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RoombaRider

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · Mar 30

Update on the update.
#bunnysky thank you for your good vibes for my little guy.
The meds seem to be working; he's a little lower energy still, but the vet did warn that was likely for a week or two.
But he's given me binkies and the occasional zoomies, and look at how handsome he looks!

A black furred rabbit splooting on a hardwood floor. Facing bottom left, he looks content in his corner, up against the pen wall splitting the room. He's relaxing after a recent health scare, and we're all very grateful for every kind thought sent our way.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 3h

Medicare Advantage is only an advantage for private companies, not patients.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

A radicalizing isolating funnel driven by ad tech

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 5h

If the Supreme Court just calls balls and strikes yesterday’s oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act was as if Louisiana threw a wild pitch into the stands and the conservative Justices called it a strike and the liberal Justices said you’ve got to be kidding

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14h

Also the second charges in the impeachment articles drafted against Nixon listed five abuses of power, the first of which was literally this

The second article, offered in amended form by Representative William L, Hungate, Democrat of Missouri, accused Mr. Nixon of conduct, dating back to the first year of his Administration, that allegedly violated. the rights of citizens to privacy, interfered with the proper administration of justice and used various agencies of the Government, The omnibus charge focused' specifically on the following) allegations against the government:

Attempts to use the Internal Revenue Service to initiate tax audits or obtain confidential tax data for political purposes.

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Pete Davidson @petedavidsonny.bsky.social · 4h

This is crucial and it's conceptually emblematic of how the media is failing us by not connecting the dots. This is true with HHS, voting rights, the economy, the environment and all of the vulnerable groups the magas are attacking.

We are shown the tiles 24/7 but we are not shown the mosaic.

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to lose sight of how radical the MAGA agenda is by focusing on each action in isolation. Only by glancing at the entirety of what Trump and Hegseth have wrought can one see what a far-reaching assault they are mounting on the apolitical professionalism of the US military. bit.ly/47aHw7J

The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump

What his assault on the U.S. military means for America.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 5h

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown

The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

www.washingtonpost.com

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verdverm @verdverm.com · 14h

The Ad Bubble is way bigger than the Ai Bubble

joindatacops.com/resources/ho...

How 73% of Your E-commerce Visitors Could Be Fake

A conversion rate of less than 0.1%. That was the moment I realized something was fundamentally broken with the way we measure success on the internet.

joindatacops.com

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 4h

Let's hear it for the protester who remembered Shut The Fuck Up Friday:

"Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Band member accused of interfering with arrest of another during Portland ICE protest, feds allege

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

www.oregonlive.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?

A family member sent me an image of a baby dressed in an elf outfit. My baby. It was adorable—and unnerving.
My cousin took a photo from our group chat and uploaded it to Meta AI. While his heart was in the right place, my mind was spinning. What could Meta do with my son’s face? The privacy policy of Meta Platforms says the company can use these images to “improve AIs and related technology.”
In the age of AI, I can’t control where my—or my son’s—face ends up. Our likenesses are no longer our own.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Oct 17

No one's gonna have a good time at a party if one person is acting like they're still in a prison block full of skinheads.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Oct 17

I think it *is* a good idea to pull aside people who spent several years hanging out in a nazi bar and go "hey dude, the way you had to act to survive hanging out for some reason in that nazi bar will make you really weird and off-putting when talking to normal people"

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 13h

And they did all that yelling then so that when they did it in broad daylight at least a third of the country would think it's "only fair"

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h

you know I could have sworn that like ten years ago they pretended this happened against them (it didn’t) and said it was the worst offense that had ever happened (again it didn’t).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 16h

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 13h

The Roberts majority is the most anti American court we've had in at least a century.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 13h

No shit it's not protecting consumers, this soulless husk of a creature and his ideological cronies illegally strangled it!

Self fulfilling prophecies from the people in charge!

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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