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M. Rosenbloom

@mlrosenbloom.bsky.social

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Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic at BKC / Harvard Law. Mix of politics, tech law, and cute art RTs / hobby stuff! Opinions are mine only. Sometimes still on the other website @ml_rosenbloom pfp: @lyra0730.bsky background: @opal0058.bsky

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M. Rosenbloom @mlrosenbloom.bsky.social · Jan 5

2025 Media Thread! Here we goooooo!!!!

Will include stuff that I've substantially completed or have done a significant amount of rewatching for.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1h

It's pure evil on an almost incomprehensible level, it is ontological and theological proof that evil exists in this world and we are all witnesses to it

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1h

There's probably some historical precedent somewhere for ICE's strategy of arresting people's children for the sole purpose of drawing their parents out of hiding to come rescue them but I sure as fuck can't remember ever seeing anyone else do it

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1h

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

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c-dra🔜GATEway FATE 302 @cdra.bsky.social · 21h

was listening to fleeting moment before going to sleep tonight and i'm havin some big feelings about it again :)))))

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j @dokadayo.bsky.social · Jul 31

nagumo #アニメCITY #animeCITY

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

This is fundamentally a live tension in American government, unless the same party controls Congress and the Supreme Court and the Presidency and all agree that the President should rule us like a king, with the rest as merely ornamentation. This is Voughts Leviathan.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 2h

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 3h

Therese but with her natural hair colour

An artwork by Spindle of the character Therese, a trans elf woman with black hair (in this particular art, she usually has dyed cyan hair), holding it with both her hands, looking at the viewer/camera and smiling. She's wearing a yellow v-neck top with rolled up sleeves, brown belt with a gold accent, and black pants also with a golden accent

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Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 3h

“ai is here to stay” it literally isn’t

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 6h

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 8h

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 9h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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古白|Antiquewhite🌕 @kouhaku.bsky.social · 6d

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 11h

ELRIC AT THE FORGE OF FOREVER (2019)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 14 ½” x 6 ½”

When I tossed out the old container of paints used to do the cover painting for WORDS OF RADIANCE, it landed upside down in my wastebasket on a piece of paperboard I had been using as a palette for something else. 1/2

Elric stands on an outcrop of rock with skulls at his feet. He wears a black hooded cloak trimmed in gold and jeweled bracers. He cradles Stormbringer as the length of the runesword, glowing purple, extends well above his head. Below him water spills frothy onto the shore but as it stretches back, placid and glassy, it gives way to erupting vents of lava.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 19h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 20h

Every ICE Agent is the worst person alive

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 23h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

we will cut trump and his forces off from the sea

Beau @runningsignal.com · 23h

Dem Governors have more control over trade than they understand.

70% of international trade is running through the black dots. Most of the biggest sea ports, and most proximal to water.

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 1d

choose from Therese's autumn fits

An artwork by Spindle of the character Therese, a trans elf woman who has cyan hair. The artwork showcases 4 different autumn outfits (from left to right):
1 - Therese's hair tid up to a circular "bun", while the rest of her hair is down to her butt. She's wearing a white turtleneck, a golden diamond-shaped necklace, and a long beige skirt with a dark leaf pattern. She's also wearing brown boots with a silver accent.

2 - Therese's hair tied up in a big bun. Wearing a white croptop under a long see-through beige cardigan. Red pants with brass-coloured accents, and red leggings that end just above the ankles, as well as red flats with swirly openings.

3 - Same hairstyle as 1 (except without the floating accessory in the hair loop), she's wearing a black scarf, a white and beige checkered shawl with a diamond shape on the front, and a black top underneath. (only the sleeves are visible). She's wearing a yellow skirt with white accents and buttons, and black open heels.

4 - Home fit, hair messy and free. Wearing a multi-coloured capelet/cardigan thing (idk what it is lmao), a black "night gown" with an opening in the front, and red pants with slits on the sides on the bottom. She's also wearing pie-shaped slippers (That Felt made for her!)

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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