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Daniel Lenski

@moxfyre.bsky.social
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I like life in Vancouver 🇨🇦, languages, open-source software, solving confusing problems with data, dogs, distance running, and my 👶 son. It's just everything else that worries me.

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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 14m
Watched The Princess Bride at a friend's house when I was probably 5. I was inconsolably terrified by the Fire Swamp and the RUS. First movie I saw in theater (I think) was Ghostbusters II, which was incredibly scary. Many decades later, I learned that both were comedies.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1h
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 4h
Only member of Congress I've MET was Oregon Sen Jeff Merkley, at Jan 2017 protest against Trump's FIRST Muslim ban. Tall guy in plaid shirt, talking to people in the crowd, with one aide taking notes. Later I saw him running (a race?) in Portland. I shouted "go Senator" or sthg, he laughed+waved.
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 4h
A relative lives near a prominent Dem US Rep. As we walked the dog, I hear "I think _____'s house is coming up." We passed a normal house, unfenced, car in driveway, single sec cam on a lightpost. Congressman was visible in a dining room window, w/fam. I gawked for a split sec, he gave me a nod.
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 4h
I recall this piece about John Kerry serving on a jury a few months after he was tarred as an out-of-touch elitist, and lost the 2004 election. A Republican voter on the jury was surprised at how normal and down-to-earth Kerry was, and regretted voting for Bush. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10174...
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 4h
It's interesting to me how many politicians and leaders who put on a folksy, everyman veneer are terrified by unscripted interactions with ordinary people, while many elite Ivy-educated technocrats mingle unafraid. Also, great T-shirt, Jack 👍
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is what OpenAI really believes!
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
¡Dios Mio! NYT/Siena shows HINOJOSA leading?
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Carney wins the Peace Prize, the crashout will be legendary.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a thing to say when you have immigrant in-laws.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
religionnews.com
Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 02/10/2026
If you want non-citizens to visit your country, a good first step is to stop imperilling non-citizens who come to the country!
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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is an opportunity cost too when government fronts the capital. What else can we spend tens of billions on? What infrastructure projects won’t happen because we funded this? There is a difference between not standing in the way of industrial projects and becoming the proponent yourself.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Upside Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what jury nullification is for.
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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The rights of the civil power are limited; there are things beyond its province; there are matters out of its control; there are cases in which the faithful citizen may say,—ay, *must* say,—'I will not obey.'"
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Are you brave enough to face...DOCTOR HONK'S CHAMBER OF HORRORS? @thechunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tragic that they wasted two absolutely baller names on a serial killer that didn't exist.
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Truly a prime example of how Every Accusation Is A Confession for Trump, Vance, and their ilk.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I disagree with the idea that Trump is the symptom, not the cause of US foreign policy changes. Leaders also have agency. These mysterious structures did not compel the US to got to war with Iran, blow up our alliances, destroy our trade relations or threaten to invade Greenland. Trump did.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Our dad was not a criminal. He was just a man who loved his family and woke up before the rest of the world did to put an honest day’s work." - Ronaldo Salgado speaking about his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo TIME has recognized him and his brother as Latino Leaders 2026. ✍️: @tusk81.bsky.social
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
TIME Names Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s Sons To Latino Leaders 2026 List
“Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr. were born U.S. citizens, and feel a sense of responsibility to use their voices to call for change.”
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
58 deaths. Outrageous. Should never happen in America.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So much for no weirdos 🙄
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was deeply inspired by the good neighbors I met in Minneapolis during the ICE occupation earlier this year. They showed the nation what it looks like to “fight, not fold” by rising up in solidarity when authoritarianism landed on their doorsteps.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 30/09/2026
Again with the testosterone… As someone with a deeper voice and more body hair than Pete Hegseth, let me say: - Few problems have military solutions. - Human rights are a force multiplier, not an obstacle. - Everyone belongs here in the US. - Ordering soldiers to commit murder demands consequences.
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If reporting about the Omani pilot is accurate… here's a man who would've trained for years to get a high-prestige elite job… and yet decided that the only avenue to express his rage at 🇮🇱 was to crash a plane and kill everyone on it? This IS interesting to me, but I don't call it "understandable."
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A very on-the-nose metaphor for the Abraham Accords, perhaps? Too soon? 😬 (I am very very glad that everyone survived this.)
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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 30/09/2026
are you all following this business with the flydubai flight where the first officer stabbed the captain, dived the plane so fast it tore the rudder off, was subdued by the passengers after somebody got the door open, and then two off duty pilots landed the plane* *all preliminary information
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Carney laughs at Trump’s claim that Canada will apologize in 3-4 week www.youtube.com/shorts/FNOby...
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Carney laughs at Trump’s claim that Canada will apologize in 3-4 weeks
YouTube video by Global News
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This SCOTUS ruling -- as a group deported to Equatorial Guinea remain incommunicado, imprisoned, and under serious threat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful and enraging news.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1 month into the Iran war, Donald Trump said it would be over "in about two weeks." That was 182 days ago. That's why we partnered with VoteVets to build a calendar of every single time Trump said the war would be ending. Go to AboutTwoWeeks.com and see for yourself.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
very similar to what my brother went through when our dad was killed by ICE
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not just that getting 5-10 of these a day is annoying, although it is extremely annoying. I think polluting political communications channels like this is actively corrosive to democracy.
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're all trying to figure out the target demographic for this campaign ad. (It's me. It's definitely me.)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
This piece of work told the council in June he found the source of his wealth “abhorrent,” but there was nothing he could do, due to contractual obligations. (And said my ironclad reporting was “not accurate,” while providing NO evidence for this claim.) Yet Omni’s ICE flights suddenly stopped!
James Wyper, Stonepeak's senior managing director, told a City Council committee that the firm believed the Trump administration's ongoing mass deportation effort was
"abhorrent" and was actively trying to sell
Omni Air.
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
King shit. t.co/0kwtLSmVJL
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why doesn't Cornyn just say what he obviously thinks and clearly signals?! 🤷🏻‍♂️ "I'm mad that Paxton beat me in the primary, and secondarily that he's a corrupt and terrible person?" It even has the benefit of being TRUE!! Why won't he Just Say What He Wants To Say?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
RAJU: So you're not planning to help Paxton fundraise at all? CORNYN: Correct R: Why? C: This is the way majority parties become minority parties -- by nominating candidates that are less than appealing to a general electorate R: Does he deserve to be a senator? C: I'll let voters decide that
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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's not the usual way people get released, but Judge Gordon Gallagher of Colorado immediately freed a noncitizen after the government failed to provide an immigration judge's decision denying bond as they were ordered to do.
ORDER: At 4:07 p.m. on September 21, 2026, Respondents were Ordered (D. 11) to provide the Court with a copy of the IJ's written decision denying Petitioner bond. As Respondents have not done so, it is ORDERED that Petitioner shall be released from custody within 24 hours, and Petitioner SHALL update this Court in writing upon his release. Respondents may continue to subject Petitioner to the same conditions as before he was re-detained but no more restrictions are warranted. It is FURTHER ORDERED that Respondents are prohibited from re-detaining Petitioner on the same grounds. by District Judge Gordon P Gallagher on 09/22/2026. For all non-e-filer pro se parties, a copy of this document has been sent via U.S. Mail to the mailing address of record. Text Only Entry (gpglc6, ) (Entered: 09/22/2026)
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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A few years ago, I watched these two bulls going at it among the dusty and low sun angle of a fantastic fall day in Elk Island NP #AB.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
found a new type of guy
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u/IntrusiveGas • 6h
AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I
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