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Annemarie Bridy
@annemariebridy.bsky.social
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IP + tech lawyer. English PhD. Sometime career shifter and cross-country migrant. Gave up professing. Fan of careful people. Lover of well made things. Views my own. SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=630766
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 15h
At a team meeting for the week with an Amsterdam-based colleague whose PhD is from IViR.
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 1d
I appreciate you. But until you can enjoy a whole bag in one sitting, you're not first string.
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 1d
Today in Amsterdam
Handmade sign hanging from the side of a building in Amsterdam with images of Anne Frank and Hind Rajab with their respective dates of birth and death: NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d
"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d
When Republicans lose an election, they never go into "Let's show Democrats we're here to do bipartisanship together" mode. They function like an opposition. And do you know what happens? They win stuff.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 18
pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...
Democrats' playbook to beat Republicans in 2 years: work with them now
Democrats have a plan to take back power in Washington back from Republicans in two years: work with them now.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 3d
This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3d
This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...
Where Is the Line?
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d
The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d
History repeats.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 4d
These men are not “philanthropists.” They’re raiders and thugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5d
A statute may "enshrine a tradition," but that is not the only thing it does. A statute codifies law, just the same as statutes criminalizing homicide and bank robbery, and it is just as "clear" that violating the statute is unlawful.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 5d
It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d
One of the delights of working for the Voice of America in the Cohen Federal Building was the New Deal era frescoes and murals. Along with VOA and its staff, it now appears these treasured American works of art are to be a DOGE casualty. newrepublic.com/article/20120... #SaveVOA
There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.
A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put a stop to it.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 5d
Using Deep Sea Submersibles, Researchers Have Uncovered an Almost Alien World in the Hadal Trenches www.discovermagazine.com/using-deep-s...
Using Deep Sea Submersibles, Researchers Have Uncovered an Almost Alien World in the Hadal Trenches
Learn more about the Hadal Trenches and the types of life that thrive in the deep.
www.discovermagazine.com
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5d
huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article
adding a photo? read this first. we know you love your cat. so do we, but that doesn't mean a photo of your cat is a good choice for the article
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d
“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.
The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5d
This is absolutely Brownshirt business.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d
Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6d
With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d
Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6d
This guy? Who literally said he wants to put civil servants “in trauma?”
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 6d
Politically motivated challenges to commercial speech are why we need some protection for commercial speech www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/b...
Montana Announces Multistate Investigation of Big Tech Renewable…
AG Knudsen and the states sent a letter to the companies to “raise serious concerns and request further information” regarding claims that the companies…
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 6d
If you're a government employee and you want to talk, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal. We can speak anonymously.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 6d
NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

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Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 7d
They basically want to put every elite college under some weird consent decree. They would be foolish to sign, but we know universities and colleges don’t always us the most sound judgment.
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