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brunodias.bsky.social
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
decoycuttlefish.bsky.social
Really seems less like *terrorism* as it’s usually conceived and more like part of the ongoing blowback of 1/4 of US mass shooters having military experience, with all that could entail (in this case, witnessing or committing war crimes)
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Nov 27
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan

“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
On U.S. complicity in the unfolding massacres: "The U.S. should halt arms transfers to the UAE, which is supplying the RSF with the weapons used to carry out atrocities in Darfur. Failure to take action could condemn hundreds of thousands more civilians to death at the hands of genocidal forces."
US Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in Sudan
The US has provided the UAE with billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, even as it’s funneled weapons into Sudan.
truthout.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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jamellebouie.net
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
thomaszimmer.bsky.social Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Oct 12
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
decoycuttlefish.bsky.social
pelvic thrust frog is my role model, what a powerful aura
competentposter.bsky.social competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · Oct 4
wizard frog is insane
October 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence
YouTube video by New York Daily News
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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unraveledpress.com
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
unraveledpress.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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parkermolloy.com
This, from @erininthemorning.com's latest piece about Gavin Newsom helps explain why Newsom-loving libs' "erm, then enjoy Trump again!!!" stuff doesn't work on trans people who've been paying attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
Some may argue, as they often do when transgender people raise concerns about Gavin Newsom, that the alternative would be worse. And in many respects, Trump or whatever Trump-like candidate emerges in 2028 would be worse than Newsom on a host of issues. But even here, for transgender people, the calculation is not so straightforward. Right now, the community has one thing going for it: one major political party still passes protective legislation and has not joined the litany of anti-trans policies escalating in red states. If that fragile dichotomy collapses—if Democrats too decide that transgender people can be sacrificed for political gain—the result will not be a lesser evil. It will be a political consensus that our rights are gone, and that outcome could be even worse. One only has to look to the United Kingdom to see what happens when both major parties decide transgender people are expendable. For years, right-leaning parties targeted trans people relentlessly, while Labour offered tepid, lukewarm support. In the lead-up to recent elections, that support collapsed. Multiple Labour leaders determined that trans people were safe to sacrifice, culminating in the party leader’s now-infamous declaration that he does not believe transgender women are women. Today, the country is pursuing a nationwide bathroom ban, and youth care has been practically outlawed. In a political environment where both left and right agree that your existence is negotiable, there is no one left to fight for you. It is untenable—and if such sentiment takes root inside the Democratic Party, it could take generations for transgender Americans to claw back even the most basic of rights. Transgender people have watched this performance before, and we know exactly where it leads. Whatever one thinks of Newsom as a politician or a future candidate, it is crucial to understand that for many in our community, his rise provokes as much fear as the Republican Party itself. The damage he can inflict is in some ways greater: Republicans attacking us keeps allies on alert, ready to resist. But when Democrats begin to adopt the same rhetoric, that resistance dissolves. Transphobia inside the party is not a treatable wound inflicted by the far right—it is a malignancy, slow-moving but devastating, one that threatens to hollow out decades of progress from within. If it spreads unchecked, it could mark the end of so much our community has fought to preserve.
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
I think the issue is that "crime" is the right-wing equivalent of what "harm" is to left-wing discourse. it's an all-encompassing category
goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · Aug 18
Here's the thing: If you believe that Republicans can always win on crime by simply declaring there to be a crime emergency in a major city, irrespective of any actual policing or criminal justice policies being pursued by the city government, then you are just saying that Democrats can't win.
August 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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npr.org
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

By Anas Baba
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned
March 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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murshedz.bsky.social
JFC. Even after what the Trump regime has done to LA, the state of California, both Schiff & Padilla (!!) decided to vote with Republicans to give Trump a massive gift on crypto.

Same goes for Gillibrand and NY.

Also shame on Booker, Kim & Warnock.

