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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 1h

this is true across theaters and contexts: the people who commit heinous deeds don’t disappear after the reporting, or after the conflict, or after a few decades, or even after amnesty. The perpetrators of evil will do nearly everything to avoid accountability or discovery, but: they remain.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 59m

If you want a classic of the NIMBY local press genre, this is it.

This is a brownfield (ex-hard stand caravan park) site, in the very centre of Bristop, where 40% of homes will be affordable. Its basically the dream development NIMBYs demand.

And this is how work is written up.

Trees begin to be felled at harbourside site

Around 70 trees are due to be felled to make room for 166 new flats

www.bristol247.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10h

I’m not in Chicago and you probably aren’t either, but maybe as it does for me this from the folks on the frontline of ICE resistance will make you happy. So bright and colorful!

✨pb✨ gag on it @pbthankyou.bsky.social · 12h

Free whistles on Clark just north of Lawrence out front of the funeral care by Village Discount

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 16h

It is, quite literally, *his job* to know whether the executive branch is implementing the programs and spending Congress authorized. This isn't pretending he doesn't know what awful thing Trump said. This is his Constitutional obligation that he is now derelict from fulfilling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · Jun 20

Every crate of 2000-lb bombs the IDF has opened since October should have instead contained Hellfire R9X’s and a note saying “Here’s something more appropriate for terrorists in a populated area. That’s what it was invented for.”

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13h

There are literally hundreds of clearly labeled levers to pull, they exist on a spectrum and the State Department's job is to keep lists of them in filing cabinets. Not only did Biden fail to impose consequences, he was actively giving them scarce assets like THAAD

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 18h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 14h

bibi: i will not stop
trump: finish the job
credulous nincompoops: wow well done trump

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15h

The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 15h

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 14h

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

You can bribe the president with $2,000,000,000 but he'll apparently still do that dipshit Alpha Male move where he suddenly yanks your arm in a handshake.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Trump greets the delegate from UAE, which put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company: “They got a lot of cash. Unlimited cash.”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 15h

Back in 1980 we had a choice: to put a leash on the growing power of the rich and squelch the upward suck of money from poor to wealthy, or to let the new Gilded Age begin. This is what that choice wrought, and fascism is what it’s created. The possibility of peaceful change has almost vanished now.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 14h

Unrelated to the NH-90 that buzzed my office window in Balard (not that one - I'm across the street) this afternoon ? But certainly related to the higher than usual number of Protection Civile flights I could see on Issy-les-Moulineaux heliport.

Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 14h

Along this evening's bicycle commute caught two Sécurité Civile helicopters taking off, I asked a fireman what the exercise's focus was: "Nothing in particular" - sure, dude... With twenty vehicles and multiple helos in Paris. A reminder that BSPP is a military outfit: they communicate accordingly !

Helicopter exercise in Bois de Boulogne - Sécurité Civile & BSPP

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 14h

Along this evening's bicycle commute caught two Sécurité Civile helicopters taking off, I asked a fireman what the exercise's focus was: "Nothing in particular" - sure, dude... With twenty vehicles and multiple helos in Paris. A reminder that BSPP is a military outfit: they communicate accordingly !

Helicopter exercise in Bois de Boulogne - Sécurité Civile & BSPP

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h

Tangential additional discourse note: the way in which ‘war crime’ gets casually thrown around online has lead to it’s cheapening to the point where people think that the first post in this thread in which the Israeli govt is said to be committing war crimes as being pro-IDF

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

Christopher Columbus died 270 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, which was 249 years ago, but sure, “we” are back.

[Goose chasing guy gif] “who do you mean by “we” motherfucker”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump signs a proclamation: "We're calling it Columbus Day. We're back."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 19h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 16h

Duffy was elected to Congress as part of the tea party wave. The tea party movement was astroturf funded by the Kochs & boosted by Murdoch on Fox, in the Post, & by Sinclair at their local affiliates. The only mass movements Duffy has any experience w/are funded by ultra-high net worth people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 1d

Today in the annals of LLM-generated academic paper stupidity: authors submit a paper clearly written by an LLM containing at least three hallucinated references that don't exist, of which two were allegedly written.... by me, the editor of the journal.

And the cover letter suggested I referee it!

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 15h

going around to all the microblogging sites and replying "this would do numbers on <other site>" to posts at random

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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