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coxn.skyquarium.org
Have we considered narrowing the gyre?
January 18, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Hanging out in a café and a guy walks in and says "I'm a geologist- which one of you brakes for fossils?" and got to chat about some local places to check out. Bumper stickers as conversation starters for the win again!
January 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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danielsuitor.com
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
john-abernathy.bsky.social John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 23h
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
theonion.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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awmercer.bsky.social
Charlie has figured out how to make the printer print test pages and now it’s all he wants to do.
Charlie the orange cat standing on top of a laser printer investigating various buttons.
January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
For years, many of us have tried to get people to care about criminalization with only limited success. We made the point that criminalization is fascism's fuel. And I really really hope that more people now understand this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...
91. Shortly before Renee Good was shot and killed on January 7, 2026, a different scene unfolded less than a mile away. An attorney for the State of Minnesota with expertise in civil rights law witnessed an apparent DHS arrest unfolding, and she approached the scene in order to act as a witness. She identified herself as an attorney and stood a safe distance from the arrest. A DHS agent jumped out of his vehicle, unloaded entire canisters of pepper spray on her at point blank range, causing such irritation that she had to strip her clothing off on the scene to reduce the effect.
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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jamellebouie.net
incredible book and i will also recommend elaine parson's work as well. uncpress.org/978146965213...
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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jamellebouie.net
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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hofrench.bsky.social
I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.
January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
The relevant section on perfidy from the Manual on Military Commissions.

Maximum punishment:

"Death, if the death of any person occurs as a result of the improper use of the treachery or perfidy."
(17) USING TREACHERY OR PERFIDY. a. Text. “Any person subject to this chapter who, after inviting the confidence or belief of one or more persons that they were entitled to, or obliged to accord, protection under the law of war, intentionally makes use of that confidence or belief in killing, injuring, or capturing such person or persons shall be punished, if death results to one or more of the victims, by death or such other punishment as a military commission under this chapter may direct, and, if death does not result to any of the victims, by such punishment, other than death, as a military commission under this chapter may direct.” b. Elements. (1) The accused invited the confidence or belief of one or more persons that they were entitled, or obliged to accord, protection under the law of war; (2) The accused intended to betray that confidence or belief; (3) The accused killed, injured or captured one or more persons; (4) The accused made use of that confidence or belief in killing, injuring or capturing such person or persons; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities. c. Comment. (1) Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them. They are, however, forbidden if they contravene any generally accepted rule. (2) The line of demarcation between legitimate ruses and forbidden acts of perfidy is sometimes indistinct, but the following examples indicate the correct principles. It would be an improper practice to secure an advantage of the enemy by deliberate lying or misleading conduct which involves a breach of faith, or when there is a moral obligation to speak the truth. For example, it is improper to feign surrender so as to secure an advantage over the opposing belligerent thereby. So similarly, to broadcast to the enemy that an armistice had been agreed upon when such is not the case would be treacherous. On the other hand, it is a perfectly proper ruse to summon a force to surrender on the ground that it is surrounded and thereby induce such surrender with a small force. (3) Treacherous or perfidious conduct in war is forbidden because it destroys the basis for a restoration of peace short of the complete annihilation of one belligerent by the other. (4) One may commit an act of treachery or perfidy by, for example, feigning an intent to negotiate under a flag of truce or a surrender or feigning incapacitation by wounds or sickness or feigning a civilian, non-combatant status or feigning a protected status by the use of signs, emblems, or uniforms of the United Nations or a neutral State or a State not party to the conflict. d. Maximum punishment. Death, if the death of any person occurs as a result of the improper use of the treachery or perfidy. Otherwise, confinement for life.
January 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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cpsc.gov
Plug that space heater directly into a wall outlet, friends.
A power strip. Behind it are two glowing eyes made of fire. The text reads: A fire is looming when you plug your space heater into a power strip. Power strips are not designed to handle the energy needs of space heaters. Always plug your space heater directly into a wall outlet.
January 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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baseballszn.bsky.social
“Why didn’t you get an earlier start to your day?”

Exhibit A:
A vey large orange cat sits entirely on the arm of the author, her had the only thing visible from under the mass of fur and cat limbs.
January 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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manucleardevice.bsky.social
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
John Booth, a 19-year-old apprentice who joined a Luddite attack on a textile mill in April 1812. He was injured, detained and died after being allegedly tortured to give up the identity of his fellow Luddites. Booth's last words became a legend: "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to the local priest, who attested that he could. The dying Booth replied, "So can I."
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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jonahshai.bsky.social
I never knew American Samoans have US nationality (incl. passports and SSNs), but not citizenship. And, incredibly, neither did many of them.

A fascinating and infuriating story about a tiny town in Alaska where this lack of civic education has had awful consequences.

boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...
January 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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chriscooperwcu.bsky.social
The 2026 primaries officially kick-off Monday when #ncpol county boards of elections begin sending mail ballots to people who have requested one.

Primary elections come first in NC, AR, & TX. 👀 📊 ⬇️

www.ncsl.org/elections-an...
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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samitsarkar.bsky.social
"How *do* you plan to defend getting rid of the ICEBlock app while allowing X to generate degrading images of a woman ICE killed? Can Apple and Google even identify their values beyond their commitment to ‘shareholder value’? What’s your fucking endgame here, guys?"
lopatto.bsky.social Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 8d
I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
The murder of Renee Good —& the way the Administration is smearing her —is reminiscent of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit mother killed by the KKK while driving marchers home after the Selma to Montgomery march. The FBI had an informant in the Klan car.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ds...
Home of the Brave (Bullfrog Films clip)
YouTube video by Bullfrog Films
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
Instead of using informant Gary Thomas Rowe to convict the other men who murdered her, the FBI smeared Viola Liuzzo, accusing her of being lascivious & a bad mother. The documentary Home of the Brave is worth watching this weekend. These tactics (& the anger at defiant white women) have history.
January 10, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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mkramer.bsky.social
hi i covered my car in jazz bumper stickers and am looking for more. i have these

please help i want to be the weirdest mom in carrboro
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 PM