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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 18h

This is the most insane response to a normal post I've ever seen

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 16h

This is very good

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...

Andrew Cuomo is a Nihilist Who Hates New York City

Near the beginning of his mayoral campaign, an eagle eyed observer noticed Andrew Cuomo’s car parked illegally and snapped a photo of it for social media. It wasn’t the worst of Andrew Cuomo’s offense...

www.elizabethspiers.com

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 1d

It actually leads to El Clasico Presented by Walnart

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first installment of what will be a regular feature, tentatively called “For the Record”:

A selective chronicle, a roundup of what I believe deserves our attention – an attempt to bear witness and perhaps create, over time, a record of our extraordinary moment.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity

American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, Complicity

American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.

democracyamericana.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

What the far right has figured out is that if they can construct an artificial social environment where they're seen as more numerous, strong, and popular, and their enemies seem few, timid, and dominated, many people will side with them, regardless of what the respective parties are actually saying

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3d

it seemed obvious from his comments recently that this was coming

it is pretty funny that Jeffries was so desperate not to endorse Mamdani and then Cuomo ran such a terrible campaign that any other eventual call would have left the stink of a loser on him www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

After a lengthy wait, Jeffries to endorse Mamdani

The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.

www.politico.com

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 3d

You could split the cost with Anna if you allow her to ask the DOGE question on the other side

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 5d

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 6d

I've been trying to come up with a pithy way of telling people that Trump doesn't care about this country or its traditions so him bulldozing the White House to build a tacky monument to himself really does me a solid.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 6d

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

"Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare"

In 2000, during a deposition for a civil suit unrelated to the fraud investigation, Scott pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.[47] In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billed Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[48][8]

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 6d

Hochul even expressly made clear that wouldn't happen in her announcement

Stefanik is a completely unprincipled piece of work

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 8d

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 8d

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 9d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 8d

Napoleonic jewel heist

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9d

They have nothing to charge them with because these are fishermen, and it’s not illegal to survive an unprovoked murder attempt by a foreign military.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9d

Those men are super dangerous drug smuggling terrorists, which is why . . . we are letting them go.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

www.nytimes.com

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 8d

There should be a monument

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Ivan the KryptKeeper ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 8d

Found buried in a kitchen drawer. Still works. There are at least another three of these somewhere in my apartment and office. Most resilient piece of fintech ever manufactured. #HP12C

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 9d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 9d

This is probably somewhat law-centric, but I think that focus on concrete help / community care has always been there, but doesn't translate well online, in part because it always requires context.

The flooding of airports after the Muslim Ban is the exception that proves the rule for me.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9d

One additional thread that I didn't have space to expand on fully: Resistance 2.0 seems to be more focused on acts of community care, like helping neighbors targeted by ICE. That fits into the ongoing conversation about strengthening democracy by creating shared civic spaces...

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9d

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

Resistance Is Cringe

But it’s also effective.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 9d

www.westsiderag.com/2025/10/18/r...

Ruins in the River: Stories from a Scrappy Little Upper West Side Skyline

Photographs by Yvonne Vávra. By Yvonne Vávra The ghosts are on my heels. Last weekend, I wrote about how the

www.westsiderag.com