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equalityalec.bsky.social
Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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jlkoepke.bsky.social
In the last half of 2025, the President of OpenAI donated $25 million to the SuperPAC MAGA, Inc — the single largest contributor
Quote of a tweet saying the following: JUST IN: Trump SuperPAC MAGA Inc. raised $102.17 million between July 1st and December 22nd. It spent $1.69M on IEs in the #TN07 special and another $2.17M on assorted other expenditures, and now has a war chest of over $294 million heading into the midterms.
January 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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equalityalec.bsky.social
Imagine calling basic constitutional rights like the opportunity to speak in court "cutting corners." Even more alarming, he's saying all this in service of jailing people indiscriminately "by the busload" who are presumed innocent (and only if their families don't have the listed cash payment).
equalityalec.bsky.social alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 20d
There are moments the mask is removed, and all the lies evaporate. This quote by a District Attorney in California is incredible. He says the volume of shackled poor people brought to court--what he calls the "cattle call"--makes it impossible to consider them as individuals.
The problem is the time and cost involved when judges have to consider each person's circumstances at arraignment hearings, said Yolo County District Attorney Jeffery W. Reisig, a former CDAA president. "What Civil Rights Corps is doing is not helpful, and I look at it with a high degree of skepticism," he said in an interview. "Proponents of zero bail want to cut corners to reach the end result that people remain out of custody. Arraignment courts are packed. They bring 'em in by the busload. It's a cattle call."
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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grudgie.bsky.social
How many times exactly does Trump have to hand billions to rich people or destroy the safety net before the media stops calling him a populist?
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Nov 22
Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Why Donald Trump Seems Taken With Zohran Mamdani Michael Powell This was one of several moments in the press conference that felt more like a Saturday Night Live skit than a newscast. But perhaps all this was not as improbable as it looked and sounded. Trump bellows and insults and demeans, but so much of that is an act, guff and bullying. His earlier talk of Mamdani as “my little communist mayor” even carried an odd hint of affection, and there was evident admiration in the way in which he spoke of Mamdani’s unlikely mayoral victory. These men are, in their very different ways, populists, Queens men, and sometimes statists; they share a disdain for political establishments. And Trump, the developer, is aware of the extremely high cost of New York real estate, a focus of Mamdani’s campaign.
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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equalityalec.bsky.social
Instead, the most consequential stories for our safety are largely ignored by mainstream news, appearing every now and then as special investigations rather than daily urgent stories like crimes of the poor. outlets like @levernews.com try to close this gap. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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rtraister.bsky.social
Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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NEW: Take action against the Trump Administration's federal funding freeze by sharing your library story. How would a federal funding pause impact your library & community? Share your story with ALA as we work to inform elected officials & decision-makers on this issue: airtable.com/appTIEEt9RjD...
Show up for our libraries! Fight the funding freeze: Share your library story. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries.
January 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
No. Trump is straightforwardly lying and lines like that only 'work' if chickenshit writers refuse to say so.
October 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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rincewind.run
Donald Trump’s closing argument, by ad spend, is that trans people are bad and he will remove them from public life

this is what he thinks will win him the election

tell him to go fuck himself - and be ready to protect your trans friends and neighbors
Trump Goes All In on Anti-Trans
It’s not clear if the ads will help Trump, hurt Harris—or just scapegoat trans people.
www.thebulwark.com
October 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM