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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · Jul 2

Nothing makes sense unless you look at what they're doing as a deliberate attempt to destroy the health, safety, economy, and future of the United States. It's too destructive and too irrational to be stupidity or craziness or libtears or whatever. Occam be damned, this is enemy action.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 18h

I think I have about that many, but the only one I've memorized since I was 10 years old is my wife's. The only ones which still work are hers, my parent's land line, their neighbors, and the local Round Table Pizza.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 18h

He lives!

An adult white man on the left looks at an older white man on the right who is not looking back at him. Older man is packing a pimento cheese sandwich (not pictures).

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 18h

I left a four star review at a nearby national-chain haircut place and the owner called me on the phone to ask me why they didn’t get five. I stopped reviewing after that.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 19h

A photograph of a delicious Italian Beef Sandwich

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 20h

Reservoir Dogs (7/12) Movie CLIP - The Commode Story (1992) HD

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the point. “Bad Apples” ruin the bunch, and we don’t see the good apples chucking them out of the bin.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

They probably don’t even know their names.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking a chamber with some kind of magical seal but these guys aren’t that bright. I think we can get by with a “PUSH” sign on a pull door.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, sure. The fever is about to break. The indictments are coming. The military won’t follow illegal orders. Uh huh.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Well the last one, at least.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

*with the same result.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

First pitch of the bottom of the 10th would’ve ended this game (complimentary)

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

This game would’ve ended on the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th if they kept the ghost runner.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

No they aren’t. District judges are federal, they are appointed for life. You might be thinking about state judges.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

Oh. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck You!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

Yakov Smirnoff Voice: "In Fascist America, Congress dissolves Itself!"

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 3d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 4d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is a very solvable problem. If you own a house you live in, your property tax is 1%. If you own a house you do not live in, your property tax is 10%.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 4d

I booked a photo session tonight bc I have very few pictures of my family together, but while I’m smiling & holding my children, I know I will hear this mother’s screams.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting ICE agents dragging parents away from car line. And most moms in the US agree with me.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 4d

He should have sent this to the group text before posting on main.