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gregolear.bsky.social
. @jesseduquette.bsky.social is always genius, but this is next-level stuff. Wow.

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A cartoon of an American flag where the stars are white KKK hats and the white stripes are CECOT prisoners lined up.
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
Be the light you want to see in the world.
ricksteves.bsky.social Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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figgityfigs.bsky.social
The move goes like this: 1) we are right wing and we are Christian and we are loud, so everyone associates Christianity and being right wing, which leads to 2) Christianity *is* inherently right wing, which leads to 3) Christianity is whatever right wingers say it is. Same with the constitution.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
Happy Depeche Mode day to those who celebrate.
a man with his arms outstretched in a dark room
Alt: Dave Graham dancing with his arms outstretched on stage.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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hunterw.bsky.social
"I’ve seen it where 10 football player-sized men with masks literally lift up a person physically and swarm them. ... You can just feel the tension in the hallway, people screaming. ... I hear those things in my dreams." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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philinvestigates.com
Thanks for amplifying my latest hate investigation, Rachel. Hope you will also check out this recent report, as well! youtu.be/pU3GJwNadeE?...
December 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
Depeche Mode’s live album “Memento Mori: Mexico City” dropped Dec 5. ❤️❤️❤️ The film drops December 17.

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Depeche Mode on Instagram: ""Precious" from Memento Mori: Mexico City. Full video available now on YouTube. Depeche Mode: M and Memento Mori: Mexico City are out now on DVD and Blu-ray. Digital downl...
Depeche Mode's M and Memento Mori: Mexico City offer an unforgettable concert experience, available now on DVD and Blu-ray. Discover the highlights of the live performances, explore the captivating vi...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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December 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
A podcast that I can get behind.
bedoyausa.bsky.social Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 15d
Remember Car Talk, where you call two guys with your car problems and get advice to fix it? Me and Max Miller are starting a show that's like a "Car Talk" for the messed up economy.

First? SURVEILLANCE AT WORK. We got the best expert for it. Submit questions by next Thursday!
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"We can act on our strongest convictions that dehumanization anywhere is unacceptable because we are all bearers of the image of God."

Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social

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I was slammed to the ground and arrested outside an ICE facility. It was a holy experience.
Internment sites are being operated across the country, writes a Chicago pastor. What we do with this knowledge tells us everything about the Christians we are.
faithandleadership.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
Excellent read. Share and share widely!
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17d
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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jtischauser.bsky.social
Phil Williams is doing the lord's work.
Greg Johnson and David Zsutty are in car looking very confused and a little bit angry at the TV camera. A cop is checking their ids at a checkpoint to get into a white power conference.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Holiday carolers are protesting Home Depot’s association with ICE

🎶 We don't want no more deportations 🎶
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
Dee on Twitter writes: "I don't understand what unmarried women are expected to do. Just coast through life, hoping someone will feed and clothe them forever? Or are they allowed to work, but only in a minimum wage job that requires no schooling? Not everyone can just stay with their parents forever." Defiant Baptist retweets her and writes: "A high value man would much rather marry a sweet girl that works at a coffee shop than a boss babe CEO type that sees herself as his equal or superior. That's just a fact. She should stay at home under her father's roof and focus on attracting such a man." This is part of a long convo chain about women who go to college and grad school, build careers, and buy a home. Defiant Baptist notes that this makes women unattractive to "high value men."
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/
Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
I have no words. 💔
ruthz.bsky.social Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · Nov 26
And about that 13 year old, who was made to *voluntarily* self deport. It’s horrifying that this kid was forced to make that decision, and be sent away from his family and friends. Horrifying. open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
A 13 year old and ICE
Weeks ago I wrote about 13 and 17 year old sisters who went missing in the world after ICE abducted their mother from a Worcester, Massachusetts street, leaving them parentless and in state care.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
Not just Spotify….
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · Nov 10
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.

Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
a Verge headline: The algorithm failed music Illustration: A colorful waveform starts to pixelate
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
musings4themasses.bsky.social
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Nov 9
In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Others who have held positions of authority, including former federal judges and ambassadors, have been opposing this government's efforts to undermine the principled, impartial administration of justice and distort the free and fair functioning of American democracy. They have urged me to work with them. As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today's existential threat to democracy and the rule of law. When I became a senior judge in 2013, my successor was appointed, so my resignation will not create a vacancy to be filled by the president. My colleagues on the United States District Court in Massachusetts and judges on the lower federal courts throughout the country are admirably deciding a variety of cases generated by Trump's many executive orders and other unprecedented actions. However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly removed the temporary restraints imposed on those actions by lower courts in deciding emergency motions on its "shadow docket" with little, if any, explanation. I doubt that if I remained a judge I would fare any better than my colleagues. I resigned in order to speak out, support litigation, and work with other individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the rule of law and American democracy. I also intend to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves. I cannot be confident that I will make a difference. I am reminded, however, of what Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Others who have held positions of authority, including former federal judges and ambassadors, have been opposing this government's efforts to undermine the principled, impartial administration of justice and distort the free and fair functioning of American democracy. They have urged me to work with them. As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today's existential threat to democracy and the rule of law. When I became a senior judge in 2013, my successor was appointed, so my resignation will not create a vacancy to be filled by the president. My colleagues on the United States District Court in Massachusetts and judges on the lower federal courts throughout the country are admirably deciding a variety of cases generated by Trump's many executive orders and other unprecedented actions. However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly removed the temporary restraints imposed on those actions by lower courts in deciding emergency motions on its "shadow docket" with little, if any, explanation. I doubt that if I remained a judge I would fare any better than my colleagues. I resigned in order to speak out, support litigation, and work with other individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the rule of law and American democracy. I also intend to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves. I cannot be confident that I will make a difference. I am reminded, however, of what Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave.
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Targets Van Nuys and Panorama City, Snatching Street Vendors, Pedestrians, and Day Laborers Again

Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-n...
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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25 years ago today: the most consequential presidential election of my lifetime. 36 days later, it was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority, would later she regretted that the court accepted the case.
New York Times headline from December 13,2000: "Bush Prevails: By Single Vote, Justices End Recount, Blocking Gore After 5-Week Struggle"
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM