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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 8h

Brainstorming possible articles: Trumpcoin, the Qatari plane, invading US cities, bombing civilian boats, pardons paid by donation to his library, using the DOJ against his political enemies, pardoning the J6ers, using the FCC to silence critics, refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress etc.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 8h

If you were going to draft articles of impeachment against this president, where would you even start? How many articles could you write?

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 11h

Remember, the Supreme Court okay’d this without explanation on the shadow docket

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 11h

This is a crazy must-read from @nlanard.bsky.social:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h

“The neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14h

Rural Republicans quite literally killing off their own constituents.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 14h

Scratch the surface with a lot of quiet normies and you’ll hear their deep concerns about the current situation. There’s a lot of people who just need a little encouragement from opposition leaders to come out of their shell.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 18h

Bookmarking this for teaching reasons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

Carr has been demolishing media consolidation limits, consumer protections, and corporate oversight and pretending it's improved government efficiency

it's pure regulatory capture and corruption, but outside of places like the Ars and The Verge, most outlets parrot his efficiency framing

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h

If we add in Articles of Confederation and then the Civil Rights Era, we could call the next one the Fifth American Republic.

a black and white photo of a restaurant with a caption that says play la marseillaise

ALT: a black and white photo of a restaurant with a caption that says play la marseillaise

media.tenor.com

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h

Time to be partisans for a second (or third) American republic

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

I've been passed that for months. Since the election, really. I don't see how pretending it isn't happening would help— if anything, makes for complacency—but I also don't think acknowledging that we've already lost the liberal democracy we had is defeatist. We can rebuild, or make something better.

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

Hey, the NJ gubernatorial election is less than a month away.

If the Democrats here want to start rolling out any kind of ad campaign that tells voters what Mikie Sherrill will do, that'd be super.

And no, "I can fly a helicopter" doesn't count.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A story headlined, Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland The president said he would pursue designating antifa a "foreign terrorist organization" and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday looked to bolster his public case for deploying the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, cities where he claims Democrat politicians have failed to protect journalists and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from people whom he sees as left-wing domestic terrorists.

Trump said during a televised meeting at the White House that he would pursue designating antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization” — a label that would allow for key financial and legal penalties because foreign entities are not protected by the First Amendment. Proponents of antifa — a political protest movement composed of unaffiliated groups — militantly oppose fascism, right-wing ideologies and are often anti-capitalist or anti-state.

Trump also repeated a call he had made earlier in the day for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, to be jailed, accusing them without evidence of “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

His statements and other remarks given by top aides during a 2½-hour event laid out a legal and moral case for the administration’s push to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Designated foreign terrorist groups can face financial sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department. The Justice Department can prosecute supporters under enhanced charges of providing “material support” to a terrorist group.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 1d

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

This is why making the shutdown about healthcare was always risky.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope Dolly outlives that man. I’ve been planning on blasting “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” on the proper occasion. youtu.be/RfinvuRolR0?...

Light of a Clear Blue Morning

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 1d

I see so much silent capitulation and cowardice in my daily life right now that it’s hard night to go through my days without feeling ill.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5d

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

404 Media @404media.co · 7d

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 1d

The media has a test right now. Are they going to frame this as “some say Trump is wrong about Portland” (or worse “there are indeed boarded up buildings in Portland”) or are they going to call a fabrication a fabrication?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

That's Jack Posobiec of pizzagate fame sitting at this table with the president, attorney general, FBI director, and DHS secretary.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 2d

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 2d

ANTHROPIC: “artificial superintelligence will certainly cause the end of the human species, which is we must build it before OpenAI does so we can have some chance of inscribing human moral values on the post-human future”

OPENAI: “what if we put ads in ChatGPT?”

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