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Infrogmation @infrogmation.bsky.social · Jan 25
"Despair is a tool of your enemies." -- Audre Lorde
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charlottegarden.bsky.social
As far as i can tell, people are recording/yelling while wearing their pajamas and sandals, and the feds respond by pointing their weapons at the crowd and then gassing a residential block.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Alito and others think the offense is in pointing out the government is lying, rather than the government lying bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14h
This is the same playbook the Trump administration ran in Portland, where DHS officials falsely accused local police of failing to help them (or not arriving quickly enough). Strikes me as a problem that the government lies so freely to the Supreme Court now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
The Trump administration made erroneous claims to the Supreme Court, mischaracterizing the responsiveness of local police and the actions of protesters in a filing asking the justices to sign off on the deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago, a New York Times investigation found. The emergency request, filed by the solicitor general, D. John Sauer, which draws heavily from court declarations made by two Homeland Security officials, misstates what happened in the aftermath of a car crash and shooting on Oct. 4 in Chicago that involved Border Patrol agents. A Times analysis of hours of police radio and hundreds of videos posted to social media refutes the federal government’s claims that the Chicago Police Department didn’t respond quickly to the scene, leaving federal agents to fend for themselves during what they called a riot.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Yep. I've been waiting for EU spooks to start reminding Trump that they've got their own capabilities.
simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14h
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15h
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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wizardkitten.bsky.social
"The vast majority of those at North Lake, 89%, have no criminal record, ICE data shows."

Finally some good reporting on this, thank you MLive.

They're suing. We need faster courts.
Massive Michigan ICE facility detains 1,200 immigrants, but growing number fight for release
The number of immigrants detained at Michigan's largest ICE facility has jumped to more than 1,200. But more immigrants are suing the federal government over a new policy that's keeping them locked up...
www.mlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Back in undergrad I worked at a university press. Part of my job was tracking down which of our titles had been pirated and calculating how much money it had lost the press and our authors. When someone mentions pirating a book, I remember the amount of money a small press loses and I get very sad.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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hunterub.bsky.social
"The White House isn't sure whether Trump actually had a phone call or just imagined it" is where we are on the dementia scale now.
stevebenen.com Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 16h
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:

- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”

- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
“You know what sucks? Having customers. Surely we can put an end to that.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
infrogmation.bsky.social
The story behind Louis Armstrong's ground breaking recordings 100 years ago.

Hot Five Centennial Celebration Part 1: Birth of the Hot, by Ricky Riccardi.

virtualexhibits.louisarmstronghouse.org/2025/11/12/h...

#Jazz #LouisArmstrong #100yearsAgo
Hot Five Centennial Celebration Part 1: Birth of the Hot
The annals of music are filled with iconic band names. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Metallica. It happens less frequently in the jazz world, which tends to favor the individual, but even then, …
virtualexhibits.louisarmstronghouse.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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dcbigjohn.bsky.social
Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training tonight from 6 to 7:30 pm

www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training Nov. 25
With the Trump regime deploying hundreds of ICE agents and CBP paramilitary units in the New Orleans area as part of its anti-immigrant campaign, activists and attorneys will host a
www.nola.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.

downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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esquiring.bsky.social
once more begging everyone to stop writing off core tenets of criminal procedure as "a technicality"
lawfaremedia.org Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 19h
"The government and Halligan here got off on a technicality.

And yet, in the rough and tumble world of criminal litigation, a win is a win."

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the dismissal of the Letitia James and James Comey indictments in The Situation.
The Situation: Not The Way I Wanted This to End
But I’ll take it.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
In 1968, a soldier named Hugh Thompson defied orders to save Vietnamese lives during the My Lai massacre. Eventually seen as a hero, in real time he was vilified and nearly court-martialed

It's Congress' job to stop Trump's war crimes, not the troops. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Catch-22 around Trump’s illegal orders | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Pennsylvania chooses a budget over the planet.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Q Thank you. You say that -- in your 3 declaration that "There was an incidence where 4 somebody was pulling the face mask and personally" 5 -- "and forcefully ripping off an officer's beard." 6 Do you see that? 7 A Yes. 8 Q What does that mean? 9 A Well, there was an officer that was 10 wearing a gas mask and a protestor had ripped the 11 gas mask off. This officer had a large beard. They 12 grabbed it and forcefully ripped the beard out of 13 his chin. 14 Q His beard was ripped off of his face? 15 A Yes, a good portion of it. 16 Q Okay. Did you take any pictures of it? 17 A I did not. 18 Q Did somebody else? 19 A I'm not aware. 20 Q How do you know that this happened? 21 A From the officer reporting it. 22 Q Okay. Who is he? A I don't recall the officer's name. 2 Q Was it somebody that you were familiar 3 with before you began work on Midway Blitz? 4 A No. 5 Q Do you know whether a report was written 6 about this incident? 7 A I don't know that. 8 Q Do you know whether or not the person who 9 allegedly ripped off an officer's beard was charged 10 with a crime? 11 A I don't know that specifically.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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digby56.bsky.social
I couldn't believe this could possibly be real but apparently it is. The new head of CBS News believes that most Americans are pedophiles and rabid gun nuts.
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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laurasaurus.bsky.social
I hope ICE agents can’t even enjoy sports anymore because the sound of a whistle is too triggering.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.

president.yale.edu/committees-p...
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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davidsirota.com
🚨NEWS: Exxon is now petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to grant corporations a new First Amendment right to avoid disclosing how much toxic pollution they are spewing and how much they are incinerating the atmosphere that supports all life on the planet.
Corporations Say It’s Their First Amendment Right To Hide
Corporations are asking the Supreme Court to help them dismantle a groundbreaking California transparency law requiring emissions disclosure.
www.levernews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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bhean-teine.bsky.social
🚨Marylanders

"It appears that ICE is preparing to dramatically expand its reign of terror in Baltimore very soon. Come learn from organizers from Ednor Gardens/Waverly who’ve successfully built a robust community ICE watch in their neighborhoods.
#MomSky

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November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
My I Am Not Enron T shirt is raising a lot of questions about whether I am Enron
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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flintdibble.bsky.social
[NEW VIDEO] In my latest, I apply the first principles of archaeology to the GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA. It’s a real banger.

It’s got evidence you’ve never seen before, some fun debunks on fake archaeologists, and it features an interview with Dr Zahi Hawass. 🏺🏺🏺
youtu.be/umzE774v4Xs
Dear Joe Rogan, the Great Pyramid is a Tomb (feat. Dr Zahi Hawass)
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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artbymags.bsky.social
free ICE watch training tomorrow at the broadside, 6pm, presented by chicago indivisible organizers who just lived through this hell we are about to experience. come get prepared and get a whistle kit!
b/w flyer for ICE WATCH 101, with alligator silhouettes in the upper left and lower right. this free training will cover: steps to safely and effectively watch ICE in your area; digital and personal security; best practices and lessons shared by chicago organizers; know your rights info. brought to you by Free The Swamp, ACLU, Indivisible NOLA, and Indivisible Chicago Northwest. Bring whistle kits for distribution if you have them. and the ICE watch hotline: 504-221-1499 TUESDAY 11/25 6-7:30pm Broadside (600 N. Broad) New Orleans.
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM