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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 3h

The Library of Congress record for antifa dot org captured June 2020
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LIBRARY
WEB ARCHIVES
HETA
https://www.antifa.org/
antifa is not an organization
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The United States of America will be designating
ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
12:23 PM • May 31, 2020 • Twitter for iPhone
BLACK LIVES
MATTER

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 4h

www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 5h

Take it from a TV chef who doesn’t sell a line of cookware. Love my cast iron pans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

Slop-n-Scroll

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Meta’s new A.I.-generated video app, Vibes, launched last month to overwhelmingly negative reception. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts discussed why. "It’s essentially like TikTok, but if TikTok were populated just by little animated A.I.-generated shorts." nyti.ms/4ocx2LW

A quote from Kevin Roose, co-host of "Hard Fork": "I was not surprised to see Meta announcing a version of essentially a social network with no actual people on it. I think this is the direction that they’ve been moving for several years now."

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

Mastodon might be a haven for the truly insufferable, yes, okay, but, but, but, it is actually decentralized and really quite cheap and easy to spin up your own server.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

<guffaw>adds favorite</guffaw>

DAD ROCK
Nostalgic rock with dad jokes
Xtra channel

David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

Miller’s wild “plenary authority” hit hits different

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

The idea that Republicans would theoretically abhor a centrally managed economy appears to be a myth!

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

The idea of a U.S. president, all on his own, levying taxes and appropriating revenue would have been entirely alien to the framers.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 1d

Senate oversight by whataboutism is further evidence of a malfunctioning institution. Congress excels at ceding its power to the executive branch.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

POV: You’re a Mastodon server admin and some folks just haven’t seen The Blues Brothers.

To provide more information, the remote user from
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse.

Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7d

"Too."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7d

Vought easily the most underrated villain in the administration (Miller and RFK Jr are properly rated).

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 7d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 7d

Slop-n-Scroll www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7d

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7d

It’s imperative for lawmakers to understand that age verification mandates create unnecessary burdens to access speech for everyone—regardless of age—and endanger user anonymity and privacy, writes Sarah Forland, a policy analyst with the Open Technology Institute (OTI) at New America.

US State Age Verification Efforts Threaten Online Speech and Privacy – The Supreme Court Seems Ready to Allow Them | TechPolicy.Press

More work is needed to ensure user safety and make privacy-preserving age verification technically feasible, writes Sarah Forland.

www.techpolicy.press

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 8d

the first answer is they like republicans and want them to win

the second answer is he likes republicans and wants them to win

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 8d

question: why does the media treat democrats as the only ones with any agency? republicans have a trifecta, they can prevent a shutdown whenever they want

more important question: what is wrong with Alex Thompson?

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Tough poll for Democrats on a shutdown.
nytimes.com/2025/09/30/pol..
THE NEW YORK TIMES/SIENA POLL
Sept. 22-27
Views on whether the Democrats should or should not shut down the government if their demands are not met

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