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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 21d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Lori Jaye 🪶🐈‍⬛🇬🇱🥄 @kittypurr1.bsky.social · 21d

Some of them do have 'ICE' on their clothing, I think if we should dress like them we should put 'NICE' on our clothes. After all, 'ICE' isn't 'NICE' & you could say that the N stands for NO. We're nice enough to stand up for the rights & safety of others, not concentration/work/death camps
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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · 21d

I was going to say yeah editing the HTML in dev tools doesn’t work if all you have is an image. But then I discovered that’s a real actual headline from NYT and not someone’s parody.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jul 12

BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work.

She orders the agencies to stop.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · Jun 15

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · Jun 9

New by me —>

@theguardian.com's ingenious new whistleblower-protection tool buries leaks to journalists within its own readers' everyday traffic

www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...

The Guardian’s new whistleblower tool buries leaks to journalists within its own readers’ everyday traffic

Think "I am Spartacus!" — but for leakers.

www.niemanlab.org

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · Jun 5

Whoa. Incredible to see this paragraph lead off an opinion.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Jun 4

This is big:

Chief Judge Boasberg GRANTS class certification to the men unlawfully renditioned to El Salvador in March under the Alien Enemies Act, orders Trump administration to offer up a plan to facilitate their obtaining habeas relief.

Here's how the ruling begins: With a nod to Kafka.

Screenshot of ruling in J.G.G. v. Trump:

"One morning, Kafka’s Josef K. awakens to encounter two strange men outside his room. As he gets his bearings, he realizes that he is under arrest. When he asks the strangers why, he receives no answer. “We weren’t sent to tell you that,” one says. “Proceedings are under way
and you’ll learn everything in due course.” Franz Kafka, The Trial 5 (Breon Mitchell trans., Schocken Books Inc. 1998). Bewildered by these men and distressed by their message, K. tries to comfort himself that he lives in “a state governed by law,” one where “all statutes [are] in
force.” Id. at 6. He therefore demands again, “How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?” “Now there you go again,” the guard replies. “We don’t answer such questions.” Undeterred, K. offers his “papers” and demands their arrest warrant. “Good heavens!” the man scolds. “There’s
been no mistake.” “[O]ur department,” he assures K., is only “attracted by guilt”; it “doesn’t seek [it] out . . . . That’s the Law.” Id. at 8–9. “I don’t know that law,” K. responds. “You’ll feel it eventually,” the guard says. Id. at 9."

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · May 28

BREAKING: Federal court says Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · May 25

100 years ago today a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 20

“Contact sheet” for digital folks is literally the full spool of film from the camera, laid out in strips with a glass sheet on top and printed, so the editor can decide which pics to enlarge. Like your photos app except the photographer has to be picky with the shutter button, not much film!

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · May 10

It would preferable if the Trump FAA radar could find planes instead of focusing on mayors.
www.cnn.com/us/controlle...

Controllers handling flights around Newark Liberty International Airport experience another outage | CNN

The blackout included losing radar for about 90 seconds at Newark Terminal Radar Approach Control at 3:55 a.m. local time, a source with knowledge of the incident tells CNN.

www.cnn.com

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 7

What’s up, Apple? Phone has the correct elevation, watch thinks I was high. I haven’t been smoking or flying at all lately. I may have been hiking in a tropical forest full of bugs tho. Some of them yours? #apple #applewatch

Apple Watch display showing 2,939 meters of elevation

iPhone compass screenshot showing 260 meters of elevation

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 7

I can relate. I have no idea why it thought I should repeat this word, unless it’s a song lyric from a cowboy movie. Autocorrect is out of control.

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 5

May 4, 1970. Imagine if these kids had grown up. One might be US President today.

4 Dead in Ohio

55 years ago...

open.substack.com

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · May 3

I’m in favor of sovereignty, I’m in favor of journalism, and I’m in favor of French jockeys, so I’m gonna take this as a win-place-show.

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · May 3

This is the time each year when I unveil my foolproof Kentucky Derby: Bet on any horse ridden by a Cajun jockey.

This year, alas, there’s only one of those in the race: Brian Hernandez Jr., riding 12-1 Burnham Square.

But of course you should really just bet on Journalism to win.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · May 3

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · May 3

The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...

Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials

Yesterday, I published an analysis of what I could publicly find about TM SGNL, the obscure and unofficial Signal app used by Mike Waltz, and presumably also by Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, ...

micahflee.com

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 3

Journalism should always win. Not to be mean to any actual horse here, but I’m rooting against Publisher.

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 3

Having only read the first 5 or 6 pages, this seems to be another one for the history books.
And these judges writing these recent opinions should be great choices for the Supreme Court when Thomas or Alito eventually resign, or die from excessive martini olive consumption (hopefully the former).

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · May 2

BREAKING: The Supreme Court's most junior justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, just became its loudest voice pushing back against Trump & his allies' attacks on federal judges who've blocked many of his policy moves www.politico.com/news/2025/05... #SCOTUS

Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump’s attacks on judges

The Supreme Court justice said it was time to address "the elephant in the room": the "threats and harassment" that judges have received from Trump and his allies.

www.politico.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 2

People who don’t ask me questions drive me crazy. Why are they like that?

‘Non-askers’ can come across as selfish – but there might be personal and societal reasons for their lack of curiosity

www.theguardian.com

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 2

I was taught not to be snoopy. I really don’t like forced conversations and I get annoyed when people try to force conversation with 20 questions - please don’t do that, just be yourself and tell me about that time you spilled ketchup on some poor stranger on the plane, and we’ll do just fine!

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 2

Thanks for this and thank you @scalzi.com — hey folks Wil’s here!

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Mrs.Procrastinatrix @procrastinatrix617.bsky.social · May 2

RIP 🌈🕊️

Great video 💚

youtu.be/LUi11Cz4ZUg?...

I Kissed A Girl [Jill Sobule ~ OFFICIAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by Jill Sobule

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Roger Theriault @rogertheriault.com · May 1

Imagine how many lives they could actually save by banning AR-15 ammunition

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 28

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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