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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4h

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3h

i feel like more people would care if they knew/believed that white people are the primary beneficiaries of SNAP

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 2h

Dear Canada:

American here. Trump’s a crook and a madman; there’s no percentage in dealing with him.

Fucking. Bury. Us. Put export levies on your oil and cut off the electricity. Hit us while we’re down.

There is no poverty that can be worse than the moral and psychological poverty of Trumpism.

Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

This is very good

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 4h

bike lanes for everyone!

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 4h

yeah, no

cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 7h

Guaranteed

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Ethos -most articles there are credited to "The Ethos Ediitors", including this one- is an AI slop shop that is generating non-existent quotes from non-existent articles by real people in real magazines.

they're not on here but they have 90k followers on instagram! www.instagram.com/elevateyoure...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7h

I just wanna remind everyone that Trump is the oldest person ever to become president. In 2028 he will be 83.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 9h

normie coworker who used to be a bog standard republican woman 15 years ago had to delete instagram because the sight of the white house being torn apart filled her with too much rage. it's funny the things that trigger people

Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

do you think normies care about the East Wing being demolished?

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 11h

Possibly!

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the…

The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

www.canarymedia.com

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile in the East Bay: “The clergyman, Jorge Bautista, said an agent shot him in the face w the projectile from about 5 feet away.
‘I’m in a lot of pain,’ Bautista texted from an emergency room in Oakland. ‘[The CPB agent ] clearly was aiming for the face.” 🥺 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Protest of Bay Area immigration crackdown met with apparent stun grenades at Coast Guard base

Law enforcement officials deployed what appeared to be stun grenades to break up a group of protesters attempting to block traffic to Coast Guard Island.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11h

Trump demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom is a bigger priority to him than doing anything to help the American people, including re-opening our fucking government.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

there's just no longer any pretense whatsoever that there's a difference between "can do this" and "should do this"

if he's allowed to do it - which includes cases where he isn't allowed to do it but nobody can stop him from doing it anyway - it is, ipso facto, fine for him to do

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12h

What do you want to bet he just pivots to Oakland?

Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 12h

"San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has said that Donald Trump was cancelling plans for a “federal deployment” to the city as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in anticipation of a major immigration operation."

Trump cancels plans to send federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Mayor Daniel Lurie says he spoke with Trump as protesters took to streets in anticipation of a large-scale deployment

www.theguardian.com

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 13h

Putin would be angry at the loss of all his bugs

cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 13h

Zing!

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14h

@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social:

"It's just nice to see a politician who's too young to have been friends with Jeffrey Epstein." 😆

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h

Over the course of 10 years, he lowered our standards to the point where he can completely destroy the East wing of the White House and the Republican Party is like, "well, he is the president."

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14h

-- all of which means that we may launch a war with a sovereign nation (assuming we haven't already with the strikes on their boats) b/c the Secretary of State, out of personal and political animus towards its leader, successfully manipulated the President into believing a lie.

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 14h

I know a bunch of good people who work at AECOM. In fact they have one of the best cultural resources practices around. I feel so bad for the staff, who did not ask for this.

ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 16h

Highlighting based on question received:

Construction contractor: Clark Construction

Engineering: AECOM

Architect: McCrery Architects

In case anyone has feedback for them…

ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 16h

Also found this:

Privately funded $200-million East Wing expansion by Clark Construction and AECOM proceeds amid questions over design review and preservation standards

www.enr.com/articles/616...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 1d

I got a recommendation for US Mobile, which uses the 3 big services' networks. It does appear to be vastly cheaper.

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 1d

it's a command post. They're not going to be bringing detainees there, they don't have the facilities.

cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't think today is a good day to get arrested by frogs."

(On my seasonal rewatch of "Over the Garden Wall".)

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