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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 9h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 9h

This is gross

Gordon Ramsay thinks it’s cool

the families of Bostonians murdered and/or addicted by Bulger and Flemmi do not

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/m...

‘Whitey’ Bulger poster greets patrons at Dorchester bar once owned by man he killed - The Boston Globe

The image was part of a restaurant makeover by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay featured on a television series over the summer and intended to embrace the history of the building.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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BratKnitsWithYourEntrails @bratknits.bsky.social · 9h

He's not good enough to make me forget what an asshole he is, and that's why I wouldn't pick up the remote to watch him in anything, never mind go to a theater.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 9h

The decline in the middle class is driven entirely by more people being rich.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 10h

In my Catholic all-girls’ high school, the nun who taught our history of religion class once brought in a sub for a week because she was flying to DC to protest the School of the Americas. “I may be longer if I get arrested,” she said nonchalantly, raising all our teenage eyebrows.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 11h

Today while talking to a voter at one door, I saw a cardinal, then a little bunny, then as I was leaving, a well-fed hawk jumped down from a tree and then took off in flight. One extra reason to volunteer on a local campaign? NATURE.

Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 16d

Do you want the chance to not feel doom by doing democracy and are you local to Somerville/Cambridge/Boston? I'm looking for a few extra volunteers to work on a very small, but mighty campaign for school committee. Opportunities available for all levels of time commitment and campaign experience!

Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 25d

I spent the day at polling places holding a sign, talking to strangers about voting, petting dogs and I have no idea what kind of news happened today. It feels good!

I am, by far, not the first person to say this, but if you feel doom, find a local candidate and do some democracy with them.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Mari Adkins @marifromky.bsky.social · 11h

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 11h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 11h

Ahh this is something I have been wondering but not able to validate, because when I learned about stop words in LLMs it seemed like there were some pretty big differences glossed over by the words LLMs skip!!
That’s….really bad

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15h

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 13h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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BratKnitsWithYourEntrails @bratknits.bsky.social · 12h

The only entertaining thing about Fred Durst was when people confusing him with Robert Durst.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 12h

92%???

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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KC Complains a Lot @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 1d

Ffs the GOP literally wrote a book called Project 2025 that had all the fucked up shit they were gonna do in it and it seems like no elected Democrat gave a shit until Taraji P. Henson mentioned it on TV and EVEN THEN they still didnt do fuck all about it! THEY TOLD THE DEMS THE PLAN!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 16h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h

For Trump, the cruelty is the point.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 17h

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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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

Odds of insider trading going on? 100%?

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day

The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.

www.cnbc.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14h

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 16h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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