Mark Bjorge

Mark Bjorge

@markbjorge.bsky.social

DC to the ESVA, and X to Bluesky. I block accounts that follow me if I can’t get a sense of them. My apologies, but 👎🏼 to sockpuppets and AI bots.

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Google unleashed Fenrir? That’s some real end time shit.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

Google is evil Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers They have nowhere else to go after Google destroyed their forest home Authorities will now probably shoot the wolves futurism.com/future-socie...

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I have not yet read the majority opinion in full, but an unstated principle here is, IMO: if a person can be indefinitely detained on the allegation that they are in the country unlawfully, then a CITIZEN can be indefinitely on the erroneous allegation that they’re an alien

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: Fifth Circuit, on a 10-7 vote, says no bond hearing for detained immigrants pending removal proceedings, no matter how long they're detained — reversing panel decision and district courts. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

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Wild that the Trump family is very clearly in the pocket of multiple(!) foreign dictators and apparently nobody even cares. This used to be the stuff of taut thrillers, now it's just oh there's Jared doing bribe stuff again

Paul Blumenthal@paulblumenthal.bsky.social

Dutch intelligence obtained a Russian hack of Kushner's phone and then hacked it themselves to find:

Immunity and pardons are contributing to a what will need to be a false sense of impunity.

Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov

The donor list for Trump's ballroom is finally public, and it blows the lid off a huge can of worms. There’s a LOT here, so let’s break it down:🧵

We watched the debate these clips are taken from, and Harris really did behave as poorly as this ad makes him look. Smarmy and condenscending and entitled.

Schwartz4Congress@schwartzforcongress.com

🚨 NEW AD. Andy Harris hadn’t faced voters in years. Then this happened at our debate.

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Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

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The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

Mark Jacob is 100% on point in his critique of the NYT. And the Times editor is missing the basic _factual_ point in defending their euphemisms and, frankly, thier elisions.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

The pitch: AI is a force majeure that will inevitably lead to loss and diminishment (income, security, utility, peace, existence) of all those who failed to invest in it yesterday! Look on its works, ye mighty, and despair!

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

Storm+full moon at high tide = big flooding. I’ve never had water quite this high in my yard. The only road to my place is under a foot of salt water. Glad for my jeep! #cwshare

Opening day turnout was high in Accomac. Today and yesterday it was still good considering the heavy weather. Was good to see Dems maintaining and staffing a table in the parking lot. The republicans had no table- just one guy in his F-250 with the window rolled up parked IFO a bunch of signs.

Schadenfreude is German for (cruel self indulgent) “pleasure at the misfortune of others”. Not here for it.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

This is a really good episode! 👍🏼👍🏼

404 Media@404media.co

When chatbots become our closest “friends,” what happens to our capacity to care? @samleecole.bsky.social speaks to Professor Sherry Turkle, a licensed clinical psychologist and the founding director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqD...

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“Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteem’d, But honesty once pawn’d, is ne’er redeem’d.” ~ Thomas Middleton, ‘A Trick to Catch the Old One’ (1608) #Painting, Maurice Sand, 1860.

Where is Trump’s swiftboat veterans for truth?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago

Great compendium. Very useful!

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social

For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...

Isn’t this the same place his proposed new arch will lead to and frame?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Trump administration has removed language criticizing a memorial to the Confederacy formerly located in Arlington National Cemetery, part of its ongoing effort to reshape portrayals of the Civil War.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social

1/ If you feel exhausted, frozen, or unable to keep fighting, that does not mean you stopped caring. Your nervous system may be responding exactly as prolonged, uncontrollable stress trains it to respond. The way back begins smaller than you think. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social

1/ A magician loses power when you learn where to look. So does a right wing propagandist. Teach people to recognize the false choice, fake expert, emotional trigger, scapegoat, and manufactured crowd, and the next lie arrives already weakened. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"?

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...