@amicuslegis.bsky.social
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My kingdom for another New York Times subscription that i could promptly cancel
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My kingdom for another New York Times subscription that i could promptly cancel
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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
when people find themselves attempting to draw a distinction among children's ages as to when trafficking them for old powerful men to rape is objectionable, you'd hope they'd realize they've lost the goddamned plot, but here we are.
the hope for humanity meter is on "E" today.
the hope for humanity meter is on "E" today.
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
when people find themselves attempting to draw a distinction among children's ages as to when trafficking them for old powerful men to rape is objectionable, you'd hope they'd realize they've lost the goddamned plot, but here we are.
the hope for humanity meter is on "E" today.
the hope for humanity meter is on "E" today.
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“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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She’s a hateful attention seeking nitwit, whose going to bait him his entire career
Because outside of being hateful she does nothing and benefits greatly from the refusal of people to adress racist xenophobic violent women
And I’m tired of her nonsense
Because outside of being hateful she does nothing and benefits greatly from the refusal of people to adress racist xenophobic violent women
And I’m tired of her nonsense
I hope he goes.
Mamdani can start his mayoral term by fulfilling a promise to have him arrested.
nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...
Mamdani can start his mayoral term by fulfilling a promise to have him arrested.
nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...
NYC pol trolls Mamdani by inviting Netanyahu to Big Apple on mayor-elect’s inauguration day
A trolling Brooklyn pol has invited Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the city Jan. 1 — the day of the swearing-in of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to try to arrest Bibi when he visits n…
nypost.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
She’s a hateful attention seeking nitwit, whose going to bait him his entire career
Because outside of being hateful she does nothing and benefits greatly from the refusal of people to adress racist xenophobic violent women
And I’m tired of her nonsense
Because outside of being hateful she does nothing and benefits greatly from the refusal of people to adress racist xenophobic violent women
And I’m tired of her nonsense
what the fuck, @moderation.bsky.app ???
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
what the fuck, @moderation.bsky.app ???
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It’s a way of them controlling what is and isn’t crime .
Imagine an Optimus powered by Grok that tells you killing the homeless isn’t a crime .
Or an Optimus with tiered membership where the person with the most expensive subscription is automatically granted preference
Imagine an Optimus powered by Grok that tells you killing the homeless isn’t a crime .
Or an Optimus with tiered membership where the person with the most expensive subscription is automatically granted preference
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It’s a way of them controlling what is and isn’t crime .
Imagine an Optimus powered by Grok that tells you killing the homeless isn’t a crime .
Or an Optimus with tiered membership where the person with the most expensive subscription is automatically granted preference
Imagine an Optimus powered by Grok that tells you killing the homeless isn’t a crime .
Or an Optimus with tiered membership where the person with the most expensive subscription is automatically granted preference
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This is a great idea. I think one of the biggest things about the current carceral system is out of sight, out of mind so when folks fight for their freedom we don't know what they're fighting only the characterization that they are criminals.
I personally think before any judge sentences a person to incarceration or detention, they should have to spend a night in that facility themselves.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is a great idea. I think one of the biggest things about the current carceral system is out of sight, out of mind so when folks fight for their freedom we don't know what they're fighting only the characterization that they are criminals.
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See also:
bsky.app/profile/step...
bsky.app/profile/step...
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
See also:
bsky.app/profile/step...
bsky.app/profile/step...
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Can Chicago businesses refuse to let in ICE? The answer is complex. blockclubchi.co/3WDnyO2
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Can Chicago businesses refuse to let in ICE? The answer is complex. blockclubchi.co/3WDnyO2
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Hopefully you've seen the @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social article revealing that Meta makes 10% of their revenue from scams and fraud. Their bullshit PR response adds insult to injury. I chew it into tiny pieces point by point in this week's Platformocracy. 1/3 #meta #trustandsafety #adtech #fraud
Rant: Meta is earning billions from scams and fraud. Their lack of transparency is an insult.
