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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 1d

I'm completely fine now. The weirdness did not persist.

Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling kinda weird. Sugar is fine, so it isn't that. Things look weird too, but not in a migraine-aura kind of way.

And it's a lot better than it was when I first left the house ~20 minutes ago. So probably nothing.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 1d

May his memory be a blessing for us all.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling kinda weird. Sugar is fine, so it isn't that. Things look weird too, but not in a migraine-aura kind of way.

And it's a lot better than it was when I first left the house ~20 minutes ago. So probably nothing.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 1d

Like "No one was under his command, because he was only a centurion" kind of error?

The one that set me off was pointing out that Mother was the Queen, and Dad was just her regent. She's clearly calling the shots, and they don't look for a new regent when he dies.

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 1d

PRO TIP: When writing about European monarchs, even fictional ones, don't use the word 'regent' when you mean 'consort'.

They mean different things. Honest.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

trib.al

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 2d

And CNN should stop letting dangerous loonies on their air.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Goons shooting from rooftops into a peaceful protest.

This is no longer America, the land of the free. We are under siege. The Trump administration has declared war on Americans.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

What if you don’t even wait for a Reichstag Fire. What if you just say that there is one.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 5d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 3d

Two words: Eric. Lehnsherr.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 3d

Kamala said he'd try to use the military against the US population. News outlets called her "hysterical".

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 6d

"How to Report ICE" 10/2:

Buffalo, CA, Chicago, CO, DC Metro, DE, FL, Indianapolis, KC Metro, MD, MA, NC Triangle, much of NJ, NM, NYC, Phoenix, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, RI, Rochester NY, St. Louis Metro, St. Peter & Mankato MN, VA, WI, WY

San Francisco in Spanish

tinyurl.com/mupyyr2x

Aloe plant "reading" a "How to Report ICE" zine.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 3d

The news media needs to stop reporting what the government says about these incidents without corroboration.

But they won't. So we need to stop believing news reports about them.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 5d

Real Jerry's comedy is fictional.

Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 5d

Deontology? That's pulling teeth, right? I had to see a deontologist when I got my wisdom teeth!

Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 5d

For years I've wanted to rewatch /Bedknobs and Broomsticks/, a movie that delighted me as a child.

While the Suck Fairy has indeed visited it, bits of it are still fun. But yeah, it's cheesy even for a 50-year-old children's movie.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 5d

Very important, especially that last bit.

Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 5d

TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

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