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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12h

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 4h

the cute inflatable suits are *also* armor against less-lethal rounds and allows you to hide your gear.

Frog is Tactical

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xanadian @xanadian.bsky.social · 4h

I've been tremendously impressed with the frogs (and the unicorns, and the bears, and the raccoons, and)

It's smart and it punctures the admin's self-seriousness and it brings *us* moments of joy. Just brilliant work.

Fedposters could never

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 14h

@emorwee.bsky.social 💗

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 14h

Totally. The best

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 14h

At some point it’ll be the only category.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 15h

But are we baked or fried?

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah and some restorative emotional justice where they have to hear from the victims about the impact of their ways and actions.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 15h

This was a good quick clip on the topic www.instagram.com/reel/DNQ4CfQ...

michael__mezz on Instagram: "it’s full of spectacular contradictions. for a deeper discussion of how to get off this political flywheel, watch the full episode …"

it’s full of spectacular contradictions. for a deeper discussion of how to get off this political flywheel, watch the full episode of @betterfuturepod with @drjasonhickel — available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

The nonprofit industrial complex is where good people go to make small changes to a failing system and compete for the crumbs of the rich … while barely making rent.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

It’s because the “left” doesn’t have a funding base. The Democratic Party does but the donors are capitalists first and “progressives” second. They will not fund ideas that even hint at redistribution (for the most part - there are a very few, very awesome people who will/do).

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll take the green line please

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

Well, lying and corruption…

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

And this answers your first question about why no one in DC is saying anything - they’re implicated fully. I do believe most of the smart ones understand this strategy but are not brave enough to expose it. That’s a guess but I’m not sure how else to explain it.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. This is what they’re aiming for - capturing the government and rigging up an economy-wide snare that will go off and choke out everyone if they are allowed to fail, when the bill comes due. It’s a bailout business strategy and all the pieces are in place.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

Pot meet kettle

Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 1d

Right, for sure. But that doesn’t answer what they want with an airbase in Idaho

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I thought they said AntiFrog…

Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 2d

Glad we finally found Blinken’s burner account. You guys really blew it

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a huge amount of cope so you don’t have to confront the fact that Biden allowed this to happen and even encouraged it

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 2d

Policy wonk that doesn’t believe in foreign policy is crazy.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 2d

Doing something to apply actual material pressure instead of just resupplying them would be a start. Biden et al did nothing.

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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how molded he feels now that one of those kids is the starting quarterback for the 49ers

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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