orangeroos.bsky.social
@orangeroos.bsky.social
A little lost. Trying to learn.
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Trump’s lawyers are funny, until they become part of DOJ, at which point they become less funny
omfg
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Do we expect a single other british media outlet will mention the FT story about the tony blair genocide promotion institute
July 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.
NYT Ed Board said last year that they aren’t doing local endorsements anymore, but they couldn’t help themselves from writing a gross roundabout endorsement of Cuomo.
June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”
June 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Here it is: the New York Times editorial board loves Rahm Emanuel because it believes—against all evidence—that the secret to managing public life in the big city is to have the cops bust up undesirables
June 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Me as a kid reading Dune: I don’t get why their whole society is built around the eradication of A.I., seems like they’re wasting a lot of tech

Me as an adult: oh that’s why
Easily the bleakest thing I’ve read this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
June 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.
🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition.

This may force thousands to drop out.
Texas agrees with feds to end in-state tuition for undocumented students
Almost 20,000 undocumented college students in Texas will likely lose in-state tuition after this sudden policy reversal.
www.texastribune.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Killing 51,000 people - all just to give a big fat tax cut that goes mostly to the richest people
Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance
It will also increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion.
prospect.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 247 days, risking her life to demand justice for her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah—imprisoned in Egypt for a Facebook post. Both Egypt and the UK must act now www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
245 Days Without Justice: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike and the Fight to Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Laila Soueif has now been on hunger strike for 245 days. On Thursday night, she was taken to the hospital once again. Soueif’s hunger strike is a powerful act of protest against the failures of two go...
www.eff.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Happy Saturday, please read my story about all the ways that the Trump administration and DOGE are dismantling systems of knowledge, research and surveillance in ways that will set us back a generation. Or go outside and read it on Monday, that would be better: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
www.motherjones.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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turns out the Big Beautiful Bill would ban state and local regulation of autonomous vehicles for 10 years. awesome prospect.org/infrastructu...
AI Ban in Spending Bill Would Curb States’ Driverless Car Regulations
As the first fully automated 18-wheeler rolls out, states would have no ability to govern what is taking place on their own roads.
prospect.org
June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Good morning! Today is my birthday. I’m 50, which is absolutely wild to me.

Tech companies don’t love or often hire women over 50. Please share my newsletter & encourage people to subscribe (subscribe yourself if you haven’t yet, you big jerk) so I have a better chance to sell my book. Thank you!
In this week's newsletter, I wrote about why people need to know more about how tech products get made, and why tech journalists need to get more of the details right. It's not enough to be angry. We have to know how the machine works to outsmart it.

www.leahreich.com/does-it-matt...
June 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"American democracy is collapsing because idiot citizens expect the government to help them, which it can't" is probably one of the wrongest analyses I have ever seen. Congrats on the NYT op-ed though.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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He should have just stayed quiet. Instead, he has confirmed his guilt.
June 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A lot of popularists argue they're not transphobes, just acknowledging the American electorate are, but that doesn't explain why they raise the salience of the issue. If I liked trans people but thought most voters didn't, I wouldn't constantly publish We Need To Talk About Trans Kids articles.
May 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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HUGE congratulations to these workers, who just unionzed a Bezos owned company!! What an enormous victory
It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!
May 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Former @latimes.com reporter Maya Lau is SUING ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva, ex-detective Mark Lillienfeld and the county, saying they violated her 1A rights when they criminally investigating her for reporting on a list of problem deputies: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Former Times reporter sues Villanueva, L.A County, alleging 1st Amendment violation
Former Times reporter Maya Lau has filed a lawsuit claiming Los Angeles County and former Sheriff Alex Villanueva violated her 1st Amendment rights.
www.latimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.
May 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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When Nashville SC defeated Charlotte FC on Saturday, the supporters section lacked its usual verve and had visible gaps throughout the risers.

The reason was explained in a pair of large white banners.

No estamos todos aquí.

We are not all here.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Since the NBA and WNBA are now here I want to use the brief time when I have more followers than they do to present this post by former NBA shooting guard Vernon Maxwell as my first and last act as the home for Bluesky basketball coverage
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A thing I think is kind of messed up is that we’ve stopped considering ‘being evil’ to be a moral failing in a person
May 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I watched a driver get furious at a disabled, senior person on a bike—a good friend of mine—who was helping run a Bike to Wherever Day ride this morning. The driver honked, screamed, and sped off at high speed because they were delayed by about 30 seconds. I would say “unbelievable,” but it isn’t.
May 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM