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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · Oct 1
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

by historian Timothy Snyder

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1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 7h
Catching up on the “Cool Girls For Capitalism” thing and wondering if it’s a hasty rebrand of “Hot Girls For Cuomo” but either way it’s a hard yikes
A post from X that reads: “We had an extremely packed house (500+ RSVPs) for tonight's "Cool Girls for Capitalism" event in support of Cuomo for mayor. The whole event came together in less than 1 week I don't support antisemitism or socialism so that makes my vote easy!” And below the text, some photos of Cuomo with allegedly cool girls, looking as creepy as you would expect him to in that situation
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 9h
New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.
www.bellingcat.com
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h
This whole thread.

“Oh no, someone might eat food!”

Good. That’s good.

“They might buy something they like.”

Cool.

“They might get a treat!”

Also cool.
mugrimm.bsky.social grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d
There's something deeply disturbing about EBT/SNAP hate to me. Like just truly bone blanching shit.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 8h
It's pink-collar, which is technically working class, but it's not valued economically or culturally.
Pink-collar worker - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 9h
AOC is literally never EVER referenced by anybody, even Bernie, as working class or blue collar. Ever.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9h
All a straight white man has to do is grow a beard and put on jeans and flannel, and voila: he has automatic Blue Collar Credibility, even if he actually grew up with a trust fund.

ONY white males get the Assumed Blue Collar nod simply by putting on an outfit, too. Doesn’t work for anyone else.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
interesting that people are treating his blue collar aesthetic as equivalent to having a blue collar upbringing
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 13h
Asked the main reason for their frustration, the dominant response of frustrated Democrats (41%) is that the party has not pushed back hard enough against the Trump administration. (Survey conducted pre-shutdown)
Chart shows Main reason why Democrats say they are frustrated with their party: Democratic leaders aren’t fighting hard enough against Donald Trump
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 14h
hi some news: here’s what im being for halloween and also this is my last day at @wired.com. thank u to everyone from the ed assistants to ops to the entire dogged editorial team for letting infiltrate and be a social maniac to make crucial information accessible to everyone. a mini thread:
V for vendetta Jays
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15h
Should be increasingly clear that getting LLMs into schools is a marketing coup on par with cigarette companies getting their products into rations during the world wars...
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15h
The comments to this article are also interesting
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h
yeah i think it's over
asfried.bsky.social Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 14h
Oh boy.

Graham Platner’s national finance director has resigned

"In a Friday morning post on the networking site LinkedIn, Holmes said that he feels his “professional standards” are “no longer fully aligned with those” of Platner’s campaign."

#mepolitics

www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/31/p...
Graham Platner's national finance director has resigned
Graham Platner's campaign faces further turbulence as his national finance director resigns amid controversy and departures.
www.bangordailynews.com
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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 17h
I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
“ B of A: Borrowing to fund AI datacenter spending exploded in September and so far in October ..”

$META $ORCL
(via @mikezaccardi.bsky.social)
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 15h
The UK isn't thinking about ICE for these questions.
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 23h
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
FEDWATCH: Markets are rejecting the notion “that companies can relentlessly announce spending on AI without a corresponding dollar of revenue to show for it.”

$META and $MSFT “net debt to (12-month trailing) EBITDA after capex is at a positive ratio .. suggests a significant increase in leverage.”
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 23h
What can Meta cut to pay off the debt?
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 1d
The average Internet commenter bar is close to the floor, and these comments don't get likes or reposts.
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 1d
"well-sourced"
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gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 1d
Is this some kind of blue & white versus black & gold trick? She's green to me.

Why are people focused on the sandwich instead of her being green?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d
remember when elon musk was still in government and DOGE still active and they pretended for like a week rampent social security fraud was happening, and then it turned out they just didn’t understand that databases would include people who passed away and we never heard about this “fraud” again lol
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
you see this happen a lot in "streetwear." people who co-opt a streetwear aesthetic frozen in time while making cities more hostile to the people who gave that aesthetic meaning — less affordable housing, more crackdown on noise, more policing, etc.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d
It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
menotti.bsky.social Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 1d
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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gitremote.bsky.social
gitremote @gitremote.bsky.social · 1d
“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien.”