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Intelism
@intelism.bsky.social
Writer, father, traveler, Bon vivant. Brooklyn based, Packer backer.
This game was great! Salute to the Aces.
A'ja Wilson and Jackie Young are the first WNBA duo to record 30+ points in the same playoff game 🔥
October 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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U may see Greta Thunberg's lifework & think "wow this kid really embodies the Christ Consciousness" but what if I told u a white German South African American man who made his riches selling the blood of young people to now fund AI war machines & turn the US into an open oligarchy said she is Satan
September 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water.

These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.

They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Sports fans need to be ready to pay more to access the same content they currently get.
Cable spinoffs Versant and Discovery Global are punishing sports fans most of all
Whether you're a WNBA fan needing USA Network or an NHL fan needing TNT, sports lovers lose with spinoffs like Versant and Discovery Global Networks.
dlvr.it
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Cops don't want anyone reading their union email because it'd prove that cop unions aren't labour unions; they're just crime syndicates
August 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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And no small business owner has the clout to show up in the Oval Office and give the president a gold statue to catch a break.
“.. small businesses will have to pay an extra $202 billion a year on tariffs, which works out to about $856,000 per company ..”

@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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August 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This book from @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is astonishing: about the millions of working homeless people who are excluded from the (already insufficient) social safety net. 'Evicted', for a decade in which this country is somehow even crueler to poor people than it's ever been. Highly recommended.
Working While Homeless: In America, It’s All Too Common
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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. @npr.org is one of the only US national news organizations that still has a reporter inside Gaza, Anas Baba, and he keeps reporting even though he himself is starving. This piece is unbelievably powerful.
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...
The deadly risk of trying to reach food in Gaza
An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.
www.npr.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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BREAKING: Israeli Forces Intercept Gaza Aid Flotilla and Take 20 Crew Members Captive

The ‘Handala’ is the third aid flotilla ship attacked in the last year, as Israel continues to starve 2 million Palestinians. — @premthakker.bsky.social reports.

READ: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
BREAKING: Israeli Forces Intercept Gaza Aid Flotilla and Take 20 Crew Members Captive
The ‘Handala’ is the third aid flotilla ship attacked in the last year, as Israel continues to starve 2 million Palestinians
zeteo.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response
The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.
www.startribune.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids’ toys remains.
Photos: Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children’s Play Sets Left Near DOGE’s Old Offices
Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids’ toys remains.
wrd.cm
July 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Famine's toll on the children of Gaza: The world shouldn't look away
Famine's toll on the children of Gaza: The world shouldn't look away
These images are part of a series highlighting the suffering of children in Gaza, where a humanitarian disaster is escalating and civilians are starving.
www.latimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The answer is in ICE's selection of targets:

* Democratic politicians in public
* Immigrants attending court hearings, at work, or at schools

None of those people will be armed.

On the flipside, ICE is scrupulously avoiding raids on cartel affiliates, drug dealing sites, etc. They might be armed.
I’m still surprised that in a nation drowning in guns and “stand your ground” rationalizations, none of these masked kidnappers have been shot at yet.
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
June 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Chicago: if your alder is making noises in favor of this curfew law, you need to bug them NOW. It might come to a city council vote on Wednesday.
NEW — The “snap curfew” is “being sold as a way to ‘protect’ youth. But let’s be clear: this isn’t about safety.”

Together, an organizer and law professor write that the ordinance is about giving Chicago police unchecked power to disappear young people.

thetriibe.com/2025/06/pers...
PERSPECTIVE: Curfews won’t keep us safe; they just criminalize the existence of Black and brown youth • The TRiiBE
The fight against the “snap curfew” in Chicago is a fight against homegrown fascism.
thetriibe.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM