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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22d

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22d

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

Different guy in camo with Arab style scarf, thick black glasses

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · 29d

For the second semester in a row, I am feeling this. Why ask me to critique an article when it's the first one I've ever read on the subject? 😭

Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Feb 27

So far the most excruciating part of grad school is not actually the workload, it's how often I'm forced to publicly state opinions on topics that are entirely new to me—and which I am therefore entirely unqualified to have strong opinions about. Just let me learn quietly until I understand it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Pretty clear from Secretary of Lying @karolineleavitt’s tweet they’re just gonna try to lie their way through it.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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nude antifa goat @goat.sex · Sep 7

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"

just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement

it's 95% now

you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 7

People make fun of the Arkansans begging for help that they won't get after voting for someone who never had any interest in helping them anyway but I need folk to also make the connection that they are employing the strategy advocated for when you say 'Get them into office & then move them left.'

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Sep 7

There are so many humans making jazz music that puts you to sleep. And y'all boiled a lake for a 24/7 feed instead of making a playlist

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Sep 7

Fell asleep with YouTube going and woke up horrified to realize it had autoplayed me onto a 24/7 feed of AI-generated "jazz music"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 20

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care.

In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service.

Lavender scare.

Everyone who participates is responsible

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Aug 20

20 Aug 25 -- Trump admin quietly enacts new ban of reimbursement for gender related care through fed govt's largest health insurer regardless of age. 8m fed & 2m postal employees of which ~14k are trans -- will be affected. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Trump quietly bans federal health insurance from covering gender-affirming care

The largest federal health insurance provider now bans coverage for gender-affirming care, but allows "faith-based counseling."

www.advocate.com

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Aug 12

Cain is the BEST! The original KFC Santería is pretty amazing too

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Aug 4

or.... freeze rents

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Aug 4

"Vibrant local economies" to me does not mean "billionaires and wall street investment," I say as real estate execs from NYC and Boston colonize my city, driving up rent and forcing all the small venues to close. I'd pick any of the run-down Rust Belt towns I've spent time in over NYC any day.

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Aug 4

I never realized that the people making arguments and decisions about this stuff think these cities are vibrant and beloved because of their economies. When I think of the coolest cities in this country, I don't think of the wealthiest ones. I'm not sure most other people do, either.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 4

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · Jul 28

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” said then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Oct. 9, 2023… This was not a secret. It was the proclaimed policy. And it has been followed as such, on and off, ever since.”

Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · Jul 28

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

Is starvation in Gaza really Israel's fault? The facts are clear

Rising starvation in Gaza may have a number of factors. But Israel's wartime policies on humanitarian aid are inarguably among them.

forward.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 28

Donald Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover https://on.ft.com/4lTlOey

Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover

Move comes as US and China hold trade talks and seek to stabilise relations

on.ft.com

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skitzocollagist 🐶 @drosophili.ac · Jul 28

me when my friend is talking to their better friend at the function

The You Know I Had to Do It To Em meme guy, standing in an awkward pose with hands clasped and an awkward smile

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Jul 12

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 1

Good thing the Democrats spent the last week melting down about Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary because otherwise more Americans might have known that the GOP was planning to fuck them to high hell and that wouldn't have been a good use of their time

oh wait

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · Jun 29

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Jun 29

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jun 24

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jun 24

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"

Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice

Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

www.lawdork.com

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Jun 11

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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em ✨🏴‍☠️💖💜💙 @emcolbs.bsky.social · Jun 10

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

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Jake Blount @jakeblount.com · Jun 11

GODDD I wish I had time to be in a rock band again. I miss being in a rock band so bad

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jun 10

The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 10

Kristi Noem on LA: "They're not a city of immigrants. They're a city of criminals."

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onion person @junlper.beer · Jun 8

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

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