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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

ICE needs a legislative death sentence. We are allowed to abolish institutions when they become unaccountable beyond the point of reform, or when they become inextricably associated with corruption or abuse. In order for ICE’s leaders and agents to be held to account ICE itself must die.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

Lmao

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 7h

excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

"native born americans"

"man holdin up 3 fingers" meme from the film inglorious basterds

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 14h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 9h

But that's the thing about bag getters/clout chasers like Bari. It's never enough.

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 10h

No doubt bag chasing is a huge part, but I think it's hard to maintain that kind of self-awareness when you successfully self-market and sellout as much as she has.

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 11h

Did something happen in 2009?

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 11h

I am imagining the accountability of Sodom and Gomorrah

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 11h

She's managed to reach the point where there's nowhere left to fail upwards, and she's done so in a dying business model.

Good luck, babe!

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 11h

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 15h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like the venn diagram of those types and "the only struggle is class struggle" types has significant overlap

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 16h

"No Kings Means No Paychecks". Surely, a sentiment the Founding Fathers would agree with 100%.

This is the most anti-American administration in American history.

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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 1d

Necessary qualifications for any GOP Base Whisperer

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Austin Kidwell @austinkidwell.bsky.social · 1d

I want to urge people to unfollow and block the juniper “onion person” account

She is gifted and funny poster so I get why she has the following she has. The problem is she is a bad faith liar who will push anything that fits her ideological priors without caring if any of it is true or real

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main