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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3h

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2h

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent

Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning. Back in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is expected to rule in 20 minutes on the use of force by federal agents against protesters and journalists in Chicago.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

'It's a disgrace': Chicagoans describe jarring encounters with feds as judge prepares to rule on 'blitz'

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

Tear gas in use during a strike in the 1930s

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 8h

My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two

jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 8h

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

NYT

INTERESTING TIMES

Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

And can conservative feminism fix it?
By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

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twfisher.bsky.social @twfisher.bsky.social · 23h

So in one courtroom the DOJ is arguing that a sandwich thrown into an armor-wearing officer is a forcible assault while simultaneously in another courtroom DOJ says tackling protestors or shooting them in the head with less lethal munitions does not count as use of force. One rule for thee...

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Carl Cecere @carlcecere.bsky.social · 19h

This sort of mentality wouldn't exist, and we wouldn't have to try and undo it through awkward application of injunctive relief, if people could just sue officers for damages.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 23h

Hewson also says tear gas "doesn't harm people."

Loevy: "It really should be a last resort, would you agree?"

Hewson: "No."

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

An Antarctica story.

Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.

He did not.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

“What are we gonna do?”
“The same thing we always do. We’re going to say that crime is up 834%”

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Look what I found behind some of George's toys.

#houserabbit #rabbit #bunny #rabbitsofmastodon #bunniesofmasto #survey #pet

A screen capture of a checkbox-style survey form titled "2025 House Rabbit Survey".

An introductory paragraph reads "Thank you for agreeing to participate in the 2025 House Rabbit Survey. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential, and only disclosed in aggregate form to help improve the performance of your servants in their duties. Please check one box for each question."

There follows a list of questions, numbered from 1 to 13 inclusive. Each contains a question/phrase to be answered, and three columns of checkboxes to indicate the appropriate answers. From left to right, the columns are titled "Disapprove", "Disapprove Strongly", and "Disapprove Very Strongly".

The questions are:

Timeliness of servants’ meal service.
New things in your space.
Current frequency of snacc from servants.
Being prevented from going to The Forbidden Place.
Being admonished for chewing on things.
Being admonished for peeing on things.
Being admonished for leaving the Magic Balls outside the litter box.
Being picked up.
Being taken to the V-E-T.
Unexpected loud noises.
Unexpected visitors in your space.
Being asked to share toys.
Being called by the servants.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 1d

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Jun 29

how about no

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Today in 1958—Election Day—a B-47 bomber carrying a 3.8-Megaton Mark-39 Mod 1 thermonuclear gravity bomb became engulfed in flames on takeoff and crashed from a height of 1,500 feet into private land about 4.5 miles southwest of Dyess AFB, near Abilene, Texas. Three crewmen ejected, one was killed.

A color photograph of a B-47 taking off using Jet-Assisted Take Off rockets (JATO) attached to the rear fuselage, as seen from below and to the left. Large plumes of smoky exhaust pour from the six jet engines and the rockets.

An excerpt from an official, undated, partly-declassified summary of nuclear broken arrows:

"DESCRIPTION — DYESS AFB

On November 4, a B-47 with a MK39 Mod 1 (sealed pit) weapon aboard crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff from Dyess AFB Texas. The plane had reached an altitude of about 1500 ft. [REDACTED] crater 35 ft. in diameter. [REDACTED] Radiation was limited to small numbers of alpha. The residue was shipped to OR [Oak Ridge] and LASL [Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory].

A photocopy of declassified (formerly SECRET RESTRICTED DATA), undated, black and white photographs of a MK 39 Mod 1 warhead as seen from the side and the front. It is cylindrical with a blunt nose. The casing is dark and little detail is visible due to the poor quality of the reproduction. Below the photographs are these descriptions:

Length 104.5 in.
Diam. 34.5 in.
Weight 6230 lbs.

Carriers
1 B-58 Pod
2 SM-62 SNARK
3 Redstone

The front page of the November 4, 1958, evening edition of the Abilene Reporter-News (Texas) featuring the lead headline “Dyess B47 Crashes on Takeoff; 1 Dead” Other headlines concern the coronation of Pope John XXIII and voter turnout in the 1958 presidential election.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Today in 1962, the United States conducted TIGHTROPE—its last fully-atmospheric nuclear test—as part of Operation Fishbowl. A Nike Hercules SAM was fired 69,000 feet into the sky, where its W31 warhead exploded 2 miles south-southwest of Johnston Island with a reported yield of 10 kilotons.

