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Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · Aug 23
Yes, bullies can indeed crumble in the face of resistance…

Or
- they (HE) litigate(s) you into bankruptcy
- they (HE) set(s) up a helicopter crash
- they (HE) make(s) you disappear
- they (HE) arrange(s) an accident
- they (HE) otherwise remove(s) or negate(s) your voice via il/legal means
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6h
This is fucking amazing
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Edouard Stenger, MSc, MBA @edouardstenger.bsky.social · 1d
This ! A million times, this !
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h
like if a Nazi tattoo is news, I think this, coming from a government agency, should probably be news
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 15h
He said, "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One"

He lied

But what's worse-he didn't even TRY to lower prices

Instead, almost as soon he got into office, he started hitting people with tariffs-making things infinitely worse
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daughterofwitches.bsky.social @daughterofwitches.bsky.social · 17h
The real problem is that normal people lack the imagination that is needed when dealing with a psychopath.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15h
“Peter Thiel “drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including… the **Nazi jurist** Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs” … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 17h
I feel safer already!
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
@cheetah.bsky.social has some breaking news in Press Pass: Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus was recently removed from his post as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and replaced with a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
The contractors who just destroyed the East Wing are trying to lay low.

😜

www.cbsnews.com/news/some-wh...
Some White House ballroom contractors go underground
Some firms involved in the White House ballroom project appear to be trying to lower their online profiles.
www.cbsnews.com
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h
Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Worse Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal

As the ballroom story gets more damaging for Trump against a backdrop of terrible economic news, a progressive organizer explains how all this gives Democrats a big opening to regain crucial lost ground.
Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Worse Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal
As the ballroom story gets more damaging for Trump against a backdrop of terrible economic news, a progressive organizer explains how all this gives Democrats a big opening to regain crucial lost grou...
newrepublic.com
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 17h
Two incarcerated journalists responded to questions from our readers about the widespread use of solitary confinement in the nation's prisons.

Both were subjected to this torturous practice themselves: "I will never be the same person I was before."
“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement
The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the tortuous practice.
boltsmag.org
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alyayl.bsky.social
Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · 16h
Every day a new low
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h
Downside: government corruption like this is bad

Upside: Kash Patel abusing his position as FBI Director to corruptly use a jet to try to impress a woman might be the least destructive way he uses his position, and it’s therefore relatively better for the country if that’s how he spends his time
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d
Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h
Alejandro Juarez got fired from Trump's National Golf Club Westchester when WaPo exposed that Trump employed undocumented people. Then he got deported by mistake, w/o a hearing, earlier this year. His son is in the military so he might claim status that way.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico
www.nytimes.com
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deadder.bsky.social
Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 16h
The Contrarian
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h
Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How federal agents hide their identities while making immigration arrests
Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests
Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.
www.npr.org
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.
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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 1d
You can now preview 2026 ACA insurance premiums on healthcare.gov.

A family of four in Maricopa County paid $514 a month for their ACA plan in 2025. Next year, that same plan will cost $2,435. That kind of increase will be devastating for thousands of Arizona families.
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Gipper’s Gravespin @gippersgravespin.bsky.social · 16h
Art of the Schlemiel 🙄

Trump loves to offer up Trump as the solution to problems he created- specifically to play savior

But that doesn’t put you ahead in trade relations, just trying to claw back what you pissed away 🙄

Like a gambler, in a hole chasing it
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Ben Warner @bpw87544.bsky.social · 17h
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week.

George Orwell, 1984
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Aly_Ayl_ @alyayl.bsky.social · 16h
Yep

Context matters
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17h
China bought 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the US last year. This year under Trump it will be 12 million.
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Cielo Azul NM @cieloazulnm.bsky.social · 17h
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

New Mexico which is one of the poorest states steps up to feed those dependent on SNAP.

www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/10/29/g...
Governor announces $30 million to feed New Mexicans - 460,000 New Mexicans set to lose federal SNAP benefits Nov. 1 - Office of the Governor - Michelle Lujan Grisham
www.governor.state.nm.us
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say.
t.co/oGX5GoYYNT
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18h
This passage particularly connected with me (as an environmental sociologist).
Agreeing was clearly the most obvious thing to do. But was it? As an environmental historian, I know that the simultaneous exploitation of labour and nature has underpinned modern economic growth. In fact this story is key to my book. I show that the hardships of peat extraction, often endured by female peat workers, were rendered invisible by large technological systems and by a politics of marginalisation that left workers with little say, while peatlands turned into industrial wastelands. Digital extractivism operates similarly, but it is difficult to detect as our screens, keyboards and web interfaces give us no clues about the social and material contexts of their origin.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
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