I somehow had missed this news, but this is huge and wonderful news in the midst of so much bad stuff. Alaa being freed is great... RE:
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Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/22/british-egyptian-activist-alaa-abd-el-...
"Don't tread on *me* but I'm going to tread all over *you*!" RE:
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Stephen Gutowski (@stephengutowski.bsky.social)
I'm really interested in the psychology of the masked up ICE agent with the Facebook camera glasses who also appears to be wearing a "Don't Tread o...
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Pretty sure that callous, crude, and controversial speech is almost all entirely First Amendment protected. RE:
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Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, urges public schools to fire teachers who engage in "callous, crude, and controversial" speech ...
Was there a specific time for the rapture? I haven't been paying close attention.
(1) This is likely to be very good, though purists will get upset. (2) Having new rules/systems "sponsored" just feels icky. RE:
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Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social)
LFG!
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Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social)
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished f...
Of all the justifications that people had been trying to make to justify the Brendan Carr / Jimmy Kimmel nonsense, the absolutely most misleading and stupid was the claim that the Supreme Court blessed that kind of jawboning in Murthy v. Missouri. They did the literal opposite. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Trump Supporters Are Lying About Biden ‘Censorship’ To Justify Brendan Carr’s Unconstitutional Kimmel Threats Trump supporters cycled throu...
Chotiner remains so good at getting people to reveal themselves. The Kissinger nonsense is obviously the most revealing, but the real revelation here is just how flexible and malleable Sunstein's actual beliefs and principles are, such that there is no actual consistent view. RE:
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Isaac Chotiner (@ichotiner.bsky.social)
New Interview: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-liberalism-be-saved
Breaking: Trump's US envoy to Syria (also one of his few personal friends) apparently wholly unaware of what "Islam" means. This is stunning and in any normal world would be career ending for any diplomat in the Middle East. RE:
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@insideukraine.bsky.social)
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There are plenty of misrepresentations going around regarding Google's pathetically sucking up letter to Jim Jordan, which deliberately misrepresents reality in a manner designed to make Jordan look good, but the one part that really gets me is this one: https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihoeuzklxyly3lnk4wbemjld6vnxulatii54cvoegu4frdvulasdq