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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans lose cities by massive margins and their response is to defund the cities

Democrats lose rural areas by massive margins and their response is to increase rural funding

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

by my count there are four vague proposals offered: national service, investing in rural communities, reform the supreme court, repeal citizens' united via constitutional amendment

one of these is profoundly important. the other three are memes.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 37m

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 17m

Yeah GPU tends to be good at graphics processing

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 51m

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19m

Feels grimly inevitable that one of these guys just says the n word in the open and whether they get away with it will be an inflection point.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 50m

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 45m

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · 1d

"When there was only one set of footprints? That was when I carried you."

Me to Jesus Christ.

Pumpkinspacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny bc you don't even need to be a religious person or know anything about religion really to know that "we're saving God" isn't a thing.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

I am not a religious person and I am swiftly tiring of having to care so much, and know so much, about the Bizarro World version of Christianity that the MAGA cult practices.

Just fucking read the Bible. Once! Without using some megachurch scammer's For Dummies notes!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 47m

“My congressional aide’s cubicle swastika has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my congressional aide’s cubicle swastika.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 47m

This judges blocked previous RIFs, only to be overturned by SOCTUS with a non-opinion, so lets see what happens.
But it is ridiculous to say the case should go to the MSPB when Trump has fired Dem members of the MPSB. Its a kangaroo court now.
www.govexec.com/management/2...

The layoffs, the judge said, are taking a “human toll that cannot be tolerated.”

Hedges, the Justice attorney, argued the plaintiffs must take their case to the Merit System Protection Board or the Federal Labor Relations Authority. She also said it was not the appropriate timing for the lawsuit, as agencies have not yet decided where or whether to implement layoffs.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 51m

Federal Judge blocks shutdown layoffs.

DOJ lawyer refuses to defend cuts, merely argues jurisdiction.

Judge: “This hatchet is falling on the heads of employees all across the nation, and you're not even prepared to address whether that's legal?”
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

UPDATE: A federal Judge has imposed a temporary block on RIFs during the shutdown, saying the Trump administration has:

taken advantage of the lapse in government spending, in government functioning, to to assume that that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like on a government situation that they don’t like. And I believe that the plaintiffs will demonstrate ultimately that what’s being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · Feb 27

“My presence is an endorsement” has become one of my basic moral guides and you’re all welcome to borrow it

Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · Feb 27

I work at Fox News because its critical that Americans hear opposing viewpoints about the critical issues in our public discourse.

Right now, Trump voters are having buyer's remorse.

Approval ratings are down. Constituents are fed up. It's just the beginning.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

All of this to avoid giving drugs to the “wrong” people.

This is just going to reinforce bias over and over, meaning white men will be adjudged worthy and the rest of us will have to hear all about the “objective” machine.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Vought has blocked CFPB staff from doing their work, and is also charging CFPB $5 million for his bodyguards. So technically, they are protecting one consumer.
www.govexec.com/management/2...

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2h

"Other property managers and owners said workers are not showing up to job sites — frightened by ICE — and it’s causing delays on building repairs and maintenance."

It makes a lot of sense workers are scared to go to work. You can't attack immigrants w/o destabilizing everything in Chicago.

ICE activity putting stress on Chicago's building managers, who warn rents could rise

Frightened by federal agents, some tenants can't pay rent on time after missing work, while maintenance staff aren't showing up to job sites. Property owners and managers worry continued ICE activity ...

chicago.suntimes.com

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1h

Extremely funny that JD Vance is the "and now we go to our resident expert on leaked DMs" guy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 2h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 2h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

The only question to me is if the ruling is written in such a way that this happens in 2026, 2028, or after the 2030 Census. The "solid South" is back, just with the color swapped.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

damn

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 2h

This is from the official moderated Polymarket Discord

Sunflowa | 🐳$123,312 — 10/3/25, 12:57 AM
i am a jew, mega jew
Lamar Jackson ✌ — 10/3/25, 12:56 AM
no its not needed, its never been an issue. 1c spread are the best youll get anywhere, are you jew?
Agape — 10/1/25, 4:35 PM
apparently insulting jews is a bannable offense
nasa22 — 10/1/25, 3:29 PM
Is Shayne Coplan a Zionist Jew ?
KURT

— 9/30/25, 2:44 PM
Every PM employee is a Jew
KURT

— 9/30/25, 2:22 PM
The Jews have won again, Jews>Truth

John John $+0.01

— 8/12/25, 1:52 PM
JEW
Dyogenes — 8/6/25, 2:17 PM
so, you look at jews
simmi — 8/6/25, 2:06 PM
“When statistical adjustments are used to convert the backward digit span results to full-scale IQ scores, Indian Americans place at about 112 on a bell-shaped IQ distribution, with white Americans at 100. 112 is the 79th percentile of the white distribution. For more context, consider that Ashkenazi Jews are a famously intelligent ethnic group, and their mean IQ is somewhere around 110.”
Dyogenes — 8/6/25, 2:04 PM
and ashkenazi jews are the smartest. so what is the point ?

AMD — 7/30/25, 8:11 AM
I'd recommend the jews
Count Grishnackh | 🦐$5,033 — 7/20/25, 12:13 PM
The jews killed jesus
Count Grishnackh | 🦐$5,033 — 7/20/25, 11:35 AM
Jews gambled

JOAODOPVP — 12/22/24, 4:54 PM
So I hope when a new Hitler returns, your race is the first being wiped from earth

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Marcelo Rinesi @marcelorinesi.bsky.social · 3h

Important on its own, but also genAI tools are [only] useful [but then, extraordinarily so] when paired with solid domain checkers/experimental loops, so learning to create, maintain, and grow deep domain-specific software is arguably *more* important than training more weights or using more data.

José A. Alonso @jalonso.bsky.social · 7d

Growing Mathlib: Maintenance of a large scale mathematical library. ~ Anne Baanen, Matthew Robert Ballard, Johan Commelin, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Michael Rothgang, Damiano Testa. arxiv.org/abs/2508.21593 #ITP #LeanProver #Mathlib #Math

Growing Mathlib: maintenance of a large scale mathematical library

The Lean mathematical library Mathlib is one of the fastest-growing libraries of formalised mathematics. We describe various strategies to manage this growth, while allowing for change and avoiding ma...

arxiv.org

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3h

that particular problem:

Federal Agents arrest a man in a giraffe suit for singing Robert Plant songs at them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"It's very bad that military paychecks depend upon the willingness of the President politicizing the military to dig into the treasury, as opposed to it being a bipartisan matter of law"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 4h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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