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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 4h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 2h

Bessent re-writes the Declaration of Independence by adding the *28th* grievance... 👀

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 2h

Liddle Mikey says words that have been put together, and I wonder if they were first strung together by an LLM bullshit machine...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3h

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 2h

What group of humans is (most) responsible for this Garbage In : Garbage Out ???

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 3h

Keg Kavanaugh and his ilk...

Three hogs wearing suit coats and bow ties are standing upright on their hind legs in front of a sign that reads:

All animals are created equal
but some animals are
more equal than others

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 5h

the composition of SCOTUS arose from the culture in which it exists -- culture is truly a mother______

A gorilla with it's head in it's left hand faces a framed window -- on the other side is a man with his head in his right hand suggesting a mirror-image. The image is captioned "Mother Culture" and is based off of the novel "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

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The Blueseum of Fine Art @kuglergrrl.bsky.social · 8h

What Kristi Noem’s video looks like in the Muhammad Ali Louisville KY airport this morning.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 5h

america -- expanding the colonial enterprise and loving the hell out of Ben Franklin's observation numbered 24 (linked here: founders.archives.gov/documents/Fr... )

Book cover of "Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity" by Harry Bruinius

Book cover of: Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (2ed), by Alexandra Minna Stern.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 6h

musicians mocking the feds are apparently a step too far

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 6h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 8h

"What thin data resources you have!"

"All the better to sell you snake oil, my dear."

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 17h

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 8h

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 10h

“the title of my book, is derived from the traditional way to give the morning greeting in Secwepemctsin - that's my family's language, my Indigenous language.

We say tsecwinucw-k, which doesn't actually translate to good morning. It means you survived the night.”

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

'We Survived the Night' tells a story of survival and the Indigenous experience

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Julian Brave NoiseCat, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer, about his new book, "We Survived the Night."

www.npr.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 19h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16h

If his skin were any thinner it wouldn’t be compatible with life

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 18h

Was it "Black Mirror" or "Fellini" in nature ?

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 18h

naked bike riders apparently threaten little Mikey's sexuality

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 18h

you've got "fear of death" on one hand, and "belief" (in salvation and eternal life *or* in eternal hell fire and stuff) on the other

🎶If you believe in peanut butter, clap your hands...If you believe in peanut butter, you gotta believe in Peter Pan! (in Peter Pan, in Peter Pan)"🎶

Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 22h

What's on your minds?

As is seasonally appropriate, I've been thinking about death.

B/c I can't help myself I've also been thinking about Christianity's fucked up relationship to death, and the toxic dynamics of hardline faith.

The latest Bugbear Dispatch:

www.bugbeardispatch.com/some-thought...

Some Thoughts about Fear, Death, and Christianity

In his Society without God (NYU Press, 2008), sociologist Phil Zuckerman documented the many ways in which the Scandinavian countries--some of the least religious on earth--put highly religious countr...

www.bugbeardispatch.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 19h

the "war zones" look more like scenes from a Fellini film

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23h

This is FANTASTIC. Thank you, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, for doing this work and so generously sharing it

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 23h

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

docs.google.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 22h

P*ssy Grabber of the United States of America

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23h

This is the second time in 24 hours he's said something like this. Yesterday he made that quip saying about Karoline Leavit, "those lips --- they move like a machine gun."

He's losing all inhibitions. Not that he ever had many to begin with.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 23h

an energy and water hog all for the sake of fake sexting

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 23h

younger members of the white people's party remain true to their roots

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats

www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...

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