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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 2h

So Schumer never did endorse, huh. Nor Gillibrand. Just irredeemable pieces of shit, the entire NY senate delegation

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1h

Ok well, “I’m not gonna” is not usually a thing you can tell a judge in response to an order

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 1h

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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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 40m

Bill Gates's climate memo showed a stunning lack of political vision.

The climate fight was always going to require technologies AND markets AND a social movement to make inconvenient demands upon the powerful.

What did he think he was signing up for?

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Bill Gates's stunted political vision

Bill Gates went full Llomborg. Never go full Llomborg.

open.substack.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 42m

Mamdani's opponents have been so ostentatiously, unnecessarily loathsome that they have succeeded in making me much, much more sympathetic to him than I otherwise would be, and I can't be the only one in that boat.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 46m

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1h

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

www.wired.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

Remember: Elon Musk saw a man distributing child sexual abuse material on Twitter, and insisted that the team restore that man's account on the service, and begin *paying that person to be on the service*. The person who distributed the abuse material is still on there, and Musk follows him.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

This seems to be directed at jd Vance, who he hates. ❤️

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

why would he come for online trads like this

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

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Condé Union @condeunion.bsky.social · 21h

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 1d

Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us.

Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23h

1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters

2. Don't get distracted from point one

3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage

4. Don't be old as fuck.

Go forth and do likewise

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.

www.politico.eu/article/zohr...

Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise

Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.

www.politico.eu

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!!

Tell me again about the antisemitism hysteria, centrist mainstream US rabbis, tell me.

Via Rabbi @abbystein.bsky.social

Brooklyn Leader Rabbi Moishe Indig Set to Endorse Zoran Mamdani for NYC Mayor | Williamsburg 365

www.williamsburg365.com

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 23h

Some of the very best and most important political journalism of late has come from Lex and the team at Teen Vogue. Follow them all wherever they go.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a disappointing management decision. Not just because @leximcmenamin.com and their colleagues are excellent journalists, but because they never, ever underestimated what teen girls might find interesting or care about.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

“Blocklists are bad, so I’m going to leave and keep posting on the Nazi site” is not a strong argument that you are someone we need to hear from.

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.

Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

Margaret Mitchell, who was famously fired from Google after co-authoring the seminal "Stochastic Parrots" paper, has been posting on X lately because she is caught up in mass blocklists of AI industry people on Bluesky, making the platform borderline unusable for her.

Here she's on X quote-tweeting fellow AI ethics researcher Giada Pistilli, who is in the same boat.

Pistilli said: I really wanted 🦋 to work, but it looks like I’m on the worst block lists out there. Oh, well.

Mitchell said: I think what many 🦋 Bsky users may be overlooking is that they’re blocking people in positions of influence *who want to listen to them*. As someone influentialish in AI ethics, it’s important for me to know what creators, critics, Luddites, etc., are thinking and seeing.

Mitchell added in a second post: I’m an advocate in tech directly aligned with a lot of their values in the very spaces where decisions that affect them are being made. I need the stats, articles, hot takes…all the deets they can give me so I can be prepared when talking to regulators,academics, techies, etc

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, a journalism venture is downsized because it is failing. Other times, however, a journalism venture is downsized because it is succeeding.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People

“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 1d

An absolutely devastating and massive blow to political coverage nationwide. @leximcmenamin.com has been doing work nobody else has, just truly leading on so many stories.

Beyond mind boggling decision tbh.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to see the complete dismantling of one of the best teams covering the Trump era as anything other than wilful destruction of any dissent to the authoritarian regime by Vogue’s owners.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 1d

It is time to stop referring to the National Party as the “junior partner” in the Coalition. Considering the Voice and now where the Libs are heading on net-zero by 2050, it is clear who is in charge. #auspol

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25

Then beneath it

TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

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Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social · 1d

Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli's chief military prosecutor has been arrested and will likely face trial for "perverting the course of justice".
Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4d

Following the documented rape of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teyman, the military prosecutor ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved.
There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence.
Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt.

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