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@xmljim.bsky.social

Geek, social scientist, cook, not in any order at any particular time. Staunchly pro small-d democracy.

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16.08.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last I saw, tarrifs _might_ bring $2.2T - over 10 years.

16.08.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why, yes. So overjoyed that instead of throwing flowers, they're throwing footlong subs.

15.08.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My understanding is that DC law prohibits that type of mutual assistance. Is that correct?

15.08.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boston Mayor Accuses ICE of Keeping Secret Who They’re Arresting Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has vowed to find out from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement who they’re arresting in her city and why. But despite repeated efforts to get answers, federal immigration authorities have refused to provide even basic details, Wu told Bloomberg.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has vowed to find out from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement who they’re arresting in her city and why.

But despite repeated efforts to get answers, federal immigration authorities have refused to provide even basic details

15.08.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

@swin24.bsky.social mira aqui

www.twz.com/air/u-s-mq-9...

15.08.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

As long as they buy the next round πŸ˜…

15.08.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You do you, boo. No way I'd want the equivalent of Alexa "listening in" on my thoughts. That's too close to Minority Report territory.

15.08.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are strange times.

15.08.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardiceβ€”to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

15.08.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1165    πŸ” 383    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 45

Don't underestimate this administration's ability to invent more

15.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The SPEAKER implies.

The LISTENER infers.

The DUDE abides.

15.08.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2768    πŸ” 628    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 48

πŸ‘‡πŸŽ― We've already totally lost the public National Conversationℒ️ battle by treating the invented authoritarian unconstitutional nonsense as part of a two-sided "debate" about this. Again.

15.08.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

I mean, it's not cheap to get all those botox treatments to maintain that Mar-a-Lago look. We wouldn't want her face to met again, would we?

15.08.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been β€œso horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”

Noem may be living rent free in your head but she's also living rent free in the military base residence reserved for the head of the Coast Guard wapo.st/4mike5W

15.08.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1010    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 45
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Independent Report Finds that the Trump Administration’s Orders to Keep Coal-fired Power Plants Running Could Cost Consumers between $3-6 Billion a Year Utility customers will pay the steep cost of the Department of Energy’s sham β€œemergency” orders to prevent coal-fired power plants from retiring as planned

if Trump's order to keep open fossil fuel plants that are scheduled to be decommissioned is followed, it will cost US ratepayers between $3-6 billion per year earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...

15.08.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Wowwwww. Regression to the mean: they're still fighting the Civil War.

15.08.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump’s delegation to the Alaska summit looks loaded for..:economic deals. Bessent, Lutnick, Witkoff, and even Rubio have been talking up deal making. It’s a tell. They’re making clear what’s really on their minds.

15.08.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 394    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 14

this person should get a lawyer, and, if they don't have a lawyer, my number is easy to find

14.08.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3791    πŸ” 1278    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 46

It's still above the Mendoza Line, so we got that going for us.

15.08.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hold my beer. You aren't a Rockies fan.

15.08.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukrainians Who Fled War Are Losing Their Legal Status to Stay in the U.S. The Trump administration is letting a makeshift Biden-era program lapse.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. will begin losing legal protections Friday without action from the Trump administration, leaving them vulnerable to possible arrest and deportation.

www.wsj.com/us-news/ukra...

15.08.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 308    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 13

It's no longer hyperbole. MAGA is out to strangle your vote, your voice, and your rights. There won't be another election of consequence if they rig congressional districts.

15.08.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The MAGA Siege of DC

15.08.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

14.08.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4091    πŸ” 1664    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 259

Jesus. Pam Bondi just purported to replace the DC police chief and revoke guidance from earlier today that instructed police to continue to comply with DC’s sanctuary laws β€” laws duly passed by our city council, elected by our voters.

Even more radical than we’d feared.

15.08.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2607    πŸ” 1135    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 82

Don’t know how many times we have to say it:

Social Security is an EARNED benefit.

We must protect it for the generations to come.

14.08.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3716    πŸ” 844    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 37

It’s gone completely under the radar but Trump is set to start kicking out Ukrainians who came here legally under Biden as part of a program for people fleeing the war.

15.08.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 939    πŸ” 455    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 17

"You hit white balls for batting practice..." - Bull Durham

15.08.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now if more Americans would do this...

15.08.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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