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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

sigh

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Erdosgate

“extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” — or at least they used to?

open.substack.com

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 2d

This is what makes me feel insane though everyone who has basic reasoning skills has been going "this is nonsense, this is bullshit, this is snake oil" continuously for months but journalists will still cover it as if obvious outcomes are astounding

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Lisa Porter, who lives a couple of blocks away from Fisher, had to take deep breaths before describing her interactions with agents. She yelled at Border Patrol agents parked near her house to leave for several minutes in the early afternoon, she said, inspired by videos she had seen of Chicago residents who had chased ICE agents out of their neighborhoods.

“Just based on how I feel after this, I cannot imagine — or, I see what people are going through, and it is unspeakable,” Porter said. “And I’m a white lady who’s sitting in a nice suburb in Chicago.”

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zhinxy and 1 otherworldly @zhinxy.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to make the imperialist assertion that there should be no kings anywhere!!

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3d

"Ummm, actually, lots of countries that are better than the U.S. have kings, so 'No Kings' is American exceptionalism" is a take I actually saw on the skyline just now from a person with a lot of followers and an academic job

Just... shut the fuck up, please

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🎵 sinister toothbrush 🏴 @sintooth.bsky.social · 3d

My biggest takeaway from Science Wars is that it feels like freedom to throw away all regard for what is true and accurate, and it feels like oppression to be told "this is the way reality is," but crucially it only FEELS that way. Liberation depends on our understanding that the opposite is true.

Did The Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism by William Gillis

Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of reactionaries happily embrace that same role, attacking science as totalitarian. Words like “postmodernism” and “relativism” get thrown about with fervor but little clarity, echoes of a conflict from decades ago.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 3d

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 4d

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

Screen grab of the WeRate Dogs podcast where they’re talking about cop violence against dogs

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 7d

The average person is not informed that Covid is not confined to the respiratory system and infects blood vessels, immune cells, and the brain.

We rolled the dice and have exposed everyone to SARS2 repeatedly, and the idea that this has been determined safe through rigorous study is patently false.

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Politico @politico.com · 7d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Fully Informed Jury Association @fijanational.bsky.social · 13d

FIJA stands with the #jurynulification activists of Defend Our Juries who've faced repression in the UK for basic free speech

fija.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

The Fight for Free Speech Around Jury Nullification

From the US to the UK, activists with both the Fully Informed Jury Association and Defend Our Juries have routinely faced repression for clearly protected free speech

fija.substack.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9d

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 9d

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder how many of these folks cut their teeth on grand-strategy computer games — such as CIVILIZATION — where just deciding "we're no longer a democracy... we're now operating under despotism because that'll be advantageous" is just a mouse-click choice.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 9d

You signed up for this when you tolerated cloud computing

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 15d

Like I feel this on an almost primal level.

Over the past two months, HRT has improved me in ways that I didn’t even know needed improvement. My skin isn’t rough anymore, and it’s better than it’s been in years. My libido is under my control now, instead of controlling me and intruding into my awareness when it’s not needed. My chest is visibly growing more and more every day – they actually stick out, where there used to be nothing but flat skin. And instead of either feeling totally numb or abruptly bursting into tears, I have a whole repertoire of emotions available to me now. I can be calm and content, I can cry without it overwhelming me, I can be happy and sad at once without any contradiction, and I never run out of emotions to the point of numbness anymore. These aren’t mood swings – they’re mood symphonies. This is all unbelievably cool, and I wouldn’t have known what I was missing without experiencing it firsthand. Some people might look at my patchwork self of hormone pills and mix-and-match anatomy, and call it monstrous, freakish, an abomination. You know what I call this?

Upgrades.

Since the dawn of humanity, there have been certain features of our existence that were considered fundamental, unchangeable, and definitive of what it means to be human. For almost all of history, it was an unavoidable fact that those who were born a certain sex would remain that sex. Sure, living as another gender had sometimes been feasible in a social sense. But bodily? That was simply impossible – until it wasn’t. Now, that assumption has been pulled out from under us, and some people aren’t happy about that. They want us to go away. They want to be able to go on assuming that every woman they see is a cis woman, regardless of what the reality may be. They want us to deny ourselves this life-affirming treatment for the sake of some empty platitudes about “nature”.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 10d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11d

i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 12d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 13d

Of course you would download a car, dipshits! Information isn't economically scarce!

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 13d

I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14d

It's weird how cop physiology has become such a distinctive feature, they have reshaped their bodies to be cop-shaped by taking huge amounts of steroids and then never ever working out, and then living on a diet of food they think isn't woke and gay.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 15d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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