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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 14h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 10h

This is why they continue to be angry, even when the people they want a tally win control and try to do the things they want. Because that doesn't automatically change the culture and may even strengthen the cultural effects they hate!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

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 · 12h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

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 · 12h

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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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 2d

Dude also provides post game comedy gold 2 nights in a row

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 2d

Struggling in the NLDS is what helped wake the team up to win it all laat year. Hoping the fight the Phillies put up helped the boys in blue focus for what's coming...

Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 3d

a baseball player with the name jackson on his back is holding a bat over his head

ALT: a baseball player with the name jackson on his back is holding a bat over his head

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 8d

The 82nd fought in WWI but it wasn't an airborne unit until WWII. There weren't any parachute operations in WWI that I'm aware of.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11d

🇳🇱 The Dutch Air Force F-35 did open the scoring by shooting down a Russian UAV.

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Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 11d

There we go:

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 12d

Was that only on my cable (Spectrum in L.A.) or did ESPN really switch back to ESPN from ESPN2 w/o warning in the middle of the AB at the exact moment that Ohtani hit that HR so the entire country missed it live? Whatever producer is responsible from that should be hung from the 6th street bridge.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 15d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19d

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Map showing Cambodia v Armenia battleground

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 21d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 23d

It's an ugly win, and I'll take it of course, but we need more convincing wins heading into the playoffs or it'll be a short run. Dodgers playoff baseball already induces enough anxiety without the starters killing themselves to stretch deeper and every reliever stumbling through every at bat.

Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 27d

Not particularly relevant anymore....? We're literally debating whether it's the reason a major political activist was assassinated last week.

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · 27d

It actually kinda seems like you've flipped from the normal position you take on all other political issues ("stop looking at the apparent straight-forward answer and consider the impact of the memes") and are now arguing that folks should be ignoring the effect of the too-online culture.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 29d

Toby’s Spider-Man holding a train back from being destroyed with two strong ass spider webs

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 12

I don't think this is the guy because an operator that careful probably wouldn't be touching every railing in sight with his bare hands.

Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 11

I blame you

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 10

Time for Poland to announce a unilateral no fly zone over western Ukraine. Put the new F-35s to the test, loaded down with air-to-air missiles. Let Ukrainian air defense focus on the Easteen half of the country.

Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Sep 1

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

A screenshot of Facebook comments. The first, from somebody named Marcella, says "Wake up America! The encroachment is insidious and dangerous to our ideals and beliefs."

In reply, Soren says "That's why we turned French when they started offering French classes, right?"

Replying to Soren, somebody named Ken says "The French don't have a record of colonizing and conquering countries; and forcing their culture on the natives. Arabs do."

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's 100% intentional and it's why the GOP has been targeting public employee unions for YEARS. Think of the battles in Wisconsin. They're all complicit.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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