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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2h

going back in time ten years to let everyone know the Silicon Valley libertarians will be lining the streets to greet federal troops as liberators

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2h

quite a take from someone who called COVID restrictions "fascism" and "a violation of constitutional rights," and argued that SEC penalties for announcing a fake leveraged buyout of Tesla trampled on his first amendment free speech protections

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 2h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 2h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Off by one error.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 4h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2h

The MTG Test is basically a test of someone's threshold tolerance for antisemitism; we are once again learning how many people are totally cool with someone being a vicious ideological antisemite.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3h

the only ethical use case for GenAI is creating a parallel internet stocked with infinite varieties of sycophantic agents where our oligarchs can run free, secure in the knowledge that everyone loves them and blissfully ignorant of the existence of an actual internet that nobody tells them about

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 20h

Kinda puts a damper of the reactionary theory of the unitary executive when it doesn’t seem very unified.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3h

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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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 20h

💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 3h

It really is amazing how Sally Jenkins shows up here every few weeks and demonstrates her factual ignorance. You could set a clock to it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

She knows how to sell a product, but that product is not "news"

She's not afraid to take on a mob, but that "mob" is "most Americans who are not billionaires she constantly flatters"

She's an entrepreneur, if that's a synonym for grifter.

Imagine being "amazed" at the hostile reaction to all that

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 3h

Really just giving the game away. There is no legal logic to what they are doing and they never want it to apply to any future Dem president but they need to give Trump whatever he wants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 5h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

So the idea that this guy has never tried to punish people who don’t conform to his religious ideas of what’s acceptable is contradicted by his history. And a campaign of harassment against a person who wrote something on their private social media page that he found rude is not a both sides story

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 4h

This is an editorial choice by the NYT.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

I was furious at the "both sides" headline the Times ran about how there's a debate over whether Portland is a burning hellscape. The Times has reporters there, they know full well that it isn't. The story is that Trump is lying to justify military occupation.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

I was furious at the "both sides" headline the Times ran about how there's a debate over whether Portland is a burning hellscape. The Times has reporters there, they know full well that it isn't. The story is that Trump is lying to justify military occupation.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 4h

This is good. The next step is to impeach him or defund his office.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 4h

While it's unclear who has been unfired, this is the kind of decision that should require policy justification (even if specious). It's the difference between removing the leadership of the 1st Armor Div. and discharging all of the soldiers while also leaving the equipment to rust.

Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 1d

What’s especially galling about these many of the CDC firings is these are technical positions, not political ones, yet there has been (and won’t be) any policy-based explanation, even a nonsensical one, from Kennedy et alia as to why they were fired. Impeach Kennedy. Impeach him now.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

RIF notices also sent to the CDC’s 2023 and 2024 class of civilian EIS officers known as its main disease detectives, per sources. These are the people who are typically the first responders in an outbreak. 4/4

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 4h

Also that he is a Peter Thiel acolyte

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 5h

We have to keep in mind that every word Vance emits is a lie.

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Dave Higgins @davehigginsconsulting.com · 5h

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 4h

In other words, who made these decisions at the White House? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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