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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 7h

Primary everyone getting funded by the DSCC honestly.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 10h

This is a good crowdsourcing project. Suggest you look through for names in your state, see who you can connect them to. For example, there’s this guy.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 7h

Increasingly awkward this union of states.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 10h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 11h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 15h

What a ridiculous way for institutional Democrats to spend their time and money.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h

Janet Mills already has what appears to be a joint fundraising operation with the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. There are 8 other Democratic candidates in the Maine Senate race.

FEC statement of organization of a joint fund between Janet Mills' campaign and the DSCC.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 18h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 18h

This is probably a bit more complex than you're talking, but could you set up one of those mini-PCs with plex or something? Might only run two, three hundred bucks.

uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 18h

But also weren't those two controversies (such as they were) a million years ago at this point?

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 20h

More information about how to donate, including for people living in Alaska.
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

How to help residents and communities after catastrophic Western Alaska storm

Several organizations are asking for donations or contributing fundraiser proceeds to help residents affected by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

www.adn.com

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 20h

Exactly. People are like, primaries are good, which is true in its essence, but leadership pouring time and energy into last year's elements of the party does not help one bit.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 20h

Eight-year-old Liam Dahlberg died within days after contracting aggressive H flu, with doctors suspecting possible exposure through an unvaccinated carrier. His mother is now pleading with parents to vaccinate their children.

8-year-old boy's death from rare infectious disease shows importance of vaccines, mom says

Even though Liam Dahlberg was vaccinated before his death earlier this year, he attended school in an Indiana county where the vaccination rate for children was below the level needed for herd immunity, experts say.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

BREAKING: A Madagascar army colonel, who led a mutiny of soldiers that joined anti-government Gen Z protesters, said that the military had taken charge of the African island nation, after President Andry Rajoelina fled the country reut.rs/3KOGdE0

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 20h

I so loathe how they've deputized all these Proud Boys.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 21h

It's fine but it would be kind of exciting to see D leadership demonstrate they've learned anything at all from the past several years.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Note that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are doing _exactly_ what Trump falsely accuses George Soros of doing. They fund and finance the operations of terrorist groups in the UK and Germany among other countries. Soros is strictly involved in bona fide philanthropy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1d

{Deleuze enters the chat.}

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1d

And the manner in which the Chinese Communist Party has navigated the past 50 years bears some not small amount of study.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 1d

For nearly 80 years, an algorithm called the simplex method has been one of the most widely used tools for when a logistical decision needs to be made under complex constraints. A new update makes it faster than ever. www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-...

Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize | Quanta Magazine

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ this is grim. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1d

The Putin influence is always a bit murky, but between him and the Trump family's tight bonds with Gulf monarchies, the oil interests clearly hold a lot of sway in at least their imaginations.