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Scott Johnson

@thinpartitions.bsky.social
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Professor; pagan; parent. Sex work is work; trans rights are human rights.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Expatsy @expatsy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Post a vampire not Dracula:
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.
prismreports.org
Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearson
propublica.org
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 29/09/2026
When you hit a certain age you understand that Tom Petty's line "I love you more than the sins of my youth" is possibly the single most romantic lyric ever written.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026
Join the No Kings coalition for a nationwide election protection training to level up your election defense skills. We will focus on the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement.
mobilize.us
No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 201 · No Kings
Join the No Kings coalition for this training to prepare for engaging in sustained mobilization and results protection work depending on opposition response to election results. *A core principle beh...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 29/09/2026
If the latest Last Week Tonight left you still wanting to understand more about the complexity of Brazilian politics, this thread is for you. Also, Hailey is a treasure. Please help her recover financially from her mom's cancer if you can 💖🌟💖
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A combined 45 Biden administration alums now work at either OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials | Revolving Door Project
This tracker was first published August 3, 2026 and last updated on September 16, 2026.  The artificial intelligence industry is rapidly reshaping every facet of life, from the popularity of chatbots…
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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Russia kills their leaders, steals their land, abducts their children, erases their history and culture, and forces them all to be loyal to their oppressor.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think this shows how monumentally stupid JD Vance is, that he walked right into that. Anyone with any clue could have seen that set-up a mile away.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
propublica.org
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
FRANKLIN— “Outrage brewing in Williamson County over the Factory hosting a conference feat. Christian Nationalist speakers… Fight Laugh Feast to discuss what organizers call their “Christian Crusade Holy War” Oct. 1-3 (Incl. Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson)
wkrn.com
Factory at Franklin faces pushback for hosting controversial conference
The conference is called Fight Laugh Feast and is to set discuss what organizers call their “Christian Crusade Holy War.” The event set for Oct. 1-3.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
. MAGA doesn’t care either .
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
 "There is always a box, and our job is twofold. First, we don't let anyone be put inside the box, and second, we destroy the box."
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 26/09/2026
A merciless Murphy revealed that he and co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan have "just finished" a script for a Glee revival project. www.avclub.com/ryan-murphy-...
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Ryan Murphy now openly threatening planet with a Glee reunion
Ryan Murphy now openly threatening planet with a Glee reunion
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1/ Neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe with banner that reads “Racism Works” City Hall Springfield, OH September 26, 2026 This group was responsible for amplifying the lies about Haitian migrants. Here’s what I told military.com Sept 2024 ⬇️
Blood Tribe outside Springfield, Ohio city Hall. With a banner that says “Racism Works”
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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
optimistdaily.com
Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
if Trump truly isn't planning to illegally stay in office past 2029, what explains the US government paying for these Trump campaign ads to run on TV? they're just wasting taxpayer dollars to soothe his ego?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A week late, but this is fall weather music youtu.be/GtLQi1wbVok?...
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September Fifteenth
YouTube video by Pat Metheny Group - Topic
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Of course it was 6-3. People are going to have to vote in numbers too big to challenge. That's just how it is, unless states can block this somehow.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 24/09/2026
A new dinosaur, Kayrasaurus changliensis, has been described from Chinese fossils. This early therizinosaur had tiny teeth, a long neck, and big claws, providing new information about this unusual group's evolution! 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Life reconstruction of Jehol therizinosaurians, illustrating variation in body size, skeletal proportions and inferred ecological strategies among taxa. From bottom to top: L. sihedangensis is shown in a posture suggesting greater cursoriality; J. yixianensis is depicted engaging in lingual-assisted feeding, consistent with its robust hyoid apparatus; B. inexpectus exhibits a robust, less cursorial bauplan; and K. changliensis is reconstructed browsing on higher vegetation, reflecting its larger body size and inferred feeding strategy.

Credit: Kōhei Futaka
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026
Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets
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On the Al front, the trade has been dead money for more than 3 months now. The metrics I am following (token expenditures and GPU lease rates) are all flat to down. The price of memory (DRAM) seems to be the only thing that is still going up.
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Yes, Al will change our lives (for the better l trust) and down the road it may well unleash a productivity miracle that raises the economy's non-inflationary speed limit enough to keep the world's mounting debt burden sustainable. But until then the buildout is inflationary with an unknown return for the companies who are investing trillions into compute. The demand fo capital (equity and debt) from corporates is rising at a $3.3 trillion clip.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello! The Onion is hosting Free Handouts parties in five cities over the next month! Free drinks, free snacks, and other free stuff for people who never seem to get that sort of thing. Onion members from New York, Seattle, Chicago, LA, or SF: Check your email for a signup link! It'll be fun.
A Party for the 99% with The Onion and Wealth Inequality in America.
9/29: New York
10/6: Seattle
10/14: Chicago
10/20: LA
10/22: SF
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026
He works for billionaires. They’re his bosses. Never forget it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kitten Meets Tortoise
An orange kitten peers into the enclosure of / at a small Greek tortoise
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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kitten Update:
An orange kitten sleeps all curled up in a blanket
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dem politicians kicked women in the teeth on abortion for decades and their reward is that they got to move on from pearl-clutching about the Abortionplex and put their energy fully into kicking trans people in the teeth
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19/09/2026
The military is being buffeted by huge materiel losses and is actually hiding war casualties but Hegseth is obsessed with fitness and his men's penises.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.
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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gerrit Graham made an indelible mark on Star Trek: Voyager as Quinn. His ability to interpret and deliver the lengthy philosophical speeches in “Death Wish” and play such vulnerability made him one of my favorite guest stars.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me, up early: wonder what the admin will do today The admin: we are going to kill the whales
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.
texastribune.org
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Anyway UT Austin had the largest African and African Diaspora Studies program in the country sure wish there was as much energy for it when it was running as there is now for condemning its closure.
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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is now in my home
On orange female kitten, yet to be named
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"During Pride, SFPD used drones to follow and arrest people in my community for having the audacity to exist in public, I wanted to exert control, I wanted to become the one who surveils instead of the subject of surveillance." –– @cara.city
records of enemy surveillance
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When I first heard drones buzzing around the air in Oakland in the late 2010s, I confess I just found them annoying. In the early 2020s, they felt threatening, a sign of someone watching me in ways I couldn't control. But when, during Pride, SFPD used drones to follow and arrest people in my community for having the audacity to exist in public, I wanted to exert control, I wanted to become the one who surveils instead of the subject of surveillance. So, I bought a used DJI drone off of Facebook Marketplace. And my drone's target was the embodiment of commonplace surveillance in America today, Flock cameras. These little devices send data back to police departments, which then use them for everything from arresting people for loitering, to tracking people who have had abortions.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
we need more journalists like her
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
One year ago today
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nunatsiaq News reported this week about a fake, AI-generated Inuk journalist reporting on issues in Nunavut. Jennifer Laewetz says it’s a step into the realm of digital Indigenous identity fraud. Truth & Politics: youtu.be/PbaM59QUE5c
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