Reposted by Van OwenAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 10hInterviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Adequately prepared deposition witness: Yes. 922421
Reposted by Van OwenSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.wsj.comExclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal CourtThe U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system. 782206602
Van Owen @sobvo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Despite the text in the post, I didn't appreciate that is the moderator asking Collins about the neo Nazi influencer posting from his home. 000
Reposted by Van OwenDara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Kind of surprised there isn’t more representation in the “AI will kill us all and that would be a good thing” quadrant. What did you think the orcas were organizing for? Vibes? Essays?? 6533
Reposted by Van OwenDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In our latest for @unraveledpress.com, @peoplesfabric.bsky.social and I tracked months of ICE using Chicago police parking lots, in defiance of a mayoral executive order barring immigration enforcement operations in city-owned lots. Some of these incidents happened in full view of CPD officers:unraveledpress.comIn plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operationsVideos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol... 514090
Reposted by Van OwenWIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...wired.comHow Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West BankLost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. 20275131
Reposted by Van OwenJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 151047260
Reposted by Van OwenPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for himtheguardian.comTexas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error caseCrystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted 9533971073
Reposted by Van OwenI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026“Let Donald Trump save face” is how you got January 6 *and* why faced no consequences for doing it. 521622323
Reposted by Van OwenHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women 311395248
Reposted by Van OwenChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🤖 AI actress 'Tilly Norwood' glitches 😵💫 and starts speaking CHINESE during interview with Piers Morgan w/ Tom Conti 9031498
Reposted by Van OwenShana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good. 160185133409
Reposted by Van OwenMax Read @maxread.info · 17/09/2026surprised I haven't seen more people sharing ellen huet's 2023 article about the culture of predation and abuse w/in rationalismbloomberg.comThe Real-Life Consequences of Silicon Valley’s AI ObsessionSam Bankman-Fried made effective altruism a punchline, but its philosophy of maximum do-gooding masks a thriving culture of predatory behavior. 215731
Reposted by Van OwenSam @samd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026this sounds awful but that’s because she’s actually mocking Trump and Mr. Smoothgroin deceptively clipped it to own the libs 361016173
Reposted by Van OwenDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The way the sheriffs are tantruming over being held to account by a judge, it's almost as if they've grown accustomed to a culture of near-total and unquestionable police impunity.chicago.suntimes.comCook County judge has sheriff’s deputies placed in custody for refusing to unshackle murder defendantJudge John F. Lyke Jr. had ordered the deputies to remove the defendant's handcuffs so he could hug his family. The sheriff's office defended the deputies' actions, saying Lyke's "disrespectful and in... 728668
Reposted by Van OwenTristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 11/09/2026Dudes rock, this is one of the most impressive athletic performances I've ever seen 4498
Reposted by Van OwenTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11/09/2026Tim Walz, quietly, in the corner: these guys invited a drug kingpin sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder to their party. that's weird! what's wrong with them? 012317
Reposted by Van Owenthemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026women are incredible 0406
Reposted by Van Owengamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026found this in the top posts and it succeeds in being very funny while also inducing a borderline homicidal rage 14061091654
Reposted by Van OwenAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026This is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night. 8352221
Reposted by Van OwenNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content. 25733061054
Reposted by Van OwenJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/08/2026obligatory related reshare www.theawl.com/2016/03/the-...theawl.comThe Vast Bay Leaf Conspiracyby Kelly Conaboy Maybe you’ve had this experience: You throw a bay leaf into a broth, and it doesn’t do anything. Then you throw the rest of the bay leaves you bought into the broth, too, because you... 7484
Reposted by Van OwenIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/08/2026It's called irony because the Coyote ends up perfectly flat 628523
Reposted by Van OwenRyan Radia @ryanradia.com · 27/08/2026Looks like former smoker still counts, as does physical inactivity www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl... 2111
Reposted by Van Owendisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026As a Sunni, seeing Jerry Chen aggressively pushing for tackleglomping scares me. 1292
Reposted by Van OwenBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026this is grotesque. otoh I would absolutely watch a procedural where it was like 'DAMNIT, Jack, he's the perfect fit for the murder - but a Taurus with Venus ascending? It just doesn't make sense.' fortunately in real life police would never resort to absurd pseudosciences or consult psychics 522328
Reposted by Van OwenSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026And as soon as tomorrow, Judge Talwani may also issue a TRO against the new rule the USPS issued Friday night to implement the EO. In other words, this is a small win for the Trump administration, but *not* a ruling that fully clears the way for Trump to mess with mail-in ballots come November. 502210720
Reposted by Van OwenElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult... 112461632
Reposted by Van Owenthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please 894414700
Reposted by Van Owen🎃 ianthe's inferno🦇🦴 @ianthe.online · 20/08/2026Good work everyone! Minneapolis and Chicago stops are officially CANCELED 936186
Reposted by Van Owenghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026get in losers we’re doing Amber 10993
Reposted by Van OwenMicah @rincewind.run · 15/08/2026some favorites: “Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog” (can’t a man have hobbies?) “We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.” (dudes rock) 858025
Reposted by Van Owenae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026if Wagner had lived to see Weimar and used his music to financially and politically advance the NSDAP, it would not alter the quality of his greatest operas, but you would be ethically prohibited from patronizing them in the present 3423
Reposted by Van OwenJonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026. @daralind.bsky.social makes her debut in @newyorker.com explaining how Trump is stripping legal status from hardworking immigrants who have nowhere safe to go. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... 5776272
Reposted by Van OwenMari Stein (מרים שטיין) @heymaristein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like 05911
Reposted by Van OwenCSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh my god I think I found the video. 502122873707
Reposted by Van OwenFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying 1256469
Reposted by Van OwenVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign … 141280257
Reposted by Van OwenOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...youtube.comSome people were so mad about the casting of The OdysseyYouTube video by Josh Johnson 451871367
Reposted by Van OwenDr. Alexander @etotheipie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026How's the joke go—between Lupita Nyong'o and Helen of Troy, one is so beautiful she drove whole hordes of men mad, and the other is the fictional daughter of Zeus 0899
Reposted by Van Owenlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/08/2026yeah we gotta just ban the short form video platforms if they exist to blenderize loosely understood concepts from sociology and history into conspiracy-brained rants about how starbucks exists to neuter the revolutionary class 711652143
Reposted by Van OwenRotating Handles @davidhdaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Dr. Strange shows up for one scene to go "The vampire elders have nested for 300 years but now their leaders are trying to spread their plague again" or some shit and then Blade wipes blood off his sword and goes "Trying." And then he cuts off heads for an hour and change. 1486
Reposted by Van OwenSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed. 8553481205
![“The contrast is outrageous! There’s this sex bomb in front, and this, this creature—I don’t know what else to call him—this fuzzy, violent, nasty creature in back who only got pleasure out of making people and other Muppets unhappy. A creature of impulse, let’s put it that way. And when I watch myself—’cause I’m usually so critical—but when I watch myself, I just laugh at me. What I love about it is that my character’s trying so hard to be sexy and sultry. And this horrible creature in back of me is acting up. [Laughter] See? I can’t stop laughing. It tickles me to death.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zijpzw75j26esk5z2oilexan/bafkreiftmihi2643qz3l4h2dwggjulxsnbmyrmthxo4lqu5cvowep2hxta)
