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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

She says deploying national guard members untrained in de-escalation would "add fuel to the fire the defendants themselves have started."

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

Perry also finds deploying the national guard would "likely to lead to civil unrest," and adds ICE agents behavior "has itself caused a significant increase in protest activity."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7h

Seems like the feds are getting their ass handed to them in Illinois right now

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

Perry asks the govt's counsel if they would potentially seek to send other state's national guard to Illinois if she used narrower language for the restraining order.

Counsel says yes.

"Ok, then I'm gonna go with the broader language," Perry says.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 9h

Wild. Also, as a linguist who lives part of the year in the state of Oaxaca, I know that "muxe" is literally just the 16th-century Spanish pronunciation of "mujer," meaning "woman."

Furthermore, Indigenous identity and sexuality operates along different axes than Western conceptualizations.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 10h

I could send you the whole paper, it's insane how the paper describes in exacting detail the exact kinds of social structures that arise around straight trans women in patriarchal societies and then goes "this is an incredible deconstruction of gender by these non-transgender third gender non-women"

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 7h

the #SREcon post-event dinner I went to last night was at a pub named "Dockers" which was a wee bit on the nose...

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 7h

interestingly enough, for me the criterion is "is this a reasonably live, one-time event that is not fungible", I am happy to watch Jelle's Marble Runs even though none of the players are real humans, but it is a real track, I am happy to watch humans playing esports...

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MFlower 🌻 @mflower.bsky.social · 8h

The allegations center on one document showing that the property would be her primary residence. It's the only document like this; the rest of the loan documents accurately say the home wouldn’t be James’ primary residence.

As baseless as Comey's & the timing is slamdunk vindictive

Federal probe into Trump foe Letitia James hits a standstill, law enforcement officials say

James, the New York attorney general, faces allegations of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration. She has denied any wrongdoing.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 7h

You can bond out. Prosecutors do not want that smoke and do not want that charge to be made public. You are going to have to get your hands dirty with some civil disobedience here. Demand that they justify themselves under the law. Realize you may be the plaintiff that strikes down Kavanaugh stops.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 7h

iirc computers can't yet beat esports teams, right? and anything else requires actually interacting in the physical world and we've seen how Boston Dynamics robots don't actually do athletics outside controlled conditions

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 8h

I see we continue to progress towards the Cool Zone

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8h

NEW: Lindsay Halligan's office says that a grand jury has returned an indictment against NY AG Letitia James for "Bank Fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 and False Statements to a Financial Institution under 18 U.S.C. Section 1014." www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr...

Press Release
New York State Attorney General Indicted
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Lindsey Halligan, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging New York State Attorney General Letitia James with Bank Fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 and False Statements to a Financial Institution under 18 U.S.C. Section 1014.

“No one is above the law. The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust,” said U.S. Attorney Halligan. “The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”

If convicted, Letitia James faces up to 30 years in prison, up to a $1 million fine on each count, and forfeiture. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

An indictment is merely an accusation. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 9h

and previously, the only way they could get the energy spent was wasteful work like cryptocurrency/blockchain mining, but now there's a (IMO) more valuable use of that stranded energy

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 9h

stealing this phrase. "easier to move gigabits than gigawatts".

John Looney @bigvalen.bsky.social · 10h

You do lose some power, even at 200kV.

The real problem is that grids are under enormous pressure to allow new connections, and can delay adding wind farms and solar parks for YEARS. This can be called stranded power, and big power users chase it.

It's easier to move gigabits than gigawatts.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15h

exactly, what @bigvalen.bsky.social mentioned was that guaranteed load consumption solves the chicken-egg problem of who will consume the power that comes online from a new mega wind farm, so it isn't wasted or dissipated as heat.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 16h

Fuck no, and fuck you to the U.S.-ians trying to infringe on our sovereignty.

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 17h

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19h

defer to @bigvalen.bsky.social on this question!

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 1d

Very few journalists are financially independent like Marisa is. A lot more could be but it takes a shitload of courage on the reporting side and a shitload of shameless promotion on the marketing side and not many are up for the task.

We must back the ones who are with cash.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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heikadog @heika.dog · 1d

if you're a developer making a service for other people to use, labeller or not, you should be aware of how your service could be used as a vector for harassment and try to mitigate for that as much as possible. sometimes you make a torment nexus and don't even know it.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

YIKES

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 2d

Interestingly, Link's profile can be seen right now on the Red Dwarf social-app fork, which uses Constellation and direct PDS access: reddwarf.whey.party/profile/did:...

Red Dwarf

an appview-less Bluesky client using Constellation and PDS Queries

reddwarf.whey.party

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

Thanks for doing this; there's just so much bad faith misinterpretation going around right now, mixed in with the legitimate criticism and feedback.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

and offshore produces even more power!

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

(ah, he's on here, hi @bigvalen.bsky.social, appreciated your talk!)

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

John Looney of Crusoe was discussing this at his morning keynote yesterday at #SREcon - describing "clean energy parks" where power consumers and producers gather, similar to the previous generation of network connectivity hubs.

Apparently a giant wind farm being built in western IE for this too.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 11d

If you live in a place where flowing electrons are functionally free via like, trivial-to-access geothermal or something maybe you should be a data centers YIMBY so they get built there instead of somewhere they'll drive demand for fossil fuel plants or whatever. Otherwise, like, what are you doing

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11d

no super-strong feelings about data centers generally, they appear to be a light-industrial land use with a typical bundle of positive/negative externalities, but imo it would be a mistake for YIMBY orgs to get hooked into advocating overly for them. Narrower focus on housing/transit is good imo

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