John Marc
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Somerville, MA politics, urabanisim, art and tech. Roboticist at RAI.
Counterpoint: No there are no actual demons, there is no spirit world or devil, and there cannot be real-world consequences. Mess with it all you like.
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Lux āQueen of the Bisexualsā Alptraum
about 18 hours ago
You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation
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Forbes
1 day ago
We badly need a coherent policy for otherwise-law-abiding illegals who've been in the U.S. for years.
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Needed U.S. Immigration Changes
We badly need a coherent policy for otherwise-law-abiding illegals who've been in the U.S. for years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/23/needed-us-immigration-changes/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Adam Serwer
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Nothing says āland of the freeā like armed agents of the state saying āshow me your papers if you want your daughter backā
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Jonathan Cohn
1 day ago
Horrifying to think that there are people who see child kidnapping and harassment like this anc think āGo get āem!ā Truly evil
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ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says
Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, āIs that your daughter?ā
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ice-agents-held-5-year-old-girl-outside-leominster-home-to-get-father-to-surrender-family-says/3813686/
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ABC should give broadcast rights to randos and let them stream their content in the Sinclair markets. "Sure we can negotiate but 'licksMyToiletSeat86' can stream the show on YouTube until you choose to air it."
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Mehdi Hasan
2 days ago
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist Amazing news!!
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Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist
The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8e3kqkyq2o
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James Downie
1 day ago
Brendan Carr and MAGA are going to defend this as "local broadcasters" reflecting their communities. Let's be clear: Sinclair owns over 160 stations, including the ABC affiliates in Portland, St. Louis and...Washington, D.C. If anything, Sinclair is defying the audiences in those media markets.
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Ian Boudreau
2 days ago
Truly amazing to get a literal sack full of fifty grand in cash from the FBI and then nothing else happens
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Radley Balko
3 days ago
Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.
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Great explanation about the best song on Radiohead's 1995 sophomore album The Bends.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Satb6V/
A song
@joeuchill.bsky.social
once told me was "a standout example of terrible music." (For which I've maybe never forgiven him.)
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"Gravity always wins" Here's a mix of comic art, music theory, and an amazing song by @Radiohead. "Fake Plastic Trees" is a song that is so full of feeling, but the lyrics are wonderfully ambiguous a...
TikTok video by Dave | Comic Artist
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Satb6V/
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Kyle Cheney
4 days ago
Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM.
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Ron Filipkowski
4 days ago
Deport this MFer.
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Brian Beutler
4 days ago
Demand the video.
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I don't think there will ever be a clearer opportunity than this. On camera, covered up, everyone involved.
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Marisa Kabas
4 days ago
this bitch
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.
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Toby Buckle
5 days ago
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100 years ago news
6 days ago
Sept. 18, 1925: Over 200 Ku Klux Klansmen are attacked by a mob throwing rocks and eggs as they pass through North Brookfield, Mass., after leaving a night rally. Two are thrown into a water trough. The police chief, trying to protect the Klansmen, has his gun and cuffs stolen.
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CHOAM Nomsky
6 days ago
Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one
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Kaili Joy Gray
7 days ago
And Sinclair says he has to apologize to the Kirk family and make a donation to Kirk's far-right organization. That's not how the First Amendment works.
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Federal government forces Jimmy Kimmel off the air. RIP First Amendment.
Man, you gotta hand it to ABC. The speed with which it will knuckle under to President Donald Trump is really impressive. It took only a few hours for the powers that be to indefinitely sideline award...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/17/2344089/-Federal-government-forces-Jimmy-Kimmel-off-the-air-RIP-First-Amendment?_=2025-09-17T18:13:08.000-07:00
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Cowards.
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Melissa Gira Grant
7 days ago
@lookoutnews.bsky.social
has a story I had been waiting for someone to do, with this reminder: "Turning Point USAās āProfessor Watchlistā ... was used by two Turning Point employees to violently assault a queer ASU professor two years ago." (They admitted it, too:
newsroom.asu.edu/statements/p...
