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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5h

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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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h

yeah; Elon Musk isn't a Christian. He's coming from weird millenarian atheist circles...and again, his cuts to USAID are probably going to kill 14 million people.

absolutely as bad as anything the christians have done.

AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 9h

One of the themes in the replies here is that "At least atheist aren't ruining the country like the Christians." And like, a significant part of the Trump movement comes from GamerGate, which had serious over lap with the mid 2010s capital A Atheism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 8h

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

Actually circulating videos of Candace Owens that make her seem reasonable because she’s correct on *one* issue is not good work

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 16h

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 14h

There almost certainly will at some point be a major attack on protestors à la Kent State. That will be a real test of whether a tipping-point number of Americans will buck against this shit.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 14h

Kingsbury's job isn't to help citizens understand issues of public import. Her job is to tickle their pituitary glands. She might as well be producing a low-rent reality show.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 14h

Sadly, though, issues that involve tough trade-offs generally don't draw as many readers as nonsense does. That in no way relieves Kingsbury of the duty to exercise basic editorial judgment (or to just...take pride in her work).

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 14h

I've read many opinion pieces I've disagreed with that are nonetheless valid. Where to set the minimum wage. How best to address global warming. How and when to regulate business. It's always something where there are tough trade-offs. But this? This is just a load of bullshit.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

The editors themselves somehow came to believe that they can publish this crap and yet distance themselves totally from it. As if they had nothing to do with it. But by the act of publishing this, Kathleen Kingsbury is saying "I think this is a solid, well-written, thought-provoking argument."

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

Somehow we got to the point where it's widely believed that opinion editors aren't responsible for what they publish. But they are.

You can publish something you disagree with and still call it valid. But publishing complete nonsense by rabid ideologues and self-serving mercenaries isn't that.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

The thing to always remember about these horrific op-ed pieces is that the editors -- in this case the NYT's Kathleen Kingsbury -- stand behind them and fully endorse them as valid. That's true even when they "disagree" with them.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 17h

When you devalue truth, you lose it. We have lost it.

Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 17h

The China story attacked rapacious capitalists, so no problem if it was a lie. The drug-addict story (James Frey, I just remembered) was a crappy novel that sold only because the author lied and said it was nonfiction. His Oprah-addled fans said it didn't matter because it was a "good story."

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 17h

Remember the "higher truth" arguments over that cretin who made up stories about the factory in China that made Apple products, and that other cretin who wrote a book pretending to be a drug addict? Those of us who called that shit out got TONS of blowback. And now look where we are. Truth matters.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 19h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 17h

Edmund isn't even Tucker Carlson here. He's Ezra Klein. Edmund got Turkish Delight. Klein got a job with The New York Times.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

The first thing Republicans did after getting sworn in as the majority in the House under Biden was form a committee on the weaponization of government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsey Naegle told the writers and animators to make the Bari character 10 percent more in-your-face.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

It’s incredible that political journalists pretend to be stupid in order to appear wise. They think stuff like this makes them look smart.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

wapo.st

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Area billionaire has wet brain www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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