cwicseolfor.bsky.social
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Just here for the people not on Mastodon. Dilettante polyglot who too rarely makes things anymore.
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Picked up the phone on a call from Alabama. Retired Army bird. He was angry as a nest of hornets. I reminded him of the oath we both took and chatted for a spell.
"Well this took an unexpected turn."
I don't expect a birthday card from him, but I did earn his respect.
"Well this took an unexpected turn."
I don't expect a birthday card from him, but I did earn his respect.
September 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Picked up the phone on a call from Alabama. Retired Army bird. He was angry as a nest of hornets. I reminded him of the oath we both took and chatted for a spell.
"Well this took an unexpected turn."
I don't expect a birthday card from him, but I did earn his respect.
"Well this took an unexpected turn."
I don't expect a birthday card from him, but I did earn his respect.
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Now that I have your attention:
We actually do need hardcore, knuckle busting partisanship with the stated goal of breaking the political and institutional power of the Republican Party. Raze the party, burn it down, and salt the ashes.
September 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Now that I have your attention:
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Worth revisiting.
1/3 My hot wash of yesterday:
September 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Worth revisiting.
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There's something I need all of you to understand, especially fellow electeds: what I have done cannot be exceptional. I ask you to consider your oath. Don't leave me out to hang.
September 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
There's something I need all of you to understand, especially fellow electeds: what I have done cannot be exceptional. I ask you to consider your oath. Don't leave me out to hang.
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I am taking a mountain of shit right now. I can't go home and I can't be with my partner. If nothing changes I will be satisfied in my decision, but Christ i hope I'm opening room for some folks to be brave.
September 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I am taking a mountain of shit right now. I can't go home and I can't be with my partner. If nothing changes I will be satisfied in my decision, but Christ i hope I'm opening room for some folks to be brave.
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This is something that every qualified officer in the FBI and ATF is aware of.
But when we put podcasters in control and replace our career officials in departmental purges, we get underqualified idiots!
This is something that every qualified officer in the FBI and ATF is aware of.
But when we put podcasters in control and replace our career officials in departmental purges, we get underqualified idiots!
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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This is something that every qualified officer in the FBI and ATF is aware of.
But when we put podcasters in control and replace our career officials in departmental purges, we get underqualified idiots!
This is something that every qualified officer in the FBI and ATF is aware of.
But when we put podcasters in control and replace our career officials in departmental purges, we get underqualified idiots!
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
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Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.
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I think we all need to constantly split hairs as much as possible to deflate the magical thinking our decision-maker class has adopted around AI. I basically have to do this all day at work. If you’re using “AI” as a shorthand for “a magic wizard” around me I will quibble until you understand that
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I think we all need to constantly split hairs as much as possible to deflate the magical thinking our decision-maker class has adopted around AI. I basically have to do this all day at work. If you’re using “AI” as a shorthand for “a magic wizard” around me I will quibble until you understand that
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I’m going to get replaced in the workforce by a two-button soundboard that says “can you describe the mechanism” in two different tones of voice, one engaged and one extremely sarcastic
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I’m going to get replaced in the workforce by a two-button soundboard that says “can you describe the mechanism” in two different tones of voice, one engaged and one extremely sarcastic
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The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors
August 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors
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Whoa! This String-of-Hearts vine sat, undying, with two leaves, in the bathroom window in NC for a YEAR. I stuck it in my office window where the cats wouldn’t get it, thinking that the afternoon light here might be too intense. I water it maybe twice a month if I remember.
The damn thing flowered.
The damn thing flowered.
August 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Whoa! This String-of-Hearts vine sat, undying, with two leaves, in the bathroom window in NC for a YEAR. I stuck it in my office window where the cats wouldn’t get it, thinking that the afternoon light here might be too intense. I water it maybe twice a month if I remember.
The damn thing flowered.
The damn thing flowered.
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John Cena should never stop suing Meta. As soon as one lawsuit wraps up, another should start. He should celebrate his eightieth birthday with four new lawsuits.
Meta's AI chatbot with the voice and likeness of John Cena engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 14 year old girl.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
John Cena should never stop suing Meta. As soon as one lawsuit wraps up, another should start. He should celebrate his eightieth birthday with four new lawsuits.
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If you keep sacrificing your nominal allies to the meat grinder in hopes that you will eventually once again get to be in charge of the meat grinder's operation, you'll one day look around and realize you're alone with the folks demanding ever more ground human.
August 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If you keep sacrificing your nominal allies to the meat grinder in hopes that you will eventually once again get to be in charge of the meat grinder's operation, you'll one day look around and realize you're alone with the folks demanding ever more ground human.
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Weirdly literally the exact kind of thing that'll make more people who are liminally connected to but not living in DC really understand what kind of bullshit is happening there.
The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.
August 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Weirdly literally the exact kind of thing that'll make more people who are liminally connected to but not living in DC really understand what kind of bullshit is happening there.
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Also, always remember that disabled people don’t have marriage equality in the US.
With regards to marriage equality, remember:
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
August 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Also, always remember that disabled people don’t have marriage equality in the US.
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In reality, all of these safeguards are built into systems specifically to make sure that nobody, at the end of a long chain of failures, has to make an impossible choice of who lives or dies.
If it's up to me, a random person, to be the one with his hand on the lever?
We've failed repeatedly.
If it's up to me, a random person, to be the one with his hand on the lever?
We've failed repeatedly.
August 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In reality, all of these safeguards are built into systems specifically to make sure that nobody, at the end of a long chain of failures, has to make an impossible choice of who lives or dies.
If it's up to me, a random person, to be the one with his hand on the lever?
We've failed repeatedly.
If it's up to me, a random person, to be the one with his hand on the lever?
We've failed repeatedly.
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I'm not a huge fan of the trolley problem.
The point of it, obviously, is not to apply to real life, but to show how moral reasoning works... but when you do apply it to real life, what it really shows is a cascade failure of responsibilities - a long, tragic chain of fuck-ups.
The point of it, obviously, is not to apply to real life, but to show how moral reasoning works... but when you do apply it to real life, what it really shows is a cascade failure of responsibilities - a long, tragic chain of fuck-ups.
Red Boots Were Going To Crash GIF
Alt: A scene from The Good Place, where Chidi is behind the controls of a trolley, speeding towards a smiling man with the heel of one boot stuck in the tracks, about to be run over.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm not a huge fan of the trolley problem.
The point of it, obviously, is not to apply to real life, but to show how moral reasoning works... but when you do apply it to real life, what it really shows is a cascade failure of responsibilities - a long, tragic chain of fuck-ups.
The point of it, obviously, is not to apply to real life, but to show how moral reasoning works... but when you do apply it to real life, what it really shows is a cascade failure of responsibilities - a long, tragic chain of fuck-ups.
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Newsom is Abbott on the "left" and as someone living under the rotting Abbott albatross, I don't care for That Guy in any clothing? So I hate freedom, obvs.
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Newsom is Abbott on the "left" and as someone living under the rotting Abbott albatross, I don't care for That Guy in any clothing? So I hate freedom, obvs.
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With regards to marriage equality, remember:
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
With regards to marriage equality, remember:
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
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What’s happening now w/ the Trump regime—it’s not an administration—is the conversion of the latent racism of anti-urbanism into explicit and hysterical racism. Previous GOP—& plenty of Dems—were content to leave it unstated. Trumpism wants to foreground & escalate it. 12/
August 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What’s happening now w/ the Trump regime—it’s not an administration—is the conversion of the latent racism of anti-urbanism into explicit and hysterical racism. Previous GOP—& plenty of Dems—were content to leave it unstated. Trumpism wants to foreground & escalate it. 12/
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Sen. Mullins of OK claiming he doesn’t buckle up in DC because he’s afraid of carjacking is a variation on the prev 2 posts: a racist tall tale, a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. 5
August 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sen. Mullins of OK claiming he doesn’t buckle up in DC because he’s afraid of carjacking is a variation on the prev 2 posts: a racist tall tale, a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. 5
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Anti-urbanism is a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. It’s a sociological euphemism for racism. I didn’t know that as a white kid among white kids who liked to vow they’d *never* live in NYC, they always wanted to be in a small town. 6/
August 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anti-urbanism is a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. It’s a sociological euphemism for racism. I didn’t know that as a white kid among white kids who liked to vow they’d *never* live in NYC, they always wanted to be in a small town. 6/
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300,000 Black women have been pushed out of their employment in the last three months. This resegregation isn't just racial, it's also heavily gendered.
So, to be clear:
*Federal employment, which built much of the Black middle class—attacked & slashed
*Cities with Black mayors—targeted
*Black neighborhoods/communities—invaded
*Affirmative action @ colleges—eliminated
*Black history—demonized, erased, & written over
They
are
re-
segregating.
*Federal employment, which built much of the Black middle class—attacked & slashed
*Cities with Black mayors—targeted
*Black neighborhoods/communities—invaded
*Affirmative action @ colleges—eliminated
*Black history—demonized, erased, & written over
They
are
re-
segregating.
August 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
300,000 Black women have been pushed out of their employment in the last three months. This resegregation isn't just racial, it's also heavily gendered.