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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe we all cling to del Toro’s Sensei saying “A few small beers” because we want to stay in that almost saint-like presence a little longer, and to believe that someone like Sensei Sergio St Carlos is out there, calmly and determinedly doing what is undeniably God’s work and going unnoticed.📽️

A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)

Let’s just talk for a moment about the actual beauty of Benicio del Toro’s performance in One Battle After Another, from his first appearance in the film, a close shot on his beatific face, to his las...

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Solidarity is the only way

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 20h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 10h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 9h

A Confederacy of Dunces isn’t funny.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 23h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10h

My quarterly bill is due for accessing federal court documents. These docs *should* be free but aren’t—though I do share my uploads via the great @free.law project. Support @autonomynews.co with a paid membership or tip jar offering to cover these costs
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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

Happy tenth anniversary to the start of my one-year fellowship at Stanford. And thank you to @granick.bsky.social for hiring me for that fellowship and thereby changing my life.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 17h

so this is just one more way for a predatory racist government to exploit vulnerable people for money, turning the entire USA into Ferguson, MO, but this time it's immigrants

www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/u...

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 17h

"device operating systems and app stores require users to enter their age or DOB when setting up a new phone or computer. The new rules are slated to take effect on 1/1/27, and for devices set up prior to that date, ... must come up with a way for users to enter their ages by July 1st that year."

The Verge @theverge.com · 17h

California enacts its own internet age-gating law

This one has Google on board.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

"Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced." www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

(e) PERSONAL POSSESSION OF REGISTRATION OR RECEIPT CARD; PENALTIES
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

Well ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER was just as fucking incredible as everyone has said, and it flies by. Sean Penn does a perfect depiction of the fascists around us now: simultaneously ridiculous, unhinged, scary… and beatable.

Also god did this movie‘s landscapes remind me how much I love California.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

oh I’m so sorry 😞

Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

Happy tenth anniversary to the start of my one-year fellowship at Stanford. And thank you to @granick.bsky.social for hiring me for that fellowship and thereby changing my life.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 1d

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 3d

Spanish "How to Report ICE" zines now available:

#Chicago
#Florida
#LosAngeles
#Marin County, CA
#Massachusetts
#NewYork
#Philadelphia
#Portland
#Sacramento, CA
#SanFrancisco
#SanDiego

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Zines en Español - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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