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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 23h

Did you know that if inflation goes up but your salary doesn't get a cost of living adjustment... you just took a pay cut?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23h

I, uh, don't know how to say this, but we've seen ideologies and political formations like this before.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

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Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates

A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Shaaloani Roadhead 🔜 Claws Out @hyenablood.yeen.world · 14/10/2026

"what if we glazed one of the most heinously vile asymmetrically empowered activism cosplayers on earth for an hour" what if you put them in a centrifuge and spun it so fast they were flattened into a new quantum particle.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14/10/2026

Every one of those hooting rubes cheering for him should be used as biofuel

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If we don't follow Article I, we don't have a Constitution: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison

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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Increasingly likely that if Texas does not go blue, it is because of stuff like this. This is the fundamental problem of American democracy at this moment--one party does not think that losing is normal and should be accepted. Democracy requires all parties accept electoral defeats.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Again, a reminder that next month’s elections will not be free & fair & fully democratic by any meaningful standard, & even a Democratic landslide will not change that fact.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12/10/2026

We kept being told that we have to "win AI" or else China will "win AI" But what do you think will matter more for success in capitalism: Cheap/clean energy that can't be affected by a war in Iran or Computing that can do a bit more

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2026

its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Some people, and I don't just mean Trump, have been moving through the world as though they would never face a potential consequence for any choice ever again, because they never planned on losing power. That means they think they can't afford to lose now. There are a lot of desperate moves ahead.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11/10/2026

Maybe reactionary centrists and pundit soothsayers should nut up and realize that Nazi is a term in discourse b/c the U.S. has a governing far right that acts and talks like Nazis, with opponents who call for justice because that far right appears to serially and flagrantly break laws.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026

there is and there should be because, as previously mentioned, all of these people are criminals

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Your regular reminder that neither party - but <especially> the Republican Party - actually cares about THE DEBT & DEFICITS.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Virginia Data Center Ran
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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

"threatened to report someone's marriage as fraudulent to chase them out of a rent-controlled apartment" is about the most evil thing I've ever read that didn't involve physical violence

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Your regular reminder that ~no one in the Republican Party, or the political right of American politics more broadly, actually believes in capitalism, free markets, & limited government.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These are HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS protesting for more public school funding.

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

if this fucker is going to spite us and live past 90 like his dad did he should at least get to experience the rest of us tearing his legacy down around his ears

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/10/2026

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers who cannot access the medical care they need, according to the reporting. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many people had miscarriages after October 2025.

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ICE Jail Policies for Pregnant People Built on Legacy of Eugenics, Critics Say

A record number of pregnant women and teenagers have been arrested by ICE. They cannot access medical care they need.

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T.A. Blackstone (Tony) 🔞 @ta-blackstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am 1,000% serious when I say that ChatGPT needs to be permanently taken offline for everyone's safety.

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skunk @kaleidoscopicskunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm at the hardware store watching everyone try to figure out how to cut a piece of wood -_-

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are going to deregister as many Democrats as they can. And they're going to hype these numbers to try to convince you, "you don't need to vote; you've got this; one little vote won't matter." They'll try to push R's who would stay home that they need to vote. Don't be complacent.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026

It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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