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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Obviously the point of public education is to produce replicas of me, which is why the schools should assign children all my favourite books

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026

I'm having some fun in this thread but I do think you should get in trouble for unleashing insane hacker robots on the open Internet that you've explicitly instructed to attack critical public infrastructure, which, to be clear, it eventually succeeds at.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/09/2026

[wipes hands] yeap. You got agents. See the message boards in your internal package manager? They must’ve nested there about ohhh 3 weeks back.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I mean, I realize everyone else did too, but c'mon. Even Tulsi got this one right?

A The Good Place meme, reading:
"Tulsi figured it out? Tulsi? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/08/2026

honestly the best way to tell if an image online is fake is to introspect about whether looking at reinforces a sense of superiority over some group towards which you already feel contempt

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I see mass deportations have ushered in a golden age of American prosperity, exactly as promised.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/07/2026

fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14/07/2026

Incredible Wall Street Journal reporting on how this war succeeded in making the Iranian people rise up…to support hardliners within the regime. Secular women showing up to rallies to change “We are the soldiers of Seyyed Mojtaba,” things of that nature. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The U.S. and mediators say any attempt by Iranian diplomats to find an understanding on the administration of the strait are being sabotaged by hard-liners. Iranian diplomats have told mediators they would like to find a compromise but their hands are tied.
They are under pressure in the streets as well. In regime-managed funeral ceremonies for Khamenei's burial last week, massive crowds unfurled giant banners that read "kill Trump." President Masoud Pezeshkian, a
moderate, was greeted by chants of "Death to the normalizers" and "Death to the traitors."

A 40-year-old female teacher, who had joined the anti-hijab protests in 2022 and subsequently stopped wearing the veil, said she recently participated in a pro-regime rally in Tehran.
"I saw many girls whose clothing would previously have been reprimanded by the government—unveiled, wearing blouses and pants, with manicured nails," she said. They were waving the Iranian flag. The women were joined by male university students sporting tattoos and T-shirts, Western attire frowned upon by the regime. They chanted,
"We are the soldiers of Seyyed Mojtaba," using an honorific title, she said.

Last week, a 34-year-old Tehran-based startup entrepreneur who had long opposed
the regime posted a picture of himself proudly posing in uniform after joining the military.
He was beaten so badly by security forces during the 2022 protests he couldn't move for days. He was tear gassed during the January protests and waited hopefully for the war, thinking the regime was about to be toppled.

But he changed his mind after his uncle's house in Tehran was destroyed in the early days of the war and after scrambling to reach his ex-girlfriend who worked at a civilian ministry near a targeted location. She survived.
"America had made an excuse to support human rights," he said. Then, "they said that a civilization was going to be destroyed, not a regime."
The regime came into the conflict in a weak position. Protests sparked in December by the pressures of a deepening economic crisis spiraled into calls to topple the system. Polls consistently showed no more than 20% of Iranians supported clerical rule.

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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Voting for Trump in 2024 hoping he'll be a wonkish and policy-focused president.

Jim Dubela voted for Trump in 2024 in the hope he would address the cost-of-living crunch and improve the U.S. economy. The 66-year-old retired airline captain wanted to see Trump stand in front of a whiteboard on his first day in office and outline his plans for reducing inflation, increasing GDP, trimming the budget deficit and fixing the healthcare system.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

suboptimal to me that the richest man on the planet believes this

People who are complaining that he spends the first half of the movie murdering white people not migrants fail to understand that it’s hammering home an important premise.

“Always hang a traitor before you shoot an enemy”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hate to say it but I do actually Like This Kinda Building. I am one of those people. I recognise that tastes like mine are somehow overrepresented among architects and so we are a net drain on public utility. But, you know, sucks to be you guys!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
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Policy Memorandum
SUBJECT: Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process
Purpose
This memorandum reminds officers and the public that adjustment of status under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is a matter of discretion and administrative grace not designed to supersede the regular consular processing of immigrant visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reaffirms this consistent and longstanding approach and declares as a matter of general policy its intention to faithfully apply the statutes consistently with this understanding.

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

openai.com

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

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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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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Guy who's never heard of the Republican Party:

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Trump suggesting that he be made Pope was no idle threat.

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spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Once you accept the dual premises that violence can never fail, it can only be failed and that the call to collective sacrifice is an expression of slave morality, you're left with the delusion all of the nation's problems stem from leaders who lack the will to apply enough napalm.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings

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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I hope that Elon Musk is remembered principally as the greatest mass killer in American history.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!

Christopher Kutz, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said he is self-censoring to protect students, particularly those in the United States on visas. He said he worried that they might write or say something that could end up being turned against them.
"I'm not going to change what I say, but I will try to make sure the assignments don't invite students into making statements that could get them in trouble," said Professor Kutz, whose school has been a particular focus of the Trump administration.

"You just don't know whether they are going to report you to someone, or are they recording you," said Dr. Smith, who added that she felt she had to "change the way I relate to my students."
"I value integrity and my authenticity and my openness and my honesty, and I feel myself not being that way with them, which I hate because that is what students value: a professor they can ask the hard questions of," she said.
One part of her calculation last year, Dr.
Smith said, was her status as a permanent resident, not a citizen, of the United States.

She no longer feels that way with Mr.
Trump in power. She said she perceived less pressure to use terms like "menstruating persons" and that she sensed many students felt the same. The result, she said, was an ebbing of "identity tribes" among students and more open discussion.
"My students are no longer circumscribed in their beliefs, opinions, analyses by identity categories that people are ascribing to them," Dr. Trisko Darden said.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

Body-cam footage from the incident, reviewed by The Post, shows Shah Alam standing near the door of the shed holding two black poles. Officers shout at him and order him to drop the poles, reportedly curtain rods he’d fashioned into walking sticks. Shah Alam repeatedly says, “Sorry” while adjusting his grip on the poles and walking toward the officers. The officers continue to shout and warn that they will fire their Tasers. At one point, Shah Alam responds, “No,” then points the rods at the officers.

The officers both fire their Tasers and tackle him. Two officers report being bitten in the scuffle. After Shah Alam is restrained, the officers remark that they smell alcohol.

In the footage, Shah Alam can be heard speaking in Rohingya and Malay. He asks for God’s help and tries to explain to the uncomprehending officers that he lives nearby and was going to the store. He pleads with the officers not to throw away his phone.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

See, I find begging for money very relatable. I can easily inhabit the mind of one who lets money override all other considerations; very much a there-but-for-the-grace-of-god cautionary tale. Summers had his own wealth, fame, connections... he just plain liked the guy. Felt he was a kindred spirit.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Also this quote makes me want to run through a wall

Ashley Lopez, who works in education and lives in the city of West St. Paul, has become active in anti-ICE neighborhood groups only in the week since Ms. Good's death.
"Because of what happened to Renee, I felt like we had nothing to lose anymore," said Ms. Lopez, who has joined patrols that blow whistles and set off their own car alarms if they see ICE agents. "Why should she be the only one who put herself in danger?"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

The video also allegedly shows the CBP agent saying “Do something, bitch” before shots were fired. In private Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to other officers: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough communicating that to fellow employees, it speaks to an irredeemable organizational culture.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Seems pretty clear at this point that Grok is just Musk’s id, uploaded to the cloud.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

if the us seizes greenland the eu will say they're gravely concerned about violations of national sovereignty and will closely monitor the situation. they would say that if trump nuked paris too

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

DHS publicly fantasizing about massive state violence should be taken seriously, and warrants labels such as fascist and white supremacist. But don't lose sight of the fact that it's beyond their capabilities. The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

oy, 🫣some of the 2007 federal grand jury testimony indicates that girls who came forward to Palm Beach Police c.2005 were told that *they* could be charged with sex trafficking because of their participation in Epstein & Maxwell's scheme to offer schoolmates money to come to Epstein's house

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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Avatar 3 review: the Tulkun deciding to abandon strict pacifism at the prospect of genocide would have made more sense if it had all taken place over the course of a single movie... as it is, they already had this debate in Avatar 2. They don't learn anything new here, they just change their minds.

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finn @kfinn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I'm studying mathematics.

According to Thomas Aquinas, God is a structure G with three elements 'pater', 'filius' and 'spiritus sanctus', in a signature consisting of one asymmetric binary relation ('relatio opposita') R, read as 'relatio originis'. Aquinas asserts also that the three elements can be uniquely identified in terms of R^G. Deduce - as Aquinas did - that if the pairs (pater, filius) and (pater, spiritus sanctus) lie in R^G, then exactly one of the pairs (filius, spiritus sanctus) and (spiritus sanctus, filius) lies in R^G.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

irishtimes.com

At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’

Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher

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