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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the actual realistic answer is rigorous NISPOM and DFARS clause 252.226-7003 enforcement the non-national security stuff is a political problem of dealing with a notional trillionaire generally, but the DoD stuff is pretty straightforward

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h

We’re living through a campaign of discrimination comparable to many historical abuses. It’s shocking to me how many people are capable of identifying state-sanctioned bigotry when they encounter it in a history book, but cannot recognize it at all when they encounter it in a newspaper.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

8/ Amanda Trebach, a nurse and member of an immigrant advocacy group, was detained in California while filming and protesting immigration enforcement operations. Trebach says she was held for almost 36 hours without access to a phone call or a lawyer.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.

36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know it's just repeating the obvious at this point, but there have to be really extreme consequences for this kind of lawlessness.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Double the judges, double the fun

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The year before Election 2024, I was helping run UCLA’s DEI Office in LA—and siccing my AuDHD savant 🧠 on analyzing not just Project 2025’s substance, but its impact on my nation. I predicted (not really a prediction) all these horrors. Most accused me of trying to scare ppl into voting for Harris.

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DiploStrats @diplostrats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Might be working on something 👀

Introductory text explaining the premise of my WIP megagame, Scorched Earth.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Once again: The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And if you've made it this far down the thread. One last thing for you. As a gift and a glimpse of the future...

The dedication for 'Star Wars: Star Pilots'. It reads:

To everyone who ever had my wing.
To Biggs.
To Snap.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’m not an academic. My experiences in academia were not positive, generally speaking. It was like standing on the second floor of an old wooden house watching termites eat the foundations out from underneath you. I wasn’t cut out for it, and I’m glad I didn’t go that way, but it should exist!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

sometimes i’m taken aback by how draconian UK defamation law seems, but on the other hand it’s pretty clear that British journalists can’t be trusted with free speech

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The third category of alleged "excesses" are simply real issues the right disagrees with. However you feel about the slogan "defund the police," shifting police resources to social spending isn't particularly radical — and the need for police reform is still urgent. Also, it didn't happen!

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Also that great Colbert Report joke where Mike Huckabee speculates Obama has "radical" views on the Mau Mau Rebellion and Colbert adds that it's probably vastly different from the average American's view, "what is the Mau Mau Rebellion"

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What we are learning is not that the US military is weak or that Iran is a superpower or that the PLA-N wished a global supply chain into being. What we're learning is that no amount of military excellence can rescue strategic incompetence. Stop voting for orange idiots.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

on the right, "bravery" is when you're willing to be criticized by liberals, even if the position you're taking is fully embraced by the federal government and half the states.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

michael thought i was joking when i said i was going to do a segment reading off all of the rudest questions

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Worth responding to this 'on main.' If Wilson's review had made all of the same analytical points, concluded that the movie wasn't for her and that it was a weak adaptation, that'd be one thing. Instead, she wrote, "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script." That's different!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/07/2026

'It is generally a mistake, in American politics, to say “let’s wait four years and build.” It is wiser to seize every momentary advantage and push it as hard and as far as you can.' www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

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AOC Must Run For President

History is calling. Sorry!

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

WH/Rs plan to increase spending on war & farmers w/o offsets. No serious efforts underway to shrink deficits of ~$2T a year and worsening as population ages and Congress keeps piling on red ink. Social Security Trust Fund runs dry in 2032, leading to big cuts under current law.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Again, precisely what a couple decades in Classics academia has taught me to expect: reasonably sound, but a bit mean-spirited and crucially self-defeating in terms of preserving the field.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Of course, what these guys actually want is a depiction of Homer with no black people in it, which is itself inaccurate to the poem because Memnon is there with an army of Ethiopians (also Odysseus thinks Memnon is the handsomest fellow he's seen).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

hate to praise Massie, but this is funny

thomas massie claims to have spoken to mcconnell who now agrees with all of massies positions

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A good day to remember that one of the indictments against George III in the Declaration was, "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither"

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dotted-line.bsky.social @dotted-line.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

George Thomas is criminally underrated.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I'm not sure I've ever heard Martin say anything about Tolkien that didn't make me think Martin was a boob.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

it's some of Martin's worst writing, it disengages entirely from the thing he centers in ASOIAF - the human heart in conflict with itself - it's terribly paced

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We were super proud to be able to host this account of the citizen response to the Belfast pogrom by Lee Hurley. Please give it a listen.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

'the US Will Never Elect a Woman' you have tried twice, one with a baggage-laden candidate running for an incumbent's third term, one weighed down by the lead weight of her unpopular administration and the ego of her president and a global anti-incumbent swing

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

oh jesus fucking christ

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Folks, we're recognizing an Iranian sphere of influence, withdrawing forces, and paying indemnities, in exchange for merely the same statement from Iran that they have always made about nuclear weapons.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The clauses supposedly coming into immediate effect are 4, 5, 10, and 11. Look at the asymmetry. The US will lift the blockade immediately, protect Iranian shipping, restore full traffic within 30 days, and give Iranian traffic its proportional share of access(?). The obligation is unconditional.

4. Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States Lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.

5. Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.

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Andrew Fear 🎃 @andrewfleer.com · 16/06/2026

Never would have thought a satirical newspaper would lead me astray

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Like, I have nothing against other countries that are built around different principles. Y'all do you, it's all good. But *my* country is for the kind of people who can handle the rough-and-tumble of different cultures, of full-contact competition, of a devil-take-the-hindmost race to the future.

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