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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · Jan 27

i’m just quoting this so i can pin it.

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · Jan 27

your trans friends are sadder than they've ever been, and would love a check in

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 44m

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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The Late Jess Matthews 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessmatthewsproductions.com · 19m

They are kidnapping journalists now.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 19m

i mean it. how much less ragebait and clickbait would we have if we got rid of the “attention economy”

Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 27m

we should outlaw advertising

Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 27m

we should outlaw advertising

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 2h

My obituary should just be a chronological list of hobbies and the amount of time that I was briefly really into them.

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 23h

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.
The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.
People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community.
The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 7h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 1h

the thing about twitter, cbs, and wapo is that their new owners don’t care about having successful or respected businesses. they just want platforms to spew propaganda, and know that a sufficient portion of their audience will stick around no matter what, out of inertia and laziness

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

I feel terrible for everyone whose career is being destroyed but she is going to set speed records for running CBS into the ground, Ellison is no Murdoch

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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CamCron @camcron.bsky.social · 1d

the thing I love about The Resistance Frog in Portland is how viscerally it reminds me that ours isn’t just the side of justice but also joy and fun

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars who study America are saying they won’t visit because it’s too risky.

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 12h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 13h

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 20h

Folks who think "cats are not loving" have never been loved by a cat.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12h

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 12h

The worst thing about stuff like this is that they are deliberately ruining our future. They are actively trying to make the rest of the 21st century worse

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 12h

One particularly popular move among people with the political alignment of DHH &co is something called Accusation in a Mirror (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusat...)

tl;dr: the exact same thing that they were, in fact, doing, and continue to do, is what they will accuse completely innocent people of.

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 12h

i wish that ios apps couldn’t detect when you take a screenshot. i’m so fucking sick of apps interrupting me to ask if i wanna use their proprietary sharing instead. fuck no i don’t! that’s why i took a screenshot!

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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