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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 12h

Does this mean Noem was bragging about arresting a mop?

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 13h

Look, I remember going to Micro Center with my dad to get our first modem, it was almost the same size as our VCR. Internal modems wee a big deal!

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 17h

O, THE YEAR WAS 1778

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride.

Naked bike riders demonstrate against federal troops in 'quintessentially Portland' protest

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see that the, um, crack troops of Portland's Naked Bike brigade have shown up to provide some diversion down at the ICE facility protests.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 1d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah, saw that this spring

Cargo trike with a large puppet show enclosure taking up the front basket, parked on a sidewalk in Andersonville

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

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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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 1d

Generally I just try to get through on vibes.

Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 1d

I believe I read some Asimov commentary on the subject where he talks about writing the first stories as a young man working in very gender-segregated war effort settings, and that he wasn’t proud of that aspect. No excuse for me not noticing in the 90s, though!

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 1d

Just for that, no.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 1d

Re-reading Foundation was an eye-opener. I think there’s maybe one woman with a line across the entire book? The rest of the series reflects a different gender reality, but wow, ashamed I’d missed that.

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 2d

Wild to watch the end of education unfold before our very eyes.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 2d

Real Genius Classroom montage (1985)

YouTube video by Rik Blok

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 2d

Right, that’s why the framers gave us the electoral college, to capture the unalloyed “will of the people”

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 2d

Thought this was the Onion.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 2d

Worth noting that an interfaith coalition of religious leaders have been present at vigils at the Broadview detention facility for years - I went to some when I lived in Chicago over 15 years ago. Build what you can, you never know when you’ll need that infrastructure.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 2d

Love the user interface work done for this, really sells it.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 3d

I thought we all agreed never to talk about Brian Pallister again

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 3d

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time, a long time.

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