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jphillll.bsky.social
Wild that the U.S. government is run by 4chan guys who think “posting through it” is the best White House comms strategy
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.

The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.
As the last century ended and the year 2000 began, my hometown newspaper, The Kansas City Star, asked me to write a short guest opinion piece predicting the course of the new century. It was part of a journalistic time capsule, an editor said, and would likely be read a hundred years hence. The same had been done by the newspaper's forebearers on January 1, 1901, when men considered "prominent" in Kansas City wrote short pieces about the future. A bit nervous about prognosticating in general, particularly in fewer than five hundred words, I asked the editor to send, as a guide, copies of the articles written one hundred years prior. Each had been penned by a religious, civic, political, or economic captain of the city. A great hopefulness pervaded their expectations of scientific and industrial advances. In this regard, these city fathers (and they were all fathers) reflected the optimistic spirit of the age. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward was then immensely popular, for example, as one of almost fifty utopian novels published during that period. One of the most fascinating aspects of these turn-of-the-century opinion pieces is that several predicted a happy future in explicitly racist terms. Not that they didn't worry about challenges to white supremacy's permanence. The city's "leading lawyer" feared that "the yellow peril threatens the world with untold disaster." One preacher fretted that the Fourteenth Amendment, which constitutionally guaranteed the rights of citizenship to black people, had been a "capital blunder." But a more prominent Baptist minister prophesied a noble century to come, including the end of war and the uplift of the poor, all under "the growing supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon."2 In this regard also, the city's sires reflected the spirit of the nation's elites at that time. University deans then taught that humanity could be improved through eugenics, the supposed science of selective "up breeding."3 The Supreme Court had recently ruled that "separate" was equal, and newspapers uncritically published accounts steeped in these and related ideas. The twentieth century did not end as it had begun. Science and technology, as predicted, did reach new heights. They split the atom, took us to the moon, and created a global cyberspace communications system. They could have also provided food to every hungry soul on the planet— but they didn't. Instead, scientific advances fed an unending series of wars, genocides, and man-made disasters. And the ethic of Aryan supremacy, so prevalent a hundred years earlier, (temporarily) buried itself beneath the mountains of human ash produced by Hitler's crematories. After World War Two, Europeans ceded legal sovereignty over Africa, Asia, and Latin America to their noticeably more darkly hued (former) subjects, even as the strains of four centuries of colonial exploitation were not erased. And in Kansas City, the newspaper-for-the-future included opinions by four women and three persons of color, including the city's first black mayor. My contribution to that time capsule stemmed directly from the subject under consideration here. I predicted a mid-twenty-first century conflict within the United States as white people became a minority in a nation of minorities and were no longer able to preserve a system of white privilege through majority-rule winner-take-all democracy. As the century wore on, I wrote, white nationalists would push toward instituting new forms of racial apartheid and other antidemocratic measures. The outcome in the year 2100, I argued, would depend on what we learned today about white supremacy and white nationalism. 4 This book does not pretend to predict prospective events, but it is not simply an account of the past either. While it is a history focused on the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first, it is my intention that it serve as part of a prolegomenon to the future discussion of racial egalitarianism and democracy. My hope is that it will provide the reader a view of the contemporary white nationalist movement that is both comprehensive and instructive. Though it takes into account organizations, individuals, and events such as the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, and the Oklahoma City bombing-things ascribed more to memory at this point than daily life—the objective is to demonstrate that this movement, driven by a vision well within the mainsprings of American life, is already self-consciously pitching itself toward the future. Perhaps when white nationalism's next iteration emerges, our country will better understand it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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wgaeast.bsky.social
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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bigbash.bsky.social
It's that time of year folks
bigbash.bsky.social Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Dec 1
When threats of Proud Boys from 4 states loomed on the horizon against Boise Pride in the Garden in 2022, a new group of defenders arose.

Presenting Boise Santa Bloc
4 Santas with faces covered, one with fist raised, holding a banner that reads "we keep us safe, no bigots at pride" with a circled A right in the middle
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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propublica.org
Louisiana paroled nine prisoners to deport them.

We found that at least two have been deported, while two others are being held at a new immigration detention facility.

But neither ICE nor the Landry admin would answer questions about the other five.

With @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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luckytran.com
The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050.

The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
BONER AWARD — @GovBillLee 🏆 Let Kids Go Hungry

“Lee somehow bungled his moment, refusing to address widespread child hunger looming as SNAP benefits ran dry for 690,000 Tennesseans.”

(H/T @NashvilleScene) www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Iowa State AD Jamie Pollard, clearly affected, talks about the outgoing head coach of the Cyclones.

"Matt Campbell owes Iowa State nothing, because he did more than we ever dreamed he would do as our head coach."

📹: @SEhrhardtKCCIon 𝕏
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
UPDATE: Indiana’s House just passed their 9-0 map

www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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ebthen.bsky.social
Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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alexwinter.com
My dear friend Tasneem and her family in Gaza have lost everything; their home, their livelihood, their security. This is the case for many thousands of Gazans.

Please give to Tasneem so she can feed her children and rebuild. And find and help others. ❤️🙏

chuffed.org/project/1587...
Tasneem's three children.
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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jasonkirk.fyi
Did you know Liberty was the preseason favorite to win Conference USA, which was instead won by Kennesaw State? In fact Liberty went 4-8. One of the country's biggest disappointments. Also disappointing at football
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Death by starvation is turning out to be at least as bad as death by firing squad. Because we have no termination notice, everyone is struggling to apply for bridge funding, and no one is stepping in to save our work, because our project "still exists" even as our labs' bank accounts hit zero. /5
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
I wish I could say "the work, at least, will continue" with a straight face. But the people driving this project are (mostly early-career) researchers who U.S. face funding shortages across the board. In-progress work will be lost on fundamental bio, climate change, and pandemic risk assessment /4
Developing diagnostic algorithms to tell dengue apart from rarer diseases like chikungunya and Zika in children Evaluating whether mosquitoes can transmit Oropouche virus (and therefore, whether it can show up in places like the United States) Developing laboratory resources like bat cell lines to understand how their immune systems interact with their viruses Understanding how Sin Nombre virus got to Washington State, based on the first sequences from the Pacific Northwest
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Read this thread, especially the science and Hill and White House reporters who follow me, as well as the congressional staffers — and members.
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
Hi everyone, I wanted to share some sad news about the future of the Verena program. As you know, in September, NSF delayed our annual payment indefinitely, and asked us to keep spending closer and closer to zero until they could “justify” another payment. We began to run out of funds at some universities this month, and will be fully spent out by late spring, so the goal was to get paid in December. We’ve been working with our program officer to make this happen, but sadly, we’ve learned we’re not getting an increment again, and there’s no clarity on when or how much we will be paid in the remainder of the grant (through September 1, 2027). Because of this, the Executive Committee has made the difficult decision to essentially shut the BII down until / unless something changes. What that means is an indefinite end to all programs (e.g., seminar), training activities (integration workshops, trainee corner), and evaluation. On research, what’s able to continue will have to be navigated by each investigator; our goal is to work together to push out all the impactful science we’ve spent three years collecting and analyzing data for, but we also know that priorities may shift around to keep people employed. If we’re lucky, Congress will pass a budget that lets us continue doing something like what we planned, and we’ll pick that back up when Zoe and Collin are back in April. Until then, Verena will continue to exist as a community where we can collaborate (and give and receive support!), and we’re working to find funding sources that can pick up from where the BII left off. On a personal note: it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to work with all of you, and an unbelievably lucky thing to get to run an NSF center in my 20s. I’ve loved this project, and I hope it’s made as much of a difference in your lives as it has in mine. In case I don’t see you later: happy holidays, be well, and so long and thanks for all the viruses. Best, Colin
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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jwcroxton.bsky.social
💯💯💯

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December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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jwcroxton.bsky.social
BREAKING: The #EugeneOR Police Department has just announced that it is immediately terminating its #FLOCK contract, citing "vulnerabilities and limitations that raise concerns about the systems ability to meet EPD's operational needs."
Screenshot of EPD's press release. It reads: "Effective immediately, the Eugene Police Department has ended its contract with its current Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) vendor, Flock Safety. The department has identified vulnerabilities and limitations that raise concerns about the system’s ability to meet EPD’s operational needs, data security requirements, and community expectations. After further evaluation and internal discussion, the department has decided to discontinue the contract. Eugene Police’s ALPR system experience has demonstrated the value of leveraging ALPR technology to aid investigations, apprehend felony suspects, and recover stolen vehicles more quickly. However, the department must ensure that any vendors meet the highest standards for safeguards surrounding privacy, data handling, data security, and system reliability."
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
@boocanan.bsky.social for many reasons i don't necessarily subscribe to the platonic christian imagery of demons walking among humans but dog. his name is fucking Mr. Beast and he sells insane garbage to children. that is the work of a ClipArt ass red devil with the horns and pitchfork and goat hooves
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.

The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔥 @adammockler.com : “Trump wants to act like a monarch that gets gifts. FIFA just cashed in on that. They realized they can placate him. It’s humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child. It should scare everybody who cares about the constitution.”
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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furry.engineer/@soatok/1156...
Soatok Dreamseeker (@soatok@furry.engineer)
Been thinking about bus factor with my projects lately. If any of them become important, it's probably a good thing if they can survive me. After all, I am a squishy mortal.
furry.engineer
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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psudonym.bsky.social
My ten cents is that newspapers should stop calling it a drug boat if there was never any evidence presented of it being a drug boat.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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hammancheez.bsky.social
all of this, all the misogyny boils down to 'attractive lady won't fuck me' ragespasms and they put all that shit into public policy that crushes Others
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14h
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM