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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 1d

"Interrogate collaborators, bird-dog them, let them find no rest."

Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 1d

"Ask ICE agents how they sleep at night. Record their actions. Ask collaborators if they recognize themselves. Emotional sabotage matters—now witnessed in countless videos by citizen journalists, in which recalcitrant voices ask, Do you have a family? Why won’t you show your face?"

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 1d

"Americans must learn from this history and force the mirror upon those enacting violence in our names."

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 1d

“Denmark is the only case we know of in which the Nazis met with open native resistance, and the result seems to have been that those exposed to it changed their minds.… Their ‘toughness’ had melted like butter in the sun."

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 1d

Arendt observed that the occupying Germans who were surrounded daily by Danish resistance began to question orders from the Nazis:

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 1d

"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

www.thenation.com

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 3d

For... no particular reason, I've been listening to some favorite antifascist bands – the usual dip into good ol' Billy Bragg, but also here's your reminder (should you need one) of how good Chumbawamba's extended catalog is.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 3d

A very special milestone at Bandcamp.

A screenshot from Bandcamp, showing a "collection" numbering exactly 666 musics. A bit of a Billy Bragg album cover is visible at the bottom of the image.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11d

Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed.
But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Clarence Thomas Admits That He’s Coming for Our Rights

In a little-covered speech, the Supreme Court justice explained how he thinks the court should reverse rulings conservatives don’t like.

www.thenation.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16d

Courage is always an option.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes a particular sweary or sweariness-adjacent unit is the only truly correct one to use, for highly scientific or engineeringy reasons best understood by the experts in a field. I cite in particular the fuckton mentioned above, and of course the metric pantload.

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Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social · 18d

open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

yes, we all know he’s fucking nuts

and we’re all embarrassed

open.substack.com

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Wendy Suares @wsuares.bsky.social · 19d

Ryan Walters bolts after announcing on cable news (in our studio) he will be stepping down as Superintendent to become CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance to “destroy the teacher unions”.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18d

Frankly, as a journalist, people in power *should* hate me.

I don’t understand people who get in this game to kiss the ass of the powerful, instead of staying with their foot up the ass of the powerful

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19d

The Trump administration is trying to destroy the Fair Housing Act. The FHA is the third leg of the stool to social equality among the races, so it’s no surprise the white supremacist government wants it gone.
It must be saved.
My latest in @thenation.com

Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act

There can’t be true desegregation without ending discrimination in housing—which is precisely why the administration is rolling back enforcement of the FHA.

www.thenation.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · Sep 10

in a proper functioning democracy, every election would have a guy who wears the same red beret literally everywhere, to the point where nobody knows what he looks like without it. he should be referred to in the constitution as Hat Guy. if you ever poll below Hat Guy you must end your campaign

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Sep 10

NEW mayoral poll from PIX11/Emerson/The Hill, conducted Sept. 7 to Sept. 8, with 3.9% margin of error: emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-may...

Zohran Mamdani - 43%
Andrew Cuomo - 28%
Curtis Sliwa - 10%
Eric Adams - 7%

Head to head:
Mamdani - 47%
Cuomo - 40%

New York City 2025 Poll: Mamdani Leads Cuomo, Sliwa, Adams in Mayoral Election, Leads Cuomo in Hypothetical Head-to-Head - Emerson Polling

A new Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey of New York City voters finds Democratic nominee…Full Release & Results

emersoncollegepolling.com

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 21d

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy

Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.

newrepublic.com

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no. @joles.bsky.social · May 5

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 25d

Some cited text discussing the latter question was a head-spinningly macaronic admixture of English, Latin and French from Henry Rolle's 1668 abridgment of the Common Law.

#libguistics #macaronic #obsolescent #language #whimsical

Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 25d

Today's new-to-me old word is "macaronic" – describing text nominally in one particular language but including chunks in other languages which make it linguistically lumpy.

I stumbled across this while (as one does) looking up why calling a lawyer a "daffy-down-dilly" might be actionable.

#words

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 15

JUDGE: “Treating attendance in immigration court as a game of detention roulette is not consistent with the constitutional guarantee of due process.”
www.rawstory.com/judge-267388...

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · Aug 14

Aesop soap: darned nice soaps at a commensurate price, or purely Veblen goods?

Discuss.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Aug 11

Reminder: Here are the 20 Democratic Senators who voted just last week with every MAGA to continue arming Netanyahu. Don’t hold your breath for them to condemn Netanyahu for using the weapons they gave him to murder the Al Jazeera journalists.

With Democrats like these who needs MAGA fascists. Smh

The 20 Democratic Senators who voted just last week with MAGA to continue arming Netanyahu:
•Michael Bennet (CO)
•Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
•Alex Padilla (CA)
•Richard Blumenthal (CT)
•John Fetterman (PA)
•Adam Schiff (CA)
•Cory Booker (NJ)
•Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
•Chuck Schumer (NY)
•Maria Cantwell (WA)
•Maggie Hassan (NH)
•Jacky Rosen (NV)
•Chris Coons (DE)
•John Hickenlooper (CO)
•Mark Warner (VA)
•Ron Wyden (OR)

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at the hospital's main gate when it was struck.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital

The broadcaster condemns the "blatant attack on press freedom", while the IDF alleges one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

www.bbc.com

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