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Geoff
@dontinnovate.bsky.social
Reluctant Radical. Sometimes Professor, sometimes entrepreneur, always a dad, avoiding Covid like the plague (it is), passionate about learning. Did some things in SaaS pre-acronym. Want to bend that arc.
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He is correct
Sen. Markey has been calling to abolish ICE since late January

“Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. . . We can stop this. Not one penny more for the Department of Homeland Security.”

truthout.org/articles/sen...
Senator Calls to Abolish ICE, Says Voting to Fund DHS Supports “Murder”
“Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans,” said Sen. Ed Markey.
truthout.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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Just a reminder that ChatGPT cannot betray anyone because it doesn’t have feelings or motives or thoughts
ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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About one of the Trump accusers in this piece:

“The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.
February 16, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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I hate to Schumerpost, it’s hacky in its own way. But he and any Democrat like him really need to be steamrolled into oblivion. They’re constantly underselling the dangers of the moment and trying to get us back to the “Republicans Are My Friend, Let’s Give Another Trillion Dollars to Israel” vibe.
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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My plan for dramatic democratic reform includes:
- SCOTUS expansion
- DC statehood
- PR settlement of status
- Codify DOJ independence
- Constitutional amendment(s) to reverse SCOTUS decisions, abolish Electoral College, restrict presidential pardon power
“By law we can create an independent US Prosecution Service to replace the POTUS controlled DOJ and abolish and replace ICE and USBP. Reform the pardon power by law and term-limit and expand the size of SCOTUS. Make DC and Puerto Rico states, enfranchising millions of Americans."
FDR’s Four Freedoms and the Second Bill of Rights
The social welfare state, winning World War II, and building the liberal order after Trump.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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This how you isolate and capture "the worst of the worst" of these dangerous immigrants. You show yourself to be in need of help, and the worst criminals reveal themselves and their criminality by doing whatever they can to provide you with help.

Masterful law enforcement.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT spent 100s of thousands of dollars and expended thousands of man-hours of labor all to send just NINE people in chains on a Boeing 737 from Minnesota to Texas today 👀
February 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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It's a freak show, all the way down.
Erika Kirk Faces Backlash Over Alleged 'Inappropriate' Texts With A 15-Year-Old: 'Absolutely Vile'
Purported Texts Between Erika Kirk And A 15-Year-Old Go Viral Sparking Backlash And 'Grooming' Allegations
www.yahoo.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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We spent the weekend roaming the streets of NYC, where we walked alongside people of every background, heard multitudes of languages, and went by restaurants serving every conceivable cuisine. It all felt so much more American than the homogenous parts of the country called Real America.
February 16, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Imagine if they got more competitive about curing diseases or some shit like that instead of this stupid shit that sucks
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are only going to get more competitive now that they both are focusing on the moon, columnist Tim Higgins writes.
Bezos vs. Musk: The New Billionaire Battle for the Moon
Elon Musk has changed his focus from Mars to a lunar base, going head to head with Jeff Bezos
on.wsj.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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"The interview was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell."
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this

the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid

the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis
Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 16, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.

www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
www.thesmokinggun.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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OK. It was The Smoking Gun. They deserved for me to remember their name. I plead getting older.

I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.

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Trying to remember that small online journalistic outlet that used to publish primary documents, often leaked, that was one of the first to publish the police reports from the early 2000s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
February 16, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Really wish people in my neck of the woods would pay attention to stuff like this
There’s also a progressive candidate running who HASN’T taken money from Palantir partners @mikesacks.bsky.social :

www.mikesacksforcongress.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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My timeline is half leftists complaining about Gavin Newsom and half liberals complaining about Graham Platner and I'd like to propose that we launch both of them into the sun together.
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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🔥 REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “The ascent of populist movements tells us governments have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class… economic elites are taking the lion’s share of growth and leaving crumbs for the working class.”

(P.S. “resign, Pam Bondi”)
February 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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I only met him once. Disgusting person, never wanted anything to do with him. Well I stopped by his private island. But only because I was boating past it. And did business with him. Disgusting person. Good businessman. Nice island.
So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker. Now What?
Howard Lutnick searches for a way out of his Epstein pickle.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Video footage of this ICE tactic.

bsky.app/profile/tina...
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM