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Android app dev, gamer, dad My bluesky bsky migration notes: https://bsky.app/profile/mathiastck.bsky.social/post/3kjcgjs6ykj2o https://mastodon.social/@mathiastck

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · Jan 19

This is my pinned Tweet:

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It long documented Twitter migration notes. I'm gonna try to scrape my socials now in a similar fashion for bsky folks to follow.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

⚡️ NYT Editorial Board: “Blame Trump when your energy bills go up… Rather than trying to put oil companies out of business, Mr. Trump is going after clean energy, and Americans will face higher bills as a result.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 16h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

In 1989-90, while this movement to take MLK's name off of a Portland street was gaining traction, very few mainstream outlets or Democratic politicians were willing to call that movement "racist" for fear of being unfair. But the guy behind it was a stone cold white supremacist w/ neo-Nazi ties.

Where Portland's leaders in both the media and government hesitated to identify the anti-MLK Blvd movement as "racist," that relatively small group of antifascist activists had no such reservations. Now that Walter Huss's archive is open to the public, we now know, for example, that at the same time he was organizing to take MLK's name off of a street in Portland as a colorblind populist "fighting city hall," he was carefully reading and annotating David Duke's publication "The National Association for the Advancement of White People" and sending Duke donations and letters containing dating advice.
NAAWP NEWS Page 8
The NAAWP is the National Association for the Advancement of White People. It maintains that there
preserve their civil rights, heritage, and basic interests, just as Blacks and other non-Whites do.
White people now face the most extensive racial discrimination in American history. It is true that some Blacks faced discrimination in the past, but the discrimination was limited as it was primarily practiced in the private sector. Today, the federal government is forcing an across-the-board racial discrimination in employment, promo-tions, scholarships, and in college and union admittance.
This racial bias is pervading all sectors of our national life, including civil service, military, education and business.
The U.S. Department of Labor boasts that over 175,000 major corporations have programs favoring Blacks over Whites in employment and promotions. "Affirmative action" is an euphemism for nothing more than blatant racial discrimination. And no one should harbor the illusion that it simply favors equally qualified Blacks, for it consistently favors less qualified Blacks over better qualified Whites. Good examples of this practice are the Bakke and Weber Supreme Court decision that sanctioned racial quotas. Bakke, who scored in the 90's on his tests for medical school, was denied entrance in deference to Blacks who scored in the 30s. This kind of discrim…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Partially in response to Seraw's murder, Portland changed the name of Union Avenue to MLK Blvd. In 1989, the white Christian Nationalist former chair of the OR GOP immediately organized a massive movement to *take MLK's name OFF of the street.* rightlandia.ghost.io/on-this-mlk-...

On this MLK Day, we should remember the people who in 1989 wanted to take MLK's name off a Portland street, but for totally not-racist reasons!

On Walter Huss's lifelong hatred of MLK, the many "totally not racist" Oregonians who enabled it, and the small group of antifascist activists and researchers who told the truth about it

rightlandia.ghost.io

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Since the topic of "antifascism in Portland" is currently in the news, it's worth remembering that an early moment in that history occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the "white pride" murder of Seraw inspired the formation of the Coalition for Human Dignity. kboo.fm/media/99339-...

Episode Three - Building Community Defense

In this episode we learn about the initial formation of the Coalition for Human Dignity and its subsequent development into an effective organizing tool for self defense.

kboo.fm

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 1h

It’s been 9 days since the government shutdown started.

Republicans still refuse to come to the table to negotiate about Americans’ health care.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 53m

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

I like to joke that I'm the anger translator for the entire industry because I'm out of fucks, have no boss but myself, and our users LIKE it when I explain shit about social media, but it's not wholly a joke; I'm in a really good position most people aren't

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Raging Spirit @ragingspirit.bsky.social · 23h

You hanging out here and doing this stuff, which someone at Bluesky should ideally be doing, is one of the best things on my timeline. Yes, you speak of horrors, but it's valuable knowledge a much needed perspective. And you do all this despite the social incentives not to. Thank you!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Still in Broadview. At this point it's mostly press waiting around to see if they can spot any National Guard potentially rolling in tonight. Plenty of state troopers still on site.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

A very silly situation. Cops pushing protesters and press out of the free speech zone. Apparently standing at the corner of Beach and Lexington is still fine, though.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

This was outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility on Wednesday, early evening.

In recent weeks, both DHS and the state have emplaced physical barriers and created new rules for gatherings. Tonight, the scooted people out of the "free speech zone."

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

A very silly situation. Cops pushing protesters and press out of the free speech zone. Apparently standing at the corner of Beach and Lexington is still fine, though.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 12h

I am not sure it is finite, it seems self sustaining.

It's a struggle to keep people focused on what we do know, and what existing data really suggests.

I recently searched bluesky to see if anyone had used this line I saw elsewhere, maybe on Facebook.

#DemandDisclosure
#DemandProvenance

MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · 13h

#DamnatioMemoriae

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irmtraut.bsky.social @irmtraut.bsky.social · May 27

look at this - it shows Jonathan Choe suddenly whapping someone with a baton. Also, why is the person with dyed blond hair being arrested? x.com/KatieDavisco...

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Josh @joshuablount.com · May 28

Jonathon Choe just used a baton to assault someone who was filming him, apparently Choe thinks this an appropriate response to being filmed with a phone.

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · May 29

This assault by TPUSA "reporter" Jonathan Choe needs more attention. Journalists I'm looking at you. His victim was arrested.

He also punched a defender of a migrant center multiple times last year. publicola.com/2024/04/19/h...

Also an accusation from 2023 www.thestranger.com/news/2023/11...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

Spotted a Rule 11 sanctions poster in the wild today

Man stands with poster that says “rule 11 sanctions”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

Believe me, I don't want to have this. There is absolutely nothing good about it. But there's nothing I can do about it and after seven bowel obstructions I really don't want an eighth.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

This is an incredibly selfish pet peeve and I'm sorry but please if I tell you I have Crohn's Disease don't tell me it's rude not to eat something or that one slice of whatever won't kill me or how your random diet cured your IBS. .

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