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JonS253
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Jon's just zis guy, you know?

"My no-consequences power fantasy is to be able to help everyone."

Fanfic: archiveofourown.org, search "jonsills"
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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mattgertz.bsky.social
The greatest threat that free speech currently faces in this country is that the president doesn’t believe in it. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
February 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Take a look at this insane image the Illinois College Republicans posted and then read their statement about how they're not trying to excuse or glorify violence.
ONLY TRAITORS HELP INVADERS Image of a masked federal agent with a gun at the back of a kneeling defenseless man who looks like Alex Pretti In regard to a question about whether the stylized graphic of an officer holding a gun to someone’s head glorifies or valorizes the killings, the RSO wrote that “the image is, in fact, not intended to target nor incentivize violence against a particular party.” They added that “There is no labeling in the graphic, and there are no identifying features. In short, people are going to take away whatever they want, but reasonably this graphic does not glorify nor valorize any incident because it lacks any reasonable connection.” The group stated it does not “endorse violence nor discrimination towards anyone based on their identification with a specific protected group,” and that the groups message is that it supports “the enforcement of the law and those who enforce it.”
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
the funny thing about this redaction is that you can google the title of this talk and the first hit is the guy who gave it
msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social Hi my name is Mika 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 23h
I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.
From: Sent: To: Sunday, May 8, 2016 10:18 PM jeffrey E. Subject: London talk the title of my talk October 25 in London, audience "500, 35 pounds paid attendance each "An Evening on Evolutionary Biology: An overview covering Feminism, Transgender, Homosexuality and Honor Killings." $3000 for me (i will already be in London paid for by Imperial College) and an almost certain corporate $3000 add on just as you outlined-this will create an immediate internet wave especially in the UK with coverage in all the major newspapers and so on anyway i will concentrate on it, to the exclusion of individual pieces at the moment all best
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
deardara.bsky.social Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 5h
Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.
February 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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cobracmdrposts.bsky.social
REASONS COBRA IS PREFERABLE TO YOUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT:

- WE DO NOT TEAR GAS RIOTERS. WE SIMPLY TOSS YOU IN THE BATTLE ARENA.

- EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME HEALTHCARE PLAN: FIGHTING IN THE BATTLE ARENA FOR WHO GETS TREATED.

- OUR SECRET ISLANDS CONTAIN ONLY ANCIENT TEMPLES & BATTLE ARENAS.
February 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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dbrauer.net
This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.
dude3000.bsky.social poop @dude3000.bsky.social · 5h
Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.
February 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Radley Balko: The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the US for 20 yrs. He had one misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.
Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story.
"I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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tommothecabbit.bsky.social
This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.
Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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ianbassin.bsky.social
I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
vanhollen.senate.gov Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
 
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
 
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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lizardky.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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jamellebouie.net
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7h
Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
on.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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tomcartwright.bsky.social
Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.
February 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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trumpstaxes.com
BREAKING:

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler held a town hall tonight in Rockland County…and proceeded to have VETERANS thrown out of the venue.

#NY17
February 2, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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alissaazar.bsky.social
Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Look at this toned-down rhetoric.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Kristi Noem refers to protesters in Minnesota as "violent monsters"
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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hntdove.bsky.social
The right way to get into the Epstein files.
February 1, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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cathygellis.bsky.social
The government published CSAM???
mikebaker.bsky.social Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release.

The faces of those people were also left unredacted.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON:

“.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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parkermolloy.com
Haven't seen this circulating as much here as I've seen over on Twitter and Threads, but just an FYI that the "girls FTW" email is FAKE. It's not in the files. There's no time or date stamp. Someone just made it as a (really dumb and harmful) joke. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
February 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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tyleraking.com
So he’s planning to demolish the Kennedy Center because the only presidential legacy he resents and covets more than Obama’s is Kennedy’s.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump After a one year review of The Trump Kennedy Center, that has taken place with Contractors, Musical Experts, Art Institutions, and other Advisors and Consultants, deciding between either Construction with Closure and Re-Opening or, Partial Construction while continuing Entertainment Operations through a much longer period of time, working in and around the Performances, I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World. In other words, if we don’t close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result! Based on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before. Therefore, The Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex. Financing is completed, and fully in place! This important decision, based on input from many Highly Respected Experts, will take a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center, one that has been in bad condition, both financially and structurally for many years, and turn it into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Entertainment, far better than it has ever been before. America will be very proud of its new and beautiful Landmark
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM