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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Chef’s kiss
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Marc Love @marclove.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Mr. Rogers successfully defending The Corporation for Public Broadcasting from a threatened $20 million budget cut (67% of their funding) in 1969.
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Laurel Wamsley @laurelwams.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Been wondering how to support the public media outlets that are hurting most right now? The great Alex Curley built a tool to find a station that needs your help. Adopt A Station: adoptastation.org
adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It's the 'Oh Jesus' for me
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
the pivot from “we’re not cutting medicaid” to “come on look at these lazy bastards” sure was speedy
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Wow. The Senate was just interrupted by someone screaming: "You people are awful." This is so needed.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The energy we need
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/06/2025
My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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DodgerFanLA @dodgerfanla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨The kids in larchmont are doing rage songs🚨
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is my best guess as to the overall arch of what is happening as well
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The strategy is to do your Constitutionally-approved job and make them stop you. Make them show the world that they violate the Constitution. Make them show where they draw the lines and how they want to exercise power.
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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The escalation is a *function* of the unpopularity. A president in the first few months of their term should be able to get their policy priorities through normal legislative means rather than by sending armed troops to quell protest.
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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Everyone will eventually figure out that doing the right thing here is important. I hope it's not too late when they do.
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Exquisite.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Trump Administration Is Turning ICE Raids and Protests Into Reality TV read @makenakelly.bsky.social on how the government is treating a volatile situation in LA like content - and bringing in people like Dr. Phil to make it happen:
wired.com
The Trump Administration Is Turning ICE Raids and Protests Into Reality TV
Whether creating its own memes or working with celebrities like "Dr. Phil" McGraw, the government is treating a volatile situation in Los Angeles like content.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"everything here was pretty chill today, not sure what all the fuss was about, we don't particularly see any need for escalation" --literally the LAPD
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Absolute FACTS
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
you don’t get to fill in a square on your Susan Collins bingo card for this one, because “I have concerns” is the freebie in the middle
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
👏👏👏👏👏👏
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2025
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This is the real game: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
nytimes.com
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 30/05/2025
Whether Elon Musk is serious about leaving whatever the fuck he was doing, everyone should remember that in the early stages of DOGE, he and his teenage accomplices ransacked, copied, and absconded with almost every US citizen’s most private information. The largest crime spree in history.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?
Senator Marsha Blackburn tweets: "We're going to build a big, beautiful Golden Dome."
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Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
One thing people aren’t grasping about ICE waiting in immigration court to kidnap people at their hearings: DOJ lawyers are *intentionally dismissing cases* to avoid having to do any work & due process by just handing them to ICE. Pathetic & illegal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
ICE agents deploy new tactic: arresting people as they leave mandatory court hearings
Migrant-rights advocates say the new approach is causing confusion as undocumented immigrants see cases dismissed before ICE agents move in.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.
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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @fernandez.house.gov · 21/05/2025
You can’t make this up. Republicans snuck a “tanning bed tax break” in their bill—the same bill that’s going to make hospitals go under and take away hospital beds. They’re too ashamed to even say it, too.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“I don’t even recognize you, Secretary Rubio.” This is so well done. Respectfully calling out a colleague who so pathetically sold his soul. Take a moment, listen, and share.👇
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The problem with AI is not what it *can* do in a perfect world. It's what people actually use it for. The Chicago Sun-Times/Philly Inquirer AI-generated newspaper debacle is a pretty good preview of the AI future/present. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
On one level, “Heat Index” is just a small failure of an ecosystem on life support. But it is also a template for a future that will be defined by the embrace of artificial intelligence across every industry—one where these tools promise to unleash human potential, but instead fuel a human-free race to the bottom. Any discussion about AI tends to be a perpetual, heady conversation around the ability of these tools to pass benchmark tests or whether they can or could possess something approximating human intelligence. Evangelists discuss their power as educational aids and productivity enhancers. In practice, the marketing language around these tools tends not to capture the ways that actual humans use them. A Nobel Prize–winning work driven by AI gets a lot of run, though the dirty secret of AI is that it is surely more often used to cut corners and produce lowest-common-denominator work.
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I truly hate this timeline so hard
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
THIS
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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/05/2025
how do you deal with the fact that the united states has about 20% of the overall population that lives in an entirely different fake reality
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missokane.bsky.social @missokane.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Get em @warren.senate.gov
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
so in a wild goose chase for fraud they assumed was there on faith, DOGE introduced a staggering layer inefficiency that hobbled a well run agency
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A lot of people are (rightfully!) pointing out that this white guy with zero relevant qualifications replaced a highly skilled and competent Black woman as Librarian of Congress. It sure seems like Trump wants someone in the role who will let Elon use all the data for training his fascist AI.
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The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.
Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.
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