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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 9h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.

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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 21h

Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

It’s still striking how shamelessly Musk went in and manipulated Grok when it diverged from his very specific deranged world view and the coverage of Ai scarcely ever even acknowledges that power as a real problem.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12h

This is not a thing judges have to write in free countries.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 17h

“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11h

this is why Veep had to go off the air. it couldn’t compete with real life anymore.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16h

I see people victim-blame and try to logic-out the Cornell 7 rape case. "Why would she go into the frat house? Why would she drink?" etc. It's easier than thinking about how many men have done similar things to women, and whether men *they personally know* have harassed or assaulted women.

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 18h

Being asked to share a stage with JD is officially the GOP equivalent of testing positive for mono.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14h

Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.

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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.

Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...

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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.

The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 9h

You know, I've been at academic events since 1993 and I don't think I've ever been to an open one that didn't have at least one old white guy rambling endlessly, who knows nothing but is convinced he is the smartest guy in the world. There used to be legions of them.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 14h

If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15h

Haven’t talked about this publicly iirc, but my first job back in America after my sexual assault in Denmark declined to renew my contract because my PTSD was so bad I couldn’t even be in a Zoom meeting with a male coworker alone. Just couldn’t do it. Stupidly, told the HR lady. Axed the next week.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 13h

it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 15h

F*cking hilarious. Like listening to Hitler joking with Heydrich about Zyklon B not working.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 14h

The banality of evil (Arendt)

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 10h

It's a John Henry story. These newfangled slop machines can churn out word salad faster than any man. But Donald Trump is no ordinary man. He's the king of garbled stream-of-consciousness misinformation. He'll race that machine for 32 days until his heart gives out, but in the end... he'll win.

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 18h

Even in his own made up flattery fantasies, the woman has to be completely intoxicated to find him appealing.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18h

Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

I don’t think John “torture memos” Yoo should be allowed to opine on ethics on national television or really anywhere

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 18h

Becca Good speaking for the first time publicly about her late wife Renee Good at a press conference announcing lawsuits against the U.S. government, ICE agent Jonathan Ross — who shot and killed Renee Good — and high-ranking Trump administration officials

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 15h

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 9h

In college my friend & I were accosted by some Mormons asking us about the Bible but we were literally taking a UChicago core class discussing the Bible & friend has a photographic memory so we went at them until they ran away.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 9h

What portion of the population are psychopaths or sociopaths again?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 9h

I hope kissing that full-diapered ass all these years was worth it, dude.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10h

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16h

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS

Geiger Capital: Officially deleted instagram.

An inherently female app. Zero benefit.

Elon Musk: Instagram is for girls.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 18h

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 15h

This is where growing up among some of the worst people in the world - and the second most conservative county in the nation - gave me a weird one cool trick to political predictions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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