Everyday for the last few weeks (sometimes multiple times a day) there is an automated call to our office voicemail, where it doesn't recognize that voicemail has picked up and we get a recording of just the very very end of the message: "9255 to opt out." That's the entire message. Every day.
I listened to Ben Horowitz being interviewed on a podcast and again I am wondering what reality he lives in. He claims that (1) the Biden administration was fascist (2) that Elizabeth Warren really ran things and deliberately sought to debank political rivals to punish them and...
Not wheelies! No wonder we need to bring in the National Guard! RE:
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onion person (@junlper.beer)
we need fascism because kids are doing wheelies
Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. [popular.info/p/the-secret...](
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
 [The secret to Baltimore's extr...](
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
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Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreigaxaeufvzcbuoqbe25m4oofupelunszk5ovtchdf7wwq44lxayj4
TIL that "LinkedIn Profile Strategist" is apparently a job, and one of them tried to connect with me on Linkedin (naturally), in the mistaken belief that I might want a strategist for my LinkedIn profile.
Hooooooooly shit. THIS is the video that Chris Cuomo believed was real? Not only does it say "parody 100% made with AI across it) there is no human being with half a brain who could think this is real or that AOC would say any of this. RE:
Bluesky Social
Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social)
2. It’s so fake and also labeled as fake!!!
What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake? [www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...](
the Guardian
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
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Moving closer to child soldiers, huh? [www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08...](
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Noem Unveils No Age Limit for Patriotic Americans to Join ICE Law Enforcement to Help Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S. | Homeland Security
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will waive age limits for new applicants so even more patriots w...
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Noem Unveils No Age Limit for Patriotic Americans to Join ICE Law Enforcement to Help Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S. | Homeland Security
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will waive age limits for new applicants so even more patriots w...
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Somewhere around a decade ago, a conservative activist told me that it was his mission to end abusive FOIAs of activists fishing through the emails of professors at public universities. I think about that often. RE:
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Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social)
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's...