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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Gabrielle Canon @gabriellecanon.bsky.social · 3h

But I was in the park last weekend. I witnessed the activities in question AND the noticeable absence of park rangers/staff. @protectparks.bsky.social confirmed that 50% of staff are furloughed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A surge of visitors to Yosemite overwhelms a skeleton crew: ‘This is exactly what we warned about’

As the US government shutdown enters its third week, concerns mount over how the nation’s public lands will fare

www.theguardian.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t get over the kid who checked in with the larger group of students to ask “would it be mean if I went over there and body shamed him?”

The kids responded by saying yes, reminding them that there’s so much other material to use

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 2d

It's also a strong model of argumentative structure and citation practices. I could find examples of all the moves I was trying to teach high schoolers (though I had to edit out many jokes)

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 3d

It's flannel-sheets-o'clock over here

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Broke Boy Eccentric @ NearZone @nearzone.bsky.social · 7d

Extremely important to understand how much the "Christianity" of certain groups is top-down and highly manipulated. It is simply not the case that each of these people has their own personal faith that they then bring to the group. The group's ideas are directed from the top & everyone adopts them.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

Based on the interviews I've done with conservative Evangelical moms, I'd say--a lot of them aren't engaging with the Bible directly. They're reading Evangelical self-help and parenting books like Your Best Life Now and Growing Kids God's Way that selectively interpret the Bible for them.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 8d

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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PV (Probablement Vélo) @mubou-rider.bsky.social · 11d

"Everything has to scale, everything has to be revolutionary" , social media should have been turned into a public utility instead of a for profit mechanism.

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11d

It’s really ridiculous behavior if we’re being honest.

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 12d

If I put milk and sugar in my tea, it has carbs and fat and protein. Sounds like a meal to me!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 12d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Cuw @cuw.bsky.social · 13d

I had a discussion with my therapist who got a scam phone call during our visit that its just beyond frustrating that literally every single second of being american is fending off people trying to fleece you, email, phone, hobby stores, whatever its just scams on scams

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 15d

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.

Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.

Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 16d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16d

Trump is too lazy to get us to the mass graves part--and I want you to hear how fucking terrifying it is that personal laziness is the limitation, not belief or structure--but it's still fascism. Sloppy fascism is fascism. Failed fascism is fascism. Half baked fascism is a gooey butter fascism.

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Rob Wisc @robwisc.bsky.social · 16d

This is such bullshit. The public allegations are that Dixon participates in an NC chapter for Redneck Revolt. The gun club for a different chapter in a different state posted flyers on a different campus, which riled up fascists on Twitter. Dixon is blamed.

www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18d

Is that effective campaign messaging? I don’t know & I don’t care.

It’s true. It’s my job to discover and say things that are true. The radicalization of the American right is *the* political story of my lifetime and the public should know about it. Politicians can do what they like with that.

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 18d

Friend of mine opened every history class with a piece of art to discuss and I feel like this would be a good one

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 18d

Sunday

A family sitting in a living room, each of them using Etch A Sketch. An orange Giancarlo Mattioli Nesso lamp sits on a table in the background.

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 19d

It'll stop any day now (any day now, any day now)

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 21d

So are Ayn Rand's books...

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · Aug 27

the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 21d

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 21d

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends.

Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.”

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 22d

(for a good 20 minutes. We had to intervene)

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Mac @mrsmacwasmygma.bsky.social · 22d

My grandpa info-dumped about the Venetian system of accounting to the funeral home workers removing my grandmother from the bed where she died.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24d

I was part of a couple of meetings last week where I thought: "yup, people are braver when they know others have their backs."

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24d

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

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