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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 12h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 4h

"If conservatives didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all" is a good quote I read earlier in the year and it applies way too often

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 4h

All the household names in news (plus TikTok, which shouldn't count but it's how many consume news) are now owned by Murdoch and Trump allies now, and it's painful to watch the narrative construction to proactively squash dissent in real time.

Can't be angry if you never learn about it.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies

media.tenor.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5h

It's worth noting that Trump and Republicans repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies into removing content in the past.

Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group

Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to “dox and target” ICE agents.

arstechnica.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 16h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 20h

Despite him being probably the single human most responsible for this timeline, I'm glad that he's someone with deft enough legal footwork to wrongfoot the legal abuses of this...administration.

(I want to say regime, and do sometimes, but other times it feels childish. Normalcy bias is strong!)

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 22h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 21h

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 22h

Bioaccumulation from cheap ingredient sourcing rearing its ugly head:

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

TLDR: "The lead levels in plant-based products were, on average, nine times the amount found in those made with dairy proteins like whey, and twice as great as beef-based ones"

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 22h

Between the same problem and not wanting Trump et al to vacuum up clear text messages, I just use @signal.org which has been reliable for me (and behaves well Android to iOS and back as a mixed household)

TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1d

See bsky.app/profile/josh...

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is online positively wailing about this picture, because he is weak and vain and cares exponentially more about himself than anything else. That said, if there is something Trump does not want America to see, that means it is probably something every American needs to see. Please share widely.

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Copey @ops4life.bsky.social · 1d

Nuff said

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who is totally incompetent at UX and graphic design, I appreciate a good logo when I see it, so your friend's work has this Internet rando's approval haha.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 2d

🧵
What is coming down from the left is the Moon, appearing so large because photographed through a telescopic lens.

The video, made during the 2018 full Milk Moon,
isn't time-lapse: this was really how fast the Moon was setting behind Mount Teide.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20032...

🔭 🧪 #science

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 2d

Not saying you should! Just suggesting... Eyes open.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

‘Wait, this is happening to ME so we need to do something about it.’ -ancient Republican mantra

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 2d

After setting up a substack and starting outreach it's a bit too late to say, but FYI Substack as a platform has apparently been.. problematic.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/substacker...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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