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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 4h

They can cause a lot of pain and suffering, and still never achieve their goals.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 5h

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 14h

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen substantially, even as Russia’s aggression has not.

That hard fact, not any “change of tone” or “expression of frustration” or “consideration of sending more advanced equipment” is what matters most on the ground. Moscow surely knows that, and sees encouragement.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5h

⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

kyivindependent.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4h

"you may not be at war with russia, but russia is at war with you"

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4h

if global rightwing authoritarianism is doing a hybrid war against you, at the very least you also have to respond with hybrid war.

Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 4h

liberals are engaged in a global struggle for the survival of liberalism, one that transcends national borders, and if we retake control of the strongest military on earth it is our moral responsibility to use it for the good of liberalism

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 4h

Democrats = highly educated professionals = less vulnerable to inflation; independents= less educated, more economically vulnerable.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Especially these sections. This is a man who spent his days watching bodies burn and helped SS officers out Zyclon B into the gas chambers.

W.: If you had a daytime shift, it ended at six in the evening. Then we went to the canteen. Afterwards you could request to leave the camp and you could go as far as the Auschwitz train station. The girls from Katowice, the

nearest larger city, would always go there.

SPIEGEL: So you would leave the camp during the evenings?

W.: Yes, yes, of course. There were many bars. Most played skat and drank beer.

SPIEGEL: What did people talk about?

W.: People weren't enthused about the leadership. We of course knew and everybody almost felt that it couldn't end well, that it couldn't been good when trains were being brought here full of people who were then getting killed. We all had that feeling. But, I

SPIEGEL: Do you bear any guilt for what happened?

W.: No, I don't have that feeling. We gave the Jews what was left of our bread, which otherwise would have been thrown away. We set it on their toolboxes near the place where they got water. I never did harm to any Jew. But I also wasn't able to help any of them.

SPIEGEL: Do you feel a something like a sense of moral guilt?

W.: No. I spoke to them in a friendly manner; I never hit, kicked or killed any. I do not feel like a criminal just because I had to guard them. Germany had invaded Yugoslavia and that was a crime against humanity and international law. Then the Nazis conscripted me and brought me to Auschwitz. And how was I supposed to get away from there? If I had deserted, they would have shot me.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h

They are itching to make a scene on Saturday. They'll antagonize. There'll be agitators. Don't take the bait. Show up, be funny, be loud, be nice, maybe dress like your future in-laws are watching. It shouldn't matter but it does.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 7h

I know there's a lot of talk involved in these things but on Friday China basically announced a successful economic nuclear weapon test and this is really not what I want to hear.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h

*CHINA VOWS TO FIGHT TRADE WAR 'TO THE END’

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 4h

Subtle #KavanaughStop

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 9h

Abuse of disabled people in immigration detention is a longstanding issue and it's escalating very fast right now. (Shoutout to orgs like Disability Rights CA, our state protection and advocacy organization, for fighting to get into ICE facilities.)

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 13h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

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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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5h

I want a few decades of liberals who are tired of critiquing power and want to use it

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

Tired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s bad

Wired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s not only good but essential to democracy

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 14h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 7h

Evanston votes on banning ICE officers from using city property as staging areas and strengthening it's welcoming cities ordinance.

Unanimously passes.

Biss says staff will begin implementing it immediately.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

…but I watched a second time, & I got the sense that guy may not be ICE. These Kavanaugh Raids are being conducted by ICE, but a lot of the manpower has been cannibalized from other federal agencies like FBI, ATF, US Marshals, Bureau of Prisons, etc. Those guys may not be particularly liberal…/7

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Feb 21

1. You wanna know what's interesting about Pepsi making this decision? Pepsi literally made its fortune off the backs of Black people. (short 🧵)

Both Pepsi & Coke were created in the late 19th century. But while Coca-Cola was going on to become America's drink, Pepsi was bankrupt in the 1920s.

AdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · Feb 21

Universities need to be put on this list, too.😶

www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Pepsi Rolling Back Diversity Initiatives—Here Are All The Companies Cutting DEI Programs

Following Trump's lead, organizations including Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta have announced they would scale back their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

www.forbes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

"Those who study the law and are experts on the balance of power warn that unless Congress reasserts its authority soon, we may end up unable to repair the guardrails that have held our government together for centuries." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

we are once again locked in a worldwide ideological struggle. kinda sucks but it is what it is. time to pick a side kids

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 5h

Next chance we get, put @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social in charge of defeating authoritarians everywhere, by diplomacy or by might. I don’t care which.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

PSA: It’s okay to be wait-and-see on Gaza and the Israel-Hamas deal. You don’t have to definitively declare what’s going to happen and comment on that, nor take any national leader’s word on what they expect.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 11h

Every word of this...

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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