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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

the virtue signalling vs. not discussion just strikes me as a social drama that makes sense within the class of people that don't think they have anything else at stake in these discussions other than clout, some of whom also can't imagine any other way of relating to these discussions

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of the propriety of their decision to talk to the NYT, the fact that federal judges did so — reportedly more than three dozen! — means they are pulling the proverbial fire alarm.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

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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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

pro Palestinian protestors were at the RNC. pro Palestinian protestors were just in DC. pro Palestinian protestors interrupted Trump's dinner a couple weeks ago.

you know you're in the wrong here, and you're spinning and thrashing. it's a bad look.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Bringing back the Irish mob while there are no FBI agents working on that stuff

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

the fascist-sprinkles on top of this shit-cupcake of ICE arresting a woman they themselves hit while driving recklessly is their fucking cameraman getting an action-shot of two agents violently pulling the woman out of the car

gotta keep churning that content out bud. i gotta respect the grind.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

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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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

liquidating DHS pensions could be a good place to start

you don't get to retire in comfort if you gleefully and violently took part in Steven Miller's ethnic cleansing campaign

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1d

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

not only that but their fucking camerman films her arrest for content. bleak, bleak shit bsky.app/profile/noam...

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

the fascist-sprinkles on top of this shit-cupcake of ICE arresting a woman they themselves hit while driving recklessly is their fucking cameraman getting an action-shot of two agents violently pulling the woman out of the car

gotta keep churning that content out bud. i gotta respect the grind.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

alt-text: screenshot from the underlying video of a masked ICE chud with a baseball hat holding out a camera in front of a car's wheel while an ICE agent's hand is outstreched. Just out of frame is a woman who is being piled on by two ICE agents.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

the calmness and glee with which he says "we've arrested US citizens for standing too close" is chilling

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

the fascist-sprinkles on top of this shit-cupcake of ICE arresting a woman they themselves hit while driving recklessly is their fucking cameraman getting an action-shot of two agents violently pulling the woman out of the car

gotta keep churning that content out bud. i gotta respect the grind.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

get on that jury bro
do it bro it's so great for democracy
talk about how neutral you will be bro
do your civic duty my brother

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

that dog is chuckling! chuckling i tell you

sly lil fellas

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

i saw one walk up la cienega in broad daylight a couple years back - they have no fear

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 2d

i really hope the riyadh comedy festival is seen in retrospect as the the Rogan/anti-woke "Comedy" world's high-water mark - an unavoidable symbol of how these "comedians" are willing to sell out their "free speech" values to the highest bidder, revealing the hollowness of their project

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

get on that jury bro
do it bro it's so great for democracy
talk about how neutral you will be bro
do your civic duty my brother

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

love that this type of dude is in charge of all federal prosecutorial decisions now

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

i kinda wanted to pet it just to see if i could microdose domestication

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

was on a run with my chihuahua tonight and a dang coyote came out of the bushes in the neighorhood i was in and started coming towards us, probably thinking louise looks like a tasty night snack - thankfully he was easily scared off

but wow, coyotes really are just really big, beefy dogs

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

the moment you have over 10k followers, you are ethically obligated to soothe the anxious hearts & minds of every user named BlueWave8472 or PelosiIsMySpiritAnimal181297

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 video essay collection thread 🚨

here ye here ye - plz put ur recent fave video essays below

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