Jes
@armeddragons.bsky.social
Another digital nomad
love is love, people are people
We all have human rights, or no one has any rights
Sick of the hate
Living near Halifax/Kjipuktuk, NS with Kelly
Sharing doesn't mean I agree
I don't "Like/Love" posts I've seen them. Star, not heart.
love is love, people are people
We all have human rights, or no one has any rights
Sick of the hate
Living near Halifax/Kjipuktuk, NS with Kelly
Sharing doesn't mean I agree
I don't "Like/Love" posts I've seen them. Star, not heart.
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Well the last time multiple age cohorts were fucked up by a global pandemic was...immediately following World War I. Nothing bad happened in those 30 years, right?
I am kind of optimistic that a lot of this is just multiple different age cohorts being made kind of insane by COVID and that we just have to ride the wave a little until the people who were too young to be really impacted by it come fully online. But that’s still like 30 years. Gonna be a wild time
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well the last time multiple age cohorts were fucked up by a global pandemic was...immediately following World War I. Nothing bad happened in those 30 years, right?
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This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters.
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
September 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters.
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
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btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt
This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters.
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt
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Friends, we need to appreciate the situation of the wilfully ignorant as an equity-deserving group. Long excluded from the corridors of power by their own ineptitude, banished from political influence to the sound of the cruel laughter of voters, marginalized and ultimately ejected from colleges...
When your anti-vax Health Secretary stacks the vaccine committee: "Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on." wapo.st/3K9OBNV
CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit
They voted 8-3 to recommend delaying the use of a measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox vaccine that about 15 percent of children receive.
wapo.st
September 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Friends, we need to appreciate the situation of the wilfully ignorant as an equity-deserving group. Long excluded from the corridors of power by their own ineptitude, banished from political influence to the sound of the cruel laughter of voters, marginalized and ultimately ejected from colleges...
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
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NEW: Mexico could displace ALL US gas imports for power generation, with solar and batteries ☀️
The country’s abundant sunshine means it can become a global solar superpower and boost its energy security at the same time:)
The country’s abundant sunshine means it can become a global solar superpower and boost its energy security at the same time:)
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
NEW: Mexico could displace ALL US gas imports for power generation, with solar and batteries ☀️
The country’s abundant sunshine means it can become a global solar superpower and boost its energy security at the same time:)
The country’s abundant sunshine means it can become a global solar superpower and boost its energy security at the same time:)
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It's hard to write about a complex visa program in a way that can resonate with everyone. But @maxblau.bsky.social and Zaydee Sanchez did it with the narrative of a single woman, told with such respect and care.
Read the thread and the story below:
projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
Read the thread and the story below:
projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
September 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's hard to write about a complex visa program in a way that can resonate with everyone. But @maxblau.bsky.social and Zaydee Sanchez did it with the narrative of a single woman, told with such respect and care.
Read the thread and the story below:
projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
Read the thread and the story below:
projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
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Mendoza forced her to live at his house and sign a marriage license. He threatened to have her deported. He repeatedly raped her. But then she escaped. She called the police, and Mendoza was arrested.
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Mendoza forced her to live at his house and sign a marriage license. He threatened to have her deported. He repeatedly raped her. But then she escaped. She called the police, and Mendoza was arrested.
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Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. But the farmworker visa that allowed her to come to the U.S. legally ended up being a trap. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
projects.propublica.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. But the farmworker visa that allowed her to come to the U.S. legally ended up being a trap. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
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Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵
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🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com:
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com:
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
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Federal forces just tear gassed myself and the other peaceful protestors here at the Broadview ICE facility. This is a terrifying escalation, but we will not back down.
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Federal forces just tear gassed myself and the other peaceful protestors here at the Broadview ICE facility. This is a terrifying escalation, but we will not back down.
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Viktor Orban had his most loyal oligarchs buy up all of Hungary's major media outlets to establish a propaganda network. It's happening here now.
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billi...
archive.ph/2025.09.17-2...
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billi...
archive.ph/2025.09.17-2...
How Hungary's Orbán uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark | The Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In the months leading up to elections for the European Parliament, Hungarians were warned that casting a ballot against Prime
www.ap.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Viktor Orban had his most loyal oligarchs buy up all of Hungary's major media outlets to establish a propaganda network. It's happening here now.
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billi...
archive.ph/2025.09.17-2...
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billi...
archive.ph/2025.09.17-2...
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Coming this fall.
"Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots.
U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."
"Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots.
U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Coming this fall.
"Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots.
U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."
"Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots.
U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."
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“Its hybrid warfare is not the strategy of a strong power but of a weak one trying to mask its fragility. We should see it for what it is: not the projection of strength but the confession of weakness.”
tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness
Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins
tomorrowsaffairs.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“Its hybrid warfare is not the strategy of a strong power but of a weak one trying to mask its fragility. We should see it for what it is: not the projection of strength but the confession of weakness.”
tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
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I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)
Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing Comes As Feckless TV Networks Lobby Trump To Destroy Remaining Media Consolidation Limits
As Mike just got done noting, our major media companies continue to respond to authoritarianism by being pathetic and feckless little shitweasels. First with the ABC and CBS bribery payments to our…
www.techdirt.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)
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fun fact the government only very recently gave up on claiming I committed a felony in the creation of this Sinclair Broadcast Group video in 2018
I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)
Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing Comes As Feckless TV Networks Lobby Trump To Destroy Remaining Media Consolidation Limits
As Mike just got done noting, our major media companies continue to respond to authoritarianism by being pathetic and feckless little shitweasels. First with the ABC and CBS bribery payments to our…
www.techdirt.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
fun fact the government only very recently gave up on claiming I committed a felony in the creation of this Sinclair Broadcast Group video in 2018
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OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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THIS is the kind of order judges should be issuing against performative complaints.
OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
THIS is the kind of order judges should be issuing against performative complaints.
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Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel
This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that…
This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that…
Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel
This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that keeps the FBI loaded up with anti-terrorism dollars, thanks to its ability to radicalize people just so it can arrest them. But it's the expected forward movement by the Trump administration, which has empowered the State Department to engage in…
www.techdirt.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel
This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that…
This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that…
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A deeply important read.
They’re kidnapping people off the street cartel-style
I've become accustomed to being lied to every day by now. About Israel and immigrants and trans people to name but a few. But there has been a superlative concentration of lies this past week. A novel...
www.welcometohellworld.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A deeply important read.
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This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
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The agents eventually do successfully transfer the vehicles. Meanwhile, the @abc7.bsky.social news van gets gassed.
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The agents eventually do successfully transfer the vehicles. Meanwhile, the @abc7.bsky.social news van gets gassed.
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outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois:
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
September 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois:
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.