macatoo.bsky.social

macatoo.bsky.social

@macatoo.bsky.social

Parrots. Parks. Politics. Hoping to survive the tiny-hands tangerine tyrant.

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Attention Minneapolis! Unfortunately Mr. Lang did not learn his lesson when he was hounded out of Minneapolis the last time he tried to have a hate rally or when he was arrested for felony vandalism, so we need to get together and send the message again. Hate is not welcome here.

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This is just one of the ways that we're not *seeing* this war.

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com

As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

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Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

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In 2021, Oklahoma oil regulators documented nearly 2,000 wells that were either operating above legal limits — or lacked limits entirely. Yet they never acted on their own findings. And they never made the report accessible to the full agency. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

propublica.orgOil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...

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Just so we are clear, this is different from the other Jan 6 rioter that Trump pardoned who was sexually abusing children.

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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent. ...

propublica.orgA Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

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Replying to @emptywheel.bsky.social

But those lies are one reason I think he'll end up declaring victory from catastrophic defeat, and likely in a way that vastly helps Russia. Bc Russia is offering "solutions" to him that probably look easy, and Trump likes easy, especially if there is personal graft involved.

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Trump is telling two lies about Iran: First, that when it opens its tollbooth controlling Hormuz to let ships out, it is a gift to him. Second, that he has accomplished regime change. It's still likely he'll further escalate, bc he has is all ego. But... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

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NEW: You may have heard about Trump's efforts to undermine trust in the elections with the SAVE America Act. But here I highlight how this is just one part of a broader effort to manipulate the midterms, and how that could have long-lasting effects on US democracy www.wired.com/story/this-i...

wired.comThis Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the MidtermsWIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.

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Immigrants weren’t just filling existing jobs; they were helping create them. That’s Econ 101: jobs are not a fixed pie. More people means more customers, more demand, more businesses expanding, and yes, more hiring.

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“plague of billionaires” art protest pieces at no kings in st. paul against citizens united

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This looks grim. But it’s also an interesting test for all the grifters who use the meaningless phrase ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as a euphemism for hatred of Muslims.

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#NoKings #NoKings3 #NoKingsIII Good morning from Amsterdam, and happy 'No Kings Day' Note for Republicans: Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and is a country in Europe.

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They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

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We found this gentleman protesting alone for #NoKings in Sligo, Ireland. We swelled his number and assured him that he was not alone.

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It’s #NoTyrants in Japan as well, starting off with a good turnout in Tokyo today! 🪧✊✨

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Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Yikes, here's a HUGE story that it seems not enough folks are reporting on yet. Drone swarms of unknown origin this month apparently attacked an important Air Force base—"the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II."

asiatimes.comSophisticated drones attacked Louisiana's Barksdale bomber base - Asia TimesBarksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, in Bossier Parish not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9. The attack

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TIL that flight attendants aren’t paid during boarding and that had simply not crossed my mind as a thing that was possible? what the actual fuck

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract. Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified.

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Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down. The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains: Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.

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Teaching my class yesterday, trying to explain make-or-buy logics for government, and using diplomacy as an example of where you can't really contract out, obviously need experienced officials whose goals are clearly aligned with government. And then I said. "Well, thats what we used to think."

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

Marc Short on Witkoff/Kushner: Having two real estate developers in charge of foreign policy in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran is concerning. There is a reason you want people to be Senate-confirmed: so they can be questioned by Congress about the deals they are making.

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New from me: Last month ICE agents arrested a Columbia student inside university housing after gaining access to the building by claiming to be police looking for a missing 5 year old. In other words, they used a "ruse." And in many cases, that's legal. www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

wired.comWhy ICE Is Allowed to Impersonate Law Enforcement“There's no accountability,” one expert tells WIRED of ICE’s ability to lie to the public. "The consequence of this is that it’s going to be a systemic harm across all law enforcement.”