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Adam Jacobson
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Researcher, writer, editor. Good at words about people doing bad things. Sometimes funny. He/him.
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · May 2
Hiya new visitors! If you like my skeets, check out these papers I wrote about CIA torture! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... and digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol10/is...
Back to the Dark Side: Explaining the CIA’s Repeated Use of Torture
Since the CIA’s inception, elements of the Agency have researched, used, and taught interrogation tactics for national security and counterterrorism purposes. These have sometimes constituted tortu...
www.tandfonline.com
adjacobson.bsky.social
Lol i was wondering when NYT reporters/editors would start circling the wagons. Pretty quick it turns out!
emilyflitter.bsky.social Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 6h
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The top story on NYT right now is "Trump re-opens government"
jenonymous.bsky.social Jen d’Arc @jenonymous.bsky.social · 19h
Chat, is it good when you’re being ruled by an increasingly senile monster, so depraved he’s described by his pal, Jeffrey “Child Molester” Epstein, as “evil beyond belief”?

Why again did the NYT sit on all of this?
urocklive1.bsky.social Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19h
Wow.

Jeffrey Epstein writing about Trump in 2018:

"He feels alone and is nuts!!! I told everyone from day one. Evil beyond belief. Mad, and most thought I was speaking metaphorically. It's obvious he could crack. Stormy Daniels? Lies after lies after lies."
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
adjacobson.bsky.social
It won't be, but this Epstein stuff should be the final nail in the New York Times' coffin.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Ah ok
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
adjacobson.bsky.social
They're terrified of internet trolls, full stop.
gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 2d
“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car.

It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Of course they do
jconley.bsky.social JG Conley @jconley.bsky.social · 2d
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Yeah, standing by this.
Post by Razzball: "Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years" with screencaps from X of Elon Musk commenting on people's tweets about movies.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Seems bad! Also, this graph made me want a cigarette.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Still from The Simpsons: Ned Flanders' parents sitting looking sad and the mom is saying "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Jfc just retire
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis

For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare

We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4d
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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rincewind.run
me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider

today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted

should have known better
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4d
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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esedia.bsky.social
Remember: when cops strike, crime rates drop.

Abolition is the way!
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
After an explosion injured eight students at a school in Indonesia, authorities found a rifle that replicates the one used by Brenton Tarrant.

Tarrant murdered 51 people at two different mosques in New Zealand in 2019.

jakartaglobe.id/news/replica...
Replica Rifle With “Brenton Tarrant. Welcome to Hell” Found at Jakarta School Blast Site
Police found a replica rifle with names of notorious mass shooters at the SMAN 72 Jakarta blast site, though motive remains unclear.
jakartaglobe.id
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Same guys who killed Obama's effort to close Gitmo and do any measure of accountability for torture.
meredithshiner.com Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6d
reminder David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel both went on the record to Politico to say they were fine with this, either knowing the result would be mass death of children or being too dumb to know. Decide for yourself what’s worse!
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
Switched to Tidal and never looked back!
50501movement.bsky.social 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6d
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
adjacobson.bsky.social
School surveillance tech was a threat even before our current AI hellscape, as I wrote in March 2020: www.rmmagazine.com/articles/art...
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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farshnuke.bsky.social
The moment you are literally saying that a child can be bullied and it's illegal for the victim to be protected from bullying you are such an overblown anvillicious comic book villain.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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badideas.bsky.social
Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide
mangomania.bsky.social Michael @mangomania.bsky.social · 6d
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM