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Wanna Hear Some Halo Lore? @stefanheck.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Every single conservative is a stupid Nazi hog and nothing they say will ever be worth listening to

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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I told you we’d be back

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/06/2025

MAJOR PARTICLE PHYSICS REPORT RELEASE ⚛️🧪 The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read! (I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.) nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...

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Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I had this conversation with somebody yesterday. When I hear somebody talking about the midterms these days, my brain just turns off. like what are you talking about?

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Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If there aren't going to be institutional consequences for these people there absolutely HAVE to be social consequences. It's the only arrow in the quiver. If they don't want to occupy the same world as us, don't let them.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

People who don’t care if you die - or just suffer - don’t deserve your respect

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Erica @nudoces.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

some selfish, delusional, manipulative assholes never change 💅

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Be mean to antivaxxers! I am so serious. They are going to kill us all. Children are dying and they’re in a tin foil hat circle jerk claiming to be the real victims of some malicious attack, when it’s just predictable and preventable childhood infectious disease as usual. They don’t deserve respect.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This is how stupid these people are. They do not know anything. They have always been this stupid! The problem is our institutions continued to demand harmful people and ideas be treated with civility that they don’t return, and that “both sides” be platformed even when one side is false and wrong.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/03/2025

A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

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Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests. But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

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Defector @defector.com · 18/03/2025

"The Democrats had refused to abolish the filibuster when Schumer was the majority leader, on the grounds that someday they might be the ones who needed it. Now the House and the public were begging Schumer to use it. And he refused."

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Chuck Schumer Is Responsible | Defector

Chuck Schumer was always going to come out of the budget showdown a loser. The only question was which of the two available forms of losing he would end up with: an organized legislative surrender to…

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A. H. @ahreaume.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The 'mindfulness exercises' seem to work because THEN the Chatbot is mirroring the language humans use in reply to mindfulness exercises in it's dataset. The Chatbot is reflecting our responses to mindfulness back at us. It does not feel.

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A. H. @ahreaume.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Repeat after me: The Chatbot is not feeling anxiety. The Chatbot is guessing what it's reply should be based on the responses to anxious and traumatic narratives that exist in it's dataset. The Chatbot is reflecting our anxiety back at us. It does not feel. Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

By their definition, any notable accomplishment achieved by someone who was not a straight white male -- no matter how or when it happened -- counts as "DEI" and "bias against whites." It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/03/2025

If you aren’t going to give me goddamn health insurance in this country, you can’t take away my mask. Fuck you.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

congress right now has all the power it needs to put an end to MAGA despotism. they just don’t want to. and there is no set of rules you could devise that could overcome that obstacle.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/03/2025

also something to remember when the republicans start working to actively kill them

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

in a few weeks when senate Dems are trying to blame the chaos on Trump, remember this could not have happened without their appeasement.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These ten also agreed to hundreds of unanimous consents to move the Trump agenda forward. This vote was the best leverage Dems had, but instead of using it, these ten voted to endorse the DOGE cuts. None of the illegal DOGE cuts are rescinded, and Trump gets more budget discretion going forward.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

So am I understanding correctly that the GOP threatened to defund DC of its own money if they didn't tear up the BLM thing And then DC tore up the BLM thing And now the GOP is defunding them anyway

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This needs to happen. Vichy leadership out, now. The possibility of that is the only possible a silver lining I can find in this clusterfuck

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/03/2025

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It gets worse! Many, many Democrats have opposed filibuster abolition on the grounds that they’d miss it when Republicans gained a trifecta and it wasn’t available to them anymore.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Schumer wants us to believe Senate Dems are powerless while literally providing the votes to ensure the GOP agenda goes forward. If a shutdown was better for Trump, the House GOP wouldn't have passed this CR and the Senate GOP wouldn't vote for it. Schumer knows that; he's outright lying to us.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If the Senate Democrats do this, yes, it’s a massive betrayal of their base and an unconscionable abdication of their duty. Every single one of them who’s complicit in this scheme needs to be driven out of politics forever.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

me reading savvy centrist pundits talking about how good it is for Democrats to give Republicans everything they want to help them out of a jam without getting any concessions whatsoever, much less actually trying to win by fighting a battle, skirmish, kerfuffle, or even just be a mild speed bump

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AHHHHH

YouTube video by CarrierBK

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Yes, exactly. Where I live and work, millions in fully appropriated federal spending has simply vanished. Contracts breached, grants rescinded. Government service offices are closing, important personnel laid off. There is already a shutdown based on Trump's & Musk's whims. Don't endorse it.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/03/2025

Yeah they’re saying they can do whatever they want to whomever they decide isn’t with the program.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

I don’t know who wins in the end but I know you should be a thorn in their side until the end because that’s the only way you keep the chance that we win alive

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Trump administration will now be defining what is considered "anti-American" activism and deporting people for it.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Uses the word "proudly" in the first sentence. Says it is the "first arrest of many to come" in the second sentence. If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

The US was certain it could beat the Vietnamese into submission The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia It really ain’t over until it’s over

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Nothing justifies disappearing a person. History is riddled with those who thought their proximity to power protected them until it didn’t. Those justifying Khalil’s disappearance are traitors to our country. I don’t say this lightly, and I mean it sincerely.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be RFK Jr's attempt to pull a "Cass review" for vaccinations – one that winds up not finding any evidence of actual harm, but which is presented in such a way that anti-vaxxers will confidently & relentlessly point to it as some kind of "smoking gun"...

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/03/2025

utterly fucking astounding that any Dem would look at what’s happening and think that giving this administration sweeping new authority to prosecute speech on the internet is a good idea

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