David Lublin
@davidlublin.bsky.social
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Writing code, making art, and other stuff. Mostly yelling into the void. He / Him. Profile pic by Fernando Orellana.
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davidlublin.bsky.social
Someone told me that bluesky doesn’t have enough cute animal pics, and they are right. You can never have enough. This is what the Internet was made for.
A tuxedo cat sleeping on a bed with a plaid bedcover
davidlublin.bsky.social
Feds shot a woman, Trump admin blatantly lied about the circumstances, the news ran with the story anyway, and now it is being used to justify sending in troops? CNN needs to explain this like it is, instead of helping these fascists manufacture a justification for more violence against civilians.
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gbrockell.bsky.social
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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kendrawrites.com
Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution
volts.wtf
Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.
maxkennerly.bsky.social
Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."
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stephenwest.bsky.social
Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers
Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.
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huskapet.bsky.social
smart guy in an rpg: hmm..
party member: what's wrong?
smart guy: it's nothing.
(20 hours later)
smart guy: so it's true... i knew it.
davidlublin.bsky.social
Let’s include all the news pundits who helped manufacture and promote this fascist government too.
davidlublin.bsky.social
We’d be lying to ourselves if we did not acknowledge that Democrats a year ago were more than happy to have the cops rounding up protesters on college campuses for exercising free speech over the genocide in Gaza. They actively helped Trump and the far right manufacture the “crisis” and response.
hebagowayed.bsky.social
The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.
miriamposner.com
Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
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jamesomalley.co.uk
Should this person complaining about parking apps really be driving?!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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tamslick.bsky.social
The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.
brendelbored.bsky.social
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”
davidlublin.bsky.social
“Public expression activity” is phrasing deliberately designed to be so ambiguous that they can apply it completely arbitrarily to fit the needs of the administration.
miriamposner.com
Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”
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davidlublin.bsky.social
You started the gif nonsense, if you can’t take the heat, delete your account, fucking loser.
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anjalienjeti.bsky.social
Did I have Ms. Rachel taking on Obama on my bingo card in 2026?

No, I did not.
Dear @barackobama, 

I saw in your statement you said “Israeli families” & “the people of Gaza.” 

Palestinians have families, too.

This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide. 

I’ve sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.

Love,
Ms Rachel
davidlublin.bsky.social
America under Trump - the military has to go to food banks, because of tax cuts for the wealthy.
drewharwell.com
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
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dell.bsky.social
chuck schumer, mark warner, and other democrats with big national security boners interfered right before trump took office to ensure federal agents could install wiretaps at data centers without a court order or any form of review.
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.
Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.
davidlublin.bsky.social
Recommend just muting that troll at this point, nobody needs to remember they exist at all. Their wish is granted.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
davidlublin.bsky.social
I am too lazy to drag up the links right now, but there is data from the pilot program they did (one bus line per borough) and also Boston has some of their data published. Altercations with drivers was also down a noteworthy amount.
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davidlublin.bsky.social
What are you, an antifascist?
DS9 episode
Sisko has travelled back to 2024

Cop 1: What are you, an anarchist? There's a law against sleeping in the streets.
Sisko: Sanctuary District? What year is this?
Cop 2: Same year as it was yesterday-- 2024.
davidlublin.bsky.social
TFW you get that 15 to 20 minute early warning siren 🚨 🐈