Reposted by Quality BazEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026GEFILTE PHISHING 10568981209
Reposted by Quality BazDaniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs. 63107503680
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This is a cat check point. Relinquish the most recent cat picture on your phone. 040
Reposted by Quality BazDr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution. 36398333319
Reposted by Quality BazIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 08/03/2026Give me my hour back you goddamn animals 1531437
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Day 10 of My Flu Story: back to feeling like hammered crap and at 99.5F. Enough already with the mirage recoveries. 000
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I got a TRYING hat from @dansinker.com and then it vanished like two minutes later, much to my annoyance … so my younger took it upon themself to make me a replacement. ❤️ 040
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Younger child and I have taken to The Sick Couch, where they have a 100.4F temp and I have a sore throat one could sand boards on. Olympic replays, novels, and a little scrolling interspersed with strange half-naps seems about all the day will handle. Adios, plans! Adieu, intentions! 000
Reposted by Quality BazSleepaKaye Camp @kaye.zone · 11/02/2026I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of? 401917416
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It turns out money makes people less poor, and thus, happier and more self sufficient. Art flourishes; everyone* wins. *Except maybe billionaires, about whom I cannot find it in my heart to be very concerned, if I’m being honest. 010
Reposted by Quality BazSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 14144551732
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026For some reason we are delaying the morning walk but nobody seems to mind 000
Reposted by Quality BazKit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/ 111042475
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Well, on this first day of a new year I brunched with my family and dear friends while watching birds at their feeder as snow wafted, after which I took a nap while dinner cooked and then watched Sinners with my mom and the kids. 16 yo now on the phone with friends exclaiming how good it was. 030
Reposted by Quality BazColdChef @coldchef.bsky.social · 17/12/2025If you call 707-873-7862, you'll reach a pep-talk hotline created by a group of elementary school kids in California. Try it. 14620
Reposted by Quality BazZito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny. 119123452878
Reposted by Quality BazThe Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service 627225956718
Reposted by Quality BazBrian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥 5682878911200
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Wake Up Dead Man was terrific and thought provoking and heartfelt and funny and complex. Loved it. 110
Reposted by Quality BazA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025“Tell your children who the cowards were.” 11598163599
Reposted by Quality BazAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/10/2025“what point was he trying to make” feels like a pretty obvious follow up question 1964451519
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025K: The guy on the radio, the WI state rep, said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms." Me: ... he shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms? K: No, he said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms." M: uh, _you_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms? K: No. _ICE_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms. M: Oh. 010
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The implicit message in the winking, chortling press conference that Trump and Bukele did this morning is not that they _can't_ do anything about wrongly-imprisoned Abrego Garcia. They of course very much can—they are executives in their respective countries—but will not. This reinforces ... 1/3 131
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025This. Two heads of state laughing ghoulishly this morning about the innocent man whose life they just can't possibly see any way to help or affect in any way, despite one of them being a self-described "dictator" and the other doing his damnedest to become one. 020
Reposted by Quality BazChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back. 9042799313783
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025This articulates really well some thoughts about the power of widespread public understanding (and framing) in our era of increasingly decentralized media. 010
Reposted by Quality BazA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Those who have won capitalism's game have done so by unnaturally positioning themselves at the headwaters of the natural generative stream created by human society, then damned it for themselves. Having thus stolen as much as they can, these fools believe their theft means they invented water. 6566105
Reposted by Quality BazLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 15/03/2025"We are the weaker party. But history demonstrates that weaker parties can still win—if they pursue the right kinds of long-term strategy." www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...liberalcurrents.comRoadmap to American ReconstructionA roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction. 21266103
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Michel Martin fucking rules. This interview! Tenacious, persistent. How it’s fucking done! one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5326...one.npr.org🔊 Listen Now: DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportationsMorning Edition on NPR One | 5:36 000
Reposted by Quality BazCovid19 @friendlycovid19.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I mean you all weren’t willing to get uncomfortable to fight me and fascism is a lot bigger than I am. 211337
Reposted by Quality BazBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 23/02/2025seen in newark, new jersey 🔥 59116372545
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Driving four teenagers to school, I got to hear their take on how they would play "Kiss/Marry/Kill" with types of triangles. Consensus: Kiss Isoceles, Marry Equilateral ("because they're so stable, long-term") and Kill Scalene ("giving me a serious home wrecker vibe"). The kids are alright. 020
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Reposted by Quality BazBilly Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Merry Christmas to all 178192704539
Reposted by Quality BazSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/12/2024seems very bad that the richest person on Earth bought an election, thus installing his own personal fascist puppet, unilaterally conducts foreign policy violating Logan Act, owns a massive engine of fash disinfo, and has access to natsec secrets while regularly violating terms of security clearance 8545941479
Reposted by Quality BazCurtis Craddock @artfulskeptic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Every single conservative economic theory starts with the assumption that all economic actors are young, healthy, single, orphaned, high-functioning sociopaths whose exclusive aim in life is to accumulate wealth. 59327
Reposted by Quality BazOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in. 253250684466
Quality Baz @qbaz.bsky.social · 08/11/2024I work in news. I feel strongly that it's a crucial part of a functional democracy. I don't think anyone has any idea how, in this internet age, to go after people's innate tendency to believe things that confirm their opinions and seek out sources of information (true or false) that comfort them. 010
Reposted by Quality BazCol. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 06/11/2024Gonna take today to be a depressed, maudlin asshole. Then tomorrow I’m gonna dust myself off and get back to work because the fight’s resumed. 1266662
Reposted by Quality BazYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/10/2024it's always projection one party in recent memory has rioted after an election, let's think real hard and see if we can remember which one it was 820340
Reposted by Quality BazMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/10/2024well that's an awfully succinct way to put it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 211334441
Reposted by Quality BazAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Earlier this year, I made my @defector.bsky.social debut writing about Magneto, Holocaust memory culture, and what “never again” means. Entering the High Holidays, amid continued Israeli bombings in Gaza and an invasion of Lebanon, this piece is very much on my mind.defector.comThe Judgment Of Magneto | DefectorSomewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi deat... 323874
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq)
