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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 40m

Ah, the truth reveals itself. Users of AI image generators don't want it to be "creative." They want it so that they can take control of other people's work and puppeteer it do what THEY want it to do.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I know I'm preaching to the choir half the time but, come on. The first shield says "Policia." No US department has riot gear printed in Spanish.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 22h

I could write this exact same thread about academia right now. Just....down to the letter. Oof.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 23h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I know I'm preaching to the choir half the time but, come on. The first shield says "Policia." No US department has riot gear printed in Spanish.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

Nice catch. Definitely a kind of "frame shift." Imitating whoever this grateful subservient is in his mind.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

It's like whenever I see f*ck.

Oh, no, an asterisk! However will I figure out what the word means?!?! The children! The children!

Anyway, seriously. The words aren't the problem. That's like being mad someone called you a racist and not being mad about the actual racism.

Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 1d

It will never not bother me to hear “unalived” or “graped”. We’ve more than proved that banning language only creates different words for the same topics that we absolutely need to be talking about. Stop making serious issues sound less serious by banning the real heavy words. They’re not the issue

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, yes, right, the tariff shelf. Just next to the.....ballroom and airplane shelf.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost like a tic at this point. Whenever he "quotes" someone starting with Sir, it's pretty much an entire fabrication.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what they wanted done for them. They might not like how visible it is to everyone, but it's what they wanted.

Fascism didn't arrive quietly. It came in to trumpets and parades and applause. It commits its sins on national broadcast. But merely being called a racist frightens them.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: they voted for exactly this.
They might be occasionally uncomfortable with the openly sadistic violent aesthetic of fascism this administration takes such glee in (only aesthetically, mind) but this is what they voted for/what they want.
Rogan especially can stfu forever.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: they voted for exactly this.
They might be occasionally uncomfortable with the openly sadistic violent aesthetic of fascism this administration takes such glee in (only aesthetically, mind) but this is what they voted for/what they want.
Rogan especially can stfu forever.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, look. Another "sir" story.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

My writing career summed up in one image:

A live cockroach followed by a dead cockroach. Editors have marked the inclusion of a comma between them in red.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, but you haven't truly grasped the magnificent things I can do with this "junk."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Our Halloween-obsessed writer found the best decor to make your home feel festive and spooky. nyti.ms/4nsWfla

Headline: Most Halloween Decor Is Junk. These Items Will Charm and Spook You. A photo shows three candles with black hands as bases.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

Not him, I'll wager.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect the question has been poorly worded.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

Is he talking about the British breaking the Enigma Code or Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb? Or.....neither, and he's just rambling through the Adderall?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Those were vicious, vicious wolf packs. They were brutal. They were hitting us hard & then we came up with the answer, didn't we? We came up with the way to knock them out and we were knocking them out so fast they didn't know what to do. It was really the end once we discovered the secret"

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I'm sensing a pattern here. Something....hmmmm......eh, it'll come to me.

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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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

Won't someone think of the pineapples on pizzas?!?!?!

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 3d

Now's a good time to be a problem.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 3d

Now's a good time to be a problem.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

This. Absolutely this. They believed their technical solution would solve a social problem. It’s the same ideology that drives Mastodon albeit repackaged in a less “open source” centric shell.

Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 5d

I think they genuinely thought all they needed to build a successful community was a protocol. It's a depressingly recurrent theme in tech, really, to get excited about the technical achievements and not care or maybe not even know about the people-oriented work that's also needed.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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