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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Your statement boils down to, [X] is wrong for all these reasons but also very useful, where we substitute X for things like: Beating your children Theft Lying Cheating Basically, an argument for results over ethics, your success over consequences to others. Is that the world you want to live in
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
What the fuck did Vance do to him
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Yeah. Compared to what I vaguely remember from Siuan's arc in the books after, though tragic, I actually prefer what we got on screen! (Compared to my two friends who I got to watch with zero book knowledge who are ready to drop the show now 😭 It's sad it hits differently, but makes sense)
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
As a functionally-show only person, thanks for sharing this! It's helpful context that shows the showrunners trying to stay faithful to the lore (And choosing not to change this in show seems like a choice to book readers over show-only folks, explaining some of the upset)
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
To be fair, one man technically does not have this kind of power; he has it only because he has the support of an entire political party and its movement
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
it made me notice that the American left is so accustomed to police violence that it has given up on *succeeding to be safe* and has capitulated to violent/peaceful dichotomy in its own way --- if there is no violence, it's useless lib shit
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
tbh if this administration can't break or at least significantly weaken partisan polarization idk if anything can, guess we're gonna see if there was actually a reason why every other administration in American history has really avoided trying to do what they're doing now
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff Philadelphia
Protestors holding signs and flags walking on the street
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/04/2025
Kickoff in Philadelphia. #handsoff
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way. He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“I want to go a little further.” Go on Brother Booker. @booker.senate.gov
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Sen @booker.senate.gov is still going. Support him! WATCH! Call your Senator & tell them you agree with Booker. This has gone far enough. 202-224-3121 www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
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Burned out crone @burnedoutcrone.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/03/2025
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an exposed 45GB database from AI firm GenNomis, containing over 95,000 explicit AI-generated images, including child abuse material and de-aged celebrities. Fowler shared details of the leak with WIRED.
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An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.
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Jenn | Reappropriate @reappropriate.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
So I acknowledge that we’re all doing our best in this time to find humor wherever and however we can, but I would love for us to reconsider those jokes where the punchline is “white mediocrity is the real DEI.” These jokes reinforce a genuinely harmful redefinition of DEI policy.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/03/2025
Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House
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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House
In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president Donald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking. Continue reading...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Cry more
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/03/2025
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@penncareylaw.bsky.social did you miss the chance to sign this? Not too late to represent yourself I hope
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Another thing I keep thinking about: by the numbers, millennials object to Trump more than any other age cohort. But we’re also the generation most heavily engaged in the raising of young kids right now, an activity that is functionally (if not ideologically) deradicalizing.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2025
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
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Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
List includes Harvard University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Northwestern University, the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern California.
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Trump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.
The administration has circulated a list that includes nine other campuses, accusing them of failure to address antisemitism.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.
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MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We have the Target 40 day boycott that’s already underway. Tomorrow starts the Amazon boycott.
A flyer announcing economic boycotts. March 7-14 is the Amazon boycott.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
Screen grab of Twitter post my pundit Matt Yglesias saying that California governor Newsom is not only correct on merit to oppose trans athletes, but that it's bizarre to see the Democratic party line up on an issue that is opposed 70-30.
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@alt-text.bsky.social
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There are no good billionaires
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Happy to report I helped contribute to these numbers (or, one could also say, took me long enough)
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🐧 @pengwingy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"uninformed voters who vote against their self interests to harm other people also exist in Philly" ?? Fixed it for you, also, this is what is considered newsworthy?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/02/2025
Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...
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Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania for the US
Andrew Tate - a champion of Donald Trump - and his brother are on a private plane to Florida, according to Romanian media.
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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Generative AI is profoundly indefensible from environmental AND ethical standpoints. You can’t claim you want a more just world and to stop killing our climate and then casually use AI to compose an email that would take you maybe 5 minutes. I will die on this hill.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
What I Accomplished Last Week: 5 Bullet Points for My Boss 1. Pondered the great question of our time (“Who is the administrator of DOGE?????”) 2. Read some court filings that did not reveal the DOGE administrator’s identity 3. Asked Elon Musk to tell me who the administrator of DOGE is (no reply)
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/02/2025
DOGE has been sending their mass emails from a misconfigured server, causing DOGE emails to fail SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation. This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.
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