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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

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Hillary Borrud @hborrud.bsky.social · 1d

ICE detained a U.S. citizen for 7 hours in Portland after she photographed ICE agents.

As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

ICE detains U.S. citizen for 7 hours after she photographed agents in Oregon

Authorities claim Berenice Garcia-Hernandez "aggressively followed" agents, while she says she was targeted for documenting their presence to warn the community.

www.oregonlive.com

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 2d

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded.

Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off.

The media landscape shrinks even further.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

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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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2d

...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 · 3d

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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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

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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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 2d

This is a big WTF. Teen Vogue had (surprisingly) some of the best politics reporting of the past several years.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

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 Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Arty-san @arty-san.bsky.social · 2d

HOLY SH!T

Please read it.

A U.S. citizen, a father on his way to work at a food bank, takes the time to stop and talk to immigration agents, asking them to protect children, and they SHOOT HIM IN THE BACK.

REPOST! PLEASE!!! We cannot let this continue.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

ICE has beaten, detained & arrested 170 citizens, at least 3 of whom were pregnant

George Retes is a US veteran who was held in solitary for 3 days

Kristi Noem says it’s not happening, but @motherjones.com has done the reporting

If they treat citizens this way, imagine what they do to immigrants

More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents

ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.

www.motherjones.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.

There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.

And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Wtf?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone deserves food security. Today, I sat down with my friends Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Kenji López-Alt to discuss keeping our city fed as the President ends SNAP benefits for millions of Americans.

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

I recommended what I know. I think vbox should also work.

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately I guess the answer is “find someone with a windows pc”

Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

It not work? Sorry :(

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Yo dawg I heard you like computers

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Yes it’s like a whole computer in your computer

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Man talk about Polarization

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah it’s getting kind of hard to help but my guess is maybe it’s the wrong iso. If it’s arm64 try x86/64 or vice versa (there should be a choice when downloading the iso)

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Then you’ll need to download your exe inside that windows install (either from the Internet, or you can mess with the VM settings to try to give it access to your real disk) and double click it

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 4d

Settings for your VM, make it boot from the windows 11 iso. Install onto the VM’s “hard drive” or whatever it calls its permanent storage. Then when it’s done installing you should have a full windows-in-a-window

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