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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 5h

Look at my leftists dawg I'm never getting a mass movement

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 5h

"The anti-capitalist left should go to the no kings protests....to rebut them!" is peak. Pack it up, we're done

And if socialists and communists want to show up I think they should but I think they should try to use their signs and chants to make it clear it's not kings it's capital and capitalists.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

It isn't the result of "insufficiently hardened attitudes" about city life. Concerns about subway crime are baseless because the data say subways are overwhelmingly safe.

The reason people fear the subway is that, contrary to that data, people like Charles Fain Lehman keep telling them it's unsafe.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h

Some dismiss concerns about subway crime as baseless, the result of insufficiently hardened attitudes toward life in the “big city," Charles Fain Lehman writes. But if policy makers ignore people’s fears, they'll miss a chance to make transit better:

The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit

People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5h

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

2017 conservatives: dumb libs think words are violence
2025 conseratives: words are literally violence omg bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

“I’m not worried about nazis in the party because this is a Nazi party that uses Nazi methods to achieve Nazi goals and I’m a Nazi. Does that make sense?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Oran Magal @oranmagal.bsky.social · 7h

Deep dish Illinois redistricting: pizza slices all ending with a tip in Chicago.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 8h

Tired: In this amicus brief, we explain how ruling against Big AI will hurt economic growth.
Wired: Yo judge, we're here representing 10^84 putative post-human intelligences.
Inspired: You've just read pp 1-8 on Roko's Basilisk. Nice eternity you have there. Big shame if something happened to it.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty incredible that an org as corrupt & money hungry as FIFA would roll over for Trump & let him openly threaten to fuck w their money like this. Yet another example of how our global elites have demonstrated themselves to be completely worthless at standing up for even their own self-interest.

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 8h

I've seen so many articles about Trump threatening to pull World Cup matches from 'Boston' over fictional safety concerns that fail to point out that no matches are actually going to be played in Boston.

FIFA: U.S. govt determines World Cup city safety

The U.S. president has previously spoken about moving World Cup matches away from "dangerous" cities.

www.espn.com

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Oran Magal @oranmagal.bsky.social · 7h

Heads, I win. Tails, you lose - I still win.

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Oran Magal @oranmagal.bsky.social · 7h

The problem, as always, is that laws aren't self-enforcing. Will a future Dem-controlled DOJ prosecute this and the many other obvious current crimes? Past experience doesn't encourage optimism.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good.

The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 8h

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

ALTMAN, 10 months ago: "I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits."

www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

From the artificial community on Reddit: Sam Altman, 10 months ago: I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits

Explore this post and more from the artificial community

www.reddit.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Oran Magal @oranmagal.bsky.social · 7h

What can you say, they really keep the trains running on time! And that's the most important thing to evaluate and report about!

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 9h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents, who have no jurisdiction or legal right to TOUCH a U.S. Citizen, violently assaulting and kidnapping U.S. citizens, with no Miranda rights, and taking them over state lines.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 21h

(Nazi) Boys will be (30 year old elected) Boys

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

/3 But this is the core oooh-look-at-me-aren’t-I-a-little-freethinker masturbatory stuff that brings the clicks.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve read a lot of stuff about both domestic and international adoption, some of it ragebait, but I think this is the most purely sociopathic, hand-wavy of details, some-Libertarians-fall-short-of-human things I have ever seen written about it.

www.betonit.ai

Bet On It | Bryan Caplan | Substack

Caplan and Candor. Click to read Bet On It, by Bryan Caplan, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

www.betonit.ai

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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