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Remember how we passed bills that would bar ICE agents from state and local employment as well as ban California law enforcement from doing side jobs for ICE, but then @gavinnewsom.bsky.social vetoed both bills because he's stupid and has terrible political instincts?

sacbee.com

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobs

The ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

It does not downplay one form of lynching to identify another form. It is helpful to remember that many categories include multiple types.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

“Lynching” in the US is not a singular phenomenon. The lynching you are describing is a “racial terror” lynching. There were “public spectacle lynchings,” which have elements of the former but are not identical. There are also “legal lynchings” which were the summary use of capital punishment.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Thorpe Langton @mspdawg.bsky.social · 6h

Just a reminder how much Tom Emmer has debased himself for power:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

cruikshank underrated as one of the worst ever decisions of the court

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elmonoenano.bsky.social @elmonoenano.bsky.social · 10h

Cruickshank is key, b/c it basically blessed political violence (and really just violence period) against Black Americans, but there's three CJs in a row (Waite, Fuller, and White) that twist the Reconstruction Amendments beyond recognition to enshrine discrimination into the law.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h

This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 8h

We have lost our humanity. 🧵

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Again, the last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. It's hard to wrap your head around what we're currently accelerating toward.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

The last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

This is also what’s they’ve been doing with the social media cruelty campaigns since coming into office as well.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

They understand they’re operating in a country which routinely makes policing and prison entertainment. They’re banking they can push that forward without consequences.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

From the CECOT capture videos, to the bombing campaigns on boats, to the videos of missile strikes in Iran. This is an escalation and surely won’t be the last if this is allowed to continue.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

The US has a long history of suffering and death as public spectacle and the administration has been tapping into that vein of US tradition since their return.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 9h

He's still furious that we all didn't turn on our neighbors last winter in the 'surge.' I'm convinced that GOP thought that's what would happen. That we – like them and their tiny, shrunken hearts – resent these folks. But there have been decades of weaving in together. One Minnesota isn't a joke.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 10h

There are about 100,000 people in Minnesota who are of Somali descent. A little over half were born outside the US, the rest were born here. So, citizens. And of those who are foreign born, the majority are naturalized citizens. The president is advocating violence against US citizens.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

like, this isn’t even an “AI could create that much value” versus “no it can’t” argument - let’s grant the premise, let’s say it does in that world, with these people in charge, unemployment and poverty explode and no safety net is built to handle it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

you’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13h

Who's going to pay for it, Jeff?! Because we already know it won't be you!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13h

These people don't even want to pay *regular* taxes and they expect us to believe their little pyramid scheme will lead to universal basic income. Lol. Lmao.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 15h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15h

Elon Musk is receiving the National Medal of Science, raising the question: when exactly has he ever done science, of any kind? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

usatoday.com

Trump to award science medals to Elon Musk and others

Almost all of the award recipients or their companies have donated to either Trump’s campaign, his inauguration fund or the White House ballroom project.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also that 'embarrassed' thing seems like a crummy mischaracterization that doesn't address having a concussion and other injuries and presumably trauma.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She was knocked unconscious, battered, raped, while fixing a campaign sign. There's a climate factor: she did the work on her signs late at night because of the extreme heat.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But also she was trying to be a citizen, a voice, a participant in public life, a person with agency, and a man turned her into an unconscious object to be abused at will. He violently denied her rights, her voice, her humanity even as she was trying to be all those things.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 15h

Men are encouraged to be lousy, completely deficient fathers in our society. My son and I laugh about all the dads we’ve seen ignoring their kids so they can stare at their all-important phones

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

And so, in the context of financial capitalism and its profit pressures, it can seem to men like this that their time is better spent building a device to replace the care work that women are asking of them, than committing long term to doing more of that work themselves.

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My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

Over time, women have demanded that men both step up to do more of the caregiving and step aside to make room for women in "profitable" jobs. But what hasn't changed is the underlying incentive structure of financial capitalism and its devaluation of "unprofitable" labor like care.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

So, historically, men have used the privilege afforded to them by patriarchy to push the "unprofitable" work of care onto women, making it easier for them to hoard the more profitable (and thus higher-status) work for themselves. And companies encouraged this, because it meant more profits for them.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

Under financial capitalism, profit is the prime directive. But care is too labor-intensive to be profitable at the level of compensation needed for sustainability. And it can't be easily automated at the level of quality required for human needs.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 15h

I like that he's admitting what has been obvious for decades: to Republicans, "socialism" or "communism" basically means "whatever I hate." It's been an extraordinarily successful bit of propaganda too. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

In a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity. At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

gadgetreview.com

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

"we should do what is necessary to enable people to live where they want" remains a radical proposal

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