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Sean Yoda Rouse

@seanyodarouse.bsky.social
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A married UC Berkeley alum who enjoys Star Wars, Disney, California (the state AND the Golden Bears), Craft Beer, and other stuff. Go Bears

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This. 100%. If you absolutely need to doom spiral right this second: log off. You’re fully entitled to feel how you feel, but skeeting “We’re so fucked” thrice daily like a Gregorian chant helps nothing and no one, including yourself. And decent odds those strangers you’re arguing with are bots.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For my 40th birthday, I've written 40 facts about my life with nine reminders in there to check your damn voter registration. Enjoy reading! <3 charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/for-my-bir...
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For My Birthday, Please Check Your Damn Voter Registration
Please. I beg you. Make sure you vote.
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Op(umpk)en Doorley @tchotch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Good thing cops never abuse their positions to spy on their domestically-abused spouses, who of course would never take the kids and stay in an airbnb, or this tool would almost certainly cause problems
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Kenny Smith @kennysmith.org · 13/10/2026
There are also Portlands in Texas, Tennessee, North Dakota, Indiana, Connecticut, Michigan, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky. They can make this mistake several more times. It will only get funnier.
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Core, The (DO NOT PERCEIVE) @the-core.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ok this is something that only I will care about but in the Sound of Music during that berry picking scene they said it was too early for blueberries but strawberries were fine which would make that scene around May WHICH WAS AFTER THE ANSCHLUSS IN MARCH 1938
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 12/10/2026
Isaac Asimov's Foundation: Trantor, book cover art (divided into six covers) by @fredgambino.bsky.social
A wonderful view on Trantor
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alphallamallama.bsky.social @alphallamallama.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mind blowing to think without Richard Corben, we wouldn’t have Naussica, and everything that flowed from that. 🤯
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An American Trey Stokes In London @treystokes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not "historical", but - re: the stock Oh No Which Wire To Cut To Disarm The Nuke scene... Cut any wire. Cut all the wires. Or just rip out a handful. You're good. I learned this from an Air Force guy who literally disarmed nukes. They're designed to be HARD to detonate. Any malfunction=no boom.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They put Indigenous People's Day & National Farmer's Day on the same day, good thing you can be boooooooth. Here's just some of the farm & food work NC-based tribes are doing! Corn+beans+squash plot, at the Catawba Nation. They recently pulled a corn variety back from almost-extinction 💪💪💪
Photo of a corn, squash, & beans plot run by the Catawba Nation.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
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The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November
Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 13/10/2026
ICE arrests alarm California’s community colleges. How much can campus officials do? California community colleges are trying to discourage immigration enforcement on campuses, but they can’t do much to bar ICE agents from public spaces.
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ICE arrests alarm California’s community colleges. How much can campus officials do?
California community colleges are trying to discourage immigration enforcement on campuses, but they can’t do much to bar ICE agents from public spaces.
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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/
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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 13/10/2026
Per @maldrogo.bsky.social’s request
A flamingo bowling shirt A different flamingo bowling shirt A third flamingo bowling shirt
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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Sean Yoda Rouse @seanyodarouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The title of the first sequel, “After the Thin Man” is a reference to the case (since it takes place less than a week after the events of “The Thin Man”) and not Nick Charles.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Militant Angeleno @militantangeleno.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Today is the last day of operation for the O.G. #Burbank Airport. Thanks for the memories, Bob Hope terminal. #SFV
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Even if you don't count rampant racism, antisemitism and misogyny as, you know, "big things" that matter to you personally, X is still a dumpster fire plagued with bots and bought-off blue check scammers that's being run by a white nationalist billionaire. Denial doesn't make any of *that* untrue.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A wealth of resources here for anyone trying to understand what’s happening in India.
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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤖 SFGiants #SFGiants rookies checking off a milestone with their first Major League home runs in 2026 ☄️
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Rule by racism, sleaze and stealth. How Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton joined forces to use sheer racism, fabrication and lies to attack a Muslim community in North Texas. Call it target practice for use against people who don't look like us (which is 62% of all Texans, by the way).
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Inside Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton’s Campaign to Manufacture a Fraud Case Against a Mosque
Bureaucrats found legal holes in the governor and attorney general’s crusade against a North Texas mosque. The state proceeded anyway.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the birther shit got so incredibly out of hand, but we've really memory holed it. I did a pair of episodes a while back on the time a group of oathkeepers tried to take a court clerk hostage to get an arrest warrant for Barack Obama.
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Arrested Democracy, Pt .1 - Weird Little Guys | iHeart
<p>In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And...
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WKMS @wkmsfm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Harlan County USA at 50," a new audio special from WKMS and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, is now available online! Listen to learn more about Barbara Kopple's transformative documentary "Harlan County USA" and its lasting impacts on Kentuckians, artists and labor movements.
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The Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom Presents: Harlan County USA at 50
Oct. 15 marks 50 years since the premiere of "Harlan County USA." The Academy Award-winning documentary shined a light on an eastern Kentucky coal mining community and their fight for a union…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026
The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 12/10/2026
Love our orchestra brothers and sisters joining in the Friday night fun.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The litany of stupid things we will have to deal with over the next 2.25 years truly boggles the mind This thread is an experience:
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”
After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Right, it turns out that instead of letting the Republicans set the terms of the debate, you can simply tell them and their enablers in the media to cram it. El-Sayed has been doing the same thing. It's long overdue.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 12/10/2026
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is a huge problem and CA/SoCal leadership being entirely nonchalant about it is incredible discouraging. We've been talking about how these tracks keep falling into the ocean since I was a kid.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Very interesting but/and short interview. www.wired.com/2014/03/quan...
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At 90, Freeman Dyson Ponders His Next Challenge
Freeman Dyson — the world-renowned mathematical physicist who helped found quantum electrodynamics with the bongo-playing, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and others, devised numerous ma...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/10/2026
This whole thread about today's hearing regarding the cutting down of hundreds of trees by the NPS is incredible, but this bit where the judge says "why don't you sit back and think about it" is just straight up a judge who is out of fucks to give.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Any Democrat announcing pre-emptively that they won't impeach Trump is not just failing to fulfill their constitutional duties, they're signaling to Trump that he can ramp up the abuses because they're not going to hold him accountable. Nope.
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The East Bay Times editorial against Measure RTM is so bad I had to refute it. Bad argument after inaccurate statement and then completely ignoring AC Transit's existence because it disproves their core argument that cuts over service improves transit. darrellowens.substack.com/p/voting-aga...
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Voting Against The Bay Area Transit Measure Is a Fatal Mistake
The East Bay Times and Mercury News Editorial Board write a bad column on the transit tax measure.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This strongly worded letter better not be the end of it from them
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Sean Yoda Rouse @seanyodarouse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An interview with one of my favorite artists infonews.ca/news/7952068...
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K.d. lang on fame, Buddhism and finding peace away from the spotlight | iNFOnews.ca
OTTAWA — Over the last several years, k.d. lang has used different words to describe this phase of her career. Sometimes she calls herself retired or
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In 1963 New York’s Bronx Zoo showcased an exhibit titled ‘THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE WORLD’. It was a mirror.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
tomorrow will tie 2022's record for number of days with the national average above $4/gal. 2022 saw 157 days above $4. today is our 156th day above $4 this year. tomorrow, we tie that 157 days and Wednesday we set a new record for most days above $4/gal in any year ever.
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