A color photograph of a Nike Hercules anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile at an Army base. The white missile is mounted on a green rail launcher and titled at about a 45-degree angle toward the partly cloudy sky. A soldier in a green uniform at right leans on a large green metal box adjacent to the launcher.

A screenshot from an official color film showing the TIGHTROPE explosion milliseconds after detonation as a glowing ball of plasma in the sky.

A screenshot from an official color film a few milliseconds later showing the TIGHTROPE explosion expanding into a glowing ring or torus.

A wide-view color map showing showing the location of Johnston Island in the North Pacific Ocean, about 825 miles southwest of Hawai'i.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Dick Cheney did enormous and lasting damage as VP from 2001-09. But we shouldn’t overlook the fact that under two Bush presidencies—as secretary of defense (1989-93) and then as VP—he also supported the largest unilateral elimination of US nuclear weapons in history—almost 15,000 bombs and warheads.

A color chart prepared by Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists showing the size of the total US nuclear stockpile from 1945 through 2020, along with the size of the annual increase or decrease in the stockpile and the total numerical and percentage increase or decrease by presidential administration. A large red arrow denotes the elimination of more than 5,000 nuclear weapons under President George H.W. Bush.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

you can win without billionaires supporting you

you can win without party leadership endorsing you

you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch

we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin is in court regularly seeking injunctions as well as stays and other temporary relief. Two leading scholars, Will Baude and Sam Bray, argue in a forthcoming piece that courts should probably rebuff some of these motions under the famous equitable doctrine of "unclean hands." /1

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

"'You wrote everything down, Crispin?' he said. 'Why?'

Crispin looked appalled.

'Got to keep records, Reacher,' he said. 'Can't cover y' tracks if you don't know where y'left 'em. Then... can put it all back, see, hardly a crime at all.'"

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

"‘You’re my own flesh and blood,’ said Dibbler, shaking his head. ‘How can you do this to me?’

‘Because I’m your own flesh and blood,’ said Soll.

Dibbler brightened. Of course, when you looked at it like that, it didn’t seem so bad."

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals

“‘As a wizard I must tell you that words have power.’

'As a politician I must tell you I already know.’”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

This statement is true, and Steve also knows what I‘m about to say, so this is just additional commentary not a correction:

This is not new. Cops have been doing this for ages. Talk back to a cop and they’ll rough you up. They have been doing this and getting away with it for a very long time.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*

The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 2d

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

www.thenation.com

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Carrie A Lee @carriealee.bsky.social · 6d

Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 7d

Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...

The American Military Officer After Liberalism

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what

warontherocks.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Feb 16

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was designed by a group at Armour Institute (now IIT) led by Thomas Poulter, a veteran of Byrd's Second Polar Expedition.

It was designed to be a mobile base for exploration & research, 37 tons in weight, 55 ft long with 10 ft tall tires.
(📷: C.C. Shirley)

"The crew of the Snow Cruiser photographed in Antarctica on September 20, 1940. From left, C.W. Griffith, diesel mechanic; F. Alton Wade, comm.; Felix L. Ferranto, radio operator; and T.A. Petras, pilot of the Snow Cruiser plane.
C.C. Shirley / United States Antarctic Service"

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

Today in 1974, the missile submarine USS James Madison (SSBN-627) collided with a Soviet attack submarine in shallow waters as it departed the sub base at Holy Loch, Scotland, leaving a 9-foot scratch on the Madison’s hull. The United States did not report the accident to avoid embarrassing the UK.

A color photograph of the Lafayette-class, nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS James Madison underway at sea on the surface. The hull number 627 is painted in white on the starboard side of its sail.

A copy of a formerly Secret/Eyes Only cable dated November 3, 1974, from Deputy National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger:

“Have just received word from the Pentagon that one of our Poseidon submarines has just collided with a Soviet submarine. The SSBN James Madison was departing Holy Loch to take up station when it collided with a Soviet submarine waiting outside the port to take up trail. Both submarines surfaced and the Soviet boat subsequently submerged again. There is no report yet of the extent of damage. Will keep you posted.

Warm Regards.”

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