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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 13m

It IS the AI Con!

SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 10h

Ah yes it's bedtime. Wind-down time. That's why I've decided to read a book about how AI and big tech are destroying the world. Surely this will help with my sleep.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 10h

Fellow volunteer: Try to find Suzanne. She's tall and wears a mask.

Me: I'm TALL???? 🥹🥹🥹

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 10h

Someone described me as "tall" today in a group text, and I've never felt happier and more affirmed in my life.

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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 19h

disgusting union busting

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

REI to close its soho location, the first shop that unionized. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. I am now too hungry to get out of bed and make myself food. A fascinating modern dilemma. No way to solve it except to post through it!

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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 1d

incredibly funny for people to pretend like multi-millionaire megastar Taylor Swift is just some teenager posting songs on a personal youtube

Alicia ❤️ @abeebaby.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot believe a 55 year old man cares enough about the lyrics in a young women’s song that he’d post about it online. Cool. ✌🏼

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 2d

If I have to read this so do you

Screenshot of an article (linked in the quoted post below). The screenshot says "Their romance started in 2015, with a hookup in Adams's office. "He closed the door like a man stepping into something he couldn't walk back from." Ray writes in the book. "And then he said, 'Fuck it.'"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 2d

We gotta stop saying "potential constitutional crisis." What do you mean "potential"?

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 3d

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

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Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 4d

brutal lol

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 4d

Remember when it wasn't 80 degrees in October in the Northeast?

A screenshot of a weather app that says "Saturday 10/4" with the temperature range (82-65 fahrenheit), and a "real feel" rating of 87 degrees.

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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 4d

the real judicial reform we urgently need is banning Courier in opinions. i can't be expected to read this ocular assault for 100 pages

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 5d

If you're doing overzealous things like putting an adult content label on Kate Bush or banning people for ill-wishing JK Rowling it's going to be very difficult to get people to accept there's nothing to be done about a user who announced his intent to use the platform to harass people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 8d

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

thetriibe.com

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 6d

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6d

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

The fact that an agent literally said "fuck them kids" is just icing on the unconstitutional cake.

They enjoy being able to play badass while they terrorize neighborhoods.

Mister November @misternov3mber.bsky.social · 7d

From the local CBS news story:

Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said,

'f*** them kids.""

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 7d

It looks great! Also love the mask - such a great combo.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile, if someone *skips* a hearing because of the government shutdown (or fear of ICE), the judge might order them deported in absentia.

But you might not know whether your hearing is happening or not until 10 minutes before.

SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 7d

The government shutdown chaos makes the situation incredibly dangerous for immigrants, who have to *go into* 26 Federal Plaza to find out if their hearing is happening or not.

And ICE is waiting outside in the hallways.

People were detained on the way to cancelled hearings.

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