A disgraceful list - especially this week.
Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---68 Alsobrooks (D-MD) Banks (R-IN) Barrasso (R-WY) Blackburn (R-TN) Booker (D-NJ) Boozman (R-AR) Britt (R-AL) Budd (R-NC) Capito (R-WV) Cassidy (R-LA) Collins (R-ME) Cornyn (R-TX) Cortez Masto (D-NV) Cramer (R-ND) Crapo (R-ID) Cruz (R-TX) Curtis (R-UT) Daines (R-MT) Ernst (R-IA) Fetterman (D-PA) Fischer (R-NE) Gallego (D-AZ) Gillibrand (D-NY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hagerty (R-TN) Hassan (D-NH) Heinrich (D-NM) Hickenlooper (D-CO) Hoeven (R-ND) Husted (R-OH) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Johnson (R-WI) Justice (R-WV) Kennedy (R-LA) Kim (D-NJ) Lankford (R-OK) Lee (R-UT) Lujan (D-NM) Lummis (R-WY) Marshall (R-KS) McConnell (R-KY) McCormick (R-PA) Moody (R-FL) Moran (R-KS) Moreno (R-OH) Mullin (R-OK) Murkowski (R-AK) Ossoff (D-GA) Padilla (D-CA) Ricketts (R-NE) Risch (R-ID) Rosen (D-NV) Rounds (R-SD) Schiff (D-CA) Schmitt (R-MO) Scott (R-FL) Scott (R-SC) Sheehy (R-MT) Slotkin (D-MI) Sullivan (R-AK) Thune (R-SD) Tillis (R-NC) Tuberville (R-AL) Warner (D-VA) Warnock (D-GA) Wicker (R-MS) Young (R-IN) NAYs ---30 Baldwin (D-WI) Bennet (D-CO) Blumenthal (D-CT) Blunt Rochester (D-DE) Cantwell (D-WA) Coons (D-DE) Duckworth (D-IL) Durbin (D-IL) Hawley (R-MO) Hirono (D-HI) Kaine (D-VA) King (I-ME) Klobuchar (D-MN) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Paul (R-KY) Peters (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Smith (D-MN) Van Hollen (D-MD) Warren (D-MA) Welch (D-VT) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) Not Voting - 2 Cotton (R-AR) Kelly (D-AZ)
June 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
“What was going on in those courtrooms is absolutely unacceptable,” Barnette said, adding that the judge “chastised” them for entering a public courtroom and said that in the future she was planning on locking her door at night. “It is a place of intimidation, it is a place of fear.” She and Lander sat in a number of courtrooms, watching defendants getting their cases dismissed “with completely inadequate explanation” of what that meant. No one told defendants, for example, that a dismissal of their case subjected them to forcible removal by anonymous masked agents once they stepped out of the courtroom, Barnette said. “That is not the rule of law. That is not due process. That is not acceptable in this country or anywhere else,” she said. “I am very rattled, frankly.” In one instance, the proceeding for a man whose native language was Yoruba was held in French. The judge dismissed his case and “it was clear he had no understanding” of what had happened, Barnette said. Then he was sent out into the hall, where immigration agents were waiting. Edgardo, the person Lander was helping when ICE agents attacked, spoke Spanish. The judge dismissed his case but said he had the right to appeal and gave him a date in July. “So the guy thinks he has a month to appeal,” Barnette said. “Nobody says, ‘ICE is waiting for you on the other side of the door It’s not only the courtroom treatment of defendants that’s egregious. So are the living conditions at 26 Federal Plaza. In an interview with the Prospect, Daniel Coates, director of public affairs at Make The Road New York, said that ICE is using the building to hold people for multiple days before transferring them elsewhere, packing them in so tightly that some have no room to sleep except for on the bathroom floor. The rooms are hot because the air conditioning is inadequate, detainees have “no opportunities to get a change of clothes or clean themselves,” have no access to medical treatment, and cannot maintain their dietary restrictions, said Coates, who spoke at the press conference held after Lander’s detention. “The space is exploding,” Coates said, “and it’s sort of a black hole there because ICE is refusing entry to members of Congress,” who are supposed to be allowed to oversee such buildings. It’s an open question of “what actually 26 Federal Plaza is being used for,” he said.
June 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
decoycuttlefish.bsky.social
That cute (?) little drone, I’m dying wtf
teamcanadaforever.bsky.social 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · Jun 15
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights

It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will Bunch
The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police proves the current system is broken beyond repair.
www.inquirer.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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boltsmag.org
A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...
How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE
In response to mass deportation threats and mixed messages from county leaders on federal cooperation, San Diego organizers are taking action to inform residents of ICE activity.
boltsmag.org
May 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
ICE harassed a lawyer who provided advice to an undocumented family about their immigration case, including *shutting off his wifi so his Ring camera couldn’t record the interaction.*

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”
April 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc:

www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People
The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plat...
www.404media.co
April 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them.

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New Gaza medic attack video contradicts Israel military claims Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month. Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
April 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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tir2.bsky.social
dunno how much has been translated to English, but the Brazilian philosopher Safatle wrote a lot about how Cynicism is one of the major factors in our day and age that cause "speaking truth to power" to not work. our time is one of "atheist priests" who see sincerity as a weakness.
January 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Mar 29
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM