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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1h

The “soft bigotry of low expectations”?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2h

Cava bag?

James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2h

Tragic that your opinion of the Washington Post has dropped so far that someone could believe this to be a picture of a copy of the print edition. But to redirect your outrage more appropriately: this is (as the tabloidese language and typesetting should probably give away) a page from the NY Post.

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 14h

The absolutely insane circumstances aside, any other president who had chosen to perform construction on this level would not have let this gaping wound in the side of the symbolic seat of national power to be so nakedly visible.

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16h

Behold: Republican permitting reform.

The White House photographed from the driveway between it and the Treasury building, with the facade of the East Wing gutted. I don’t think the caretakers of the property pulled all the proper permits before starting work!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 18h

What do you mean? Haven’t you heard the expression ‘going down like a box of potatoes’? Don’t you remember field day potato box races, jumping down the track in a potato box?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds like a job for @nanoraptor.danamania.com - would love to see that. The shrinkwrapped version of GPT5 would have come on about 24000 CD-ROMs or 10 million 3.5” floppies.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

Astroturf is artificial grass. It originates in contrast to ‘grassroots’, which is how we describe popular movements that spring up organically. Astroturfing is an artificial attempt to create something that look like a grassroots movements.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

He is the reason Rock against Racism had to be founded: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ag...

Recommended backgrounder on 1970s British antiracism, featuring an interview with Red Saunders: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHv...

Rock Against Racism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

Close enough - it was an ax, on a morning show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrV...

Fox News host throws ax, hits drummer

YouTube video by CNN

www.youtube.com

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

Do you want to be hunted down and relentlessly chased by *naked* parkour robots?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

Look, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around. I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name. Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
You oughta know not to stand by the window - someone’ll see you up there.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 4d

If you went back to Philadelphia in 1787 and asked “could the president unilaterally impose tariffs, then use the funds to pay the wages of a standing army without Congress’s consent?”, the founding fathers would have said “no, that’s exactly what we’re writing this constitution to prevent”.

James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 4d

He really should check ChatGPT’s acceptable use policy. The army isn’t engaged in violence, weapons development or use, destruction of property, or national security purposes, right?

OpenAI terms of use section:

Your use of OpenAl services must follow these Usage Policies:
• Protect people. Everyone has a right to safety and security. So you cannot use our services for:
• threats, intimidation, harassment, or defamation
• suicide, self-harm, or disordered eating promotion or facilitation
• sexual violence or non-consensual intimate content
• terrorism or violence, including hate-based violence
• weapons development, procurement, or use, including conventional weapons or CBRNE
• illicit activities, goods, or services
• destruction, compromise, or breach of another's system or property, including malicious or abusive cyber activity or attempts to infringe on intellectual property rights of others
• real money gambling
• provision of tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional
• unsolicited safety testing
• circumventing our safeguards
• national security or intelligence purposes without our review and approval

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 5d

Picturing Brooks hitting submit on this article for the November print edition, very satisfied that he is setting in motion the wheels of resistance once again, pouring himself a nice cup of tea, taking a sip, and then deciding to check if there’s anything going on in downtown DC this Saturday…

Screencap of text from the Brooks article

“…. For a moment, I thought the mass civic uprising I was hoping for was at hand. So where is it? Yes, there were the (very good) "No Kings" rallies in June. And yes, groups such as Indivisible continue to organize
conventional progressives. …”

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 6d

… 26 miles and four towns away from Mayor Wu’s Boston, in a different county.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 6d

Except for the part where the pitch is: buy our product and you will never be able to reach a human in customer support.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 6d

Normally for immigration cases, accompanying minors are just along for the ride, it’s the parents who are applying for residence - not sure if it differs in asylum cases. Is it normal to process a child’s immigration case independently of their parents in cases of juvenile crime?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 7d

It is possible for a person to believe both parties are too extreme.

These are of course the kind of people who like Goode-Homolosine map projections and think airlines should just by food from the restaurants near the gate and serve that on board. xkcd.com/977/

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 7d

Green card holders at least get a portable card to carry (but carrying it everywhere makes losing your wallet a nightmare). Non-permanent residents would have to carry their foreign passport and visa paperwork. They don’t staple I94s in passports any more right?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 7d

‘Some NYPD officers say’ is the weakest attribution imaginable. There are 34,000 NYPD officers (!). It seems likely you can find four or five who hold literally any view.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 8d

Or Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about how when first they come for the Jews, you should not speak out if you are not a Jew.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 8d

I guess I’ve been lucky to have cars with ACC designed by people who seem to have understood the concept of a distance/velocity phase space; you may have gotten one designed by someone who thinks a thermostat is a sophisticated control feedback mechanism.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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