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“bsky is boring!”
1) good
2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment
3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it
4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands
5) read book
6) walk outside
1) good
2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment
3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it
4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands
5) read book
6) walk outside
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“bsky is boring!”
1) good
2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment
3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it
4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands
5) read book
6) walk outside
1) good
2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment
3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it
4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands
5) read book
6) walk outside
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This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality
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There are literally thousands of articles about these topics and, to my knowledge, none have been written by Alex Karp or Palantir.
LOL
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There are literally thousands of articles about these topics and, to my knowledge, none have been written by Alex Karp or Palantir.
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This is bonkers, these people have all passed a series of interviews and checks. Pulling people from the citizenship ceremony is really just cruel.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is bonkers, these people have all passed a series of interviews and checks. Pulling people from the citizenship ceremony is really just cruel.
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Jeffrey Epstein was rich, but not powerful. When a rich man faces trouble, he can buy his way out — for a time.
When a powerful man faces trouble, the witnesses end up dead before they can testify. The way Jeffrey Epstein did.
When a powerful man faces trouble, the witnesses end up dead before they can testify. The way Jeffrey Epstein did.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Jeffrey Epstein was rich, but not powerful. When a rich man faces trouble, he can buy his way out — for a time.
When a powerful man faces trouble, the witnesses end up dead before they can testify. The way Jeffrey Epstein did.
When a powerful man faces trouble, the witnesses end up dead before they can testify. The way Jeffrey Epstein did.
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"The general public shoulders the bill [of war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds... Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations."
- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, "War Is A Racket", 1935
- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, "War Is A Racket", 1935
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"The general public shoulders the bill [of war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds... Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations."
- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, "War Is A Racket", 1935
- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, "War Is A Racket", 1935
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives."
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives."
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
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trump is further left than the baileys
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
trump is further left than the baileys
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the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
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"An FBI memo that claims 'anarchist violent extremist actors' are targeting law enforcement cites a private text message chat that included immigration court observers, raising questions about whether the spy agency is monitoring political activity, a copy of the document indicates."
FBI memo indicates online chats of immigration court watchers in NYC were monitored
An FBI memo that claims “anarchist violent extremist actors” are targeting law enforcement cites a private text message chat that included immigration court observers, raising questions about wheth…
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"An FBI memo that claims 'anarchist violent extremist actors' are targeting law enforcement cites a private text message chat that included immigration court observers, raising questions about whether the spy agency is monitoring political activity, a copy of the document indicates."
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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![In 1993,[15] the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl. Wermelinger was close in age to Casablancas's children, who were 22 and 14 at the time. The couple had three children: John Jr., Fernando Augusto, and Nina.[1][16]
Casablancas was friends with Donald Trump and Elite Model Management represented his daughter Ivanka when she became a fashion model at age 15.[17]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nywb5oene54cllowkfwouxzz/bafkreiam2g4tijpiwz4rkibc2cevkwxxto4kpqkti5kgmkxjjymyws6lym@jpeg)
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I don't care why nazis like MTG occasionally speak truth to power. I'm curious why more Democrats don't.
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I don't care why nazis like MTG occasionally speak truth to power. I'm curious why more Democrats don't.
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thinking about this quote from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules and thankful for reporting like this
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
thinking about this quote from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules and thankful for reporting like this
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New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
“the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
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Laws are fake
Breaking News: A secret Justice Department memo approving the Trump administration’s boat strikes is said to rely on the president’s claims about drug cartels.
Justice Dept. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Laws are fake
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Jesus fucking christ they're really trying the he wasn't REALLY a pedophile angle
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Jesus fucking christ they're really trying the he wasn't REALLY a pedophile angle
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.