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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...

Joyous crowd gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall celebrating the Internet Archive.

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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Internet Archive Day to all who celebrate.

The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 5d

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
OUT OF MY
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WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
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Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5d

“This single protest didn’t solve everything, therefore it’s pointless”-person who believes they know more about political organizing than you do

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Autumnal Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7d

Ideologically pro-corruption

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators

www.eff.org

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 7d

This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like if your AI company has to apologize to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr you should just flood your servers and walk into the ocean

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

NEW YORK—Casting doubt on the mayoral candidate’s ability to effectively carry out the duties of the office, critics assailed New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani Friday for refusing to share his plan t...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

UPDATE: Per our scoop last night, Suzy Weiss, sister of Bari, did indeed appear on CBS this morning to talk about her recent article in The Free Press.

Second Free Press writer on CBS this week.

Read more on staff concerns on The Free Press's presence inside the newsroom:
zeteo.com/p/inside-bar...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9d

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you need to do something about these ISP goons attacking protesters like @katmabu.bsky.social.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 8d

Police escalated the situation here in Broadview incredibly quickly. Saw multiple brutal arrests. ISP jabbing protesters with their batons like battering rams.

Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · Jul 17

A personal update.

Why I am leaving big tech…

After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off.There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many t...

bhaskar-mitra.github.io

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 15d

ICYMI: We recently launched a global campaign to defend VPNs- vital tools for people living under authoritarian regimes. This article highlights some of the campaign goals, concerns and challenges:

dataconomy.com/2025/10/06/f...

@liaholland.bsky.social

Fight for the Future launches campaign to protect VPN access

Fight for the Future launched a nationwide campaign on September 25, designating a VPN Day of Action to prevent potential legislative restrictions on virtual

dataconomy.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 19d

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.