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Utopian Citizen Reads the Room ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ

@utopiancitizen.bsky.social

Talking books, law, and politics. Not necessarily in that order. If your revolution isnโ€™t inclusive, youโ€™re fighting for privilege not equality.

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โ€œLetโ€™s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesnโ€™t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose โ€” because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on.โ€ Prescient asf

The Verge@theverge.com

From October 2025: โ€œI might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They donโ€™t have any goodwill toward you. They donโ€™t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.โ€ Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:

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The Supreme Court's ruling brushed aside, with no reasoning from the court, the district court's 52-page order and the circuit court's 61-page order affirming it.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Supreme Court โ€” over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson โ€” allows the Trump administrationโ€™s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isnโ€™t just treating donors like marksโ€”itโ€™s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

open.substack.comThe Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam MachineHow a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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Replying to @joshuaerlich.bsky.social

Grover Norquist said he wants a government small enough to drown in a bathtub and the response has been to negotiate the size of the bathtub.

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Replying to @rhodesben.bsky.social

I find the silence of some Democratic leaders really depressing. Have we learned nothing from the last 25 years? Are we that afraid of being called weak by the same people who have been wrong about pretty much everything? Do you really trust Netanyahu?

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ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

npr.orgLawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention centerICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

Personally, I hope Dems have a good budget. Because โ€ฆ not a dollar should go to democratic representatives or candidates that arenโ€™t actively and publicly fighting this administration. In this economy ?!

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

SCOOP: Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker told @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has discouraged further member excursions to El Salvador

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Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the officeโ€™s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in womenโ€™s sports, and โ€œwoke ideology.โ€

washingtonpost.comCivil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shiftsCivil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls โ€œwoke ideology.โ€

What could possible go wrong with this

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

The MTA is investing in AI-based pre-crime detection: chief security officer Michael Kemper says he's working with AI companies on software that would analyze real-time security footage on NYC subway platforms and alert the NYPD if someone appears to be "acting out irrationally."

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I feel like Iโ€™m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing *children with cancer* i keep saying this, but itโ€™s not 5% of the uproar that came from Bidenโ€™s debate. โ€œkids peeing in litter boxesโ€, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

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not even on the front page if it's in there at all

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

I feel like Iโ€™m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing *children with cancer* i keep saying this, but itโ€™s not 5% of the uproar that came from Bidenโ€™s debate. โ€œkids peeing in litter boxesโ€, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

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Hi, I'm God. Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process. Even Jesus got a hearing.

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Greece has a budget surplus this year, and with that money they've decided to help people. 80% of renters will now get a month's rent from the government every year. The government will also invest in a Public Investment Program to build public infrastructure and create jobs.

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because itโ€™s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

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Replying to @joolia.bsky.social

The online-ness of this - the sheer indignity of having to respond with moral urgency to a fucking โ€œfixed that for youโ€ meme - is tactical. They want us to feel sheepish about taking them seriously. Donโ€™t. There is no dignity in their depravity, only smallness of character that must be stopped.

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Several students who sheltered in place during Thursdayโ€™s deadly shooting at Florida State University shared a traumatizing coincidence: They had also endured the Parkland, Florida, school massacre in 2018.

nytimes.comSeveral FSU Students Also Endured Parkland School ShootingFor some, the sight of law enforcement officers in tactical gear on Thursday, sweeping campus for a gunman, was familiar.