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@joshisposh.bsky.social

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Public servant, abundant housing enthusiast, trans rights appreciator. Very tired of living in interesting times.

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joshisposh.bsky.social @joshisposh.bsky.social · Mar 6

We’re not failing to eliminate homelessness because it’s too expensive, because it’s actually cheaper to house people than let them continue unhoused

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 6

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 2d

Demi Adejuyigbe is not wholesome

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Glad Morris is on this issue. Obviously political violence in our society and the openness to it is a big issue. BUT I do think a lot of these polls, intentionally or not, have a way of amplifying very hypothetical questions. Or from a different perspective ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 3d

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 4d

Damn two thirds of American Jews are antisemites 😢

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d

In a dramatic sign of eroding support in the US, 61% of American Jews now say that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza and 39% say it is guilty of genocide, according to @washingtonpost.com poll. Naftali Bendavid @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 4d

The US military dropped more tonnage of explosives on Vietnam than were dropped in all theaters of WWII combined.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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joshisposh.bsky.social @joshisposh.bsky.social · 4d

Unless/until there’s an explicit plan to hold them accountable, assume ICE, Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, etc etc will never be held accountable. Until they’re on notice, “I can’t wait until these fascists are prosecuted” is pure, uncut copium

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 5d

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs"

Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness.
Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs.
And of self awareness.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

"Headlines Matter" part six million

-Every part of this very good story is about MAGA/Doge/Vought *imposing* politics on civil servants

-Not what headline implies www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

-What could it have said?
Same line length:
In Shutdown
Civil Service Is
Turned Political

NYT Headline:
In Shutdown
A Civil Service
Turns Political

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8d

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9d

Something our glorious Secretary of War does not seem to have considered is that the reason military PT and grooming standards, plus policies for EEO and abuse reporting, are the way they are is because they're necessary for recruitment and retention

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 8d

this is why I'm trying to tell y'all that we have to specifically draft out and talk about *specific amendment text*. not just what problems to solve constitutionally, but actual textual drafts. Because in the end , the least violent option is simply a mass adoption of new constitutional text

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 9d

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 9d

Reminder that Hegseth's speech calling for more unrestrained violence and gore by the military follows a weekend when two Marine veterans carried out horrific rampage shootings against unarmed members of their communities.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9d

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9d

Look, I wrote and directed a whole damn MOVIE about this in 2002. And nope. We're not there. This isn't urgent. This is bullshit salesmanship for trash fancy autocomplete tech that has NOTHING to do with sentience or personhood.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10d

this business model should be flatly illegal

taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome

ban it completely

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 10d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

Cannot be repeated enough: this was not a voluntary resignation program. Workers were told they were more valuable in the private sector, that they might be fired from their jobs, that they could expect no reasonable work accommodations, that they would work for leaders who were undermining services

Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 11d

I spoke with federal workers who took the deferred resignation program set to take effect on September 30

"I was forced to" one worker said "through fear and intimidation."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts

Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

👇🎯🧵 We are not going to get anywhere so long as our most prominent pundits continue to insist on Murc’s Law & pretending actual things like Democratic policies, platforms, candidates, & electoral results - as they <actually> existed, not as the pundits misremember or imagine them - never happened.

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 13d

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention

Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

www.theguardian.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13d

I dislike the whole “and you’re SURPRISED?!” bullshit whenever anyone expresses alarm at a news event because the people posting it act like they’re wise sages for democracy but are basically doing the work of evil people because there’s nothing evil people want more than for evil to become routine

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13d

Cuomo could never.

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joshisposh.bsky.social @joshisposh.bsky.social · 13d

I think the attitude that only development with majority support should be allowed is deeply toxic and basically counter to every social advance we’ve ever seen. People are highly sensitive to potential negative impacts, and then it happens and it’s fine.