dpenfold.bsky.social
@dpenfold.bsky.social
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I’ve been sadder, more depressed, more anxious many times in my life.

But after the ICE Gestapo invasion of our city this week, I don’t think I’ve ever been ANGRIER. Actively fighting what seems to be an unhealthy level but also holding on to what feels sane and appropriate.

It’s fun, man.
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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The way to scare libertarians about the ICE shooting is to ask them to imagine: what if that was you dropping off your girlfriend at her elementary school?
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I think tonight is a night for my yearly rewatch of one of the few perfect movies ever made. I'll die on this hill. It's not even my favorite of theirs, but it's the most perfect one.
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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controlled opposition
Three Democrats joined republicans to pass a bill that criminalized gender affirming care for minors. It passed 216-211. If those democrats had stayed with their party the bill would have failed 213-214.
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.

Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The United States deserves complete and total humiliation re: the World Cup and the Olympics. We're a toxic country and we're actively harming the international order while committing breathtaking human rights violations at home and abroad. I hope the world stays home. bsky.app/profile/lavi...
Ahead of today’s World Cup draw, articles in Italy’s La Repubblica & Spain’s El País on how there may be immigration raids at games & people who posted a social media message that Trump administration didn’t like could face deportation.

www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...

elpais.com/us/migracion...
Agenti anti immigrazione negli stadi e visti blindati: negli Usa mondiali di calcio da regime
Il capo della task force della Casa Bianca: ingressi vietati ai tifosi di Iran e Haiti e controlli negli stadi a caccia di clandestini
www.repubblica.it
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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This should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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They should invent a city where every driver isn't trying to kill cyclists and pedestrians
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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When they do the documentary about the 2026 financial crisis this will be something that flashes through during the "creation of the bubble" montage. bsky.app/profile/matt...
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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i think this guy has lost the sauce
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Looks like we have a criminal conspiracy here.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.

From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.

If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.

Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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after tonight we will know the answer to the question, "is an extremely gassed 30 year old still more athletic than a very well rested 40 year old"
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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best world series of this decade is already locked in
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM