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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 5h

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 6h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 6h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 4h

Extremely tired of people who think they're smart because they found the one neat trick (lying)

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

super easy to find """innovative solutions""" when you just ignore federal law and what Article I says

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

hey so I know this is T&P but DHS doesn't have near the same authorities as DoD has with reprogramming, and also the DoD version of this is still illegal as shit even with those authorities

Whatever dog killer barbie is cooking up is gonna just be an outright money grab

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 11h

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting trib.al/VhtWlMr

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting

Homeland Security is taking similar steps after the Pentagon announced it would move “unobligated” funds to cover Oct. 15 pay.

trib.al

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 4h

These American athletes are finding a second home in South Korean sports -- love this KBO story by @bartschaneman.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

These American athletes are finding a second home in South Korean sports

Americans Austin Dean, Jameel Warney and Dustin Nippert took a gamble on moving their professional sports careers to South Korea. It paid off.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 6h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 4h

Now he never has to leave the beach

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 5h

Unified front, but I'm going to complain the whole time

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 5h

Welcome to the resistance *checks notes* *flips page* *frowns* Chris Christie?

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 8h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5h

AKA war supplies

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 5h

This is the first time I've seen this, this is great

Lawmakers use haka to protest in New Zealand's parliament

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 5h

New post by Tara Guion: As I stood in line at the Iowa State Fair, waiting to meet Senator Joni Ernst, I couldn’t help but think about my child, Luca, and the struggles we’ve faced as a family. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/13/i...

I tried to talk to Joni Ernst about Medicaid. She didn't listen

Tara Guion: As soon as I mentioned how Medicaid cuts would hurt families like mine, Senator Ernst passed me off to a staffer.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

Which is, of course, why ICE is trying to deputize local police to do their work for them: the notorious 287(g) agreements.

But if you have a good sense of what US pop density looks like, you'll see that outside of FL, LOTS of ppl live in green (terminated) or blank (never had a deal) areas.

Map of 287g agreements. Red and orange are hard to tell apart, and not a fan of circle size to distinguish things here, but it gets the point across. Source: https://www.ilrc.org/practitioners/national-map-287g-agreements

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 5h

Why was Trump even at the White House Correspondent's Dinner in the first place?

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 6h

Trump take jerbs

Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 6h

No one remembers what 🔻 emoji means I guess

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

Periodically I remember what this website was like when it collectively thought Hamas was going to win and crush Israel or whatever it thought for the month or so after October 7th and anytime anyone on here bitches about Biden, I remember that

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h

Trying to explain the politics of inflation to an American: okay so imagine anti-Irish racism

“For instance, take the laboring man. When he is working in the factory during the day, he is a believer in advancing prices. He thinks that will aid him in giving him constant employment at good wages. He goes home, however, and his character changes. He is a consumer then, and he is liable to complain about the amount of rent that he has to pay, or his wife complaining about the cost of sugar, and his whole attitude toward the regulation of prices changes. It seems to me as if the federal reserve system is recognized as a price regulator it is going to be somewhat in the position of the poor man who tried to stop a row between an Irishman and his wife. They both turned in and beat him”

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 6h

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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