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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · Apr 3

Ultimately I still think mastodon is closer to what we need for durable social media but this is where politics Twitter went and the bridging isn’t good yet

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 2h

the part that's crazy-making is that's *not* what people who are still mad romney lost are mad about, by and large

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 3h

so do all who live to see such times

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 3h

we don't have a lot of touchpoints for "society goes insane because of a step change in the information environment"! most are pretty bad, but the other side is extremely cool

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 3h

if it helps we've come back from similar, the 30 years war killed like a third of germans

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 3h

wait a minute maybe they're really stupid and if you get them off routine even a little they all crash out immediately

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 11h

If your racism movement has lost nextdoor it's fucking *lost*, man.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 11h

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 11h

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 4h

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 4h

it falls especially flat when the people the use of the cia is advocated against are the ones the US is propping up. Bukele is /ourguy/! it's very good if we send the message that corruptly working with american governments leads to unreliable allies

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 4h

turns out the human brain needs calories

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 4h

no wonder he's scared of robot satan

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 8h

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 8h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe someone could shoot 155 at a drone and demonstrate why one can only supplement?

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 6h

I know this is only one man in this clip but Ive spoken to him when ive been otg and he said he’s from the area. i also talked to many young Black and Brown folks at Broadview, many of whom rode bikes/skateboards. These folks arent riding in from far away.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPvB9ox...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 5h

I think ct is gonna be interesting, lamont has been popular but he tacked to the center a bit and I think that’s gonna bite him

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 11h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 5h

I think at some point we’re gonna have a cybersecurity like approach to the human body

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 5h

Virus that prints ads on your skin

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

They said they were going to do X!

Yeah, they say lots of shit. They said they were going to suspend Habeas Corpus. Stephen Miller gets on TV and shits his pants loudly every week and barely any of what he's said has happened.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 7h

"you say I'm garbage well you're garbage too" like??? lol

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 8h

straight up think minecraft server is responsible for more general linux knowledge than any coding bootcamp

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 8h

this is part of the propaganda of many wars, russian media always claims ukraine started the war, so too with israeli media and palestine, the thing is once we're agreed that there is war we don't really need to pay any mind to it. It's enemy propaganda

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 8h

there seems to be a through line of this with other excesses of tolerance, like a refusal to believe that sometimes things were what they appeared to be, a wish they were other than they are, etc

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