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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 1h

I suspect it'll be more like those Jan 6 lists and sm accounts. Identifying them for prosecution will become gamified. A hobby for the retired, like true crime message boards.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 1h

These officers are making six figures. The myth of the poor urban law enforcement officer is just that. If people will hatm for money, maybe the money should be at risk.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3h

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 1h

It's both.

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Nobodyatall @criquetgen.bsky.social · 3h

I'm all for transparency, but the end goal here is forcing charter schools on people who cannot afford charter schools

Nobodyatall @criquetgen.bsky.social · 3h

My deep-red #MAGA Trump/McConnell voting county has posted this on the county school system's landing page. Yes, our public schools are really struggling--we homeschool--but this is dirty pool. These schools suck by design because MAGA wants them to suck. MAGA hates #publicschools & #education

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 1h

In case you thought the government kidnapping a 15 year old autistic boy was an accident...

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3h

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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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4h

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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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22h

next thing you’ll tell me is that the same society that sneers at public displays of charity towards the most weak and vulnerable will elect, in turn, a government that is entirely predicated on terrorizing its own domestic population of ethnic minorities, laborers, and the poor writ large

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4h

They should put a new TRON soundtrack out every few years so we can all collectively pretend there’s a movie attached to it.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 3h

Jerque is one of the good guys (gals), in case anyone is suffering from bluesky reading comprehension issues.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 4h

Cops lie. ICE lies

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

Going to ignore that those five year old videos reflected a single area of about three or four blocks, and the rest of the city went on as normal?

The constant framing as though the city *was* burning five years ago but not now is also misinformation that is causing harm.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

See also: Chicago, Memphis, ans any other city they list for invasion. Every day. Every platform.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

It's seriously infuriating how national media is bothsidesing Portland. There's a major (award winning!) airport here which you can fly nonstop to from every city in the country.

SEND A FUCKING REPORTER AND RENT THEM A CAR!!!

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

Again, winning elections has nothing to do with agreeing with the candidates. Had it been her then it would not matter. Maduro lost to Edmundo Gonzalez, who had to flee the country.

Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

They did not, though. No political party is your friend, and no one or two members are the problem. This is not scooby doo, and they were not meddling kids. The leadership of the last 30+ years have not cared about those policies. You have to work harder to change society, the system to fix that.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

Extremely concerning the the development team here can't seem to understand the difference between stated desire for a solution, and root cause of a problem.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22h

I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone have any other examples of judges expressing concern about the judiciary to the press? Like, ever in US history. This seems new. Or at least new to the last 150 years.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 8h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 5h

Great thread on what studios still fon't understand about style and tone.

DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 2d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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