Mark
@mbainter.bsky.social
Breaking: Dick Chey has apparently destroyed his own horcrux and died to avoid seeing a Muslim become mayor of NYC.
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Breaking: Dick Chey has apparently destroyed his own horcrux and died to avoid seeing a Muslim become mayor of NYC.
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This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
She is right that we should be concerned, but she's also right about the incredible demands being a player put on other systems. +People, land, power, water.) 3-4 players is probably enough, the problem is *who* the players are and the interests they're beholden to.
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
She is right that we should be concerned, but she's also right about the incredible demands being a player put on other systems. +People, land, power, water.) 3-4 players is probably enough, the problem is *who* the players are and the interests they're beholden to.
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Many of the people who have been screaming for decades about planned economies and government-chosen winners and losers (rightly, I think!) are fine with an economy run by one self-obsessed, deeply ignorant man, who picks winners and losers based on his own whims, obsessions, and grift.
'A slap in the face': Ranchers feel betrayed by Trump's plan to buy Argentine beef
Over the past few days, cattle ranchers and agricultural groups have been sounding the alarm that a plan to import more foreign beef would hurt struggling ranchers.
www.npr.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Many of the people who have been screaming for decades about planned economies and government-chosen winners and losers (rightly, I think!) are fine with an economy run by one self-obsessed, deeply ignorant man, who picks winners and losers based on his own whims, obsessions, and grift.
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I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.
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“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!
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Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
newrepublic.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
How Trump is Building a Repressive, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
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And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.
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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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The NYT headliner's perspective: there are two sides to this story. The side of the loco rightwing fabulists and reality. They're both legitimate perspectives. This isn't journalism.
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The NYT headliner's perspective: there are two sides to this story. The side of the loco rightwing fabulists and reality. They're both legitimate perspectives. This isn't journalism.
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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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Feeling unable to rely on the existing professional police forces, the NSDAP created the Geheime Staatspolizei immediately after coming to power. It immediately made it a serious crime against the state to criticize the Gestapo, publicly disclose its members or their residences, or to protest them.
The Nazi Party and its Violence Against the Jews, 1933-1939: Violence as a Historiographical Concept
In his masterpiece, Behemoth, first published in 1942, Franz Neumann referred to violence as “not just one unimportant phenomenon in the structure of National Socialist society.” Violence, Neumann argued, “is the very basis upon which the [Nazi] society rests.”1 He regarded violence as a technique of dominating the masses from above, and the ministerial bureaucracy, the armed forces, the industrial and agrarian leadership and the Nazi party all aimed to dominate German society by using violence
www.yadvashem.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Feeling unable to rely on the existing professional police forces, the NSDAP created the Geheime Staatspolizei immediately after coming to power. It immediately made it a serious crime against the state to criticize the Gestapo, publicly disclose its members or their residences, or to protest them.
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Keep in mind there's nothing preventing the US from doing nonlethal searches and seizures. The Coast Guard and sometimes Navy often does this. In the time between the 1st and 3rd deadly US strike, sailors from the USS Jason Dunham stopped and searched a ship. The strikes are a deliberate choice.
3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean.
As with the others:
-in area US military operates freely
-where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value
-no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one
-blatant violation of international law
-no evidence US knew who they hit
As with the others:
-in area US military operates freely
-where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value
-no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one
-blatant violation of international law
-no evidence US knew who they hit
September 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Keep in mind there's nothing preventing the US from doing nonlethal searches and seizures. The Coast Guard and sometimes Navy often does this. In the time between the 1st and 3rd deadly US strike, sailors from the USS Jason Dunham stopped and searched a ship. The strikes are a deliberate choice.
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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 AM
“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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"when you say that darling" is what our president just said to a reporter
Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"when you say that darling" is what our president just said to a reporter
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READ @radleybalko.bsky.social: Trump’s Most Dangerous Executive Order www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order
Trump has always wanted his own muscle he can deploy to silence critics and intimidate his enemies. His new executive order could create just that.
www.rollingstone.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
READ @radleybalko.bsky.social: Trump’s Most Dangerous Executive Order www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I'm not saying Donald Trump is a Soviet asset.
I'm just wondering: if he *was*, what would he be doing differently?
I'm just wondering: if he *was*, what would he be doing differently?
In another nod to Putin, Trump administration officials inform European diplomats that the US will no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. www.ft.com/content/0157...
US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia
Move comes as Washington pushes Nato allies to pay more towards their own defence
www.ft.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm not saying Donald Trump is a Soviet asset.
I'm just wondering: if he *was*, what would he be doing differently?
I'm just wondering: if he *was*, what would he be doing differently?
But Maxwell never saw him do anything inappropriate and the charges against him were manufactured. Right.
Me five minutes ago: I'm not going to read the Prince Andrew biography, so I'll just read this article about it
Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD
Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD
August 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
But Maxwell never saw him do anything inappropriate and the charges against him were manufactured. Right.