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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15m

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 2m

It’s literally happening right now and a fucker just got a clean bill of health.

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26m

"I urge people to think of surveillance as the infrastructure of authoritarianism," says @mguariglia.bsky.social

The threat of mass surveillance under Trump

The Trump administration is collecting our data to realize its authoritarian goals.

madness.ghost.io

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 10m

I feel the question “why arent these folks who chase a life of wealth and fame better people” answers itself

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Did it happen yet? @didithappeny3t.bsky.social · 16h

No.

And if we could stop losing people like Diane Keaton that’d be great.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 17h

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 17h

That sounds healthy and delicious! 🤤

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 18h

Really is one of the details that gives me solid hope that it all falls apart once Trump kicks the bucket.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18h

Lol. Even the media can't handle how much of a shit Vance is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 18h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · 22h

As the Salvation Army's enabling of ICE is drawing more attention to them, read our piece on their long record of anti-queer/trans hatred, classism and abuse of the poor.

@davidforbes.bsky.social wrote this when Asheville city hall gave the SA over $1 million. ashevilleblade.com?p=4827 #avlnews

No salvation |

ashevilleblade.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 19h

Mood:

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t need therapy, I just need everyone to stop being wrong.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 20h

The news makes me strongly dislike most members of my own species. We’re collectively awful/beyond hope.

It’s worth paying rent to not be exposed to cable news on the daily.

a person is smashing a tv with a hammer

ALT: a person is smashing a tv with a hammer

media.tenor.com

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 20h

Trump got a Covid booster, btw, in case you have the misfortune of interacting with a right wing antivaxxer and need to convince them for the good of the public (like if they hang out around babies)

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 21h

So all the cable news networks are praising T-Rump over the so called peace “he” supposedly rendered. 🙄

These morons have all been bought so hard.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 21h

He cited her warning that "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Some Sort of Gaming Nonsense @somesortofnonsense.bsky.social · 21h

If I let other people fuck their lives up as much as they fuck up my life, will that create more or less work for me in the long run? 🤔

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

Now is the time to support DarkSky International and/or your local branch darksky.org

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

How Trump plays you:
He posts a claim undermining the facts about January 6.

YOU ALL DISSEMINATE IT!!!

You don't mock that he's complaining that the FBI responded to a terrorist attack. You instead "fact check" re his claim that Joe Biden was in charge of the FBI--which is abt tribalism, not truth

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 1d

We have known for a long time that guy with spiky hair, girl with purple hair and glasses and a frog is the ideal group for cataclysmic times.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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