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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 10h

Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

“They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you.”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Mar 22

i think about this william gibson quote a lot

Gibson's later fanzine articles convey his natural flair for travel writing, since the best pieces are his description of an unpleasant encounter with Span- ish police on Ibiza ("My Life under Fascism; or, Franco Killed My Dog"), an amusing account about observing a mirror spontaneously explode in a Turk ish restaurant ("Anecdotal Evidence"), and a 1984 report on a visit to Mexico ("On the Surface," Wing Window No. 7); these pieces would not have seemed out of place in Distrust That Particular Flavor. In the first article, he explained that the policemen, after asking if a stray dog belonged to Gibson, cruelly shot the animal, provoking this rare excursion into political commentary:
So the next time you hear someone say that Heinlein or Bianca Jagger or Anita Bryant is fascist, I've given you one little yardstick of the genuine, the histori- cal article. They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars. (18)

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 11h

“In an industrial town in… India, Naveen Kumar, 28, stands at his desk and starts his job for the day: folding hand towels 100s of times, as precisely as possible.

He doesn’t work at a hotel; he works for a startup that creates physical data used to train AI”

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.

www.latimes.com

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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11h

I had this piece in the pipeline at Teen Vogue when the news dropped; I'm publishing it to my Substack because I think it's important and I don't want an interview with Adam Hochschild to go to waste.
sufficienttotheday.substack.com/p/the-federa...

The federal government wants to crack down on left organizing. A century ago, it largely succeeded.

Socialist labor leader and presidential candidate Eugene Debs upon his release from federal prison in 1922.

sufficienttotheday.substack.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13h

They are destroying what SHE built.

#TeenVogue

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jan 28

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’

Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?

www.theguardian.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21h

"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"

It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations

“Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...

buff.ly

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

www.abc.net.au

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21h

If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?

Exploit The GOP's Nazi Meltdown

Are we really going to accept the conceit that the central issue in politics is whether DEMOCRATS are too extreme?

www.offmessage.net

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 16h

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com

According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”

www.thecut.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

woof

In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines.

“The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim.

Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean? postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-ca...

on tucker carlson, nick fuentes, the heritage foundation, and all that

If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought I’d write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the country’s leading ...

postsfromunderground.ghost.io

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say

Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

www.latimes.com

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Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 1d

Behold, the human autopen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

Believe him when he talks about the pain he wants to inflict on your communities, families, & children.

This is a lawless and destructive government hellbent on denying due process, dignity, & respect to our most vulnerable.

Get in the fight. Support your local teams pushing back against this.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"

Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 2d

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Hegseth’s use of the phrase “lethal kinetic strike”—in particular that “kinetic”—is one of the frontiers in BTL (Bullshit Tactical Language), where quasi-technical bureaucratic phrasing meant to euphemistically efface what you did contends with the childish desire to excitably specify what you did.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth V
@SecWar
X.com
Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Caribbean.
This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. All three terrorists were killed, and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 2d

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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TashasEv[ered Head] @tashasev.bsky.social · 2d

Reading this thread reminds me of this from @chuckwendig.bsky.social’s review of the Cosmic Crisp apple:

terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

A highlighted passage from the linked blog post which reads, “at the ground level of these monster-sized corporate entities you have people who genuinely care about both the individual product and the category of products — meaning, people who care very much about their apple, but also, apples in general. But then as you go up the chain, interest in the product is superseded by interest in money. The product is just a chit, a marker, a physical representation of investment and profit, a money tulpa. Doesn’t matter what the widget or dongle is; as long as it conveys cash…”

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

I do think this is one of fascism's main hooks, the full-on demonization of mental/emotional discomfort, the casting of it as a state of victimization at the hands of a diabolical (((them))).

It casts laziness as our natural state, and one to which we are entitled.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

It's transparently bad faith, but this whole line of argument that "hostilities" is about if there's a realistic chance of the target shooting back is absurd. The congressional war power isn't just about if Americans are being put in harm's way. It's about control over who we are waging war against.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 Trump admin is "doing a Libya"—claiming that US maritime strikes don't constitute "hostilities" under the War Powers Resolution and thus that law's 60-day limit on hostilities doesn't apply.

Shared thoughts with @washingtonpost.com, but here are more: 1/n

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...