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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4m

We are all antifa now.

I, personally, am the antifa intergalactic coordinator.

Jeff May or May Not @jeffmay.bsky.social · 2h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.

Those dates have come and gone.

They’re still stuck here.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates have come and gone. They’re still stuck here.

www.propublica.org

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 36m

Pertinent I think:

bsky.app/profile/john...

There are a lot of group/social activities from my ancient childhood that are either too costly or too legally risky to do now.

Even posting my mountain bike ride plans puts me at legal risk.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

I believe Baumol’s Cost Disease and (in America) legal liability concerns both contribute to social isolation.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 39m

THIS!

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 40m

If you don't pay your subscription on time ads are injected directly into your frontal cortex.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 42m

This is very typical of medical crackpots.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 48m

my current position is, “LLMs can think” is a useful anthropomorphism as long as you remember that the mechanics for how they think are entirely different from our own with their own tradeoffs

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 45m

I guess this is a benefit of age ... we all remember it was an embarrassment for Obama.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 59m

I don’t think this is their intent though.

It’s more a combination of Marketarian eugenics (survival of the fittest) and MAGA-theology (God punishes the weak).

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

Groan.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6d

Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 6d

I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

I believe Baumol’s Cost Disease and (in America) legal liability concerns both contribute to social isolation.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

Terrorism works

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

Implementation of English paragraph conventions are broken on many platforms in many ways. Mysterious why.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

These shooting events are consistent with societal collapse.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

There is redundant paragraph spacing on iOS Safari. Makes it hard to read.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 1h

Does Baumol’s Cost Disease effectively make human contact relatively costly?

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2h

Isn’t this common among all complex animals ? Fake it when you can’t make it?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9d

#KavanaughStop

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2h

Death throes of the republic

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect one reason SMS spam filtering sucks is that vendors know legislators will seek revenge for effective filtering. (GOP would claim, for example, political bias.)

(I also suspect a surprising number of people klnd of like getting spam.)

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2h

Getting a huge volume of text spam now, much of it from fake orgs and legit dem orgs requesting money. Apple has truly failed us; the spam filtering for SMS is 10 years behind the curve.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h

Best combination of a terrible headline and a great article I've seen in a while. Click-bait put to a good use.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | With Mamdani, the Left Finally Has Its Trump

www.nytimes.com

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