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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · Jun 15

New QT’ing to pin

Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · Jun 15

“Ruby Bridges and ruby ridges” is the prescription for 21st century liberalism

homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · Jun 14

i am not talking about arresting them. we need a ruby ridge every week for four years.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 8h

this video has been taken down everywhere else i can find so it's officially a broadly-censored dissident music video

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · Sep 12

There's like music and stuff too

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 4h

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

article I powers just completely liquidated, dead on arrival.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 1d

FBI agents will be paid during the shutdown, Trump says, using unspent funds to bypass frozen federal pay.

Trump Administration to Continue Paying FBI Amid Government Shutdown

www.newsweek.com

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

I’m the GOAT of walking up to strangers and asking them what’s on their shirt or tote bag and finding out they know other people I know.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

Lowkey feel washed that it does not seem to do that for me. Unless I’m so cooked it brings me to net 0

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 7h

Playing video games has really hurt my ability to appreciate certain kinds of ambient electronic music.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 9h

Propublica continues to be the exception that proves the rule wrt the contemporary press. And it’s because they’re fundamentally aligned around doing oppositional snooping.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 15h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.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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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 9h

It’s never been better to be polish than it is now! Really something.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 9h

It’s like he didn’t win the DEMOCRATIC nomination

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 12h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 10h

I should be forced to learn Spanish in order to get through a day here.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 10h

a) NYT is a fascist org
b) only 400,000? Gotta pump those numbers up. Get them citizenship and build some homes for them.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 11h

like for real for real

Ultimately, a major reason why Trump might intervene in New York would be part of an ICE campaign to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. That’s been an argument, pretense he’s made in several places where the National Guard eventually comes. There are an estimated 400,000 undocumented immigrants in New York. And as you found as you ran this primary that was so successful, and you met with many Trump-supporting New Yorkers who turned around and supported you, is that their viewpoint on these issues is complicated. And many of them have serious objections to undocumented immigrants and many of them have serious objections to the level of undocumented immigration in a place like New York City. But I don’t hear from your campaign that you’re going to be participating in any Trump-led effort to detain, deport undocumented immigrants.

I’m not looking to assist Donald Trump in his attempt to fulfill his campaign promise to create the single largest deportation force in American history.

Even if you know that some of your — maybe perhaps many of your — supporters want illegal immigration to be treated differently than it has.

What I’ve heard from my supporters and what I’ve heard from New Yorkers, frankly, is a desire for dignity. And in looking at what ICE’s presence has been in New York City, what it has meant for our city, seeing at the very least an absence of that, and in fact an attack, not only on the question of dignity, but on the very fabric of the city. There are New Yorkers I know of who took down the numbers on every apartment on their floor. So that ICE wouldn’t know where anyone lived. I spoke to a Dominican barbershop owner in Harlem who told me that all of his barbers have legal status and they are terrified of coming to work. A general sense of the hollowing out of the immigrant hubs of this city. And no, I’m not going to help Donald Trump in doing so. I’m in fact going to fight Donald Trump when he looks to tear families apart. And I’m going to do so because I know what the stakes are when he detains a 6-year-old girl from Queens and deports her. I know that her principal is writing a letter to ICE, saying please don’t do this.

I mean here you’re saying the method can’t be separated from the goal and you’re rejecting the method——

I think also I reject the goal. It’s not just the manner in which this detention is happening. It’s the fact that the goal here is cruelty. The goal is to rip these families apart and the goal is to attack so much of what is the foundation of the city as an immigrant city.

Would you ever meet with President Trump in the hope that you could defang this person, this president, who may have ill will toward you, but frankly doesn’t really know you at all?

Absolutely, I will meet with President Trump. I think it’s incumbent upon any mayor of this city to meet with the president of the country. What I won’t do is work with President Trump at the expense of the city. That’s the critique that I’ve made of Andrew Cuomo and of Eric Adams, is that their conversations with Trump have more to do with themselves than to do it with the people of the city. It’s not that they’re talking to him, it’s that who are they talking to him about?

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 10h

Coates as usual is very clear-sighted about this. We're in a new period and what we do for the next several years isn't going to be rewarded or even validated for a long time.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 11h

you do not do anything to imply that the characterization of the protests as "performative, ineffective events led by white feminists" is solely that of "also people." Quite the opposite.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12h

it has to be backed with action but this is proper leader of the opposition-coded behavior of the kind we generally don't see in the US

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 11h

you in no way whatsoever give that indication, wtf.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 11h

interesting

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 11h

The Qingli Reforms of 1043 are not yet complete and History will continue until they are.

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 11h

It's genuinely so infuriating that the Trump gender is seen as the rational gender. We will be paying for this era of maladjusted man feelings for the rest of our lives, and you think they are cool and rational!?!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

legitimately it's hard for me to imagine having so little self-respect

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 12h

lawyer brainnnnnsss

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 15h

god i'm so excited for eric adams to announce "the first official video game of the kingdom of bahrain" in 2027

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 16h

Mayor Adams says that once he leaves office he plans to "go back to school" and get a doctorate. He says he also plans to write a book and work on "a documentary."

He says the job offers he's fielding at least in part relate to "things in other countries."

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 15h

Pantagruel would have loved hearing you talk about "rise and grind." Especially because he would know exactly what you're talking about: codpieces

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 16h

I liked this construction physics article on rising US traffic deaths. Very bleak.
- Too little on how poverty has suburbanized, although it's mentioned
- Canada has much stricter driving laws, I suspect this is a big reason even w/ big SUVs
www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-so...

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 16h

V much a junior role. I also don't think it's, as a whole, the *easiest* thing in the world but each individual task is *very* easy.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 16h

nahhhhhhhhhh I just sorta make spreadsheets and email them to people. sometimes I copy an old memo and edit it.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 18h

Carr still having a career shows how shallow 'cancel culture' was

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h

oh my god the Riyadh Comedy Festival www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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