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N.S. Dolkart, elected official

@nsdolkart.bsky.social

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Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Program Chair for Readercon, the Boston-area literary conference for speculative fiction. Now a town meeting rep and local access TV host too. Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.

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N.S. Dolkart, elected official @nsdolkart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oh! By the way! I got interviewed about my fantasy novels! youtu.be/knXgBkMhA2s

The Stoughton Writers Group: Fantasy Novels with Noah Beit-Aharon

YouTube video by Stoughton Media Access Corporation

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Parachuters have expressed befuddlement at how harshly DHS is treating Chicago (protesters and otherwise).

We invite you to review the many years of violent, racist propaganda about our city since Obama was elected.

They hate Chicago. That's it. That's why they named their group chat this.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

This morning masked ICE agents pulled me out of my car at gun-point, threw me in the back of a van and took me to their facility in Broadview. I had been following the van down Harvard honking my horn and blowing a whistle to alert the community that ICE was in the neighborhood.

Just across from Lincoln elementary school, where my daughter is in second grade, they jumped out of their van with guns drawn and threatened to smash my windows.

They removed me from my car and drove me to Broadview.

They tried to determine if I was an American citizen (I am). After sitting handcuffed in the van for about 30 minutes, they issued me a citation for "impeding" them, claiming I cut them off (which is not true). They then drove me back to my car. While in their van, I could see they were receiving text messages that were part of a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." They also stated they also spoke to someone on their phone saying they were going to meet someone else near where they were dropping me off, and that they were going to proceed to conduct enforcement activities with that person.

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@but-im-kim-tran @but-im-kim-tran.bsky.social · 9h

Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 4h

I dunno, I think it would be helpful if journalists translated what “rural” means in this context. Somehow I don’t think Korean people automatically make something less rural simply by existing somewhere.

Unless rural means something else.

Mr. Sims said he welcomed the raid because he hated how Hyundai and its suppliers were changing the rural character of his hometown. He would never work in one of their factories, he declared, and neither would his relatives, even though the paper mill where some of them worked had recently shut down.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit I just tried this and HOLY SHIT

Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow tinnitus sufferers: I was Googling, again, and randomly fell upon this Reddit comment and ... uh ... it actually worked? Or like, seriously reduced the ringing at least temporarily.
np.reddit.com/r/WTF/commen...

Jordanistan's comment on "These guys lighting a mortar shell in their garage."

Explore this conversation and more from the WTF community

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 4h

Skill issue. No Kings was over in time for Northwestern to slaughter Purdue.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5h

Says the guy who spent weeks mad Cracker Barrel changed their logo

Clay Travis ‹
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We live in two different Americas. Today millions of us will head to college football tailgates, where we will spend all day with friends & family. On the other side millions of losers will waste a perfect fall Saturday protesting Trump. Choose your life path wisely, kids.
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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 6h

He destroyed the structural integrity of the White House to build a ballroom nobody asked for during a govt shut down using bribe money.

Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 7h

The entire WH complex is 55,000 square - feet.

The ballroom is over 90,000 square feet.

And they are destroying a large part of the WH to build it.

I hate these people.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 13h

Rabbi Arthur Waskow (1933-2025), זכרונו לברכה ("may his memory be for a blessing").

A trailblazer and champion of the religious Jewish left for decades. A thinker and activist who put his body on the line many, many times for other people and for our non-human relatives and the earth.

Rabbi Waskow, wearing a rainbow yarmulke, holding a plant.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

if you've got a 3D printer, you can 3D print a ton of extremely loud safety whistles for very little money!

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

“Whistlemania” across the Chicago area, as anti-ICE activists get ready to create a derisive, high-pitched cacophony wherever masked feds are sighted chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

To stand up to ICE agents, some Chicagoans are arming themselves with whistles

The plastic whistles have become a way to loudly resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and warn those who may be in danger.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11h

This only works if you are able to pay yourself a salary that is within their requirements, FYI.

But they also have great benefits above and beyond health insurance (for instance, you can get hospitalization/illness insurance to cover deductibles and lost time working).

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11h

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

WELL IN FACT if you are a member of @sfwa.bsky.social, they have some health insurance options available, based on the same concept of pooling groups together (in this case other lit-focused orgs). This itself is a compelling reason for qualified writers to join SFWA.

www.sfwa.org/2020/06/10/h...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

"The evil Jew is funding the entire US left" is a piece of rank, obvious antisemitism that we have just collectively decided to accept in public, because IOKYR.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 13h

In the West Bank the harvest season has become a time of violence and fear. Settlers regularly attack farmers, uproot trees, and burn fields with the backing of the army. This is the reality of the occupation and all of us must fight to end this reality of control over millions of people. (2/2)

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 13h

Today, Standing Together activists went to the West Bank again along with the organization Rabbis for Human Rights to assist Palestinians in the olive harvest. (1/2)

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I tend to think that it's a bad thing when the President lies about things we can all see. And it's *not great* that many in the media are so eager to let him play up those lies.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 13h

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." —George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

www.techdirt.com

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N.S. Dolkart, elected official @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 14h

Is it just me, or is the entire tech industry at this point basically just passing the same dollar around faster and faster and counting it as everybody's income?

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14h

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services

So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

the instinct to defend it is borne out of the very real fact that it’s been under attack since it passed, having lived experience with what came before it, and having friends and loved ones who will suffer if/when those attacks succeed.

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 16h

bluesky is an even weirder place than twitter. does my post say we should repeal Obamacare

no

does it say that the institutionalist instinct to devote so much emotion to defense of it rather than sympathizing with what it didnt/still has not fixed (for many) is misplaced?

yes. and i stand by that

mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

it is 1030pm and i am explaining to the economics reporter for the new york times how to read a chart and understand its sourcing. x.com/rhcm123/stat...

Sky Marchini
@rhcm123
the "KFF data" is two series fom the BLS, as the tooltip at the bottom of the chart you posted indicates. i was able to quickly recreate the chart on FRED just now.

so yes, I do think it's a correct summary of the facts.
[Image he originally posted showing healthcare costs versus general CPI from KFF]
[Image i quickly recrated showing the exact same thing from FRED]
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ok. different Q. do you trust KFF data or think its tilted toward partisan goals
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h

I really need Americans to get past this stage of silly exceptionalism where they run around claiming that other countries are incapable of doing evil or awful things unless they're directly copying what some idiot in Idaho wants

Htownmark @htownmark.bsky.social · 20h

The US is blazing a trail for right wing extremists everywhere - openly violate the constitution and see what you can get away with. Chip away at political norms and institutions. Simply ignore constitutional law by shifting the Overton Window and corrupting the party in power and its judiciary.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14h

The NY Post just published a "bombshell NYC mayoral poll" showing that, if this race was completely different than the one we have, it might be different.

Hard to think of another instance where a big media outlet was doing fantasy polling this late in a race. nypost.com/2025/10/20/u...

Bombshell NYC mayoral poll shows trouble for Zohran Mamdani in one-on-one race with Andrew Cuomo

A new Gotham Polling/AARP New York poll shows it may be up to New York’s more mature voters to make the final call.

nypost.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h

Not sure "if Trump could have silenced dissent by shutting down rallies, trampling on your freedoms, he would have" is quite the argument that the speaker thinks it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14h

Do you like bioterrorism or pandemic flu? I don't. But the Trump administration sure seems to!

Illegal cuts to American readiness capacity at ASPR and CDC threaten national security, make us desperately vulnerable, and enable terrorists.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/lets-give-...

Let's Give a Warm MAHA Welcome to the Bioterrorism Community

Who needs strategic preparedness and response anyway?

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 14h

This is a correct use of the National Guard.

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

“Pvt. Alan Borbridge speaks in the Yup'ik language with an evacuee from Nightmute

He said he thinks it has been meaningful for some to encounter a Guard service member who can speak to them in Yupik. "They have a better understanding in their own language"

🥹🥹🥹🥹

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