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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9m

Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Frog gets it

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 2h

"Hedge fund Alden Global Capital gobbles up newspapers across America and guts them. No one knows why, until journalist Julie Reynolds investigates. Her findings trigger journalist rebellions at Alden-owned newspapers nationwide."

Full documentary streaming at @pbs.org.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 1h

Well if you ever finish it or start a kickstarter or something to help with it, I’ll be first in line.

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Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · 17h

what the fuck do you MEAN you can evolve eevee into jolteon in gen 1 by getting into a trainer battle, levelling eevee up, switching to growlithe, and finishing the battle with growlithe, because growlithe's pokemon index is the same as thunder stone's item index. WHAT. WHATTT

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 2h

Where is this and how can I get it?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Cars. Ruin. Everything.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 12h

Alex Trebek saying "the creature" on this episode of Jeopardy! from Halloween 1997

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 2h

Hey now, I’m 37 and a raging Luddite.

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Whiskers @calledwhiskers.bsky.social · 11h

I forget who said it, but “the worst part about ai is it has fundamentally ruined the experience of looking at an image, any image. Where there used to be pure appreciation, there is now a lingering doubt” or something like that

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 16h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 17h

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 10h

Everything about that chair is fucked up. Look at the black bar on its back.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 16h

That’s the good stuff.

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 18h

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 22h

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 22h

I worked in the cafeteria in college, and we’d cook multiple 20lb tubes at once in huge steamed kettles. So it probably a numbers game at that point. And these were higher quality than store bought too.

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · 23h

You’re liable to crack a tooth on bone in those tubes, and yes, they are awful.

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