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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 5h

I'd say those 400 have a pretty serious numbers problem if that 50% gets too desperate.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 5h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 5h

People will do terrible things just because they think other people think it's fine to do them. I'm reading Ordinary Men (Christopher Browning) and even when men were disturbed by their orders, and there were no consequences for not participating, very few exempted themselves.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 9h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Crazy week.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 15h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters. trib.al/f55haZg

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Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 6h

Alaska storm sweeps away homes: Rescue operation under way

Rescues under way as storm slams Alaska with hurricane-force winds, heavy rains

A local official said 20 people were unaccounted in the region, where Alaska's governor has declared an emergency.

www.axios.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 7h

The worst living child rapist treated like an exiled queen while they bust the windows of moms in line to pick up their third graders.

On a weekend in mid-August, hundreds of inmates at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, were locked down during their usual time for strolling the grassy campus and visiting with family and friends.
All except one: Ghislaine Maxwell, the 63-year-old associate of Jeffrey Epstein convicted for her role in helping him sexually abuse underage teens.
While her fellow inmates were confined to their dormitories after breakfast, Maxwell met with several visitors in the federal prison camp’s chapel, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than three weeks earlier, the Justice Department had moved Maxwell to Federal Prison Camp Bryan from a higher-security facility in Tallahassee, Fla. Under Federal Bureau of Prisons rules, prisoners with sex-crime convictions like Maxwell’s don’t ordinarily qualify to serve their time in such camps.
The transfer followed an interview with senior Justice Department official Todd Blanche during which Maxwell said she had never seen President Trump, during his long association with Epstein, doing anything inappropriate or illegal.
Maxwell’s unexpected arrival upset the camp’s usually relaxed atmosphere, leading to more frequent lockdowns, the addition of armed guards and other changes. Current and former inmates said in interviews that Maxwell appeared to receive unusually favorable treatment at times, sparking resentment from other inmates.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not noticing the court-ordered alpha-numeric identifiers on any of these jail guards. Although the commander's name is visible. Maybe identifiers will be visible from another angle?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Some of the Illinois Department of Corrections SORT team we saw at the Broadview ICE protests Friday and Saturday.

five cops with large seven point stars and SORT patches, militarized gear

SORT officer sullivan in olive gear with arm patch he is eating a snack and looking at his phone

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

The male loneliness crisis will never end until men are willing to hear loved ones tell them "bro you are wrong."

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jul 19

The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jul 19

The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 6h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 6h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 6h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 5h

Ok, yes, we're purchasing our own animal costumes, but if we keep the receipt, we can submit an expense report to Antifa and George Soros will pay us back.

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jenniferholton7.bsky.social @jenniferholton7.bsky.social · 9h

It's the same people who read Ayn Rand in the early 00s and made a movement out of it. I'm shocked by how many people seem to lack the ability to sense a self serving narrative from a supposed ideologue.

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