Ethan
strangebirds.bsky.social
Ethan
@strangebirds.bsky.social
he/him. WI, USA
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.

Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Ah forgot to ask y'all the provocative key question:

If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago...

Then...

What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡
I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities.

I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️

Now let's talk cop killings
Baltimore Streets
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Trump administration has joined the war on HIV/AIDS, on the side of HIV/AIDS.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Does your threat model include this guy kicking an ATM apart and worming through a revolving door (both poorly)?
bicho eu to PASSANDO MAL
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
real question: if you are subsidizing something for people who are at 7x the federal poverty level, that number should be raised, no? Like time to admit that your threshold for poverty is too low.
I think @proptermalone.bsky.social can declare victory on his prediction that the GOP was eager to find a way to extend ACA subsidies (even if they've gone about it in a VERY dumb way). Two year extension + following details in the White House plan.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
that’s alright - lately google’s spellcheck suggests the same spelling as I’ve typed or a different word for a correct one or fails to offer suggestions for obvious errors.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My brain keeps conflating Weiss and Nuzzi into some sort of Lynchian/Cronenburgian anti-journalist.
"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion"

get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
‘I Wanna Blow This Up’: How Bari Weiss Is Trying to Overhaul CBS News
The new editor in chief is personally recruiting potential anchors, booking guests herself and asking staff what they do.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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So basically, the U.S. no longer collecting race and ethnicity data is a major blow to medical advancement and directly harms Black American kidney failure patients. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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It’s a MF with 34 felonies shitting himself at state dinners and Tom Nichols said “those women had baggage.”

Please get the fuck out of my face.
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“I can have a little treat OF THE BONES OF THE DEAD while I sleep”
My dog likes to sleep with a couple bones in its bed and it just struck me how hard-core that is. Imagine sleeping on a pile of the bones of your defeated enemies.
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
David Bowie sings: “ I’m afraid of big americans, I’m afraid of their ‘za”
Seen in a Dutch grocery store: BIG AMERICAN pizza 🇺🇸
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.

It's 233 pages.

Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The problem with bookstores is that every book that's about slavery, or racism, or white supremacy are in the Black History or Afrcian American section.

When let's be real, those subjects are largely "White history." But because they're in the Black section you only see them by choice
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.

So ProPublica did.

Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM