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noah lee

@noahleewrites.bsky.social
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he/him. polcomm undergrad. weird disabled queer from alabama. the cat’s name is melissa. trying my best to be hopeful in hopeless times

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3h
So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 4h
“FACT: that is true. And we’ll do it again”
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4h
The only thing better than being featured as the $2,000 question on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social is having the contestant get the question right!
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Kenny Smith @kennysmith.org · 4h
My favorite Spann anecdote is the time he name checked the people at a way out in the country restaurant as a tornado aimed at them. Told them which corner of their store to get in. Said, “That’s the one by the reach-in cooler.” James Spann is the best at what he does. www.al.com/alabamafootb...
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James Spann makes ‘GameDay’ debut, offers Saban job, gives Hurricane Isaias latest before Alabama game
Spann gives game-time forecast. He predicts weather "to the minute," Saban said.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 8h
OpenAI’s findings have arrived in increasingly large waves, with little pause between them and frequent indications from the company that yet more are on the way. “You get a sense that they don’t really care about these individual results,” Roney-Dougal said. “It’s a really nasty feeling.”
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
Careers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 19h
Hurricane Isaias at sunset.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family. 

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator 

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of: 

➡️ defunding the police 
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets 
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors 
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections 

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."
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noah lee @noahleewrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
happens year after year and it never gets easier
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read
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Alabama Political Reporter @alreporter.com · 09/10/2026
In a unanimous ruling, Alabama's highest court agreed that courts don't have standing to determine candidates' constitutional eligibility #alpolitics
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Alabama Supreme Court dismisses Tuberville residency challenge
In a unanimous ruling, Alabama's highest court agreed that courts don't have standing to determine candidates' constitutional eligibility
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/10/2026
Friends, please don’t watch it Don’t give them audience When it is the oppressor who tells you not to look away, you know that you must You don’t have to watch him die to know he’s dead You don’t have to watch to be angry that it’s happening We have to be angry & we have to survive Don’t watch.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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noah lee @noahleewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
renee good was murdered in minnesota ten months and a day ago
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Related news: I reviewed emails received yesterday by two federal agencies—SEC and NIH—instructing them to update all internal and public materials to say "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in order to comply with Trump's executive order.
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 08/10/2026
10/08/2026, 4p CT Update Hurricane Isaias has strengthened into a Category 2 storm. Additional strengthening is expected through early Friday, and Isaias should remain a dangerous hurricane as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast Friday night.
Satellite Image with Forecast Cone and Tropical Warnings   Track & Forecast Labels:   4:00 PM Thu: Hurricane ('H') located in the central Gulf of Mexico.   1:00 AM Fri: Hurricane ('H') continuing north-northeast.   1:00 PM Fri: Hurricane ('H') approaching the central Gulf Coast.   1:00 AM Sat: Tropical Storm ('S') tracking inland near the Mississippi/Alabama state line area.   1:00 PM Sat: Tropical Depression ('D') inland over the Southeast U.S.   Coastal Warnings & Watches:   Red coastline: Hurricane Warning along coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.   Blue coastline: Tropical Storm Warning extending east along the Florida Panhandle.   Description:
Satellite imagery overlaid with a National Hurricane Center forecast track cone showing a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico moving north-northeast toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. Thick cloud bands cover much of the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and adjacent coastal states.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I decided to donate to her campaign.
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Bernadette for Congress | Arizona's 8th Congressional District
Meet Bernadette, Democratic candidate for Arizona's 8th Congressional District, fighting for working families and a stronger future.
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noah lee @noahleewrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
have now done the same, thanks for sharing the link
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Rob Anderson @robwanderson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And this is another reason people need to read @gilduran.com’s book …
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
heads up. fast-moving and rapidly intensifying
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noah lee @noahleewrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this isn't the point of this post but i got stuck on "the divorce epidemic of the 1970s" which definitely has nothing to do with the legalization of no fault divorce or the equal credit opportunity act or a rise in awareness about domestic abuse or Roe v Wade or anything. just societal trends
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Behind the Bastards is apparently eligible for a Golden Globe this year I can't imagine we'll win, given the number of podcasts by famous Hollywood people on the list. But it's nice to be considered eligible! goldenglobes.com/articles/bes...
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Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed - Golden Globes
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed The Golden Globes announced the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for consideration in the Best Podcast category for the 84th Golden G...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
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Creighton ⚒️ @creightonote.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My favorite band is Means Testing As A Reasonable Compromise With The Machine. Every album fuckin sucks and is universally panned but one of these days they're going to go triple platinum
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's that time of the year when people are surprised Rage Against the Machine believes in what they wrote and sang about in every single song they ever released.
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noah lee @noahleewrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
working on drafting my data/stats/results/etc portion of my paper and i'll take "sentences i was not expecting to have to write when i designed this project" for 400
Footnote that reads:   On April 9, 2026, the @DHSgov account posted video including barely-censored CCTV footage of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer. While it may have met my inclusion criteria (edited video, text used in the video, the highest amount of public interactions within the March 20, 2026 to April 20, 2026 period at almost 85,000), I excluded it because I did not feel comfortable reviewing it more than once and am not sure as a researcher how to treat what is essentially government-promoted snuff footage without bias.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like we don’t have political disagreements, we have disagreements on the nature of reality 
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Dan Anderson @danandersonphoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Took the photos for this story
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there's more than a hint of 'noble savage' in the way people outside the trades talk about those jobs and especially those workers. there's a reason people leave those jobs for less physically demanding ones if the option becomes available! enough salt-of-the-earth rhapsodizing!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And the term "noticer" is an antisemitic code word online. Similar to red pill but noticing the control and power of Jewish people. So he is using coded language as well
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the only thing - and i mean that literally, the ONLY thing Trump could do to make his base hate him is to take their big gas guzzling cars not killing a school full of children, not food prices, not staging a coup, not rape, not child rape, not insulting a disabled man on live television only gas
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine spending what I can only assume is 100s of thousands of dollars wining and dining a bunch of high ranking priests so you can lobby the pope to say that AI is conscious, and he responds with "Actually man, we're gonna renew our relationships with human artists because y'all suck so bad" lol
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/10/2026
This story has been updated to include Geller's response confirming the allegations.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
sorry to spam but this might be buttons meme of the year
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026
Ah
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026
The best way to understand Newsom is that he thinks that he should be the one who gets to benefit from the fully operational fascist technology and media apparatus.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hearn's case presents "exceptional" circumstances. He "faces the unique possibility that the govt will revive this case—one that it has already announced to be meritless—based on political pressure brought by the President of the United States on his subordinate officers."
While all defendants deal with
some degree of uncertainty regarding the odds of re-prosecution after a case has been
dismissed, Mr. Hearn faces the unique possibility that the government will revive this case - one that it has already announced to be meritless - based on political pressure
brought by the President of the United States upon his subordinate officers.
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