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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9h

Corrupt

Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 11h

@pkrugman.bsky.social points out that he was insufficiently cynical about the Argentine bailout, because it's Bessent's hedge fund buddies that get made whole.

#EconSky

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Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 11h

This is genuinely cool. Here's a website to learn more about the system and what you're hearing through this hydrophone nearly 900 meters below the ocean surface.

www.mbari.org/project/soun...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 12h

When I was in high school, I posted definitions of the word "Fascism" on our community boards. A particular English teacher who was universally-reviled ran around tearing them down and screaming "look at what he's done!" It's funny how just defining terms can be like a kitchen light for the roaches.

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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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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

these people know how extreme they are

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 10h

Regrettably so.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

It’s always “imagine living a 6/10 man in today’s society” and never “imagine living as a conventionally unattractive women in today’s society” like actually the men still have it better and are ignorant to gendered violence and its consequences

Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 10h

I have notes.

The frog doing magic to drive the armed men backward is by far the best. Gotta have that.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 12h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 12h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 12h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 12h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 12h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 10h

Lol

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Apr 13

would welcome lucid analyses of what this means geopolitically given the aspirations of the Trump admin and its counterparts in Mexico and Canada along with the EU and AU

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 13

“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.”

- GS Desk/Pasquariello

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · Apr 14

Gold and German bunds, instead of US Treasury bonds, are now the safe asset.

Return of bond vigilantes, and “I want to be reincarnated as the bond market” (Carville).

End of the unipolar moment.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Apr 13

would welcome lucid analyses of what this means geopolitically given the aspirations of the Trump admin and its counterparts in Mexico and Canada along with the EU and AU

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 13

“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.”

- GS Desk/Pasquariello

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 13h

It’s this or accept that you’re already banned. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a poster is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All posting depends upon it.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

Some aren’t going to like this harsh truth, but certain posters on this website have got to learn how to be incredibly, ruthlessly verbally cruel WITHOUT saying anything that’ll get you suspended or banned.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

I also agree that Poster’s Bushido dictates that if you are going to knowingly violate terms of service, the honorable response is “that’s right fuckers, I did it.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

@dieworkwear.bsky.social is the master of this, but many others have figured it out - sadly, including some genuinely horrible people.

If even shitlords can figure out how to be incredibly mean online without getting banned, I believe that you can do it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

Some aren’t going to like this harsh truth, but certain posters on this website have got to learn how to be incredibly, ruthlessly verbally cruel WITHOUT saying anything that’ll get you suspended or banned.

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Viva le Revolution @vivalerevolution.bsky.social · 18h

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 14h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 12h

Trump dropping a "...but I'm built different" is wild.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Pentti Kaski @penttikaski.bsky.social · 12h

why did you not teach him that turn sir

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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