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Andrew C 💯
@arc315.bsky.social
· Jul 19
I'm not a business, man, but I'm pretty good company.
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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well
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I know you all are posting this because you hope that a CNN article will break through liberal genocide denial, but the headline ends with "Human Rights Watch has alleged" so no, they will just tell themselves it's propaganda, because it was phrased in a manner that allows them to do that
Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch has alleged.
Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from West Bank refugee camps amounts to war crimes, HRW alleges | CNN
Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I know you all are posting this because you hope that a CNN article will break through liberal genocide denial, but the headline ends with "Human Rights Watch has alleged" so no, they will just tell themselves it's propaganda, because it was phrased in a manner that allows them to do that
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this is really the big thing with congress, and frequently a problem that plagues those associated with congress (staffers, reporters, etc): how things are different behind closed doors, and the public just doesn't get it.
frustrated with the public... for not knowing things they won't share.
frustrated with the public... for not knowing things they won't share.
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
this is really the big thing with congress, and frequently a problem that plagues those associated with congress (staffers, reporters, etc): how things are different behind closed doors, and the public just doesn't get it.
frustrated with the public... for not knowing things they won't share.
frustrated with the public... for not knowing things they won't share.
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Microsoft is so fucking desperate for anyone to give a shit about copilot.
![Tip of the month
Copilot + PowerPoint = Party mode activated
Just say, “Create a presentation about [your topic] hot takes” (maybe “pumpkin pie versus pecan”). Copilot whips up stylish slides with vibrant images so you can focus on winning the pie debate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mls6ncpewotdpeacozk7lmdz/bafkreiav4csjpwmrealjcxwgx554gtws2kazyqhj7fr7x4xb3d3rukb2ua@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Microsoft is so fucking desperate for anyone to give a shit about copilot.
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🚨 27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS
Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths.
In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...
Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths.
In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨 27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS
Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths.
In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...
Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths.
In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...
“Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.seattletimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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The next time - and we all know it will be very soon - you encounter someone babbling about "leftwing cancel culture" as an an equivalent to (and perhaps even the cause of) the rightwing assault on free speech, please remember this.
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The next time - and we all know it will be very soon - you encounter someone babbling about "leftwing cancel culture" as an an equivalent to (and perhaps even the cause of) the rightwing assault on free speech, please remember this.
On the 13th day of Christmas I had a feast with so many roast birds.
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
On the 13th day of Christmas I had a feast with so many roast birds.
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DHS beat, tackled, shackled, cut, and bruised US citizen Arturo Hermosillo in June. His hands turned blue. They stuffed him in a van and drove him to a station. Yet the agents told him that he was never "arrested," just "detained," ICE's new get-out-of-jail-free word.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
DHS beat, tackled, shackled, cut, and bruised US citizen Arturo Hermosillo in June. His hands turned blue. They stuffed him in a van and drove him to a station. Yet the agents told him that he was never "arrested," just "detained," ICE's new get-out-of-jail-free word.
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right, and the thing about selling out on abortion is that, really, is ezra klein selling anything out himself? no, he's selling someone else out.
but I also think that Klein et al regard "selling out on abortion" as respectable and "selling out on antivax" as tinfoil-hat-humiliating, and that's why the "dems may have to make hard choices . . . like running pro-life candidates" is such a refrain even though it's from another era altogether
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
right, and the thing about selling out on abortion is that, really, is ezra klein selling anything out himself? no, he's selling someone else out.
My jacket sleeve and my glove. One of my key considerations for outerwear is Not Getting Run Over At Night.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My jacket sleeve and my glove. One of my key considerations for outerwear is Not Getting Run Over At Night.
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I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.
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🚛 Gaza NGOs coordinator, Eyad Amawi, tells Drop Site that the situation in Gaza remains one of genocide and “engineered suffering.” More than a month into the ceasefire, he says nothing has meaningfully improved: aid is still choked off, UNRWA is blocked from operating at full capacity, and only...
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚛 Gaza NGOs coordinator, Eyad Amawi, tells Drop Site that the situation in Gaza remains one of genocide and “engineered suffering.” More than a month into the ceasefire, he says nothing has meaningfully improved: aid is still choked off, UNRWA is blocked from operating at full capacity, and only...
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The “we believe in nothing!” Crowd strikes again I see
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The “we believe in nothing!” Crowd strikes again I see
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there are many dangers stemming
from that framing but a big one is that it lets the surveillance state off the hook. it suggests that the agency can be “steered back” to what it was “meant” to be. but what it was meant to be is… this! immigration raids, surveillance, policing creep, all of it
from that framing but a big one is that it lets the surveillance state off the hook. it suggests that the agency can be “steered back” to what it was “meant” to be. but what it was meant to be is… this! immigration raids, surveillance, policing creep, all of it
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
there are many dangers stemming
from that framing but a big one is that it lets the surveillance state off the hook. it suggests that the agency can be “steered back” to what it was “meant” to be. but what it was meant to be is… this! immigration raids, surveillance, policing creep, all of it
from that framing but a big one is that it lets the surveillance state off the hook. it suggests that the agency can be “steered back” to what it was “meant” to be. but what it was meant to be is… this! immigration raids, surveillance, policing creep, all of it
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the idea that trump “shifted” DHS toward deportations ignores the fact that immigration enforcement was central to DHS from day one!! it wasn’t a side mission! it was the M.O. holding the whole structure together. trump just uses the tools exactly as they were built
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
the idea that trump “shifted” DHS toward deportations ignores the fact that immigration enforcement was central to DHS from day one!! it wasn’t a side mission! it was the M.O. holding the whole structure together. trump just uses the tools exactly as they were built
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DHS was born out of 9/11 — not as a safety project but as a consolidation of surveillance, policing, and immigration enforcement powers under one massive post-panic umbrella. it was always built to target “internal threats” (aka immigrants, muslims, dissenters)
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
DHS was born out of 9/11 — not as a safety project but as a consolidation of surveillance, policing, and immigration enforcement powers under one massive post-panic umbrella. it was always built to target “internal threats” (aka immigrants, muslims, dissenters)
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MTG is no less racist than she was two months ago, but the fact that she's beefing with trump will cause thousands of white liberals to flock to her nevertheless. sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just everybody's enemy.
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
MTG is no less racist than she was two months ago, but the fact that she's beefing with trump will cause thousands of white liberals to flock to her nevertheless. sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just everybody's enemy.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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This is how predators work. In the initial emails, he thinks he can still fuck her, and describes her willingness as:
* listened to the comments of a LEADING ECONOMIST IN THE FIELD about her presentation
* didn't object when he commented on her outfit
* let him whine about his marriage.
* listened to the comments of a LEADING ECONOMIST IN THE FIELD about her presentation
* didn't object when he commented on her outfit
* let him whine about his marriage.
The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is how predators work. In the initial emails, he thinks he can still fuck her, and describes her willingness as:
* listened to the comments of a LEADING ECONOMIST IN THE FIELD about her presentation
* didn't object when he commented on her outfit
* let him whine about his marriage.
* listened to the comments of a LEADING ECONOMIST IN THE FIELD about her presentation
* didn't object when he commented on her outfit
* let him whine about his marriage.
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Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.
Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
www.cjr.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...