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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14h

Psst! Don't tell anyone in the Trump administration. They would either do it or their head would explode.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Measurement

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 15h

"At a Monday hearing, the Somerville Elections Commission overturned an Oct. 2 attempt by Somerville United Against Discrimination to invalidate more than 8,000 of the signatures, which would remove the measure from the ballot." www.cambridgeday.com/2025/10/10/s...

Somerville kills well funded bid to remove Palestine boycott measure from ballot - Cambridge Day

A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned Somerville city councilor tried to invalidate signatures needed to get a boycott measure on the ballot.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 16h

"US starts illegal government layoffs" Fixed it for ya.

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

US government workforce cuts have begun, OMB chief says reut.rs/48kSGc8

US government workforce cuts have begun, OMB chief says

Reductions of the federal workers have begun, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said in a post on X on Friday as the U.S. government shutdown entered its 10th day.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S
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Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

"I'll read all of them carefully and hold them in the strictest of confidence" = I will run them through chatGPT and ask the AI to pick 20% of the staff to lay off

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

Here's the full memo.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19h

MIT has rejected Fat Satan’s blackmail, making it the first university not to bend the knee.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

One amazing trick the Trump administration has pulled off in political narratives (and in courts via unitary executive theory) is presenting any constraints on the executive to be anti-democratic. We are learning how critical those constraints actually are to protecting democracy.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 19h

Stephen Miller doesn't want concessions.

He wants a race war, and a national purge, and is agitating conflict with Venezuela for the purposes of manufacturing one.

Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 21h

Venezuela, hoping to end its clash with the US, offered to open up oil and gold projects to US firms, give preferential contracts to US businesses and slash energy and mining contracts with China, Iran and Russia.

The Trump administration rebuffed the concessions. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 22h

Trump FCC Is Making It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees

When FCC boss Brendan Carr isn't failing embarrassingly to censor comedians who make the President sad, he's taking a hatchet to corporate oversight and consumer protection. From weakening robocall enforcement to…

Trump FCC Is Making It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees

When FCC boss Brendan Carr isn't failing embarrassingly to censor comedians who make the President sad, he's taking a hatchet to corporate oversight and consumer protection. From weakening robocall enforcement to killing net neutrality, it's part of Carr's "Delete, Delete, Delete" performance that is attempting to dress up corruption and regulatory capture as streamlined government efficiency. This week, Carr began taking aim at recently passed rules requiring that your broadband ISP be clear about all the sneaky fees and restrictions they impose on your broadband line.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21h

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 19h

On the upside. When AI craters and data centers close, electricity usage will go down, driving electricity prices down.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 19h

All the more reason to go to your local No Kings protest on October 18th
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 19h

They hate when you make fun of them

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20h

"...Itt becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit. "

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An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

For negative values of good, sure.

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting how the Indigenous woman kidnapped from the Conscious flotilla isn't getting a fraction of the attention as white participants. Even articles aren't naming her! Her name is Mskwaasin Agnew.

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

Finally?: "Whoever being in charge of an auditorium, hall or other building shall knowingly permit it to be used by the Communist Party or by an organization which has been adjudicated a subversive organization under the provisions of section eighteen shall be ..." malegislature.gov/Laws/General...

General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 264, Section 22

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

And: "The attorney general shall bring an action in the superior court by an information or petition in equity against any organization which he has reasonable cause to believe is a subversive organization. The fact that such information or petition has been ..." malegislature.gov/Laws/General...

General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 264, Section 22

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

Also: "The Communist Party is hereby declared to be a subversive organization."
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General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 264, Section 16A

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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

"Whoever by speech or by exhibition, distribution or promulgation of any written or printed document, paper or pictorial representation advocates, advises, counsels or incites assault upon any public official, or the killing of any person, or ..."
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of corporate media are shills for Trump. Others are all in on the fascism.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

So the argument for sending US troops into cities to be used against Americans is that Antifa has apparently taken over our cities and the troops have to battle them.

Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 1d

He is going to pay us to take medicines? Fascist geezer is really losing it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Piratenpartij Nederland @piratenpartij.nl · 3d

@matthijs85.bsky.social over de zaak van @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social tegen META en cybersecurity voor het schenden van de Digital Services Act (DSA), de wet die bedoeld is om gebruikers controle en autonomie terug te geven.

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#StemPiraat #BigTech #Transparantie

Matthijs Pontier over de zaak van Bits of Freedom tegen META en cybersecurity

YouTube video by blckbx

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