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Emmara, Avatar the Last #mtgambassador @goddessofblunder.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, yep. This is what we are paying folks for while others suffer. We have become a looney tunes cartoon version of a government.

Whitehouse.gov/mysafespace

This is a real government website....

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

The War Powers Resolution was Congress’s attempt to rein in the quasi-legal military authority that had been accumulated by the presidency. It was passed in response to Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia, Operation Menu, which was *drumroll* an airstrike campaign.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

The Justice Department told Congress this week that President Trump could lawfully continue his lethal military strikes on people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea. The move rests on the idea that a Vietnam-era law called the War Powers Resolution does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says

The move deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

nyti.ms

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Our federal government is attacking the states its GOP leaders do not like. Because of the politics they do not like.

Any other framing by the media is feckless, quisling dishonesty.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

futurism.com

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igotnothin @igotnothin.bsky.social · 1d

Def liked and I’m a parent on a one-year-old

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Great fame can be obtained
By routing an army
With oxen carrying
Burning straw on their horns.
But after all, it is
No more important than
The tracks of sandpipers
On a wave washed beach.
Days go by and become
A year and I am too
Lazy to notice.

—from "Autumn Thoughts" by Lu Yu

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igotnothin @igotnothin.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahahaha I love “hydrate and get back in there”

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.

Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee

It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Thanks to @billmckibben.bsky.social for flagging this amazing op-ed, which I missed last year:

Opinion | Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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igotnothin @igotnothin.bsky.social · 1d

What academic fixations is he referring to?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

It is time to admit that Republicans won the 2024 election by running to the center.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

The most obvious thing in politics is often the hardest to admit: If you lose an election, the best thing that you can do to make sure you win the next one is to find a message that puts you closer to the median voter than you were the last time around.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Good question, Junior!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

first-mate prance @bocxtop
it's cool how the govt told us raising the minimum wage would make a burger be $20 and now a burger is $20. but min wage is the same

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

A fun and safe Halloween evening to everyone, especially the kids.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 2d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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igotnothin @igotnothin.bsky.social · 2d

projection is so so real

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Is the idea that they faked the moon landing on a soundstage with a Eurovision-style WIND MACHINE? And oops forgot to paint stars on the backdrop? Conspiracy theories always depend on the conspiracists being dumb as hell

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 2d

This @juliusgoat.bsky.social essay is rapidly becoming load-bearing.

www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 2d

Right now the U.S. is amassing "the largest U.S. military deployment in Latin America since the Cold War" to provoke a war against Venezuela.

In some better alternate timeline, we'd be using all those resources to help our neighbors in Jamaica, Haiti, & Cuba recover from Hurricane Melissa.

Here is what Maduro faces as the U.S. amasses a huge armada off Venezuela’s coast

From the flight deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford to the submarines prowling the depths of the Caribbean, the United States has assembled a military force unseen in the region for decades.

www.miamiherald.com

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