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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 8h

if we know each other i probably owe you an email and i'm sorry

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 7h

whoa, gonna remove you from my 'working with the state of Iran' twitter lists ASAP, my bad, terribly sorry!

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october krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 9h

a little bit of sunshine for your day

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 9h

Today, Matthew Dimick explains why one of the most famous arguments against addressing inequality through predistribution fails on its own terms.

After Neoliberalism: Predistribution and the Law and Economics of Income Inequality

Law and Economics scholars argue that if income redistribution is to happen at all, it should occur exclusively through the tax system, rather than through supposedly less efficient methods…

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

Please sign the petition calling for Tom Alter's reinstatement. Explanation at the link where you can sign.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter On September 10th, 2025, Dr. Tom Alter, a respected and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired for remarks he made at a social...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Sep 5

Also reposting our piece by @nhold.bsky.social on related matters here.

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

Hands Off! – Spectre Journal

Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

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Shenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 20h

Barely hanging on by a thread, what's updog with you

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

that's a funny coincidence and yes this is the one, the final four panels hit especially hard, I love it so much.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

yeah ones that either aren't actually useful as trucks/clearly never used as trucks because totally pristine. when one of my brothers was doing an apprenticeship as an electrician he went on a long tear about to me, about how the truck market was all janky now, made it harder to get a work truck.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

@tommchenry.bsky.social I want you to know I thought again today of your comic, I think titled "you must improve your Garf" at a moment when I low key needed it! (It's been posted on my office wall for years, I'm at a coffee shop rn but it just lives in my brain.) I hope you're keeping well!

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

Apology accepted.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6a...

Thank you for your support

YouTube video by Chris Goosman

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

Tough but fair.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

it's so RUDE and they don't even apologize!

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

Listen here young people, stop making olds feel bad! Get your shit together and start fucking up your lives like the rest of us!

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtXu...

Dear Landlord - I Live In Hell

YouTube video by TheClash57

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

I *was* having a good week

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

just learned some people I admire are almost a decade younger than me

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

100% and I relate. sorta like what I call chess club jocks (nerds who internalized bullying and went 'I'm gonna KICK YOUR ASS at math!') Nothing wrong with being a nerd but uncritically identifying w/ macho tropes they fail at is sad. Similar contempt for the faux-pickup truck drivers of the world.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 1d

The response to the protests at UCLA were more complete expressions of classical fascism than anything the Trump administration has yet offered. There were literal non-state paramilitary formations cracking heads.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

Please sign the petition calling for Tom Alter's reinstatement. Explanation at the link where you can sign.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter On September 10th, 2025, Dr. Tom Alter, a respected and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired for remarks he made at a social...

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 2d

Again, they don’t know why they are rich

John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Sep 21

So one key part of the venture capitalists thinking taking over the world is as a mode of production they don’t understand the idea that people can decide not to buy a product

Trans Ferdinand: Robot Princess @emdashreed.bsky.social · Sep 21

Silicon Valley: We have invented The Plagiarism Machine, it will replace all creative endeavors!

Capitalism: Awesome, let’s get rid of all the creatives and use The Plagiarism Machine!

Also Capitalism: Oh no, all The Plagiarism Machine does is plagiarize, let’s get creatives to fix it!

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