Alex Savage

Alex Savage

@optimant.net

🌳 Austin ➡️ Madison 🦩

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The previous use of force recommendations were not implemented

Zenz@therealzenz.bsky.social

OIM analyst asks why previous use of force recommendations were not implemented. Cheif says that there were some issues previously implementing them, but he will work with the OIM to implement suggestions.

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You have to start with a bare fact: we are in a constitutional crisis, and when you are in such a crisis (which have happened before in the United States), you have to assert the institutional power of Congress.

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a newish part of my writing process: a "Cutting Room Floor" section at the end of documents where I sentences I cut from the draft as it stands but could imagine using at some point. keeps me from being precious about anything that I write, no matter how fun or clever I think it sounds. recommend

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i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

enough of this shit

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TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Tomorrow Sunday July 26 Freedom Inc is hosting a Mother’s Healing Circle at the Ruiz memorial site. I am helping get supplies for this. If you want to chip in, I’m @/$ SamiSchalk on PayPal and CashApp.

Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social

The primary non-profit organizations currently organizing around this are Freedom Inc and Urban Triage. You can donate directly via their respective websites.

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"Our facial recognition system is necessary to stop terrorists from killing everyone inside our venue, which is why we turned it off when we had 1,000 of the world's most famous and powerful people inside" This is the official position of Madison Square Garden. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

wired.comFor Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went DarkMSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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Replying to @paris.nyc

The way this recall has been handled so far is absolutely bizarre. Instead of listing brand names, Taylor Farm used internal abbreviations for all the products impacted I was able to get Walmart and Sysco to confirm their products were impacted, but the lack of details is a nightmare for consumers

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Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

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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.

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Another killing by ICE, this time in Maine. That’s twice in one week. How can America keep asking immigrant workers to work as usual if they are being shot dead on their way to work? Stop killing us.

So… up the ‘Mingos? 🦩⚽️

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org

The so-called Flamingo Revolution in Albania began as an environmental protest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama.

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Every Witness to ICE Killing in Houston Says the Same Thing: ICE Lied The three men in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle were interviewed separately. They all said ICE’s version of events isn’t true. newrepublic.com/post/212940/...

newrepublic.comEvery Witness to ICE Killing in Houston Says the Same Thing: ICE LiedThe three men in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle were interviewed separately. They all said ICE’s version of events isn’t true.

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Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Mexican immigrant who was shot and killed by ICE during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday, speaks out. Salgado Araujo, who lived in the U.S. for 35 years, was on his way to work before he was killed, according to his son.

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Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

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Replying to @jeffabraham.bsky.social

Jeff is correct and we misremembered the nature of the device which was disrespectful. We will do better in this area moving forward by watching more movie clips at the office.

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5-4, to reiterate the most milquetoast meaning of a Constitutional amendment that was win soaked in blood, tells us we have to figure out how we are going to get to impeachment. No other remedy will do.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

actually a third thing: alito quite literally sounds like the unreconstructed opponents of the 14th amendment, right down to the notion that his citizenship is degraded by the fact that it is equal with that of someone from a lower station than him.

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Replying to @evanurquhart.bsky.social

The Utah legislature put a "moratorium" on trans youth healthcare while it commissioned a study. When their own study showed benefits, and little if any evidence of harms, they ... ignored it and turned the moratorium into a permanent ban, of course www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

sltrib.comUtah lawmakers sweep their own study on care for trans kids under the rug as they push to ban itAs Utah's lawmakers move to ban gender-affirming care for transgender kids, they've avoided discussing a report they commissioned on the issue that says care helps kids.