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Willow

@rockshrimp.bsky.social
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Cynical idealist, unreliable narrator. Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 20h
Abject bad faith will continue until until abject bad faith has personal and professional punishments… but y’know, real ones.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A federal judge has sanctioned a DOJ attorney for accusing an ICE detainee's attorney of misconduct without any evidence. The punishment: Two hours of legal training about the "special role of US attorneys" and the need to support claims with evidence. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/10/2026
I want to make it clear that this is the guy that conservatives think is their answer to Zohran because he ran and got his ass kicked in the LA Mayoral primary
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i think this gets at the crux of it. It doesn't matter if they are actively preventing people from dropping ballots off, or if they're there by accident, or what--their presence could still be viewed as intimidating, and the solution is for them not to be *anywhere*
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...
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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/10/2026
The thing I’ll say, having been an advisor for the Obama admin, and chairing the tech council for his foundation, this is *exactly* how he asked us to carry things out where we disagreed. He always asked us to build on the work & do *better*, and strongly supported folks taking that exact approach.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The bullet-still-lodged-in-body is becoming ICE’s calling card. It happened in Austin too.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left.
Vertical bar chart titled "Norwegian wealth tax revenue, change from 2021 to 2024," in billions of Norwegian kroner (BNOK), nominal. Subtitle: top rate 0.85% to 1.1% and stock valuation discount cut from 2022.

Two bars. "Growth with no emigration": 13.71 BNOK, a tall bar. "Lost to reform-driven emigration": 0.65 BNOK, a barely visible stub, about one-twenty-first the height.

Notes: Growth includes the rate and valuation changes and wealth growth. Net of tax that emigrants still paid, the reform-driven loss is 0.49 BNOK.

Source: Ring (2026), NBER Working Paper 35854, equation 2 and figure 5.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026
As I said to some of my contacts across Chicago and Minneapolis last week: I hope they come to regret giving all the ADHD insomniac weirdos a reason to form a giant group chat where we can create anything anyone needs within 48 hours. 💞
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i think in the final analysis a lot more of the straight up corruption is going to have run through DoD than now seems apparent (it's where they keep a lot of the money)
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yesterday afternoon, ICE agents — who did not present a warrant, and who appear to have been disguised as construction workers — fired 7 shots into a car with a 5-year-old child, hitting Oscar Belgal in the neck.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Keep that shit out of and away from my books.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Listen to every word
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'd like to encourage every single historian of Nazi Germany to submit an application to this job.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you are going to censor your invited speakers, then you should not host events.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Payton Tolle has responded to Nick Offerman claiming him as his son. This is very important to me.
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Two all-time greats.
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Legends only.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
It's not that this country has never had state sanctioned murder for mass comsumption, it's just that at some point it became taboo to say that you wanted to actually see a lynching, but our current government is trying to get rid of that taboo and take America back to its roots.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/10/2026
It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
I miss when technology was fun, now I have to worry about it my wifi enabled toaster is going to call the cops on me.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026
at this point people getting carjacked are gonna assume it’s ICE
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sometimes people are like, "I wish we didn't have to hear about AI all the time" or "I wish there were posts about stuff other than politics on here"
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10/10/2026
HOW DARE
A jeopardy question: "pedants argue about whether this verb should be used as a synonym of its 7-letter dictionary neighbor compose."

The answer is comprise, which I was complaining about pedantically in the post to which Ken Jennings made the below reply.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Going to lose my mind if I see one more piece about a guy worth billions off a company that has yet to turn a profit acting like he’s held hostage by his product.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 21h
At least they’re still a good show?
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If success is defined by making $50b on a $1.4t investment, I could absolutely be a AI mogul.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
I was at a conference last week where a well known 1st Amendment professor claimed it was silly to think that free speech was under attack in the US because people at that conference were criticizing the administration, so clearly everyone felt free to speak.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this season of Survivor is fucking bonkers
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/10/2026
I think it's great that we're getting sports and going to bars in the national divorce and conservatives are getting, uh, being mad on the computer
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
i think the administration’s midterm strategy of deploying thoroughly unlikable and unpleasant pieces of shit to races they’re losing that they should be winning is going great, and they should keep it up, real face of the party shit going on here
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love that it's totally cool and legal to use social media to rile up an angry hateful mob and incite them to attack doctors and send in bomb threats to children's hospitals but texting Shrek dong to a politician gets you hauled into court
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.
Michael Tracey in a light blue sport coat and tan chinos.A close up of the chinos show the sizing sticker is still on the pants.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
that's my question: what platform is going to pick it up?
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
hegseth made this shit up on his own
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is nuts that you can’t even ethnically cleanse a voter’s entire family without losing that vote to Dumocrats, must be terminal cases of TDS
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
This is why you don't shoot into people's cars all willy-nilly. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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ICE didn’t know 5-year-old boy was in car when officer fired, Mullin says
Federal authorities said Oscar Belgal used his car to ram government vehicles and endanger officers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The people "up there" are more likely to think of the people in the southern US similarly to the referenced countries (gets bullied off of bluesky)
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shot chaser etc
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Breaking: Pope Leo XIV to be investigated for mortgage fraud.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
right, which is why we should reference our internal examples as much as pointing to external examples.
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Plain James @plainnjames.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re sexy James Talarico of the Houston Wokes
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