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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Cato filed an amicus brief in RAICES v. Noem, the case challenging Trump's Border Dictator order that purports to suspend all immigration law because it is "ineffective." Our brief describes how the government's arguments are baseless www.cato.org/legal-briefs...

RAICES v. Noem

The government’s assertions are based on either misinterpretations or tortured readings of the data, attempting to find justification for a spurious legal argument in facts that simply are not there.

www.cato.org

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

One Republican who frequently spoke out about the danger of right wing extremism inside the GOP was Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield. This article is from 1981.

Oregon Territory, Sunday, October 11, 1981 - 9G
Mark's Bookmark
Misconceptions about New Right thinking
By Mark Hatfield
Following the election of 1980, in which the Republican party won the presidency, 12. Senate seats, 34 House seats, 4 governorships, and 220 state legislative seats, spokesmen for the "New Right" claimed that 90 per cent of the candidates that it had supported had won their races. Immediately, a new target list of incumbent senators was announced, and fund-raising, campaigns were launched to begin early attacks via television.
Many of the claims of the right-wing groups are highly exaggerated because they confuse the public's yearning for change with support for their dogma.
One of the earliest case studies of a liberal Democratic senator, Tom Mcin-tyre, who succumbed to a well-orches-trated 1978 campaign against him is recounted in "The Fear Brokers" written by the senator in collaboration with John C. Obert, now published in paperback by Beacon Press ($7.95). Edmund Muskie wrote a commentary for the book, and I was privileged to write the foreword.
Because the 1982 campaigns are already under way, excerpts from the foreword may assist to help recognize and understand the mentality and' tactics of the doctrinaire right wing.
ONE OF THE emotional issues before the United States Senate during my
tenure has been the Panama Canal trea-ty. Millions of dollars were raised to fight ratification. Sen. Mcintyre of New Hampshire presented a disquisition on the Senate floor which was both profound and courageous. He confronted squarely an issue far more crucial than the outcome of the treaty itself, namely the atmosphere of personal intimidation and vengeance of the Right which had not only come to dominate the debate but also threatened to permeate the American political climate with calumny and fear.
"My concern", he said, "is the desperate need for people of conscience and good will to stand up and face down the bullies of the radical New Right before th…

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EDC 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 1d

This amazing Covered Bridge #Photography was taken by Gerry Hudson.

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🎻 Sophie Rose Music 🎹 @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 2d

MacPaint is just iconic 🎨👩🏻‍🎨

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Anne McKinnell @annemckinnell.bsky.social · 2d

Let it go. Let it fall. Make some space.

The trees know when to embrace change.

I always have a hard time saying goodbye to summer - the long days, the boating and the ocean. And yet, here comes fall with its wild fire of colour, stealing the show 🍁 📷

#autumn #naturephotography #fallfoliage

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 2d

If maga keeps going for a few more years these people will be fine.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 3d

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Pixels&AlchemyPhotography @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 2d

Fireworks
I JUST got back from a LONG walk because the sun is out! 😎
I believe this is a #Sweetgum #Tree.
#FallColor #PNW #Photography

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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Kevin Schwalbe Photography @kevinsphotography.bsky.social · 4d

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

#ImageandVerse #Stunday #Colorado #LandscapePhotography

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 4d

Didn't have the best setup with me for hummingbirds in flight but still had to try when I saw this ruby-throated hanging about the this week at the gardens. 🪶

Glad I did because I like the ghosted wing effect I ended up with due to slower shutter speed. 😎

#stunday #photography #birds #hummingbirds

A humming bird with a few bright red spots under its neck is drinking from a bright red flower on the left. Background is light greens and yellows. Its wings were moving too fast for the camera, so they are more of a ghostly see through wing but you can still make out some details.

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 3d

This is a good thread which emphasizes getting the facts right first before moving to interpretation.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Japanese artist Hiroshige, died this day 1858.

"Leaving my brush behind; I travel upward to the sky / To see places of fame in the Western Paradise".

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 5d

The students in Means Girls likely had similar views of Regina George, but that didn’t stop her from being the Queen Bee.

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 6d

Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents www.pewresearch.org/...

A pie and bar chart showing that about 7 in 10 Americans say Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents.

Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 5d

I liked the 30 for 30 podcast about the game: 30for30podcasts.com/episodes/the...

The Longest Game - 30 for 30 Podcasts

Baseball holds its records sacred. Most home runs, strikeouts, career wins. But what about the longest game ever?

30for30podcasts.com

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d

Thoughts on Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl and why it matters

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5d

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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Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 5d

Bellingrath gardens in Mobile AL.
#scape #gardenscape #bloomscrolling #gardens

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 6d

The Auschwitz Museum hosts an exhibition of the "Prussian Blue" painting series by the artist Yishai Jusidman.

See a short video about the exhibit: youtube.com/shorts/DrGcu...

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Sean Kelleher @ssk7.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting study, but the abstract doesn’t say how the researchers made sure that the LLMs would feel the same sense of loss that human gamblers have when their bets go bad (both materially and emotionally).

I know nothing about this stuff, but if they built such an LLM then that’s quite a feat.

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 6d

On one hand: don't anthropomorphize AI. On the other: LLMs exhibit signs of gambling addiction.

The more autonomy they were given, the more risks the LLMs took. They exhibit gambler's fallacy, loss-chasing, illusion of control...

A cautionary note for using LLMs for investing without guardrails.

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 6d

The malicious prosecution of Attorney General Tish James is baseless.

And the indictment is not worth the paper it is written on.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6d

America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result.

Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that.

The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.

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