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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 1h

that is HILARIOUS

Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 1h

this birthday poem of his is a favorite of mine

your birthday comes to tell me this
–each luckiest of lucky days
i’ve loved, shall love, do love you, was
and will be and my birthday is

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 13h

it’s absolutely horrible, it’s driving me away from clicking on trending topics

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 18h

also very poor joke-getting skills, that guy

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 18h

"a war you promoted" god I LOVE him

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
Reply
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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 1d

ha!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 1d

ahhhhhhhh I was at Reed that year, I remember that poster so well! god I loved Portland

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 2d

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 3d

YES. I watched one of the first CNN broadcasts, kind of excited about it, and in less than an hour it was clear this was a disaster, utter disaster

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

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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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4d

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

acasignups.net/rate_changes...

2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

acasignups.net

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 4d

haha i simultaneously understood it as a joke but also excitedly wanted to correct it, a poster disease

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 4d

a) love this b) but even older than that surely? “the lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown” goes back at least that far

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Katherine Catmull @kcatmull.bsky.social · 4d

this is weird and scary as hell

Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 4d

Of all the scary, messed up stuff, this is very scary and very messed up.

Godspeed and safe travels to Dr. Bray

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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