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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Honestly, one of the great American poems. Arguably the great American poem.

Text of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Technical appreciator

@whatahellofawaytodad.com

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

Now imagining a world where blacksky or some other PDS alternative to bluesky becomes big enough to be a threat so they block the whole provider at the relay level. Speed running defederation.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Oct 7

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

October 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

Even granting Bluesky/ATProto can achieve the decentralization they want, why doesn't this end with all the problems Mastadon has? "Yea you can see A's posts on AppView X but not Y and you can only see B's posts on Y, but not X." Bluesky is currently Twitter but wants to be a Mastodon instance?

October 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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mary🐇

@mary.my.id

hi
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…

September 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

September 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM

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Chris Person

@papapishu.bsky.social

Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

September 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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Molly White

@molly.wiki

Finally: remember to take care of yourselves. There is a long road ahead, but we’re in this together.

Quote: “As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
E.B. White (1973)

November 8, 2024 at 7:21 PM

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Nicholas Grossman

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️

@kiraculous.net

congratulations to charlie kirk on becoming a good fascist

September 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

This is my hot take but abolishing the filibuster by any means necessary needs to be prority #1. If Republicans do it to pass a shitty continuing resolution, it's win-win.

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · Sep 8

2) Rs change the rules, Ds lose more of what little power they have, Rs look unified, and you’re counting on a process backlash that lasts over a year

September 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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Ryan Estrada

@ryanestrada.com

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

Never been more sure there is something awfully damning about Trump in the Epstein files. He's crashing out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 12

a deranged Trump claims Obama and Hillary wrote the Epstein files and urges people to not care about them 🥴

July 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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one dozen rats in a pear tree

@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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🍓🍒Ominous Fruit🍎🍉

@seconddeath.bsky.social

posting this bc if I see one more doomer take im going to kill someone with hammers

June 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

Really getting a preview of what a world without universal injunctions could be like with the AEA litigation. It's not good!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · May 13

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pennsylvania, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation is properly invoked against a designated "Foreign Terrorist Organization," but that insufficient process is currently being given in the implementation of the AEA proclamation.

The Proclamation Describes a "Predatory Incursion" By TdA
In light of all of the foregoing, this Court reaches the following definition of "predatory incursion" under the AEA: "a hostile entry into the United States by a cohesive group of individuals, such as a military detachment or a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, who are
united by a common goal of causing significant disruption to the public safety-whether that be the safety of persons, property, or pecuniary interests- of those within the United States." The Court finds that that definition is faithful to the meaning of "predatory incursions" in 1798, but it
also accounts for new applications given "changes in the world." Wis. Ctr. Ltd., 585 U.S. at 284.

Therefore, the Court will accept as true President Trump's conclusion, via the Proclamation, that TdA is acting "at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime
in Venezuela." 90 Fed. Reg. 13034.
As a result of this conclusion, this Court is in full accord with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, which held as follows on this very issue:
Although the Proclamation focuses on TdA's activities in the United States, it places control of those activities in Maduro, acting in his claimed role of President of Venezuela. In other words, the Proclamation declares that the country of Venezuela, through Maduro, directs and controls TdA's activities in the United States ... As a result, the Court concludes that the Proclamation places responsibility for TdA's actions in the United States on the Venezuelan government, which satisfies this aspect of the AEA.
J.A.V. v. Trump, No. 1:25-CV-072, 2025 WL 1257450, at *17 (S.D. Tex. May 1, 2025).
In light of the foregoing, the Court finds that President Trump's Proclamation is in step with the AEA. The Court therefore turns its attention to the notice that Respondents are currently
providing to those who are subject to the Proclamation, a claim upon which A.S.R. has shown a
likelihood of success on the merits.

In sum, the Court finds that Respondents must provide to individual detainees who are subject to the AEA and the Proclamation the following notice before removing them pursuant to those provisions of law: (1) twenty-one (21) days' notice and an "opportunity to be heard," (2) notice that clearly articulates the fact that the individual detainee is subject to removal under the Proclamation and the AEA, and (3) notice in English and Spanish, the language of those sought to be expelled, and if needed, Spanish-to-English interpreters shall be provided for any necessary hearings. In the case of A.S.R., if Respondents again designate him as subject to the AEA and the Proclamation, they must provide all of the foregoing notice to his counsel at that time.
The Court recognizes that it may need to conduct further analysis and consider additional issues related to the specifics of notice in the future. However, at this preliminary stage of this
case, the Court finds that the foregoing is appropriate and complies with the law. If either party believes that the Court needs to consider these and related issues in greater detail as this case progresses, the Court invites that party to raise any issue(s) it sees fit to this Court at the appropriate
time and in the appropriate manner.

Conclusion
As the Court stressed at the beginning of this Opinion, this case implicates significant
issues. In resolving those issues, this Court's unflagging obligation is to apply the law as written.
When the Court does so, it finds that the Proclamation now at issue complies with the AEA, and
the Court further finds that Respondents must provide greater notice to those subject to removal
under the AEA than they are currently providing. Having done its job, the Court now leaves it to
the Political Branches of the government, and ultimately to the people who elect those individuals,
to decide whether the laws and those executing them continue to reflect their will.
An appropriate Order follows.
DATED: May 13, 2025
SterhaniotHaines
STEPHAÑIE L. HAINES
U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

May 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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Eniko Fox

@enikofox.com

tomorrow's my bday and as such kitsune tails in 25% off only on itch itch.io/s/152818/kit...

not only that but if you pay a single extra dollar for the bundle you also get the prequel, kitsune zero!

May 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievi...

April 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM

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Toby Buckle

@polphilpod.bsky.social

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com

We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat

www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.

Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.

www.liberalcurrents.com

April 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

I think Maine Governor Janet Mills had the correct response, "See you in court."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 27

Musk says the administration is going to “go after” people pushing lies about Tesla

March 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

This post seems confused. If a shutdown *does* give the executive all of these powers... why did you vote for one? Did you want Musk and Trump to have sweeping powers to fire federal workers? This past is a defense of passing the CR but that's *not* what senator Whitehouse voted to do!

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · Mar 16

In shutdown, executive powers are at their apex, including power to close whole departments and agencies and divisions, “Reduction in Force” all their personnel, and make massive cuts of programs and firings of people they deem “non-essential.”

March 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

Maybe it's my own perception but it's crazy how much American political dysfunction is traceable to arcane procedural rules of the United States Senate.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 9

any senator who will not precommit to ending the filibuster should have their career ended in disgrace. any Democrat who steps out of line on key priorities should be primaried, no matter how tenuous their seat is.

March 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM