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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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Wisconsin-based writer, reader, nature nerd, DJ, roller derby-er (Hammer Abby), and musician (Damsel Trash, LINE & Little Red Wolf). 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ grist-from-the-mills.ghost.io

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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 12h
My friend @millbot.bsky.social also published a piece about the Madison bodycam discourse today. Emily gets into a lot of points I haven't managed to hit in my series, and way more incisively than I ever could. As always, curse them for making the rest of us look like witless slime molds
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Focus on preventing police violence in the first place
Mandating body-worn cameras for Madison's police may be one tool in the toolbox for increased accountability but focusing on it as a panacea is another example of misdirected energy. Vol. 92 IN THIS...
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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 23h
Flight 002 of Yahara Flyer is out! I wrote more about police bodycams. @jesseraub.online wrote about apples. Hoping to get the print edition distributed by this evening at @giantjonesbrewing.bsky.social, Cool Bikes North, @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social, and @4starvideo.bsky.social
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After more than a decade, MPD's plan for body cameras is still sketchy
The story we tell ourselves about bodycams. Also, apples.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 9h
Look, I love a slime mold 💕
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h
“No agency on Earth could fail eight audits and still get a $1.5 trillion check, except the Pentagon.”
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Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.
We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 17h
Also wanted to get this primarily to listen to new CDs and cassettes I get from friends/local/touring musicians and bands. Long live physical media!
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 17h
I'm so glad I held onto it all these years 😁
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18h
Sickos meme but intensified with red coloring
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18h
Excellent use of this gif
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18h
New edition of my newsletter out today digs into Madison's push for police body cameras and the important questions left unanswered:
grist-from-the-mills.ghost.io
Focus on preventing police violence in the first place
Mandating body-worn cameras for Madison's police may be one tool in the toolbox for increased accountability but focusing on it as a panacea is another example of misdirected energy. Vol. 92 IN THIS...
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 21h
Treated myself by getting a small CD/cassette player for my desk because I realized I no longer had easy means to play either. Been very fun rediscovering some of the music I've held onto over the years. Currently digging into my '90s trance and techno collection. 😁
A small cube-shaped CD and cassette player on a desk, with a black Case Logic CD holder in front of it.
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CNN @cnn.com · 21h
Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. cnn.it/4rLtWSa
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h
As expected, the Supreme Court, among the new cases it took today, will be considering the Trump administration’s mandatory immigration detention policy (Rhoney v. Barbosa). This instantly becomes one of the most important cases of the term.
(ORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026
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ORDER IN PENDING CASE
BEAIRD, KENDRICK J. V. UNITED STATES
The motion of the Solicitor General for divided
argument is granted.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOHN, INC. V. FREDERIC, JOEL, ET UX.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
MARSCHNER, ROXANE M. V. MARSCHNER, RICHARD A.
RHONEY, ACTING DIR. V. BARBOSA DA CUNHA, RICARDO A.
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026
Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.
episodes.ghost.io
What's the matter with trans panic media?
Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whoa
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Sarah @sarahisathome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This reason for the improved position by the CDC on the COVID vaccine should be an inspiration for lots of legislation. Being pesky can pay off!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Republicans' entire campaign against David Crowley is just this, over and over.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI: My mega-preview of every race on the ballot in the Wisconsin State Senate. This is the first time Democrats have a realistic shot at flipping the State Senate since before the last time the Packers won the Super Bowl. It's been a long time! www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/2026-elect...
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2026 Election Mega-Preview: The Wisconsin State Senate
Democrats are in position to win control of the State Senate.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy #BisexualVisibilityDay. Will we see our shadow when we emerge from our dens? If yes, that's 6 more weeks of iced coffee! If no, that means hot tea season is officially here. Hope this helps. 💕
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This and the boat murders may be Trump's truest innovations in crimes against humanity. Death sentences masquerading as deportations.
france24.com
‘I had never heard of Eswatini’: Deported by the US to a country that rejects them
Migrants previously convicted by US courts have been imprisoned in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, over the past several months. Since being deported from the US, they have found themselves...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/09/2026
PRECIOUS BABY SCAMPERING!!! 🐣 🪶
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's a mess! There are hints of a genuinely awesome movie in there and the gameplay sequences rock, but...yeah.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Really wish James Caan hadn't decided to mumble his way thru this movie, though, it's damn hard to understand anything he says 😅
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seriously though the actual gameplay scenes are rad as hell. Incredible skating and stunt work.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Goooood lordt after all the "they're so short!" jokes made by the white American team, we find out the Tokyo team's color is... yellow. 🫠
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Welp.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Man this movie had so much potential from that opening sequence. Alas. Too bad the remake was a bust, too.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh yes of course the guy called Moonpie, who has a strong southern accent, is the casually racist one.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watching "Rollerball" (1975) before it leaves streaming & because, as a long time roller derby athlete, I need to see all even vaguely related media. Early thoughts: 1) The opening sequence slaps. 2) Lol we always get confused questions about where the "ball" is in derby. Solved here I guess 😆
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Rollerball (1975) - Intro (Bach - Toccata) - Full HD
YouTube video by Bruno Terrosa
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026
Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 14/09/2026
Hellava story!!!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well this is intriguing
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias
The GOP operative class is younger, better educated, and more urban than the national average which means their intuitions pull the party to the center.
The Dem operative class is also younger, better educated, and more urban but that means their biases pull Dems off-center.
4:15 PM • 11/7/22 • Twitter for iPhone
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)
J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Every state should have public candidate debates like this, holy heck. Especially at state fairs!
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ashley (birthday month) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
remove him from the senate democratic caucus. if he does this tonight, the removal must happen tomorrow. you don’t get to call yourself a Democrat and do shit like this.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I continue to contend that this is absolutely unhinged, antisocial behavior. Why does everyone around you need to hear your call? Why are you still using it like you would if it wasn't on speaker?! WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING ANYMORE
Photo of a woman using her her cell phone on speaker mode but with the bottom of the phone, where the speaker is,  pressed against her ear.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why yes I do still cue up "Halcyon & On & On" every time I fly into New York City, what of it? 😁💕 #HackThePlanet
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026
This is who was on that Gitmo flight I tracked 12 days ago — a guy who did everything right to overcome the circumstances of his birth.
Gillian Brockell • @gillianbrockell.com
Looks like we're using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE's flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights. 1/2
An FR24 map showing an Air Wisconsin plane landing at Gitmo 
9:14 AM • Aug 28, 2026
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You know, airlines, if you didn't charge an arm and a leg for the first checked bag, you probably wouldn't have to beg us steerage class folks to gate check our bags because the plane is too full. I dunno, just an idea.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Pedro Pascal Laughing & Crying
ALT: Pedro Pascal Laughing & Crying
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meanwhile: “According to the most recent estimate from Brown University’s Watson School for International Public Affairs, the Iran War has now cost Americans more than $101 billion in additional fuel expenses, averaging more than $776 per US household.”
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