Meta’s newly-revealed carelessness is egregious, but their bullshit response is the Platformocracy at its worst. I am pissed. Welcome to what my coworkers used to call a “Bellack Special.”
www.platformocracy.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hopefully you've seen the @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social article revealing that Meta makes 10% of their revenue from scams and fraud. Their bullshit PR response adds insult to injury. I chew it into tiny pieces point by point in this week's Platformocracy. 1/3 #meta #trustandsafety #adtech #fraud
tuesday was a day of hope, and a somewhat belated indication that there's fight left in us.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
tuesday was a day of hope, and a somewhat belated indication that there's fight left in us.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
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Beyoncé made history & the Grammy’s took a page from the Oscars (The Oscars tried to make a best popular film category the year Black Panther came out.) & made a new award for black artists.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Beyoncé made history & the Grammy’s took a page from the Oscars (The Oscars tried to make a best popular film category the year Black Panther came out.) & made a new award for black artists.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
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Cuomo's entire platform, in both the primary and the general, is 'vengeance - especially for me personally, but also vicariously if you're an alienated rich white man'
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Cuomo's entire platform, in both the primary and the general, is 'vengeance - especially for me personally, but also vicariously if you're an alienated rich white man'
when organized labor's power is at its nadir, we get a depression.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
when organized labor's power is at its nadir, we get a depression.
our market has never been free, and never less free than now. capitalism, which is objectively predatory, is untenable when the owners of the means of production have used the gov't to gut the power of Labor, making us all a captive market to whatever rigged pricing they wish to impose.
LoL almost like the state could fund and run grocery stores without a problem. And provide vital nutrition and good paying jobs to areas that lack these things...
Almost as if "the free market" is just a lie to keep people desperate, poor and starving...
Almost as if "the free market" is just a lie to keep people desperate, poor and starving...
NEW — In response to the pause in SNAP benefits scheduled for Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, Gov. JB Pritzker signed an order to designate $20 million in state funding for 2,600 food pantries across Illinois.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/prit...
thetriibe.com/2025/10/prit...
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
our market has never been free, and never less free than now. capitalism, which is objectively predatory, is untenable when the owners of the means of production have used the gov't to gut the power of Labor, making us all a captive market to whatever rigged pricing they wish to impose.
this is going to wreak havoc on a number of industries, and while purportedly for finding "bad intent" or "fraud," will force more to work under the table, which is how profit likes them, because they're cheaper and more vulnerable.
gross.
gross.
The new policy will go into effect Oct. 30, and will apply to people applying for renewals in the future.
Feds end the automatic renewals of most immigrants’ work permits
The new policy will go into effect Oct. 30, and will apply to people applying for renewals in the future.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
this is going to wreak havoc on a number of industries, and while purportedly for finding "bad intent" or "fraud," will force more to work under the table, which is how profit likes them, because they're cheaper and more vulnerable.
gross.
gross.
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Aside from recommending this thread because it’s good, this also reminded me how much time/money/effort has gone into ensuring that average Americans actually know little or nothing about labor histories in their country.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Aside from recommending this thread because it’s good, this also reminded me how much time/money/effort has gone into ensuring that average Americans actually know little or nothing about labor histories in their country.
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Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.
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Woman sues amusement park after being struck by a duck on a roller coaster
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Woman sues amusement park after being struck by a duck on a roller coaster
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
i expect to see this shamefully regressive approach across media as a whole, if not most industries. it confirms what we all knew (or should have known) to be true.
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
i expect to see this shamefully regressive approach across media as a whole, if not most industries. it confirms what we all knew (or should have known) to be true.
the entirety of the "conservative populist" movement across the world is rooted in racism, rejection of accountability, and greed.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
the entirety of the "conservative populist" movement across the world is rooted in racism, rejection of accountability, and greed.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
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If you really show up to try and whataboutism me on whether people who work to survive "consent" to work, I'm going to immediately decide that you don't grasp the concept of consent and block you because it isn't my job to teach you about how different forms and levels of consent work.
A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.
October 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you really show up to try and whataboutism me on whether people who work to survive "consent" to work, I'm going to immediately decide that you don't grasp the concept of consent and block you because it isn't my job to teach you about how different forms and levels of consent work.
"on trajectory" is an astonishingly optimistic way to describe it.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"on trajectory" is an astonishingly optimistic way to describe it.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
pretty sure that shit has landed.