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muellershewrote.com
Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison
July 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
More of this. Constantly. Every chance we have, more of this.
March 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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aclum.bsky.social
BREAKING: We, @aclu.org and CLEAR are joining Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after ICE unlawfully arrested and detained her in retaliation for her political speech. Speaking out against a war, a policy, or a government is not a crime.

The government must immediately release Ms. Öztürk.
March 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Connecticut Intelligence Center worried that Luigi Mangione is becoming a "Robin Hood" like figure and that "citizens may see Mangione’s alleged actions as an attack against a system designed to work against them," per report obtained under FOIA: prospect.org/justice/2025...
March 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's attorneys—now including the ACLU!—describe her arrest and detention as "part of a concerted and systemic effort by Trump administration officials to punish students and others identified with pro-Palestine activism." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
INTRODUCTION Rümeysa Öztürk is an international PhD student who was arrested on March 25, 2025 when six plain-clothes federal officers surrounded her on the street just outside her home in Somerville, MA. Rümeysa screamed as a man in a hooded sweatshirt grabbed her. Several other officers encircled her and soon covered their faces with masks. Rümeysa was handcuffed and escorted with an officer holding each arm into an unmarked vehicle. For more than 20 hours, her friends, family and legal counsel could not locate or contact her. After an exhaustive search, they learned that she had ultimately been removed from Massachusetts and sent more than 1,300 miles away to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.
March 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
If journalism is still legal in 20 years, I look forward to interviewing them.
nikkimcr.bsky.social Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Mar 20
Trump signs EO dismantling the Deparment of Education, next to a "classroom" of children who don't realize what this will actually do to their education
March 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
I'm looking to connect confidentially with people who work at OPM.

I will protect your identity.

Contact me via Signal or text at 202-599-7124
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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drwendyrocks.bsky.social
Just implemented a new email sign off.
Image shows the bottom part of a sentence followed by a sign off saying the horrors persist but so do I, Wendy.
January 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ireland0828.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
rockinfabblue.bsky.social
@marisakabas.bsky.social You're truly a great journalist. You inspire me, but I unfortunately don't have time to investigate to the level you do while in school and working. 💔
January 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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jaspar.bsky.social
I saw a post here yesterday about how you can watch the PBS News Hour for free online and in the replies was a thread like

“PBS, those corporate shills? I watch BBC!”
“BBC, those corporate shills? I watch…”

going on and on in that fashion
January 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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thelen0.bsky.social
What's the point of living in a tech dystopia if there isn't caked up gay android women with a rich inner life and identity conflicts and instead the only robots who talk to me say things like pussy in bio or hey are you available for commission dm me
January 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”
Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo
Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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abfriedman.com
A random list of things you can do if a federal agency attempts to cancel your grant (please add suggestions):
1. Organize. Talk to the news about the work that will not happen as a result of this. Explain how promising scientists are now out of a job and their families are affected.
January 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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rabbijill.bsky.social
Google maps is changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America & going back to naming Denali Mt McKinley.

I will never call them that. It’s dispiriting to see how weak people are - to cave to his crazy.

Thank God I work with so many wonderful humans.
January 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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mariahbrown.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Lawmaker. Lawmaker. As in person who makes laws
January 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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astrokatie.com
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
UPDATE: The Air Force has reversed its decision to remove courses with videos relating to the legendary Tuskegee Airmen following backlash.
Air Force reverses decision to pull course with Tuskegee Airmen following backlash
The Tuskegee Airmen were the country’s first all-Black military airmen who fought during World War II.
www.whatimreading.net
January 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
For those interested in politics, don’t ignore AI. AI models will further change politics into something that is probably unrecognizable.

Just like a TikTok algo can get what it wants in front of you, campaigns will figure out how to get information to get you to vote , OUTSIDE of your phone/PC
sebastianraschka.com Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @sebastianraschka.com · Jan 27
Remember when we were arguing about the term "foundation models"? It feels like ages ago! With those base models culminating in DeepSeek v3 in Dec 2024, 2025 will likely be the year of LLM specialization!

Anyway, I will be writing about it more soon :).
January 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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profgalloway.com
“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”

—Elie Wiesel
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Serious props to Marisa here who had this before anyone else I think.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 27
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs 'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve. This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025). Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20. 2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20. ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial surice tot foreign nongovernmental organizations, DEL woke gender ideology, and the pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated conducting merit review panels No later than Febrar - 10. 2025, agencies shail submit to OMB detailed information on any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant has reviewed provided guidance to your agency with respect to the information act recordin grant and ptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other case basis. To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
January 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
rockinfabblue.bsky.social
FREE LUIGI! ❤️‍🔥
December 10, 2024 at 1:51 AM