burner herzog
@oujii.bsky.social
in every city in every nation from lake geneva to the finland station. he/him
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If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.
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So wild the war Trump has waged against PBS News and they still carry water for him with headlines like this
President Trump said Sunday that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory. https://to.pbs.org/4bXt2fj
Trump says Board of Peace members promise $5 billion for Gaza rebuild
Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes in Gaza and frequently fire on Palestinians despite a ceasefire deal. Trump did not detail which member nations were making the pledges for reconstr...
to.pbs.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
So wild the war Trump has waged against PBS News and they still carry water for him with headlines like this
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Enable quote-replies, Jake
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Enable quote-replies, Jake
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My mom worked for decades at Bell Labs. They did actual work creating real things. What you are doing - stealing from actual artists and destroying the planet, raising people’s energy costs and depriving them of water - doesn’t compare to their work in any way shape or form.
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
My mom worked for decades at Bell Labs. They did actual work creating real things. What you are doing - stealing from actual artists and destroying the planet, raising people’s energy costs and depriving them of water - doesn’t compare to their work in any way shape or form.
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You turned off quote posts so i am here to tell you that you are a dumb bitch to your ugly face. Shut the fuck up prompter. You know nothing of the sacrifice one makes to create great art. And you never will, cuz you're a lazy piece of shit bitching on bluesky about artists. Hahahahahaha *points* HA
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
You turned off quote posts so i am here to tell you that you are a dumb bitch to your ugly face. Shut the fuck up prompter. You know nothing of the sacrifice one makes to create great art. And you never will, cuz you're a lazy piece of shit bitching on bluesky about artists. Hahahahahaha *points* HA
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Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
February 16, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.
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every time i see one, i can't stop myself from thinking about how ugly they are — how hostile the design is, how oversized and clumsy they look, they're, truly, one of the worst fucking car designs in history
I keep thinking that someday I will become used to the hideousness of cybertrucks and they will finally blend into the background and every time I see one I am struck anew by how awful they are
February 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
every time i see one, i can't stop myself from thinking about how ugly they are — how hostile the design is, how oversized and clumsy they look, they're, truly, one of the worst fucking car designs in history
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This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future: Letter from the Editor
Journalism schools lag in teaching AI, crucial for modern reporting, which aids in efficient news gathering and frees reporters for fieldwork.
www.cleveland.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
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Hundreds of masked ICE agents descended on a community event in Idaho, violently arresting children and their families at gunpoint.
We're suing the Trump administration and 4 local police agencies for abusing criminal warrants to carry out unconstitutional immigration raids.
We're suing the Trump administration and 4 local police agencies for abusing criminal warrants to carry out unconstitutional immigration raids.
ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer
The filing aims to hold rogue federal agents accountable by linking them to a conspiracy.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Hundreds of masked ICE agents descended on a community event in Idaho, violently arresting children and their families at gunpoint.
We're suing the Trump administration and 4 local police agencies for abusing criminal warrants to carry out unconstitutional immigration raids.
We're suing the Trump administration and 4 local police agencies for abusing criminal warrants to carry out unconstitutional immigration raids.
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thread: i must get back to my tamagotchi farm. yes it's very productive. no i absolutely won't tell any of the many people what i'm producing, just insist it's very productive bsky.app/profile/timk...
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
thread: i must get back to my tamagotchi farm. yes it's very productive. no i absolutely won't tell any of the many people what i'm producing, just insist it's very productive bsky.app/profile/timk...
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The Mellon Foundation funded my incredibly dry and historicist dissertation workshop group on the Baroque, where we read such woke writers as Leibniz
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, Tyler Austin Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them?
What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education?
Its role as the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research has granted the foundation—and its president—enormous influence over American arts and letters.
bit.ly
February 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
The Mellon Foundation funded my incredibly dry and historicist dissertation workshop group on the Baroque, where we read such woke writers as Leibniz
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What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
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I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
February 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
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According to Julie K. Brown, who did such invaluable reporting on Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald, the Bard College Board of Trustees is conducting an emergency meeting tomorrow. I hope they do the right thing. x.com/jkbjournalis...
February 15, 2026 at 6:51 PM
According to Julie K. Brown, who did such invaluable reporting on Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald, the Bard College Board of Trustees is conducting an emergency meeting tomorrow. I hope they do the right thing. x.com/jkbjournalis...
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One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.
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 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.
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You cannot reform this.
Burn ICE to the ground, piss on the ashes, and salt the earth.
Then build a professional agency with standards and accountability to accomplish the critical mission they were supposed to be doing.
Burn ICE to the ground, piss on the ashes, and salt the earth.
Then build a professional agency with standards and accountability to accomplish the critical mission they were supposed to be doing.
Courts say ICE broke the law—thousands of times. The abuse continues anyway. This isn’t enforcement. It’s systemic disregard for constitutional rights, enabled and defended by the Trump regime. Republicans are treating the Constitution like toilet paper.
February 15, 2026 at 1:56 AM
You cannot reform this.
Burn ICE to the ground, piss on the ashes, and salt the earth.
Then build a professional agency with standards and accountability to accomplish the critical mission they were supposed to be doing.
Burn ICE to the ground, piss on the ashes, and salt the earth.
Then build a professional agency with standards and accountability to accomplish the critical mission they were supposed to be doing.
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Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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 3:09 AM
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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I do think if your business model is posting outrage content daily, this is one logical endpoint
I think more people should keep their insane thoughts to themselves.
February 15, 2026 at 3:11 AM
I do think if your business model is posting outrage content daily, this is one logical endpoint
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“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
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Again, this is the through line of American history, from the failure of Reconstruction to ICE killing people in cold blood on the streets of Minneapolis, with lots of ugly "City Folkz are not Real Americans and their votes don't need to be counted" stuff in between:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
February 14, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Again, this is the through line of American history, from the failure of Reconstruction to ICE killing people in cold blood on the streets of Minneapolis, with lots of ugly "City Folkz are not Real Americans and their votes don't need to be counted" stuff in between:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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So in addition to hosting ICE, Hilton’s newspaper of choice…Epoch Times??!!! Jesus never thought I’d be nostalgic for USA Today
February 14, 2026 at 10:40 PM
So in addition to hosting ICE, Hilton’s newspaper of choice…Epoch Times??!!! Jesus never thought I’d be nostalgic for USA Today
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In this story, there is a lot of support for trans people that you rarely see covered in the media unless they're being attacked. Businesses and individuals all standing up and saying 'I will not be a part of this' and I think that needs to be highlighted because it can feel lonely out there.
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
At least 12 Women’s Institute (WI) groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
In this story, there is a lot of support for trans people that you rarely see covered in the media unless they're being attacked. Businesses and individuals all standing up and saying 'I will not be a part of this' and I think that needs to be highlighted because it can feel lonely out there.
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The story of the slow, inexorable decline of Trump's support in the last thirteen months is the story of millions of Americans, one person at a time, witnessing the obscenities being perpetrated by this administration and being roused to opposition.
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The story of the slow, inexorable decline of Trump's support in the last thirteen months is the story of millions of Americans, one person at a time, witnessing the obscenities being perpetrated by this administration and being roused to opposition.
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Sorry did we made fun of these losers yet? I feel not enough people have mocked them on the internet.
A few snaps from yesterday afternoon in Los Angeles. Filming the cops, per usual, lol.
February 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Sorry did we made fun of these losers yet? I feel not enough people have mocked them on the internet.