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@jmoaze.bsky.social

"[...] with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, [...] but I have had to be content with what I had." - Shirley Jackson

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Something I don’t see discussed much: COVID was labor’s biggest flex in my lifetime. When the chips were down, the bosses gave concessions to keep their businesses going. Pandemic bonuses, work from home, etc…This rush into AI is their futile attempt to prevent that from happening again.

TIL the lead singer of Toto is John Williams’ kid.Man it’s gotta feel pretty good to be known as “the lead singer of Toto” and not just “John Williams’ Kid.”

If your philosophy has lead you to the unavoidable conclusion that humanity is doomed, awful, not worth saving, etc… there is probably something wrong with your philosophy.

I choose to believe with no evidence that "Dolly Parton" was a character-ized version of herself that she shared with the public, and that only this character has died. The woman who played her will live her life out in wealth and obscurity, knowing full well how much we all loved her.

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Some people are so universally beloved that I think we shouldn’t be told when they die. Let us figure it out eventually but never receive confirmation. We should always be able to idly speculate that somehow there’s a chance they *could* still be alive

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He was with his 3-year old daughter. She watched her father die at the hands of masked goons obsessively hunting brown people, shooting and killing them and fabricating lies to temper their law-loving supporters into believing they are not the rampantly violent evil freaks they are.

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Does anybody have odds on one of those betting markets that Stephen Miller will Mr Belvedere himself (ie, sit on and burst one of his own testicles) before 2028?

Once again, I assert that April Fools Day needs some competition. So I nominate April 1st to also be "Confess-a-Dark-Secret-You'd-Otherwise-Take-to-Your-Grave Day" to keep us on our toes a little.

For example: "I'm actually DB Cooper. April Fools...?" It's like Spicy April Fools. Cos there's an air of mystery now. Maybe I fuckin' really am DB Cooper--you don't know!

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the democratic response to the SOTU should start with “is Donald Trump a pedophile?” and from there be entirely about the files

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Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

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Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

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bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

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Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

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They will murder you and put the gun in your hand

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"

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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

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Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

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If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

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Tax the fucking rich.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

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BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights. Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.

We have an authoritarian regime who is open about investigating and harassing famous people who speak out against them AND several popular social media sites that allow average people without any power to go viral and become famous overnight. Cool.

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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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In a video posted by Elon Musk’s PAC, a $1M check recipient linked voting to receiving the money: “My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”

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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

Fred Wellman@fpwellman.bsky.social

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.