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I stream Let's Play Minecraft on YouTube while unpacking the socioeconomic implications of the imperfect American political system. He/Him. https://www.facebook.com/philisophidelic https://www.youtube.com/@pogokero/streams https://www.pogokero.com

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · Mar 8

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are American values. Those opposed are obviously nazis.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland.

Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found.

🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."

This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani

Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

time.com

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Archai @archai.bsky.social · 1d

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Dick Cheney

For @inthesetimes.com
inthesetimes.com/article/mamd...

Cheney in Hell. Demon baby: We do not torture.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

Dick Cheney was responsible for the murders of 4.5 million people through his war crimes & warmongering imperialism.

It is a shame he didn’t die sooner.

Rot in piss, you genocidal monster. hell cannot burn hot enough for your lecherous scabby ass.

Source:
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

BROWN UNIVERSITY
THE WATSON SCHOOL
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IN THIS SECTION
Human
Costs of War research examines the human toll of
U.S. military operations and spending, for U.S. service members, veterans, military contractors, and allies; and for civilians killed and displaced.
An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than
432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who died "indirectly," as a result of wars'
destruction of economies, healthcar systems, infrastructure and the environment. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Here's what that looked like. Tactical excellence.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Unusual filing in Tish James case. DOJ says it isn't complying with judge's order to turn over discovery on selective prosecution issue. Usual procedure would be move to reconsider the order but prosecutors file 'notice' telling judge no. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#46 in United States v. James (E.D. Va., 2:25-cr-00122) – CourtListener.com

NOTICE Of Reasons for Not Providing Pre-Vindictive/Selective Prosecution Motion Related Discovery by USA as to Letitia A. James (Keller, Roger) (Entered: 11/04/2025)

storage.courtlistener.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 1d

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 1d

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies

Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

www.theatlantic.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The OR GOP’s big fundraising event each year is the Reagan Dinner. This year, one of the speakers was a guy indicted for felonies related to his actions in DC ON January 6, raising the perennial question of “Which Election Would Jesus try to violently ratfuck?”

Oregon Republican Party «
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Thanks for being there and sharing your message of hope!
#DavidMedina #ORP #orpol #OregonRepublicans #voteredinstead #Oregon #oregonisworthsaving
OFA Media is in Portland, OR. • Follow 1h • ©
The light of Jesus Christ STILL shines on Oregon and I'm NEVER giving up on this beautiful state.
Shout out to the @oregongop and Oregon RNC
Committeeman Dan Mason for an amazing Reagan Dinner. You guys CRUSHED IT.
OREGON
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Dick Cheney was a FATHER. He was a HUSBAND. What kind of monster would cackle ablut how he's being flayed alive by demons in a replica of an Abu Ghraib torture cell for all eternity while the angels sing and rejoice above just because he "violated the geneva convention" and "killed a million people"

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 2d

The full CBS interview with Trump about the pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao is shocking. "Why did you pardon him?" "I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim ... They sent him to jail and they really set him up. That's my opinion. I was told about it."

NORAH O'DONNELL: Looked at this, the government at the time said that C.Z. had caused "significant harm to U.S. national security", essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt. And what I wanna do is see crypto, 'cause if we don't do it it's gonna go to China, it's gonna go to-- this is no different to me than AI. My sons are involved in crypto much more than I-- me. I-- I know very little about it, other than one thing. It's a huge industry. And if we're not gonna be the head of it, China, Japan, or someplace else is. So I am behind it 100%. This man was, in my opinion, from what I was told, this is, you know, a four-month sentence. But this man was treated really badly by the Biden administration. And he was given a jail term. He's highly respected.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization.
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show.
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

Acknowledging "undue delay," Eleventh Circuit effectively orders Judge Cannon to rule on motions to release Jack Smith's Vol 2 report (on the classified documents case) within 60 days.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

I was looking up a case almost no one paid attention to this summer, and I encountered this heck of a footnote from Ketanji Brown Jackson aimed at the six conservative justices.

(Justice Sotomayor, who joined part of her dissent, didn't join the footnote.)

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Screenshot of Footnote 12 from Stanley v. City of Stanford, Florida:

The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 28

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

Venn diagram with stable services, low density, and low taxes. The area in the centre said “Does Not Exist.” And it’s correct.

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Laura Eccott @lauraeccott.bsky.social · 3d

“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023
TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN)

The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions

MIDDLE 40%

The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions

50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN)

The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions
Source: Oxfam

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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 4d

USA may have a great economy, but that's becasue it burns humans. Look at the death and suffering being wrought by the current American regime, for the benefit of a few oligarchs. Same as it ever was.

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 5d

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

www.prb.org/resources/se...

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

What Stuart Stevens says is perfectly obvious, and something you will not see reflected in any of the major media coverage.

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 5d

Uh-oh…it turns out JP Morgan Chase has flagged $1 billion in “suspicious” transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and prominent Wall Street figures, and notified the Trump admin back in 2019.

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