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hellyeah2030.bsky.social @hellyeah2030.bsky.social · 5h

The Portland Frog should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 3h

ICE wants to cosplay soldier?

Penal battalions in Syria await.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h

This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then they’ll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations, @taniahc.bsky.social

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 16h

My son disco napping on his show cow, which was also disco napping. It’s not just confined to Highlanders (that one was an Angus/Shorthorn mix, even though it looked like a Holstein).

A boy in t-shirt and blue jeans napping face down on the back of a steer in the stalls at an agricultural fair.

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 1d

In actual combat — not this fake ass Stephen Miller wet dream — I would have destroyed any of my soldiers doing this to non-combatants. There is no gray area or fine line.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 18h

Cuddle-shaped, but pointy on 5 ends.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

Ain’t no Chinese or Japanese medicine techniques look like that, those kanji are cultural appropriation, too. Putting a layer of exoticism on their dumbassery.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

Pigs kill more farmers than any other animal, it’s a righteous comparison.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

This is fascism in a nutshell. Right here. "A counter-revolution against a revolution that never occurred."

Colin Jacobson @oatsdad.bsky.social · 1d

So they promote a battle against a nonexistent huge wave of left-wing violence by committing a huge wave of right-wing violence? 🤨

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

And the Civil War was "rich man's war, poor man's fight".

There was a brief, shining moment where the working class Southern whites got that, in the wake of the Twenty Negro Law.

Then they got snookered again by the Lost Cause mythology.

People whose cognition is that emotional are a menace.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

Choose life, but anti-fluoride.

Their mother should have swallowed.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

Books are often like that.

But so is software.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

Fun coda to the story, Bari Weiss is now head of CBS news and Radley Balko was fired from the WaPo mostly because he was such a good actual journalist on his beat

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI yesterday:

I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

I look at these tech bro attitudes as bordering on sub-human cognition.

Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

But also, as Sherlock Holmes said, we need to stock the attic of our mind with things that help us make connections. The time we take mulling over and internalizing ideas is the source of our human creativity, in many ways, the source of our humanity.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

Not original to me, but it’s been so long since I heard it, I don’t remember who to attribute it to.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

Also, I think their view of "efficiency" is skewed. Getting a task done quickly is not the end-all and be-all of efficiency. Efficiency also means being ready to do related things in the future with minimal prep time. Rushing through a task often doesn't prepare you for the next one.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

Jeeez.

An under-mentioned factor in these tech bro attitudes is that they’ve ruined their attention spans on SM and computer interactions. I’m not sure they can read a book OR hold a long, detailed conversation IRL.

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