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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 15m

I gotta say, if anything this kinda highlights how far back the general rot in the agency runs, to have this man look at what’s going on and respond with more or less “they’re just following orders, and a few bad apples are acting up”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28m

Sharing an excellent Q&A from Obama-era former ICE director John Sandweg about the ways in which operations today are totally unprecedented for the agency and the ways in which some times are unchanged — and how in his view, the admin is leaning into the aggression. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

www.politico.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6m

I didn’t want the internet in my appliances and I don’t want it on my clothes and accessories either.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 45m

Today in luxury surveillance.

“They’ll [ai wearables] be embedded in what we already wear: glasses, jewellery, clothing. Fashion will play a critical role in normalizing them.”

Style Meets Surveillance as Agentic AI Redefines Wearables

Are we seeing the rise of smarter accessories—or sleepwalking into a future where data privacy is out of style?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 31m

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 33m

Also all things are possible through the Democratic Socialists of America

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 48m

Mamdani is going to win. The question will now be, "Can you reproduce this?" It's doubtful. He's talented. But it's possible, first of all, if you remember all politics is local, and the more local you get - the more people recognize you - the more things like age and parties cease to matter.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 14h

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 1h

CBS is gonna go this way. Selling out is a death sentence, vote with your dollar, cancel your WaPo subscription:

helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/art...

Cancel your CBS subscription by calling customer service or logging into your app.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 1h

What I think folks aren't realizing is that billionaires did weigh this risk and already determined it was Win-Win scenario

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 56m

you were literally popular on tumblr how do you not know this!!

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1h

I didn't watch CBS News before Bari Weiss got there. I doubt you did either. But the mainstream media moving right really does matter, because of the mainstream media's collective powers of 1. agenda-setting and 2. framing. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.

newrepublic.com

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 57m

jamelle you should join DSA in order to ensure that we are able to run more zohrans and build more programs that directly help working people: dsausa.org/join

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1h

i will be using "battery saver mode" to describe dodgers regular season hijinks going forward, thank u for your service, brave commenter

- Mysterious Daniel

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Dodgers can get 90+ wins playing the entire season on battery saver mode and then just blast through the playoffs. If I weren't a Giants fan I'd be in awe of it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

ah an approach so commonsensical that it needs billionaire donors to support it

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

It's tucked into this Atlantic article about Searchlight, but I actually want to read more about how the contrarian debate seems to be driven largely by one donor advisor and/or his billionaire clients.

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 1h

Alright, man. But a lot of us said this was happening at the time and got yelled at by people like Chris Jackson for not being sufficiently appreciative of Joe Biden's foreign policy genius.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10h

This. And this again.

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 1h

me when I’m all the way at the end of the line at the in n out and it looks like it’ll take an hour to get my food

Nea “Dracula” Ching @thegaychingy.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking about Yukio Mishima and how committing seppuku really is a ritual act of rejection towards one’s own hunger for that they cant understand. Seperate the head from the body with the aid of a second after one has pulled back the gut curtain with a blade of honor. It makes an exquisite corpse.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

"Mamdani told me he understands that his success or failure will not be seen as only his own. He is right."

This is true but also tells on itself because The Discourse Gatekeepers do not declare centrism dead because Eric Adams proved to be an incompetent buffoon crook. It only goes one way!

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

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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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 19h

many are saying

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 19h

I think this in the Bible right

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

Why does no one read the law

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

Arms Export Act and Foreign Assistance Acts both have provisions which explicitly state that the president has an obligation to suspend military assistance to a country impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid. The way the administration avoided this was by finding that Israel wasn't doing that.

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