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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

look at all the giant crowds in big cities and the big crowds in small towns like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Now at the Broadview ICE facility, where ~100 people have gathered to protest. Compared to the carnival-esque atmosphere of the No Kings march in Chicago, the vibes here are tense.

State & local police eyeing the crowd in the "free speech zones" while masked feds watch from the facility roof.

Chalk on concrete barrier, reading "FUCK ICE, FUCK Trump"

IL state police and feds guarding the ICE facility in Broadview, IL.

IL state and local police face a man on a motorized unicycle.

More police guarding the lot that contains another entrance to the Broadview ICE facility.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Bring the trans flag to the next fash roast (metaphorical). I’ll raise it with you.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not looking for deep understanding. Honestly, unless people walk next to me, my words about inaccessibility bounce right off, and I don’t expect people to do that.

I do expect them to notice when communities I belong to are under attack, and I do expect them to step the fuck up.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

This, 100% honestly, is good allyship.

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 1d

guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science science.org/doi/10.1126/... @lewan.bsky.social

Gold standard "is thus best understood as yet another of at least 318 actions against science that the second Trump administration has taken since the president took office in January 2025."

Trojan gold: New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science

Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. I...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. The resistance accounts are again pushing extremely dangerous misinformation that could get people hurt.

Do not under any circumstances sit down at a rally if fascists are attacking people or otherwise. It's extremely dangerous.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Wait.

WAIT.

People are advising that if things get violent during the No Kings protest you should sit down and show the police you’re not a threat?

Are you trying to get trampled or impede other people’s ability to safely remove themselves from the situation?! Cause that’s what you’re doing!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

This is absolutely the case; the president of the National Sheriff’s Association is one of the January 6th seditionists.

Keith Michon @janusstone.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t know for sure, but I also bet some of the ICE gremlins were in Washington on J6.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

Huh your contrarian lefty outsider riding a groundswell of support is actually a big piece of shit? No, it can't be. fox23maine.com/news/local/g...

In Reddit posts from 2013, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner asked why Black people “don’t tip” and suggested people concerned about being raped shouldn’t be inebriated around people they don’t feel comfortable with.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2d

Something really striking about that video of the ICE guy being arrested was not just the professionalism of the arresting officer, but that both that officer performed what we’d call “emotional labor” on behalf of the ICE guy and also we saw exactly why that ICE officer is getting divorced

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 2d

Wrecker bullshit telling people to do black bloc for No Kings has made it to normie local politics Facebook groups where I am, and could people please stop spreading dangerous bullshit because getting normies showing up to protest dressed like puts them and everyone else in danger.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

grinding my way through kotkin's STALIN (vol. 1) and his read on the russian revolution is striking: the state was not overthrown by force. the military situation was not untenable. there was bread, somewhere.

rather, the autocracy self-liquidated as the elites lost confidence in its legitimacy.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

the state wants nothing more than to confront armed tacticool antifa agents in the street. steven miller is gagging for it. if we want to win we need to change the terrain to something we can win on--a moral and narrative terrain.

www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

Roadmap to American Reconstruction

A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 1d

Stolen from Facebook 😂

Lying cat from Saga saying "[Citation Needed]" with "me, every time y'all post some face news item or AI glurge" above the image.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from the ICE detention facility in Portland.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

Cool, is he also going to apologize for pitching his company as an ICE contractor? www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Amid criticism, Benioff apologizes, reverses course on National Guard

After strong backlash to his embrace of Trump and a week of blistering criticism, the Salesforce CEO has changed course.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d

Also, love too see the "Trump taking an L is irreparable harm" doctrine making another appearance bsky.app/profile/kels...

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d

Trump cites SCOTUS' immunity decision to argue that he faced irreparable harm without the justices intervention

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d

If the Court grants this, and ESPECIALLY if it does so on the shadow docket w/o explanation..... then things are really gonna explode, I think

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Trump asks Supreme Court to lift order blocking deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois
@courthousenews.bsky.social

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

i wrote about The Smashing Machine, which is not a sports movie but a sobriety movie

“Audience identity crisis” is the term used in a jolly Variety listicle about the film’s failure, a piece that’s otherwise notable only for making two bad jokes in a row about filmgoers being unable to “smell what the Rock is cooking.” (Why are people always so gleeful when they get to sneer at the Rock?) The claim here is essentially that UFC is for boys, while indie films are for girls and old people, and so the audience for a quiet film about a wrestler on a losing streak simply doesn’t exist. But marketing this as a sports movie was a mistake. It’s a drug addiction movie, a codependent-relationships movie, and on this level it excels. The climactic scene doesn’t happen in the ring; it happens at home, with Mark scream-sobbing “DON’T YOU WORK MY PROGRAM FOR ME!” while Dawn criticizes his sobriety.

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 2d

Stop saying this shit in private and start fucking SHOUTING IT. Yer leaving anyway. Christ.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News' standards chief, who resigned on Thursday, privately expressed unease with Bari Weiss' appointment as editor in chief and the overall direction of the network.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-c...

CBS’ Standards Deduction

In her farewell note, CBS News’ standards chief alluded to the reason for her departure—but in private, she was more blunt about the motive behind her exit, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 3d

I've lost track of the number of times I've said to students something isomorphic to "it's not that you're wrong, it's just that if you keep thinking about things like this you'll never get to where you're right"

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3d

But again, "bigger" is, in isolation, a meaningless concept. It's incoherent. The issue isn't that the CRM was "bigger," though there are lots of ways in which one could comfortably argue that it was. The issue is that the claim that NK was "bigger," full stop, is incoherent.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3d

If we're measuring "bigness" by number of Nobel Peace Prizes won, or federal laws passed, or number of people willing to give their lives to the cause, or FUCKING INFLUENCE ON THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, the CRM is quantitatively, objectively bigger. So no, to say NK is "bigger" isn't "true."

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