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KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · Apr 8

The Republican Party owns every part of the end of US dominance, should it come to pass. They are stealing your future, and your childrens' future, and they need to pay.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Apr 8

Cool cool. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The World Suddenly Has a Plausible Alternative to US Treasuries

In the first rush for safe havens in years, global investors are finding there are credible alternatives to US Treasury bonds.

www.bloomberg.com

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KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · 2h

MTG fucking *hates* Mike Johnson lol

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Crazy week.

KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah he's definitely dying sometime soon, I can't remember a time he's given a shit about the afterlife

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 10h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · 8h

Man has some of the worst situational game management I've ever seen for *good* coach

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.

Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who celebrates the release of a prisoner will be considered a target for "punishment and arrest" by Israel. Are you fucking kidding me?

Israel warns West Bank Palestinians against celebrating prisoners’ releases

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www.timesofisrael.com

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KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · 10h

It's an ODD YEAR!

KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah the very clear MO of this administration is crimes against humanity, not actually doing the thing they claim to be doing

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10h

A new book argues that when easy money ran out, Silicon Valley’s billionaires looked for someone to keep the good times rolling. They found him in Donald Trump.

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

bloom.bg

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 10h

1) no one believes this
2) circuit judges have been explaining their votes with much more detail and with much less time for the same exact emergency requests

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah I know exactly how I'd react if someone did that to my pup and it's not printable.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 11h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.