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After Charlie Kirkās Killing, Arizona Students Brace for Fallout
Queer students at ASU and UArizona say the death of the Turning Point founder heightens their concerns about violence and rising hostility.
https://www.lookoutnews.org/after-charlie-kirks-killing-arizona-students-brace-for-fallout/
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Alex Wild
9 days ago
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
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Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
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Justin Baragona
9 days ago
This is the same guy.
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Michael Ian Black
9 days ago
Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?
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Andrew Lawrence
9 days ago
absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
9 days ago
This dude is just plain deranged
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Don Moynihan
9 days ago
Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death
thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...
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Victor Ray
9 days ago
When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors. He wasn't disciplined.
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Il Pomodoro
9 days ago
Obviously both dangerous and floridly insane, but on some level they know winning an election by 2% because food prices were too high is not a mandate to remake society writ large (esp since they made food prices worse). That requires gaslighting and force and contains its own self destruction.
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Blake Emerson
9 days ago
These are the Trump Administrationās demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administrationās attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
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Aaron Rupar
9 days ago
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
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Brandon Friedman
9 days ago
This is the mugshot of a literal political prisoner, arrested, thrown in jail, then expelled from a public university, for yelling at Charlie Kirk supporters
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Texas Tech student expelled after video showing Charlie Kirk rant on campus
An 18-year-old Texas Tech University student is no longer enrolled at the university after a video appearing to show her mocking the death of Charlie Kirk went viral.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-tech-student-expelled-after-charlie-kirk-rant-campus
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Radley Balko
9 days ago
The extreme, opportunistic, completely disingenuous reaction to Kirk's murder also makes clear that if there's an Oklahoma City or 9/11-level attack in the next few years, this administration will absolutely exploit it to try to end our democracy and permanently entrench itself in power.
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Radley Balko
9 days ago
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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Sharon
10 days ago
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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onion person
11 days ago
what weāve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture iāve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
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Deth Veggie
11 days ago
The proper way to mourn Charlie Kirk is to remind people what a hatefilled, vitrriol-spewing piece of shit he was.
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Chris Kluwe
11 days ago
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But itās the āviolent leftā thatās the problem
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Aaron Fritschner
12 days ago
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as āvacation home,ā documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a āvacation home,ā according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed-governor-cook-declared-her-atlanta-property-vacation-home-documents-show-2025-09-12/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
12 days ago
This is known as "chain refoulment" and yes, it's a violation of international law.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
12 days ago
did a little media criticism
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
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The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation
The Wall Street Journalās fuckup while covering Charlie Kirkās killing needs more than an editorās note.
https://www.theverge.com/politics/777630/wsj-trans-misinformation-charlie-kirk
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Elizabeth Spiers
12 days ago
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirkās Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
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They left out the KTonic Demon Hunters micro-zone here in eastern mass.
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Mike Stabile
15 days ago
FTC Commissioner Mark Meador says he intend to use the office to go after "quote unquote consensual pornograpy," opening a new front in government censorship Meador was in Sen. Mike Lee's office when it introduced the SCREEN Act, which would allow the FTC to go after any site w/o age-verification.
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Meador talks FTC role in safeguarding children online
Meador said there are ongoing enforcement efforts at the FTC and cases brought recently designed to mitigate harm for children online.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/3797941/mark-meador-emphasizes-protecting-children-ftc-porn-settlement/
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No true bill
16 days ago
The two quickest people Marvin Minsky ever met were both serial sexual assailants
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darthā¢ļø
16 days ago
this is like RFK jr telling kasie hunt he never said 'there is no vaccine that is safe and effective' with her rolling a clip of him saying 'there is no vaccine that is safe and effective'
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āSo you did say itā: Hunt debunks RFK Jr. vaccine claims | CNN Politics
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended himself against the unfounded claims he repeated about Covid-19 and vaccines. CNNās Kasie Hunt fact-checks his claims.
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/robert-f-kennedy-jr-vaccine-claim-not-safe-hunt-max-vpx.cnn
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