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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3h

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

A lesser discussed aspect of how the press has approached Biden and Trump's health is that it's priming a large number of people to believe in insane conspiracy theories about Trump's demise

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 10h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 10h

Next Saturday, Lowell is going to say it again, as long as it needs to keep being said, that in America, there is no sovereign above the law.

Lowell Democrats will be tabling there, along with many other community organizations too, because this work will have to keep going after Saturday.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

Every public debate also has an observer. Someone explained to me a while back that the utility of debate or argument online isn't necessarily convincing the other person, it's convincing anyone else online who sees it. The target audience of public protest is not always who's being protested.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

imagine this being your response to people showing up in miserable conditions outside an ICE facility when wearing one of these costumes has gotten the wearer shot with less lethal ammunition

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

Whether this site works or fails, that it's working at all right now without ads or paid memberships is not something that will last I'd think.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

I use "a decade ago" here to refer the 2010's which included his playing career at the beginning and the height of the site's influence across the decade until its original run ended in 2019.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

Many people, including me, have been aware of him as a writer since he was a player. He became an NFL and then politics blogger for Deadspin, which was an influential sports news site a decade ago, while he was an active player, which started building him the online presence he has today.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not sure how to approach this myself, but something about "you can pick your own moderation" feels like "consumers will be able to make rational decisions about cigarettes"

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 14h

The YB-35 was an over-ambitious, expensive project that never resulted in full production combat aircraft, unlike the F-35

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 14h

It's not great seeing a lot of influential accounts agreeing with each other they are not responsible for the use of their platforms - "we're just people too" - including a person running for public office.
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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 14h

I am not a very influential person. I am an officer of a small city's Democratic party with 300 followers on this site. Do I vent into the open on here? Absolutely not. It's disturbing that this is too much to ask of, say, a candidate for state legislature with 182k followers. it shouldn't be hard.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 14h

I do not like seeing people reject the weight of the platforms they have built and the way this discourse has developed, obfuscating what it is about, itself highlights why irresponsible use of your influence is a problem.
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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 14h

The social media game of telephone where a very stupid thread about why Dems do not put Republicans in dungeons has become this does not help the big accounts escape the accusations here.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 14h

I am not a very influential person. I am an officer of a small city's Democratic party with 300 followers on this site. Do I vent into the open on here? Absolutely not. It's disturbing that this is too much to ask of, say, a candidate for state legislature with 182k followers. it shouldn't be hard.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

If you have a position of influence, you have a responsibility not to panic or misinform your audience. You should answer rather than ask questions when possible. Maybe you need to vent to a few friends, but you're not just venting to a few friends when you post. That's for real life or group chat.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

As much disdain as I have for Large Accounts that do a bunch of venting on main like they’re smol beans, I have a ton more for the army of followers who swarm people like “they’re a human being, don’t police their expression of emotions!” This is the same as simping for favor from the rich.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

A pipefitting companies I worked at before did the industrial steam system for a suit jacket factory in Haverhill, MA, which was a vendor to Brooks Brothers, like the shirt maker Derek profiles here, and it was very illuminating to see up close. Unfortunately it too was closed by the pandemic.

Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

I own a button down shirt, made in the USA, in particular, by my wife, who is a capable and efficient sewist, but I can appreciate why things made here cost more. I am willing to pay that price, I am not always able to pay it, but very many Americans are just not willing nor able.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

The electoral jurisdiction in Massachusetts is the municipality and there are 351 of them.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

How does the insurrection act stop Massachusetts from electing its state legislature? It's not a magic word.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

Herbert Hoover won about 80% of his 1928 voters while getting turned into roadkill by Roosevelt in 1932.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 15h

There is no mechanism for the federal government to stop elections. American elections are locally administered and those ballots also have local offices on them (say in my case, regional school board and state legislature) in addition to US congress. They are going to go forwards.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

i was right

Immigrants fear possible collaboration between ICE and police in Mass. communities

Immigrants in some Massachusetts communities, including Everett, are concerned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is staging next to the police station.

www.nbcboston.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

i could swear this isn’t the first one of these stories i have heard about this specific police force cooperating with and enabling ICE

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 21h

These projectiles are similar to paintballs, aren't they? I'd imagine paintball masks are one solution.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

This money isn't coming from nowhere, it's coming from other things it was legally appropriated to that now may lose it. That might be in my district. Or yours. This is ridiculous.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

As a local party chair, in Massachusetts, I do not find it remotely acceptable for our electeds to ask Donald Trump to break the law and circumvent you, our congresspeople, to do something you may happen to want. Not his refusal to enforce the anti-Tiktok law, definitely not this, not anything.

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