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madroselaw.bsky.social
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Chicago area transgender lawyer fighting for a world with dignity and equality for all. Also TTRPGs, Math, and Labor. The Office of the Public Guardian must be destroyed.
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nitishpahwa.com
remember, folks,
This Thanksgiving remember the cranberry sauce, but forget the Marijuana. Terry was convinced to take a "toke" of a joint with his friend "just to relax". Immediately after, Terry killed his friend who had given him the marijuana in a murderous craze. Not so safe, is it? Marijuana. Not Even Once. Ad Council
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants "on a massive scale." The man identified as the suspect was said to have worked with the C.I.A. and fled Afghanistan in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a program born after the sudden fall of the Afghan government in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces and the o Taliban took control of the country. The suspect received asylum from the U.S. government in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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pavisuri.bsky.social
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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eladn.bsky.social
Can’t wait till they check in with Nick Fuentes
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d
This is nuts!

Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?

I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
4 minutes ago Laura Loomer speculates about shooter's identity By Beth Reinhard Laura Loomer, the far-right political activist known for her virulently anti-Muslim views, was quick to speculate about the shooter's background on X, where she has 1.8 million followers. "Communist, Muslim, Trans terrorist, Furry, or ANTIFA?" she asked. Loomer also posted a photo of a bearded man being carried into an ambulance, though The Washington Post could not immediately verify that the image came from Wednesday's crime scene. "I'm just going to say. That's a very Mohammedan looking beard," she wrote. "I'll wait for more details. But the beard with no mustache the night before a Western holiday is not lost on me."
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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edzitron.com
Yelling “The Future Rules! The Future Rules!” Like the Future Demon from Chainsaw Man as I read the latest horrifying esoteric political drama
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
lemieuxlgm.bsky.social Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
it’s a “number go up” answer, which is the only terms they’re apparently able to think in
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
i feel like a lot of the disconnect between the ai boosters and the rest of us is about the fact that they do not think the humanities matter, therefore political, sociological, and cultural critiques don’t matter. “people are using this” is not an answer to “this is a detriment to society”
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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slkollmann.bsky.social
Normalcy bias is impacting everyone everywhere constantly

But there are those who interrogate it

And those swaddled in its warm embrace

Still 🤯 how many people in higher ed continue to assume the word "settlement" means "return to business as usual" despite every single fact screaming otherwise
slkollmann.bsky.social Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · Sep 24
It would be so embarrassing to work for a U that plans to hand its lunch money over after watching how that JUST went for Disney and knowing that the administration plans to continue to debilitate university operations because it has said so and passed more laws to enable further incursions

👀👀👀👀👀👀
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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karlbode.com
america: too corrupt to function
Georgia prosecutor kills the historic racketeering case against Trump and allies | CNN Politics
A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, closing the cha...
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Yes. Classic abuse enabler dynamic where fighting back against the abuse becomes a retroactive justification for it bsky.app/profile/turn...
turnerjoy.bsky.social 🐱🐢🦋Dr. Pokemon🦋🐢🐱 @turnerjoy.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve seen absolutely nothing and Biden was proven 100% right.

They even claimed Trump was going to use that to justify pardoning people, which has become only far more laughable with who Trump has pardoned
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
a cheese grater that, if viewed from the correct angle, appears to have a friendly, stupid face, an example of Pareidolia
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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statesongxprt.bsky.social
If you aren't familiar with autism groups, this like the Abundance Democrats and the PSL put out a joint statement
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
madroselaw.bsky.social
My "our accounting practices are similar but distinguishable from Enron's" memo has a lot of people asking questions that are answered by the memo.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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tpgroberts.bsky.social
Imagine praising "Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that they have a rota to walk the Latino children" and not wondering where your humanity went?
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.

archive.ph/RlXPj
Second, we need to enforce the policy with a vigour that has reduced flows at America’s southern borders by 90 per cent, and in Denmark by 95 per cent. Crucial to the Trump programme is an aggressive policy of removals, including snatching suspected illegals off the street. One friend tells me Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that the other parents have a rota to walk the Latino children to and from school.
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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adambonin.bsky.social
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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christianelliott.me
Can we get directions to the ones that are still in need of defacement
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "AI doesn't care if you live or die." Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "talk to humans" Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "Fuck this!" Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "you don't have to accept this future."
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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3r1ng.bsky.social
Real IDs such a pain in the ass to get, there’s a whole genre of memes about it. Gotta bring your first born child to the DMV plus 15 other official documents… they’re doing blatant racial profiling on US citizens and they don’t care.
gregdoucette.bsky.social T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 4d
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs

CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: Fernando Vazquez doesn't understand why Border Patrol agents took him into custody Tuesday. Agents from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pinned him to a gate at his Cary worksite, handcuffed him and pulled his wallet out. They saw his N.C. REAL ID. But Vazquez, 18, said they still kept him in handcuffs and ushered him into the back of a gray Chevy Tahoe. He sat next to another worker in his early 20s who was crying. Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: 'I was in shock' Vazquez was born in Raleigh and lives in Apex. His parents are from Mexico, and he works with his dad as a landscaper. He graduated from Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh. He was detained close to his former middle school, Reedy Creek. Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: Vazquez said he saw eight agents — four from the Tahoe, and four from a Ford Explorer or Chevy Suburban. Agents put him in the back of the Tahoe and drove off. "I was in shock, basically," Vazquez said. While in the car, a different Latino agent asked Vazquez where he was from. "Here," Vazquez told him. "NO, where were you born?" the agent asked. Vazquez told him he was born in Raleigh. He said the agent got angry and cussed him out. Excerpt from the linked news story. Text reads: The agents eventually allowed Vazquez out of their SUV, and he caught a video of them removing his handcuffs and throwing his wallet out of the car, its contents scattering on the ground. The video has over 5 million views on TikTok.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America.

Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
numb.comfortab.ly Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4d
Someone is having concerns about Twitter privacy all of a sudden
@ianmiles The amount of privacy violations in the new X locations update is staggering. Welcome to the new normal, where most users are treated like cattle and some people get more protections than others all because some other people can't stand it when a small group of people criticizes them.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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alanallport.bsky.social
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sample-text.bsky.social
Walking home from seeing Jay Kelly last night at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social - the dusk sky literally said trans rights
A street level shot of a Chicago neighborhood dusk sky, with pink, white, and blue stripes echoing the trans flag
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
Saying "vaccines are safe" is an irrelevant detail when you voted to hand all of the US government's health organizations over to someone who adamantly insists they are not.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
TAPPER: Dr Cassidy, RFK Jr lied to you

CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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nutedawn.bsky.social
Like, this is applying the lowest possible standard here: I’m not even asking the US press to manage the impossible task of caring about the millions of poor people around the world being killed or having their lives ruined; they can’t even manage to judge it as a political win/lose story
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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nutedawn.bsky.social
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
bbkogan.bsky.social Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4d
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*

The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM