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Largish white dude. Not a fan of guns, forced birthers, or anti-vaxxers. Haven’t seen a sane republican since hw bush. And he kinda sucked.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“The f*ck are we doing?”
February 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Well said
February 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
Where it belongs.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
“.. Our BTC price target is 0.0. That’s not just for shock factor. It’s where the math takes us,” the strategist said, noting that Bitcoin has failed to function as a dollar hedge and instead operates as “a speculative instrument correlated to the Nasdaq.”

#Bitcoin
seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...
February 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
I feel I need to post to keep bsky numbers up. So here goes. "The Flamethrowers" (notable book in 2013) is navel gazing drivel with no likable characters. Not sure if any worse than also crap "Independence Day" by Ford, but a runner up. #booksky
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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projectsaltbox.bsky.social
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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thefarce.org
We know enough.
azrww.bsky.social Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 2d
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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samhalpert.bsky.social
This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
@mattyglesias.bsky.social thoughts here?
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d
@gelliottmorris.com continues to have been right about immigration as an electoral issue

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
The evolution of immigration politics over the past year illustrates the Strategist's Fallacy with particular clarity. Early last year, Matthew Yglesias and others counseled Democrats to avoid talking about immigration. Their reasoning was straightforward: immigration represented Trump's strongest issue, and Democratic activists drawing attention to cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia's -a Maryland father unlawfully deported to El Salvador —were increasing the "salience" of a topic that allegedly damaged the party's electoral position. Democrats should redirect attention elsewhere, they said. This strategic advice assumed voters' preferences on immigration were so rigid that Democratic messaging could not influence them. It treated public opinion as a fixed fact of political reality, not an object that was going to move in the short term or that could be moved. And it ascribed too much influence over voting decisions to issue attitudes.
February 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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calemiller.bsky.social
"The Constitution? That's a nonstarter."
February 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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thefarce.org
Jesus Christ.
ICE agents clash with bystanders in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
lol
February 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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bklynmichael42.bsky.social
“I know she’s a Russian asset. You know she’s a Russian asset. We all know. How do we keep this under wraps while she continues to blatantly act like a Russian asset?”
February 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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gussquawks.bsky.social
If Joe Biden did this it would be a world news top headline for 5 weeks
February 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
As a centrist, free speech advocate, I’m forced to admit that ICE murdering protesters and jailing journalists in Minnesota is almost as bad as the Oberlin student council doing land acknowledgments.
February 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
Finally. Liam and his father “boarded a plane home on Sunday after a judge ordered the government to release them.” abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-li...
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release
A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.
abcnews.go.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
Truth
nytpitchbot.bsky.social NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5d
Biden’s mangling of a few words was a major story. Trump’s public descent into full-blown dementia is not.
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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wilfredotorres.bsky.social
For Liam.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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@mattyglesias.bsky.social could respond but I bet won’t
brizzyc.bsky.social Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 6d
I am once again asking, where are the Harper's letter people now? I mean just utterly egregious violations of academic freedom www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:07 PM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
Jfc
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8d
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
SBF looking for that Trump pardon
January 30, 2026 at 3:48 AM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
And that’s a nope

gizmodo.com/openai-worki...
OpenAI Working on Social Media Network That Could Require Creepy Eye Scans: Report
Signing up for the bot-free platform will reportedly require submitting some biometric data.
gizmodo.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
scottmccaskill.bsky.social
lol
editorialboard.bsky.social The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 7d
USA Today: So is this the start of Ratner's comeback? "I don't think so," says Jeff Bock, senior media analyst for Exhibitor Relations. "I think it's the only job he could get."
January 29, 2026 at 8:29 PM