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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 1d

Found the one and only @jael.bsky.social and @ekkoastral.bsky.social in Denver

A rockstar and an awkwardly smiling middle-aged dude at a merch table

Jael playing bass on stage with a purple background

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 1d

Have we made measles great again?

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 1d

"Public safety"

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 1d

We are way past abolishing ICE being a remedy. It's going to take a national truth-and-reconciliation commission, and Nuremberg-style trials for the criminals who ordered and carried out these atrocities.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 1d

It's as solid a theory as any to explain this moment.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 2d

If you don't know anyone is sick, everyone is healthy

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 4d

From an AI slop account, sadly. Not gonna link to their Insta but it's easily searchable and obvious once you look.

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 5d

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 4d

We can only hope for #5 but there's no way it makes it that far.

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 4d

This is a GREAT episode. Well worth your time.

99% Invisible @99pi.org · 5d

Step back into the ’90s, when dunks broke backboards, catchphrases caught fire, and one arcade game turned every kid into an NBA superstar ⛹️‍♂️⛹️‍♀️

Listen to Hidden Levels, out now on the 99% Invisible and Endless Thread podcast feeds 👉 http://99pi.org/hl

Producer: @jamesparkinson.bsky.social

Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 7d

That's a deep cut.

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 7d

They came, they saw.

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 7d

The hero we need

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 9d

What the courts do with this admission will be another clear sign of how far down the road to fascism we've fallen

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 10d

What stage of fascism is "arresting every resident of a building without a warrant"?

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 11d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 11d

Is today the hardest Connections yet in terms of crash rate?

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Jake Bolster @jakebolster.bsky.social · 13d

My coverage of today's announcements on coal from the Interior Department, EPA, and DOE is below.

As one source put it: "There is no such thing as clean coal."

insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry - Inside Climate News

The administration is opening millions of additional acres of public land to mining while slashing royalty rates and environmental regulations for coal. Environmentalists warn of skyrocketing costs an...

insideclimatenews.org

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 14d

Yep.

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 14d

I'm afraid Ezra is lost to the brain worms. If Ta-Nehisi Coates can't bring him back, no one can.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14d

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

Klein: I think, from your perspective and from my perspective, we probably don’t believe hugely different things. But a huge amount of the country, a majority of the country, believes things about [edit: the jews], about what policy should be toward [edit: the jews], about what language is acceptable to [edit: the jews], that we would see as fundamentally and morally wrong.

And what politically — not in a column or something, but politically — should our relationship with those people be? Do we win them over? Do we compromise with them?

This feels like a very salient question. The Republican Party is going to make sure this is a relentlessly salient question.

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 14d

I just read the entire transcript and JFC... they might as well title the episode "In defense of my moral cowardice"

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 14d

As if any of these folks think the Antideficiency Act applies to them

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 14d

The Torment Nexus but for politicians

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 15d

That's a quality subhead

Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, time zones factor in here too. The entire Kimmel monologue was posted to YouTube *BY ABC* hours before it ran on the West Coast. That's a shot across the bow of affiliate groups too. KATU and KOMO are superfluous to Disney.

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, my hope is that Sinclair and Nexstar sufficiently overplayed their hand here that Disney just drops them entirely the next time affiliate agreements are up and provides a national ABC programming feed to the cable/satellit providers. Run some regional newscasts and call it good.

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