Jaime Garmendia
@garmendia.bsky.social
He/him. Public servant, convention and conference planner.
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JetBlue flight 1112 almost collided with a US military aircraft in the skies above Curaçao, because it was flying with transponders off. This news has been reported mainly in Dutch and Papiamentu outlets, as far as I can tell.
Piloten spreken van bijna-botsing met militair tankvliegtuig VS boven Curaçao
Het betrof JetBlue-vlucht 1112 op weg van Curaçao naar de luchthaven JFK in New York, in het Curaçaose luchtruim, 26 minuten na vertrek.
nos.nl
December 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
JetBlue flight 1112 almost collided with a US military aircraft in the skies above Curaçao, because it was flying with transponders off. This news has been reported mainly in Dutch and Papiamentu outlets, as far as I can tell.
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Mid-morning thoughts: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Progressives in the U.S. need to understand this: Not all candidates for office will be perfect, and we're not going to fix everything all at once. Expecting perfection is a losing strategy. Play the long game - just like them.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Mid-morning thoughts: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Progressives in the U.S. need to understand this: Not all candidates for office will be perfect, and we're not going to fix everything all at once. Expecting perfection is a losing strategy. Play the long game - just like them.
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They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
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I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
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As i've said before, the renaissance was just 15th century OnlyFans.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
As i've said before, the renaissance was just 15th century OnlyFans.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
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Its hard to read “I would never ask for a service worker who racially abused me to be fired“ as much more than “I’m not like other girls“
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Its hard to read “I would never ask for a service worker who racially abused me to be fired“ as much more than “I’m not like other girls“
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A person has to experience life forwards before they can critique life backwards
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A person has to experience life forwards before they can critique life backwards
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Mikie Sherrill told police unions this year that she opposes giving subpoena power to local civilian police oversight boards.
That’s been a big demand of local officials & activists, for years — and more officials were elected on that platform this fall.
Important tensions on policing in Jersey:
That’s been a big demand of local officials & activists, for years — and more officials were elected on that platform this fall.
Important tensions on policing in Jersey:
New Jersey Cities Are Pressing Resistant State Officials for Civilian Police Oversight - Bolts
Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
boltsmag.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Mikie Sherrill told police unions this year that she opposes giving subpoena power to local civilian police oversight boards.
That’s been a big demand of local officials & activists, for years — and more officials were elected on that platform this fall.
Important tensions on policing in Jersey:
That’s been a big demand of local officials & activists, for years — and more officials were elected on that platform this fall.
Important tensions on policing in Jersey:
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The error wasn't the scrivener's. You can fix the clerk's (or _maybe_ judge qua clerk's) work with this doctrine, but not the judge's (qua judge) with this.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The error wasn't the scrivener's. You can fix the clerk's (or _maybe_ judge qua clerk's) work with this doctrine, but not the judge's (qua judge) with this.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
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put aside the 14th amendment issues. At a certain point, when your organizing principle is defiance of the Constitution, you cannot claim to validly hold a role within the constitutional structure
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
put aside the 14th amendment issues. At a certain point, when your organizing principle is defiance of the Constitution, you cannot claim to validly hold a role within the constitutional structure
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ICE are thug scum.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
ICE are thug scum.
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@mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social you have a police force pull these criminals over, arrest them, and throw them in the slammer. When is someone going to start fighting fire with fire? (Or ICE with ice, I guess.)
December 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
@mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social you have a police force pull these criminals over, arrest them, and throw them in the slammer. When is someone going to start fighting fire with fire? (Or ICE with ice, I guess.)
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
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There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.
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With AltText, so everyone can understand what’s possible if you think about women as people and not just caregiving machines
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
With AltText, so everyone can understand what’s possible if you think about women as people and not just caregiving machines
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Filed with the City Council in Apr 2024. Had hearings, town halls, briefings, votes by Council & House—& then he blocked it in the Senate last Dec. Council passed it again in Feb 2025 & we’re still waiting for a vote.
I don’t have the power to stop State Senators from doing their job, only they do!
I don’t have the power to stop State Senators from doing their job, only they do!
Imagine the audacity of Mayor Wu asking the least productive legislature in the country to do some work when they’re already 2 weeks into their 6 week holiday break?
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Filed with the City Council in Apr 2024. Had hearings, town halls, briefings, votes by Council & House—& then he blocked it in the Senate last Dec. Council passed it again in Feb 2025 & we’re still waiting for a vote.
I don’t have the power to stop State Senators from doing their job, only they do!
I don’t have the power to stop State Senators from doing their job, only they do!
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
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oh god, the Jan 6th pipe bomb guy was a Brony
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
oh god, the Jan 6th pipe bomb guy was a Brony
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FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
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This is how they dismantle Medicare without saying they’re dismantling Medicare.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is how they dismantle Medicare without saying they’re dismantling Medicare.
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly:
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly:
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
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Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.
6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Biden, generally a lukewarm backer of trans rights as President, uses Intl International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference speech to slam Reps/Trump for turning trans rights into "political football...into something scary, something sinister."
Joe Biden slams Republicans for turning transgender rights into ‘political football’
The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.