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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.

How times change.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Nov 5
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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kateconger.com
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.
Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
From this month's edition of The Onion.
ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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aliceguthrie.bsky.social
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Greta Thunberg being released...

the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one

c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!
June 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home.

Free Mahmoud.
June 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative. Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients. The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays. Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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xkcd.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
This is so damning - Apple used its copywriting prowess to make the web itself sound unsafe www.theverge.com/apple/659296...
Rafael Onak, a user experience writing manager at Apple, instructed an employee to add the phrase “external website” to the screen because it “sounds scary, so execs will love it.” Another employee gave a suggestion on how to make the screen “even worse” by using the developer’s name, rather than the app name. “ooh - keep going,” another Apple employee responded in Slack.
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
If I had money to invest and only two options: an AI VC or Marc, I would put all my money into the AI VC's robotic hands rather than Marc.

Truly our clearest example of the ravages of the billionaire mind virus.
vikrambath.bsky.social Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Apr 30
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.
April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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peterhuestis.bsky.social
A horticulturalist at my work asked me to "spread the love for Arbor Day," so here's Fragonard's ink, wash, and chalk drawing of The Avenue of Cypresses at Villa d'Este, 1760 and c. 1765. Now that's some epic trees!
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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ayannapressley.bsky.social
I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process.

I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
From left to right, Congressman Jim McGovern, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, and Senator Ed Markey stand outside an ICE detention center in Louisiana.
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This is why politicians love doing podcasts, just one softball question after another here from Bari Weiss to Marco Rubio. So much important stuff to challenge him on - especially free speech, ostensibly the Free Press’s biggest issue! - and she just… doesn’t.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio With Bari Weiss of The Free Press’s Honestly with Bari Weiss Podcast - United States Department of State
QUESTION:  Secretary Rubio, welcome to Honestly.   SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you.   QUESTION:  I want to start with the report that came out today from Gabe Kaminsky and Maddie Rowley, and it’s about th...
www.state.gov
April 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
It’s #WIPWednesday! 🧶

This is what I’ve been knitting between Fight the Oligarchy rally stops.

Oversized Seasons Cardigan by Ozetta.

Splurged big-time on the yarn (🫣) but honestly after holding this thing for weeks I’m happy I did. Woolerton Estates in Fluffy. #KnitSky
Beginning of the knit project on a tray table. Two needles with about ten rows of yarn for the collar of a sweater. The beginning of a cardigan on knitting needles. It’s the shoulders down to the armpit. No sleeves yet. The cardigan, knit down a little further now, with four skeins of yarn behind it. Deco posing as a yarn model. His head is resting on a ball of yarn.
April 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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atrupar.com
Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"
April 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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normative.bsky.social
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 22
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Incredible work here by Nilay to expose more telco hypocrisy.
reckless.bsky.social nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · Apr 21
I really enjoyed talking to Verizon consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath — telecom CEOs do not usually want to talk to me! — but this answer about fighting net neutrality vs fighting Trump and Carr on open censorship sent me reeling www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
I want to be very clear, I’m being very explicit about this. When the government passed net neutrality rules, it wasn’t, “We have to follow the rules of the land.” It was, “We are going to file lawsuits for a decade to get out of these rules because we think they’re dumb.” And in this case, you’re saying Brendan Carr, who has been openly censorious, openly chilling of speech, openly hostile to companies because they have diversity initiatives — you’re saying you just have to follow his rules? We have to follow the rules of the land. I don’t think those are his rules. They are the rules of the land and administration — Are you going to file a decade’s worth of lawsuits about these rules? We don’t know. We’re going to work constructively with them to follow the rules that are needed. But at the end of the day... Look, our role is to the stakeholders that we have. My stakeholders are my shareholders, my customers, my employees, and society at large. We have to manage, and we are going to deliver to those stakeholders what’s needed for us, and we will do whatever is needed with the administration to deliver to all the stakeholders. When you run a large company our size, you have to balance the different stakeholders, and we will balance those stakeholders. We’ve done it extremely well in the last 25 years that we’ve been Verizon, and we’ll continue to do that going forward.
April 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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ahmetasabanci.com
I know @safety.bsky.app team is not a big one but it doesn’t look good when you have a huge wave of new users from Turkey because of government enforced censorship on X/Twitter and then you silently add a country specific moderation service and start blocking users.
When you check Moderation settings from Turkey, you see an additional moderation service specific to Turkey and has a note saying “Required in your region”.
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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aliskorkut.com
Bluesky continues to comply with access blocking orders issued by the Turkish government and is restricting access from Turkey to accounts critical of the government.

As part of this, the platform has also blocked access to the accounts @mervemeleek.bsky.social and @edirneliallah.bsky.social.
April 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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libyaliberty.bsky.social
Ended. Up.

Ended.

Up.

endedup
Wapo headline: how Palestinian first responders ended up in a mass grave
April 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen. 39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions 40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs. 41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there. They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM