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TJ

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Seattle, Washington I research things & write about them (as a hobby)& I volunteer a lot. Opinions are my own. Trans rights are human rights. AuDHD, antifascist, nonbinary, anti-tankie, atheist. Not a spy or a fed or gov affiliated. #free palestine

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h
White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4h
Someone told me about a week ago that I shouldn’t judge all libertarians on NH’s Libertarian party and that not all were bad. Here’s the Maryland Libertarian Party attacking rape victims.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 10h
Then there’s mobile sports betting, which I think is an absolute scourge on society. www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
The old Vegas adage that "the house always wins" is a warning to gamblers whatever their luck to cut their losses or take their winnings and leave the betting floor before this statistical fact of nature asserts itself. In other words, get out while you can. And that physical space used to mean something. Once upon a time, sports betting was confined to Vegas, and gambling in general was the province of geographically defined locations like reservation casinos and hotel resorts. But Pearson's experience is what happens when the house comes to you.

There's a grim circularity to betting apps aping the push notification tools of the social media giants considering how social media platforms perfected their own dopamine distribution systems by turning feeds, likes, and comments into a slot machine interaction. The stories of how these platforms and apps have affected true addicts and problem gamblers are harrowing. Take Adam, a 33-year-old Massachusetts man whose story was reported by Patrick Madden and WBUR last year:With the DraftKings and FanDuel apps on his phone, Adam could bet on multiple games at once. Over time, his wagers got more frequent and riskier as he tried to win the money back.
When he was out with his girlfriend, hed repeatedly excuse himself - sometimes to a restroom - to go use his phone.
"What I was doing was checking scores and putting in more bets, things of that sort," said Adam. "I would be up at all hours of the night
- betting on this sport, that sport, sports in other countries that I knew nothing about."
One night in February 2024, as the gambling losses piled up, he decided to put everything he had left on a single Bruins game.
"I walked into our bedroom where she was sleeping and I woke her up," he said. Boston had lost.What happens to our country as this cohort of men age into what should be their peak earning years and then into retirement? What will our society and economy look like then? The financial risks are self-evident to the outside observer, but gambling addiction and the toll taken by losing also contribute to depression and suicide.

But instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi.
LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal promote DraftKings. Omnipresent ESPN personality Pat McAfee promotes FanDuel. Giannis Antetokounmpo isn't just a spokesperson for Kalshi, he's a shareholder. The only winners in America's burgeoning gambling crisis are the companies and the already super-rich athletes willing to leverage their status as heroes to millions of fans to hook a generation of young men on a devastating habit.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11h
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 10h
Fucking blows my mind with the so-called “socialist insurgency” at the polls and popularity amongst voters and not a single one of your so-called Democratic Socialists gives a fuck that we kidnapped an elected head of a socialist state and that he’s still languishing in an NYC prison
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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you are “fighting antisemitism” by funding explicitly Zionist institutions dedicated to stopping the pro-Palestine movement, you are actually enabling antisemitism because you’re allowing Zionists to conflate Zionism with Judaism which foments misdirected hostility toward Jews
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 14h
Today I wrote about the botched execution of Christina Pike and how the death penalty must end, in all situations, with absolutely no exceptions. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Tennessee attempted to kill Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night but they botched it. They gave her a dose of phenobarbital, it did not kill her, so they gave her a second dose of phenobarbital which also did not kill her. Witnesses said that Pike was kicking her feet, knocking off sheets, and showing signs of obvious pain. Eventually she fell into a state of semi-consciousness and at various points was heard snoring by witnesses. The botched execution spanned more than two hours from the beginning of the lethal injection protocol to the time it was halted and Pike was transported to the hospital.

Pike is said to be in critical condition in the hospital. There is a good chance that she sustained severe brain injuries by virtue of her respiratory and cardiovascular systems being subjected to massive doses phenobarbital for over two hours which likely led to prolonged oxygen deprivation to her brain.

How did this happen? There are any number of theories. One possibility is that the people conducting the attempted execution failed to properly tap a vein, which may have been more likely due to a condition Pike has called thrombocytosis. If so, they probably just pumped the phenobarbital into her muscles and surrounding tissue. It's also possible that the phenobarbital used by Tennessee was degraded or substandard due to pharmaceutical companies' refusal to sell such drugs and drug administration equipment to death penalty state prison authorities, which leads them to pursue questionable substitutes from compounding pharmacies and suppliers. Those are just theories, of course. There will be an investigation into all of this and we'll find out more eventually.

But the specifics of this don't matter much to me. All of it just underscores how wrong and evil and depraved capital punishment is and how it should be abolished everywhere immediately. With absolutely no exceptions.I’ve long opposed capital punishment in any and all cases. There is nothing — no fact, no argument, no sufficiently depraved or horrifying a criminal or crime, hypothetical or otherwise — that will ever change my mind about that. I’d oppose the death penalty even if it was not discriminatory and arbitrary, which it absolutely is. I'd oppose it even if our system was incapable of legal or factual error, which it obviously is not. Indeed, it makes errors all the time, and there have been several cases in recent years in which states have killed innocent people. While legal errors can cause extreme hardship in cases that don’t involve the death penalty, once you’ve killed someone there are no take-backs. Utah just released a man who spent 37 years on death row after they discovered that he was innocent.

But like I said: I oppose it in all cases. Even when guilt is not in question, as is the case with Christa Pike, who admitted what she did long ago. I simply think that it is illegitimate to give humans the legal right to end the lives of other human beings. That's especially true given the manner of political power, how it is obtained, and how it is employed in this country.

I do not think that the purpose of our criminal justice system should be retribution or the satisfaction of blood lust. We can and should incapacitate criminals by locking them up. We can and should rehabilitate criminals who are capable of being rehabilitated while they are locked up. We should do what we can to deter future crime, but in so doing we must acknowledge that the death penalty does nothing to deter crime. We should not, as a society, be in the revenge business, which is what the death penalty is really about.

The State of Tennessee tortured a human being for two hours on Wednesday night and quite possibly inflicted traumatic brain injuries upon her. There is nothing that justifies that. There is nothing that justifies the state from taking the life of a human being.
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Last Of The Elder Gods @4meshewill.blacksky.app · 9h
Only white men think they should still be able to be friends when one of their beliefs is Blacc people including my blacc child should be treated as second class citizens.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h
Of course, we all know why they were left out
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"[T]he United States is acting as an agent of interference and destabilization — using diplomatic, economic, and political pressure in ways that risk weakening the country's democratic institutions ... and inflicting further damage on our relationship with a strategic U.S. ally and trading partner."
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 16h
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
This is going to break people. This SHOULD break people. WTF are we even doing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14h
I have wondered how this inevitable progression of white nationalism toward hostility and exclusion of Asians would play among the population of monied, male revanchists in Silicon Valley.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14h
Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 14h
This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h
Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/10/2026
Not that the family isn't entitled to be compensated (because they absolutely are), but these kind of suits are how fascists get us coming and going. They break the law, they escape justice, and when the time comes to pay anything at all to their victims they shift the bill to the taxpayer.
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Renee Good's family sues US government over her killing in Minneapolis
The 37-year-old woman was killed by an immigration official during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis in January.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026
Crime is legal if you're a Republican
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hakeem Jeffries' House commission on AI is stacked with lawmakers who've received huge campaign contributions from Big Tech and AI companies.
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Big AI’s Favorite Democrats Are Writing The Party’s AI Plan
Hakeem Jeffries’ five-member AI commission is stacked with lawmakers backed by industry super PACs seeking to shape federal policy.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
transphobia is a lot more widespread than I’d like transphobia is also a luxury belief and only really gains traction when people think their lives are otherwise pretty solid it simply cannot hold a candle, electorally speaking, to “car juice expensive”
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let’s not get outraged about things that are obviously, undeniably factually correct. www.currentaffairs.org/news/yes-the...
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Yes, The U.S. Is The World’s Biggest Terrorist
Let’s not get outraged about things that are obviously, undeniably factually correct.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights or we all enjoy the camps
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 22/09/2026
"This is an incredible story of corruption."
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Bombshell Report Puts Susan Collins at Center of Massive Bribery Scheme
ProPublica reported that the US senator from Maine, now running for a sixth term, was the "most important patron" of a defense company accused of bribing members of Congress for federal contracts.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 22/09/2026
"This isn't law enforcement. It's lawlessness."​
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Austin Man Shot by ICE Facing Paralysis After Being Refused Medical Care
Democrats in Congress demand an independent investigation into ICE's shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, who had a bullet lodged in his back. Forced out of the hospital and sent to a detention center, he suffered in pain. How can this abuse be allowed to continue? #ICEabuse #Justice
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Elon Musk agrees with white supremacists and Nazis literally every single day at all hours of the day and no one in the mainstream press or even the independent press writes or reports shit about it and that is EXTREMELY frustrating. White people treat reporting on racism like it's passe and boring
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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spooky dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was really obviously going to happen from the word go so can we please put an end to the weird Clavicular apologism around these parts
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The national security exception to the [US] Constitution operates through ... statutes vague enough to criminalize charity and speech; informants and undercover agents who manufacture crimes they later 'disrupt'; classified evidence defendants cannot see; mass surveillance; [etc.]"
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine how much more cities could afford if not for police misconduct.
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NYPD abuses people in handcuffs. How do they get away with it?
New York Police Department officers use force on people already restrained, which some experts characterize as “torture”
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 21/09/2026
"If you are new(er) to thinking critically about how to operationalize suicide prevention beyond sharing a phone number to call if at risk to oneself, it looks like robust investments in abolition, harm reduction, mutual aid, etc., all of which are aligned with the Disability Justice framework."🫂
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Will You Please Invest (More) in Disability Justice Work to Operationalize Suicide Prevention?
For Suicide Prevention Month, the author continues to reckon with the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied Support Services, as she deconstructs ho...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Israel kickstarted Russia's entire drone effort and have been the unseen force behind Russian attacks on Ukraine, together with Iran and N Korea. This explains Netanyahu's ostentatious friendship with Putin and his disdain for Ukraine. Israel sold $400 million worth of military drones to Russia.
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Israel signs $400 million deal to sell spy drones to Russia
The sale of unmanned aerial vehicles helps improve Israel's ties with Russia, an important country in international efforts to contain Iran's nuclear program.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Concessions don’t work. That’s why the State AGs need to take their case to trial. They've got the Ellisons on the ropes. Protect consumers and workers. Block the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Sign the Petition! noparamountconcessions.com
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#BlockTheMerger
Twelve state attorneys general sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Concessions don’t protect workers, consumers or creators. Tell the AGs to hold strong and take it to trial. SIGN THE P...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 19/09/2026
"If you are new(er) to thinking critically about how to operationalize suicide prevention beyond sharing a phone number to call if at risk to oneself, it looks like robust investments in abolition, harm reduction, mutual aid, etc., all of which are aligned with the Disability Justice framework."🫂
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Will You Please Invest (More) in Disability Justice Work to Operationalize Suicide Prevention?
For Suicide Prevention Month, the author continues to reckon with the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied Support Services, as she deconstructs ho...
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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 17/09/2026
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans struggle with the impact of medical debt. That's why GBDSA's Health Care Working Group is launching our Undue Medical Debt Campaign! Each dollar donated can help erase ~$100 of medical debt! Help us wipe out medical debt in Greater Baltimore! gbdsa.org/s/UndueDebtR...
Undue Medical Debt Relief Campaign Launch. QR code and GBDSA logo. Help us wipe out medical debt! See QR code above to learn more or donate.  https://gbdsa.org/s/UndueDebtRelief
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all.
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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is the "moderate" president of Israel, overriding the wishes of the IDF (!) to pardon a cold blooded, cowardly murderer who shot a helpless man in the head as he lay incapacitated on the ground. The problem in Israel is wider than the Netanyahu-led far right. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Herzog pardons IDF soldier convicted of killing wounded Palestinian assailant
The IDF has previously objected to pardoning Azaria, citing his lack of remorse over his actions. Defense Minister Katz, who requested the pardon, said it sent a message that 'we do not leave our sold...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18/09/2026
Cannot believe we are still here—and this is an attitude that enables law enforcement, that they have permission to rape sex workers
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