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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 14h

Back in the heady days of Mastodon, I posted about how I thought Cards Against Humanity was exceptionally dull, and famous game designer James Wallis replied "Fuck off, scrooge" and I blocked him. And even that was more fun than I ever had playing Cards Against Humanity.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

I think he'd objectively be an improvement over what we've got.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

My theory on why social media is frequently so bad, and why that badness is a likely inevitable result of social media's feed-based structure. aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub/3m2xcd4u63226

How Social Media Tricks our Brains — and Destroys our Politics - Aaron Ross Powell

aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

Anyway, Transmetropolitan is still my favorite comic ever, and an extraordinary work of literature.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

Finished reading Transmetropolitan today, and good god does its hopeful ending feel luck a gut punch reading it in the present political context. The parallels to contemporary events are remarkable, but in Transmet, the truth galvanizes political and media institutions to opposition. Which, yeah...

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

There are two primary Aaron Powells out there not getting emails, and with it going on for years in both cases. One in Utah who was in a fraternity and does lots of trips with his old frat brothers, and another in the midwest who is always applying for random labor jobs he's not getting.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 15h

I occasionally get emails intended for someone else named Aaron Powell whose email address is a minor typo away from mine. This one stands out.

Email sending a copy of a signed liability waiver for an upcoming "shark dive."

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

the reason they're obsessed with talking about young women with blue hair is because they're obsessed with aesthetics except their aesthetic is that every woman should have mar-a-lago face or else is failing at their obligation to be attractive to conservative men

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

His SF based employees should, every last one of them, walk out. If he's asking for violence to be directed against the people of the city, the people of the city shouldn't advance his economic interests.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Area billionaire has wet brain www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to think this is one of the most important and underappreciated media dynamics.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

All my Disco Elysium posts are actually anti-Trump posts if you squint

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

This is a fantastic conversation that I've been thinking about a lot since listening. (And the book it's built around is also terrific.)

Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 13d

Always a fun brain-buzz talking to the Acid Horizon guys.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=akFY...

The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life

YouTube video by Acid Horizon

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

Sometimes. But a lot of the time, if they refuse to capitulate, he backs down because there's actually not a lot he can do.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

Fear leads organizations to capitulate to Trump, yes. But so does a zoomed in perspective, a focus on their own immediate interests, that can be helpful in normal times, but is harmful during times of systemic threat.

If Trump is So Unpopular, Why are Institutions Capitulating? - Aaron Ross Powell

The American people can't stand Trump. His polling is abysmal. And yet private and public institutions capitulate. Why?

aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

Just talking about the photo here, it really is amazing how crass and lowbrow Trump's aesthetic tastes are.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

President Donald Trump said that “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Xi Jinping during upcoming Asia trip after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

Trump says 'there seems to be no reason' to meet Xi during upcoming Asia trip

President Donald Trump says on his social media site “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China has restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

"A 'very significant' unpublished story by Jack Kerouac...has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years"

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 2d

I truly don’t understand living through the DOGE experience and being like “great model, a+, no notes”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The best part is when crime actually does go up as a result, American voters will be like “we need someone tough to handle this crime situation republicans created, let’s elect some more republicans”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Great time to be an actual criminal of any kind because federal agents are busy hog tying children and grandmas bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers Kristi Noem

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

oops

Text from news report:

“Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said.
"And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."”

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

Smh. This is precisely what MAGA means when they warn us that the academics are out there turning our youth into criminals.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

Someone put an anarchist sticker on the drinking fountain at DC's Reagan airport.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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