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

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 13h

If you did not like TWBB you will not like OBAA. Saved you an afternoon

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 15h

I mean the Fantastic Four is a great comic. You can see the reasoning. Lee Greenwood has one song and it's schmaltz.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 19h

This week former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote an op-ed for the NYT — not on the shadow docket, not on the court's deference to the president, but about the court's west pediment.

It's a mystery: Where did "Equal Justice Under Law" come from? 😉 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

An Architectural Mystery Embedded in the US Supreme Court

An op-ed by a former Supreme Court justice reveals the values embedded in the court by the building’s designers.

www.bloomberg.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

I know a Midwest GOP lady executive hates to see Tina Fey coming

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Tech has been building to this moment for at least my entire adult life

Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Texas Tech is the clearest evidence that the far right has truly taken over America

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

I can confidently tell you that Bruce Harrell shouldn't be Seattle's arts commissioner

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

What are your top RG buys? I'm afraid I only ever make pinto beans or occasionally lentils

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

What a day!

A picture of Paige Bueckers in a jersey at the Red River Rivalry throwing up the horns

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Smarm vs Snark but for the Civil War Too era

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

honestly do not understand the complaint here. The story is extremely explicit about this. The hed is fine for print. The dek is practically a restatement of the tweet

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

TEXAS! FIGHT!

Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, fellow Texas Longhorns! Does anyone know what time it is?

a man in a cowboy hat is walking a longhorn bull .

ALT: a man in a cowboy hat is walking a longhorn bull .

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Head to your nearest Chevy dealership! www.chevrolet.com/commercial/b...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

In September the agency also fired two fair housing attorneys who signed their names to a whistleblower report. They accuse HUD of withdrawing from discrimination cases, reopening settlements that were already finalized and disrupting the work of civil rights groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Housing Agency Removes Lawyers Who Filed Whistleblower Report

The fair housing attorneys said they face retaliation for signing a report criticizing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s leadership.

www.bloomberg.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Last month a senior HUD official issued a memo saying the agency will no longer pursue "regime" priorities in fair housing cases, among them “appraisal bias, environmental justice, local zoning, screening for felony convictions, and gender identity” — and redlining. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Housing Department's Redlining Retreat Grants Mortgage Lenders a Reprieve

An internal memo tells staff to focus on discrimination against individuals, not neighborhoods, in a potential threat to redlining cases.

www.bloomberg.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

They’re actively working to resegregate housing, and our “allies” refuse to name racism while they’re doing so...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

President who engaged in housing discrimination as landlord lays off housing discrimination staff

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

The future promised us a lot of things and I have to say that when it comes to vans the future delivered. Believe it or not this is a Chevy

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The 51st @51st.news · 2d

"Every day I wake up, I feel like I am in a mental obstacle course."

New data shows evictions in D.C. have surged past pre-pandemic levels, fueled by shrinking aid, high rents, and weakened tenant protections.

In partnership with @streetsensedc.bsky.social and the Investigative Reporting Workshop:

Evictions rising in DC as housing costs increase

New data shows evictions have surged past pre-pandemic levels, fueled by shrinking aid, high rents, and weakened tenant protections.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 2d

NOW: Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers have asked a judge to immediately halt mass layoffs that the White House announced on Friday amid the government shutdown. Seeking emergency action ahead of Oct. 16 hearing
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d

His team, last in the NFC East

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