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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · Apr 1

I got plenty of feedback on my last video and I want to be clear: I hear you, I am listening.

Many of you felt that the audio didn't match the tone of the Expanse.

After much consideration, I've updated the audio.

I think we can all agree it's much more in keeping with the themes of the show.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

Greetings, new Bluesky users.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 7h

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 8h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 9h

Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 8h

We are very excited to announce:
HYPERBEAT releases October 22nd!

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 9h

Advertisers clamber over each other to quickly make ads in cool new styles while they're still associated with cool new things, and not associated ads.

AI generated ads bravely buck that trend, by using the shit new style all consumers hate and associate with spam and propaganda

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 14h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 6h

The sacred Jedi texts!

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Maddie Aphra Vukorah @sskeermadness.bsky.social · 6h

Read Ronin by Emma Mieko Candon, an amazing philosophical exploration of what it means to be Sith or Jedi without any of the trappings of Star Wars canon. The one SW book I would consider literature.

Book cover of Ronin: a Visions Novel, depicting a traditional samurai looking Sith man with clear cybernetic implants.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 13h

The men designing, building and installing this glass staircase in a shopping mall: “I cannot think of a single reason why nobody else does this”

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 8d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 8d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Orion @lizardorion.bsky.social · 12h

[CLEMSON SWARM SHUFFLES IN]

Look, this came to me in a slightly delirious state, i will not explain myself any further

They seem very eager to explode, though...

A Gray-Red Crocodile-Like Mecha based on a Clemson-Class Destroyer with a yellow monoeye in place of the bridge and four two-clawed limbs, Digital MOC

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 17h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

calling the most normie lib protest against trump a “hate rally against america” and calling participants “antifa, marxists, etc” will not work as intended at all lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Tzfardea b'Yachad Chazek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when @swordsjew.bsky.social and @marisakabas.bsky.social and @brooklynmarie.bsky.social were ringing all the alarms about how important it was to learn about far right Internet culture and the ways they communicate through dog whistles and references back in, like, 2016?

They were right.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 16h

It’s very possible Nick Fuentes will appear on Tucker Carlson’s show next week— the largest MAGA platform outside the White House. Fuentes has been on many large shows in recent weeks, barreling towards the mainstream at “6 million miles an hour” as he told followers last night

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 16h

Who could have possibly forseen this from the most moral army on earth

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 15h

Thunberg is genuinely one of the bravest people alive

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 15h

oh please tell me we get Kirk getting got by gun violence at the same time as Mr. "Clean your room" dies because of housing mold

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 17h

Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis

Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

boingboing.net

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 16h

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie's opening title is so good

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 14h

I cannot emphasize enough that TIkTok has an incredibly active white nationalist scene that it refuses to clamp down on (even before Ellison takes over) and I don't know how to get people to care because everyone thinks it's the dumbass dancing kids app

Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 23h

Why does Tiktok keep showing me adds for Nazi merch?!?! Like, this is the fourth or fifth time now… I might just have to leave that stupid fucking app if this keeps happening.

A shirt with the words “Paper beats rock” with a stylized image of a Nazi salute over and pressing down on a clenched fist. The clenched fist is in the style of common black lives matter iconography.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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