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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 2d

Travis Hunter appears to walking the wall of the stadium high fiving any fans that are still there, which strikes me as really terrific energy for a rookie.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 2d

They are also extremely expensive, dont forget that

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 2d

There are a dozen good kickers sitting at home waiting by the phone, there's no reason to hang onto a dude that erratic.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4d

In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

Law enforcement detains a protester near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

'A man broke his leg' is wild stenography, man.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

60% of the US population makes $50k or less a year - 33% make less than $25k/yr.

3.5 million would be 70 years of income at $50k/yr. And obviously 140 years at $25k.

This conversation about whether or not you could live on 3.5 million is *crazy* to listen to.

Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

It IS dumb, and it annoys me also. So much, every day.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

We require strident action and sacrifice from a small group of wealthy people who were almost entirely selected for their pointed lack of conviction, and willingness to see harm done to others, for their own benefit.

I am not holding my breath, personally.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

They'd be out of their cushy gig, and adrift, with basically no skills, and all their hard won contacts and favors made worthless. They'd have to get REAL jobs, which almost no politician has ever had, and which both parties disdain and revile at a spiritual level.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

Dems could *easily* win Congress and the WH, yes, but they would have to adopt policies that rankled their employers - and it would come at a massive personal cost, bc they'd almost instantly be replaced by people who are better at fighting for those popular things.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

On smaller and larger scales, state and federal elected officials are all but directly paid by the wealthy few to roll back all the gains we, the Public We, made in the shadow of World War II, such that we return to total rule by Industrialists.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

It's two parts, I think:
1. Truly, ideologically, the Dems are just the Reaganite Republicans. They dont want the popular things. They think those things are bad.

2. They serve their constituency; it's just that, bc of campaign finance laws and pooled wealth, we arent IN that constituency.

🔮 Witch Princess Sammie 🔮 @sammie.gay · 4d

I'm just saying that at this current moment it's very clear that whoever makes life better for people will win a lot and I cannot fathom why you wouldn't wanna do this

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

'Astronaut says Sisyphus unwilling to push boulder back up the hill upon realizing he has stumbled into an eponymous task'

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

trib.al

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 4d

bring on the wider turn against US tech and social media

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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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

I would have preferred a different origin story than 'realizing everything I had been taught about success and fulfillment was a dark lie intended to secure my obedience', but I very much do not make the rules.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d

Israel committed piracy by illegally intercepting the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters.

Human rights defenders, from 46 countries, including Greta Thunberg, were abducted as nearly 40 vessels carrying aid, for genocide & starvation stricken Gaza, were stopped. #3E

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

Feels a little high to me. Americans, White Americans especially, dont really have that kind of conviction.

Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

I find it thrilling, as I am finally in demand

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4d

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats.

White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers.

People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am

I'm seeing a trend

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 4d

'More like Ryan Shit' is really beautiful formalist work

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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