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Actually saw today a short video of some Republitroll talking head saying "well Obama deported a million people, why was that OK and Trump's deportations are not?" without a single mention of the words "due process" 🤔

File under "things that are not OK" -- also file under "who's next?" www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Next, we'll find out that Enlightenment-era philosophy is no longer a worthy topic for European broadcast television bsky.app/profile/pink...

Repubs, 1970s: "If Jimmy Carter doesn't divest from his peanut farms, he'll use the office to unfairly benefit the peanut industry!!!1!1!!" Repubs, 2025: "It's totally OK for unelected Elon Musk to buy his own company's product for the FAA" (2.4 billion)

#Linux nerds: What's the current status of the "pipewire broke my webcam" problem? My webcam is totally dead and nobody seems to know how to get it back. #UbuntuStudio #pipewire

DHS surveillance of LGBTQs is coming -- because, after all, this is all about eliminating government waste

The regret rate for gender affirming surgery is something like 0.5%. What's the regret rate for Trump voting? Don't have an exact figure but it's gotta be much higher than that

So says "unofficial president" Musk -- someone who wasn't elected is concerned about "the will of the people"? I don't think so bsky.app/profile/thet...

You don't say bsky.app/profile/thed...

File this away for the next time you hear any Trumpster Dumpster talk about "left wing corruption" bsky.app/profile/thed...

So Ubuntu 24.04.2 *doesn't* fix the pipewire webcam bug 🫤 #ubuntu

No, no, NO... it's only government waste if Democrats want it! bsky.app/profile/thed...

The Boss -- still got his eye on the ball -- bsky.app/profile/thed...

I missed the day in civics class when they explained how any of this was OK bsky.app/profile/thed...

Teaching reading? How about Marx, James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Foucault, Judith Butler ... oh you want more straight white men, then... Chomsky. See? They're reading! bsky.app/profile/kras...

Watch this one carefully -- once they set a precedent that passports may be denied just because they don't like something about you, do not think for a second that they'll stop with this bsky.app/profile/pink...

So many hair colors... bsky.app/profile/mrsb...

Truth: bsky.app/profile/mrsb...

At this point news media are collaborators bsky.app/profile/thed...

Support your local library

EVERYONE worries about tariffs jacking up prices EXCEPT Trump 🙄 bsky.app/profile/bria...

Via Betty Bowers: To hear some right-wingers tell it, in this trade war, David (Canada) is taking on Goliath (USA)... uhm, wait a sec... bsky.app/profile/mrsb...

Conservatives: "Don't politicize the DCA crash!!1!1!!!1!" Also conservatives: "Our racist version of voter ID or we won't send federal aid for forest fires"

Conservatives: "Don't politicize the DCA crash!!1!1!!!1!" Also conservatives: Spread lies that the helicopter was piloted by a trans woman

If the guy's wearing a hockey mask and he's coming at you with a machete, it's all on you if you thought "well he'll be nice to *me*" bsky.app/profile/mehd...

In the grand scheme of things, this is "not a big deal," but: independent synthesizer makers depend on components which may be / are probably manufactured outside the US, and they don't have the resources to shield themselves from the effect of tariffs