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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 1h

The inflatable is also an aesthetic inverse of the body armor cops are now routinely swaddled in, and their masks. A frog costume hides identity with comic rather than sinister signals. It protects vulnerable areas of the body by misdirection (where IS the frog's throat??), not accentuation.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 18h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 38m

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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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

we're all very powerless right now and for some people having their cynicism proved right gives them the illusion of control

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 11h

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...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

really can't imagine bopping my head to a song called "i hate asian immigrants" and then putting my asian immigrant hands on my asian immigrant hips 30 years later and asking the artist, "so you're against asian immigrants?"

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 12h

On a deeper note, the movie is a must-watch just to see how it pits three different models of male familial leadership: hierarchal, communitarian, and nuclear, against each other.

aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 12h

Just watched One Battle After Another

The headline: Ignore Leo, it was Chase Infiniti and Benicio Del Toro who stole the show

Also, while I may have some quibbles with the pacing, the movie hit exactly what it was aiming for...as evidenced by all the dogs who've been hollering about it since

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 12h

If they're so proud to work for ICE then they shouldn't be upset when we make sure everyone knows it

Two men crouching in the woods. One holds a knife.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19h

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

the virtue signalling vs. not discussion just strikes me as a social drama that makes sense within the class of people that don't think they have anything else at stake in these discussions other than clout, some of whom also can't imagine any other way of relating to these discussions

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 18h

Something tells me TrumpTok isn't going to be nearly as counterculture and cool as its soon-to-be-owners think

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20h

(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20h

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 21h

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23h

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

You know...since MAGA is in charge and comedy is apparently legal again, you'd think a whole bunch of comedians wouldn't have to sell their souls to MBS for thirty pieces of silver. But I guess maybe they just did it out of love of the game.

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

Brad Pitt pointing at someone out of frame and saying "tax that guy"

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aust.in.sight @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

Don't feel too badly about it. Humans have always been selectively attentive. Evocative AI vids just happen to hack that system w ease.

youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo

selective attention test

YouTube video by Daniel Simons

youtu.be

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

one interesting thing about the elite capitulation to trump is that it started to happen long before he actually became president. like around when chris rufo became the new york times' assignment editor, in 2022.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

America needs, at some point, to start prosecuting white collar crime.

The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 1d

Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Via ProPublica: thenevadaindependent.com/article/elon...

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