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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 4h

Man, that opening title sequence for "Pacemaker" is award-worthy.

Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

It was awful and I'm sure that prisons in all the states of the former Confederacy are uniformly bad but, honestly, there's probably worse out there. And, man, what a bunch of old White people wanting to make Alabamians suffer. Looked like a slaveholding elite at work.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 9h

Democrats in Maine drafting 77 year old Janet Mills to run against Susan Collins because electrifying Graham Plattner is insufficiently pro-Israel is EVERYTHING you need to know about the fakakta state of our party.

It is just incredibly broken and corrupt.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 8h

And being supported by mainstream fascist media.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

Also:

Public service announcements on television telling me 1) Don't play with blasting caps if you find one, an ad that actually made me start looking for them 2) to get checked for syphilis and gonorrhea 2) what to do IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY (when the commies bomb us)

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 5h

I remember special programming on educational television describing the dangers of ringworm and advising that, if you lived in a home with an outhouse, be sure to wear shoes when you go outside to use it.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 6h

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Sumpepandwong @sumpepandwong.bsky.social · 1d

"the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward."

USA TODAY @handle.invalid · 1d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · 7h

the thing is, if you spend your whole life thinking you're the best and deserve everything especially that which isn't yours, you end up not being very good at anything, because you don't put on anywhere close to the work that others do

alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 8h

I am still here

Screenshot of a tweet showing the Norway Israel score (Norway won 5-0) with leader Erling Haaland.

The text says “the ball talked and said free Palestine”

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

Wow. Matt needs to call Drake for support.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 8h

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine, though, that the P-51 had followed a direct development path into service, like the Hellcat did. Available, what, a year earlier?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 18h

Read this thread about Russell Vought, whose power is comparable to Stephen Miller's. He believes he's "fighting a noble war to defend his 'real America' of white Christian patriarchal rule" by "bending the entire government machine to Trump's will" - while mainstream media whitewashes his evil.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 10h

I wouldn’t abolish the private prisons. I’d merely stick every single goddamned member of the Trump administration and every single member of of ICE in those private prisons and leave them in them for the rest of their lives. And the cost should be born not by the taxpayer but by the billionaires.

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Chip and Benson (and Patrick McSploot 👆) @chipandbenson.bsky.social · 10h

Wait I just need to ask this question. If his tariffs garnered trillions in gains why are they even scrambling to find money to pay our troops? Why do we still have a massive deficit? How much do you think it costs per day to deploy ICE and the National Guard to US cities to yank immigrants

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 10h

SLAVE PATROL ALERT!

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10h

Masked ICE points gun at neighborhood man in Chicago asking them to show him their faces.

Just a piece of advice: when someone like this is pointing a gun at you, don't reach into your pocket for your phone.

juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 14h

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 10h

I voted for the guy who tried to eliminate Obamacare yet I remain surprised that he indeed cut Obamacare.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

"I voted for Trump. I didn't expect [him to cut health care.]"

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called Obamacare flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 10h

Someone has to fill those private prisons.

We need to abolish prisons at the same time we abolish ICE.

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