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Park Mantoja

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I’m glad more people are pointing this out. I talked about it it a few weeks ago w/ @janus.bsky.social Companies are attempting a sleight of hand where they capture data but argue because of how it’s processed it’s not “recording” and is thus private. They are still surveillance devices!
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We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
forever-wars.com
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
HAHAHAHAHA it's funny because he's suggesting another man is gay, get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAsshole
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
What the fuck
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"You know why I'm furious right now? I was hearing from everybody on plaintiffs' side that this was going to happen and I said repeatedly, no, I trust the government. I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done."
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/10/2026
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/05/2025
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*Given that AI is a revolution launched by mathematicians and programmers, it's a revolution eating its young right in front of us *It's a Moloch chewing up its own avant-garde just about as fast as it can munch
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
ICE agent shoots man in New York City with five-year-old nearby, mayor says
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ICE agent shoots man in New York City with five-year-old nearby, mayor says
Agents surrounded the man and child in his car before firing multiple rounds, according to Zohran Mamdani
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So like how ISIS does it. Great
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
Really hate that our government has a fetish for creating snuff films. Truly sick shit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly
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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.
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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One important tidbit from @propublica.org's comprehensive documentation of more than 500 ICE abductions involving U.S. citizens: At least 63 Americans were detained while recording ICE, a constitutionally protected activity ... projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
q: who invented soup? a: roger r. soup, 1785
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He looks like he'd go haywire and bleed milk the moment a woman tells him he's wrong on the Nostromo
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.
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Aura, Hungry Ghost @aurasight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Efficiency is not the ultimate goal of society
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Prolific rape and pedophile defender Michael Tracey is now melting down over the backlash to him doxxing Jane Doe and lying that he never did it. Even though he admitted to it in the same day
Someone described as a "CNN Creator" put out this video claiming I called for the "doxxing" of Jane Doe, and now a nationwide movement has been sparked against me. I NEVER CALLED FOR "DOXXING." CNN APPARENTLY OPPOSES WHAT IS CALLED "REPORTING" ON CLAIMANTS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGSAfter identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others -- so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization -- cannot be countenanced.

It's destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff's lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they're willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they're getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don't believe she's the main "villain" here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who've made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He's the central reason for the
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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Can you believe they can 3D print meat now?" Oh U mean like women do when they give birth..? #showerthought #feminism #MaleFeministsWhoShower
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He looks like he smells bad
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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So Michael Tracey apparently doxxed the Cornell assault survivor, and gonna be honest, I stand by my initial assessment of him.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 02/10/2026
using head on as an example is just so perfect, because head on was a scam en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That time Biden got so upset he almost did something about it
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That time Biden was so mad he almost did something about it
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I have horrible thoughts.”
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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Beyond parody.
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All pieces of shit
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/09/2026
anti-homeless sweeps of encampments, tent cities, and individual squats result in the systematic theft of everything the targeted people hold dear. don't fucking call the cops on your neighbors. www.tumblr.com/westernsunri...
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 29/09/2026
Cruz: “He signed them like he was signing Denny’s menus…” …….what? …Denny’s menus? Are people signing Denny’s menus? I don’t understand that at all. Is this a brain fart or did someone actually write that line thinking it was a mic drop? Man, Republicans are fucking weird.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Park Mantoja @markpantoja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She's a fucking creep
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
🧐 www.axios.com/2024/10/25/m...
axios.com
Scoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
It's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era.
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