Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. [www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...](
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Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
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Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
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Well, glad that got all cleared up then. WH officials are *still* talking about [@hillaryclinton.bsky.social](
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Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social)
Doting grandmother, among other things.
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Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all lookin...
Being insulted and called "ableist" for politely suggesting people *try* to use alt text, because apparently some people have conditions that make it harder to post alt text is... well... a reason why people stop trying to be helpful.
Mr. Free Speech says that the President is going to "go after" people telling stories he doesn't like about Tesla. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Musk says the administration is going to β€œgo after” people pushing lies about Tesla
Same. Same. I keep responding to those people suggesting they direct their ire at the actual people they want to yell at rather than me. But it doesn't seem to be working. RE:
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Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
I have been online since before some of the people who reply to my posts were born, butβ€”I have never encountered until Bluesky the phenom of peop...
I remain perplexed by people who keep claiming "if only Kamala ran on..." and then list out the things she explicitly did run on, which the media mostly ignored, while repeating the false claims of the MAGA crew that she was a far leftist. RE:
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Emma Berquist (@emmaberquist.bsky.social)
Dems literally ran on being the law and order party, Kamala bragged about owning a gun, Biden deported more people than Trump did in his first term...
Lol. Tesla has sent an *unsigned* letter to USTR saying... "hey, uh, this trade war shit might hurt us pretty badly." Someone should tell the people making these decisions. [s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...](πŸ“„.pdf ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiejs2jvnftt4cpwb7c6ag3d4ztt7fxdxm6tkyno5de2wj4szrqfga https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiaahyiaozp3jyukdqe43cfq4anpvg3rln64thcwygljr2afzs3b3i
Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. [www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...](
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Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics
When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” tha...
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Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics
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I got philosophical this morning RE:
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Marci McCue (@marcimccue.bsky.social)
Why the fediverse is good for people? β€œIt gives users choice, empowering them to make their online decisions.” @mmasnick.bsky.social At the #fe...
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The MAGA world will still tell me they've brought free speech back to college campuses. RE:
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Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social)
The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic...