StarEqualsCheck
@starequalscheck.bsky.social
* Ph.D. in some mathy type shit
* Top of my playlists: Juan Atkins, Eminem, The White Stripes
* A “socialist” who understands the difference between merit and luck and privilege
* Top of my playlists: Juan Atkins, Eminem, The White Stripes
* A “socialist” who understands the difference between merit and luck and privilege
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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The likes of Trump and Musk are trying to start a war in Europe.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The likes of Trump and Musk are trying to start a war in Europe.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
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My colleague @gideonrachman.bsky.social has written an important column: www.ft.com/content/9536... I'm the daughter of a "third world foreigner," and I believe this hateful turn in US politics will be the end of America if it goes unchecked. Europe must resist it. We all must.
Trump’s America and a clash of civilisations with Europe
The White House sees mass immigration as a bigger threat than Russia — and it is pressuring Europe to agree
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My colleague @gideonrachman.bsky.social has written an important column: www.ft.com/content/9536... I'm the daughter of a "third world foreigner," and I believe this hateful turn in US politics will be the end of America if it goes unchecked. Europe must resist it. We all must.
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Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
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Trump Border Czar Seems Totally Fine With Detaining Citizens
ICE keeps targeting people who aren’t immigrants. Tom Homan doesn’t appear to think this is a problem.
ICE keeps targeting people who aren’t immigrants. Tom Homan doesn’t appear to think this is a problem.
Trump Border Czar Seems Totally Fine With Detaining Citizens
ICE keeps targeting people who aren’t immigrants. Tom Homan doesn’t appear to think this is a problem.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Trump Border Czar Seems Totally Fine With Detaining Citizens
ICE keeps targeting people who aren’t immigrants. Tom Homan doesn’t appear to think this is a problem.
ICE keeps targeting people who aren’t immigrants. Tom Homan doesn’t appear to think this is a problem.
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"Viral racism pays." In Trump's America.
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Viral racism pays." In Trump's America.
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Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
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ICE is currently staying at four hotels in the Twin Cities area.
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
ICE is currently staying at four hotels in the Twin Cities area.
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If you’re taking some satisfaction from the MAGA crackup, don’t let your guard down. It’s when Trump feels he’s in trouble that he does the biggest and craziest things to deflect attention. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end
Sunday thought: Really, truly, the end of Trump is near
MAGA is cracking up, but beware
robertreich.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you’re taking some satisfaction from the MAGA crackup, don’t let your guard down. It’s when Trump feels he’s in trouble that he does the biggest and craziest things to deflect attention. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end
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WELKER: The US doesn't shoot people at the border who are bringing drugs in. Why should it be different at sea? Are you saying we should start shooting people at the border?
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
WELKER: The US doesn't shoot people at the border who are bringing drugs in. Why should it be different at sea? Are you saying we should start shooting people at the border?
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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FBI Making List of American
"Extremists," Leaked
Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
"Extremists," Leaked
Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
FBI Making List of American
"Extremists," Leaked
Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
"Extremists," Leaked
Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
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My latest column: www.ft.com/content/85fd...
America’s economy is at the mercy of crony capitalism
The Trump administration’s approach to ethics could eventually cost investors in US assets
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My latest column: www.ft.com/content/85fd...
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Fix the Court, no amendment needed: Every circuit judge is now also a SCOTUS justice, and all current justices assigned to a circuit. SCOTUS cases heard by panels of 13, one judge from each circuit, selected randomly. Cert granted or denied by different random panels of 13.
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Fix the Court, no amendment needed: Every circuit judge is now also a SCOTUS justice, and all current justices assigned to a circuit. SCOTUS cases heard by panels of 13, one judge from each circuit, selected randomly. Cert granted or denied by different random panels of 13.
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Trump administration officials banded together to denounce the European Union after the bloc fined Elon Musk’s X, with some suggesting a US response is warranted, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports
Trump Administration Locks Arms with Musk’s X Against EU Tech Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
Senior Trump administration officials banded together against the EU for fining Elon Musk's X on transparency grounds.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Trump administration officials banded together to denounce the European Union after the bloc fined Elon Musk’s X, with some suggesting a US response is warranted, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports
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If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
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Pollster: Trump's net approval rating among voters under the age of 30 is going into a deep, dark black hole. Look at that, -46. That is a shift on the net approval of 56 points in the wrong direction since February. We almost never see drops this big, this quickly.
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Pollster: Trump's net approval rating among voters under the age of 30 is going into a deep, dark black hole. Look at that, -46. That is a shift on the net approval of 56 points in the wrong direction since February. We almost never see drops this big, this quickly.
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Scary to think, but this is as relevant today as it ever has been…
Released 33 years ago
Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
Live at Pinkpop 1993
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory
Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
Live at Pinkpop 1993
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Scary to think, but this is as relevant today as it ever has been…