bsky.social, is that it didn't even occur to you to ask, hey, why are there these mid-decade redistrictings happening in the first place? What did Trump say the goal of them were? Kinda weird isn't it? Kinda weirder than a "Dems are hypocrites!!?!" angle?
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