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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2h

NEW: We, along with our partners at @ccrjustice.org, are demanding more information on President Trump's illegal drone strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean.

Under international and domestic law, the President does not have the power to arbitrarily carry out assassinations.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 3h

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 3h

like Ron Paul has been writing openly racist newsletters since the 70s. paleoconservatives have always been this way.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

I can't emphasize enough that no matter what wiki tells you, the great replacement theory stuff did not start in 2015/6, the 'national identity' stuff pushed by Republicans for 30 years prior was literally just that, it's just that POC pops hadn't increased enough to force them to make it specific.

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H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 4h

Cyberspace—all of it, from social media to Substack to any other form—is where both imagination and conflict are endless and without limit.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 6h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 4h

In the Supreme Court’s upcoming term, it will hear Slaughter v. United States, a case many scholars expect to narrow or overturn Humphrey’s Executor.

@nicholasbednar.bsky.social explores what the consequences of eliminating removal protections for multimember commissions would be.

‘Slaughter’-ing Humphrey’s Executor

The Supreme Court will decide whether to overturn long-standing precedent that protects independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Paul Tate @paultate2995.bsky.social · 5h

The Pope is a White Sox fan.

That's okay, because God's grace is greater than any human failing.

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Meghan “Hostile to Motor Vehicles” Arnold (she/hers) @meghancarnold.com · 5h

This morning in PDX I had a man FOLLOW ME into my hotel and slip on to my elevator (I thought he was a guest, he was not a guest) to confront me about flipping off his cybertruck.

I am shaken, but safe.

And I am proven correct that men who drive cybertruck are the most insecure men possible.

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H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 4h

There is a reason I left the other site for good

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

what even happened on the other site this time

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve been locked since Kirk died over there because they’re actively trying to get people killed. I’m honestly amazed people haven’t sued since there’s definitive proof that they knew these guys were doxxing people and personally intervened to allow it.

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."

Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

newrepublic.com

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H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 8h

A thought: don’t say ‘antifa’ anymore. Say the whole word. ‘Anti-fascist’. Shortening words and phrases was dumb to begin with, but now that most people (in America, at any rate) are absolutely flat brained morons, use the whole word.

When you shorten words, they get to keep lying.

H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 9h

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Timon of Athens

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This controversial play follows the declining fortunes of a man of extravagant contradictions. The fabulously rich Timon believes all his friends to be as ...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan

Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works

www.theguardian.com

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 10h

You are out of your mind if you think young republicans in the early aughts weren’t bigots. They were saying the n-word all the time, too, they just didn’t have group chats to get leaked.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 10h

A story four months in the making, by me and @susanrinkunas.com in collaboration with @motherjones.com.

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 10h

NEW: Recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, shared exclusively with Autonomy News, reveal that anti-abortion physicians are reluctant to prescribe abortion pill “reversal”—even as the conservative legal movement uses the supposed treatment to expand CPCs’ free speech rights.

Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.

Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.

www.autonomynews.co

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10h

"Modern conservatism always contained the seeds of authoritarianism. But the same can probably be said of most ideological movements, can’t it?

When it comes to modern American conservatism, those seeds flowered because of choices, actions, and events."

www.thebulwark.com/p/elian-gonz...

Elián González, Trump, and What Happened to “True Conservatism”

Toward a quantum theory of politics.

www.thebulwark.com

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