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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election.
Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024.
But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17h

“a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute.”

GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

www.independent.co.uk

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18h

There’s nothing too crazy for these folks

Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · Jan 22

The Heritage Foundation’s Bob Peters now recommends that if the US cannot develop the ability to conduct an underground nuclear test in Nevada within 3-6 months of an order to do so, it consider withdrawing from the 1962 Limited Test Ban Treaty and resuming open-air testing in Nevada or the Pacific.

An X thread from January 15, 2025 by Bob Peters:

"I have a new piece out today.

This is a short thread on why we must make ready to conduct an explosive nuclear test. 1/

https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/america-must-prepare-test-nuclear-weapons

The piece argues that the US must be ready to test nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site within 3-6 months of being ordered to conduct a nuclear explosive test. 2/

Many argue that there is no technical reason to test. This is likely true—but it is also irrelevant. 3/

Such a test would occur if there were unforeseen “political” reasons why a President would want to test one as part of a signaling campaign during an acute crisis or even conflict. 4/

The purpose of such a signaling campaign that included a nuclear test would be 1) to demonstrate stake and that an adversary could not escalate their way out of a crisis or conflict through nuclear coercion—and ultimately, 2) to avoid a limited nuclear battlefield exchange. 5/

This may be a low-likelihood scenario—but it would be one in which the consequences are high. That is why it is so important to prepare for a possible test. 6/

If the Department of Energy is unable to have the Nevada Site ready for testing within 3-6 months, the US should consider withdrawing from the 1962 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 7/

This would allow the US to conduct open air nuclear testing within the US or in the Pacific over open water or uninhabited atoll. 8/

Withdrawing from the Test Ban Treaty is not the preferred option, but it may be the required option should we be unable to conduct underground testing in a reasonable time. 9/

Final thought: no one is blase about walking away from arms control agreements--but if they no longer serve US national interests, then we must be willing, unfortunately, to consider walking away from them.

At any rate, give it a read, and welcome your thoughts. Fin

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 20h

ABANDONED THE TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT

Arrest these motherfuckers for child endangerment

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

The person who oversees healthcare coverage for more than 160 million Americans is lying about healthcare coverage

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Unless ACA subsidies are extended, the average plan will increase by somewhere around 115%

DR OZ: Where'd you get that number?

Q: Kaiser Family Foundation

OZ: They retracted that. Here's the truth. The average American who's on ACA is gonna pay $13 more than this year. That's not a big issue

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

An image of a passage from the Return of the King, in which Robin the Hobbit Shirriff explains that 'the Chief' (Saruman) has coopted the shirriffs and uses them to lock up or beat people who protest is tyranny - and he always wants more shirriffs, "with all these new rules."

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Chris @crispy717.bsky.social · 1d

On my lunch break today, I saw them abduct a man and lie to my face about not filming because they were the police. At the corner of Kimball and Lawrence in Chicago. I asked him “what department” and he responded “Chicago” through a tiny cracked window. Would that be a crime to lie about “police?”

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 1d

Are they in a mass grave?

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Sep 23

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her.

For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.

Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

I told the officers nearest to me that I had all my paperwork, including my
U.S. Employment Authorization Card, my Social Security Card, my Florida-issued REAL
ID, and my Mexican Passport.
14. The officers walked me to my car and retrieved my paperwork.
15. The officers reviewed my paperwork and used what I believe was facial
recognition to confirm my identity.
16. At first, they seemed satisfied, but another officer (who appeared to be a
supervisor) said that they could not trust my paperwork because “the Biden Administration
made a lot of mistakes.”

After about 20 minutes in zip-ties, the officers decided that they would not let me go, and they replaced my zip-ties with handcuffs and shackles around my legs.
18. I was in shackles for several hours before the officers finally told me that
they were “giving me a second chance” and let me go.

Case 1:25-cv-00397-JB-C Doc# 30-5 Filed 10/27/25 Page 3 of 10 PageID# 361
25-00397-C 30-5 25 Page4of10 PagelD# 17.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1d

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Police once charged a man w assaulting a cop bc of the liquid he “threw” on the cop.

The liquid? The man’s blood. Which was flying off his face. Which the cop had just punched.

Far too often the cops arrest ppl for the harms done by the police.

I’m hoping we are seeing a critical overreach now.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Indivisible Ulster @indivisibleulster.bsky.social · 1d

Join this national movement - show the regime and its collaborators that the people have power!!! Spread the word to Cancel Spotify!!!

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

indivisible.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 2d

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Ummmm…

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d

this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

I don't want to make people panic too much: the majority of work permit renewals ARE currently processed quickly enough that people would not lose their work permits if they filed for the renewal 180 days before it's set to expire (which is the best practice). But by no means in every case, though.

Charlie Ashlock @crazyidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Literally just texted this to someone who will probably lose their authorization if they don’t file today. Thank you thank you for sharing

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally.

The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

This document is scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register on 10/30/2025 and available online at
https://federalregister.gov/d/2025-19702, and on https://govinfo.gov

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ACTION: Interim final rule (“IFR”) with request for comments. ______________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY: This IFR amends DHS regulations to end the practice of automatically extending the validity of employment authorization documents (Forms I-766 or EADs) for aliens who have timely filed an application to renew their EAD in certain employment authorization categories. The purpose of this change is to prioritize the proper vetting and screening of aliens before granting a new period of employment authorization and/or a new EAD. This IFR does not impact the validity of EADs that were automatically extended prior to [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] or which are otherwise automatically extended by law or Federal Register notice.

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Genevieve McDonald @genevieve207.bsky.social · 2d

We should not be having a debate about Nazi symbolism tattooed on the potentially top ticket Democrat in Maine. The fact we are even willing to entertain it shows desperation within the Party, not dedication, and how far we have fallen from rational thought.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2d

My God they've just created a machine that incentivizes every Trump staffer to break the economy (and much else) on purpose so they can insider trade on Truth Social.

Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.

mfjeeb.bsky.social @mfjeeb.bsky.social · 2d

"Truth Social users will be able to trade prediction contracts related to major events and milestones, such as political elections, interest and inflation rate changes, commodity prices on gold and crude oil, events across all major sports leagues"

What the bloody hell?

crypto.com/us/company-n...

Truth Social to Become World’s First Social Media Platform Offering Prediction Markets via Exclusive Partnership with Crypto.com

Trump Media Expansion Now Includes Strategic Push into Prediction Markets

crypto.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call.

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre.

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

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