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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · 2d

Bowdoin men know a thing or two about opposition to slavery

Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · 2d

Much of our current political situation stems from Trump and the GOP realizing they shape public opinion and Democrat strategists believing that they can only react to it.

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · 14d

I cried the first time I heard Bob Seager on the oldies station

Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · 14d

Any federal tax revenue can be spent or withhold at Trump’s whim but also the shutdown is the Dem’s fault, got it

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 16d

Who were the 6 people the Administration just killed without due process?

Were they children?

Were they victims of human trafficking?

WE DON’T KNOW—they refuse to show proof.

No one made Trump judge, jury & executioner. This is a gross violation of international human rights.

Trump Administration Strikes Another Boat It Says Was Trafficking Drugs

The president said that six were killed in the latest military action off the coast of Venezuela.

www.wsj.com

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · 20d

I have never been so disappointed at the end of a commercial.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d

Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 23d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 30

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · Sep 30

Fuckin yikes, man

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Sep 30

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Identifying as “Christian” should mean adherence to a theology based on Jesus’ acknowledged ministry, not reinterpretations by Paul or Calvin or Joesph Smith.

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of J…

A page-turning biography of world-changing economist Jo…

www.goodreads.com

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Aug 21

In the long run, their answer is fascism.

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Aug 21

Crashing the local economy is a feature not a flaw. MAGA politicians see rust-belt style urban decline as politically advantageous and increasing cosmopolitanism as politically disastrous for them. This explains their approach to everything from universities, health care, immigration etc.

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Aug 12

Max Bennett’s A Brief History of Intelligence provides an interesting history of the evolution of human intelligence and how it compares to AI, including how current AI LLMs lack of a theory of mind limits their further advancement.

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Aug 10

Still don’t understand how that episode didn’t win all the Emmys

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Jul 31

Yes but not neoliberalism in the original Halek sense, but in the eventual FTC operational sense.

Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Jul 31

Lies and misdirection to justify mass murder and ethnic cleansing.

Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Israeli government and its enablers like Senator Thune claim that Hamas is stealing aid, without any evidence, to justify blocking aid and creating starvation in Gaza. But aid is only valuable and worth stealing because it is rare and civilians are desperate for it.

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Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Jul 29

But I think it’s useful to keep in mind that this effort has been successful because the point of women’s sports existing separately from men’s sports was to create a perception of fairness based on biology.

Troy @prospero99.bsky.social · Jul 29

I agree that the right is arguing in bad faith on this sports issue to make trans people feel unwelcome in society.

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