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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats are going to need to get good at saying clearly that people in minority groups can invoke their identity to make a political point either in bad faith or in ways that are just plain wrong, and they are going to need to get good at saying this *even when they are not in that group*

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

The government complains that Comey submitted a 19-page request for vindictive prosecution evidence.

Right.

$\the defendant has provided a 19-page letter that includes substantial and abnormal requests regarding the vindictive/selective prosecution allegation. These requests are for internal deliberative processes, attorney work product, and potentially privileged information. The government has asked for this material and will need to review it. We respectfully request the Court set the discovery deadline for this material for October 14, 2025.3$

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Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 3d

LEADERSHIP

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 3d

gotta say it’s just fascinating how normie libs have reacted to Trump with “this man is destroying the very fabric of our nation; we will need to pack the courts and hold truth and reconciliation commissions”

while billionaire libs have been like “ya know what this guy actually seems cool”

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 3d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3d

with one of the most incredible kickers i've ever seen

NYT excerpt that reads:

On Thursday, Mr. Benioff said he had never been progressive even if many San Franciscans thought he was. He said he was a longtime Republican before switching to become an independent voter.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 3d

...huh. borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Savages

Savages

Savages are human enemies in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt and Sir Hammerlock vs. the Son of Crawmerax, and can be found throughout the continent of Aegrus and on Wam Bam Island. How exactly the sava...

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Kane (in my working too much era) @kanexan.bsky.social · 8d

Fury is in the same spot as The Pentagon Wars - big popular film that either very cynically or very gullibly takes one side of a previously-obscure internecine conflict and portrays it as objective truth. Imagine if Down Periscope lead to people seriously arguing for reviving the diesel sub fleet!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

America, 2025: Government lawyers tell judges that the President can declare any protest he dislikes to be a rebellion, and the courts must agree.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is a rabid animal and must be put down. Its rogue agents must be unmasked, stripped of their badges, and prosecuted. Its leaders must be imprisoned.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4d

When we talk about the "tyranny" of the automobile, this is it. You're never not thinking about your big metal box, where to store your big metal box, when to move your big metal box, and what you'll pay if you don't store your big metal box correctly.

In New York, Free Street Parking Comes at a Cost

www.nytimes.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 4d

it’s awesome that Netflix’s new tv show about Ed Gein where he’s depicted as a psychotic maniac dancing around in a 50s housewife outfit and wig while wearing the face of one of his murder victims has been #1 on the platform for the last week. this is awesome for my rights specifically

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 4d

YOu'll never believe what the Nurgling In Charge said this time

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Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 5d

I love the Space Needle Christmas tree, and I'm not apologizing.

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maya ventura @mayawalkwith.me · 5d

i bought this tape because i thought the trains would be cool and then i remembered amtrak rolling stock hasn’t actually progressed at all since 1998 so now i’m just watching for shots of seattle

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Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 5d

kermit the frog from the sesame street is looking at the camera with a black background

ALT: kermit the frog from the sesame street is looking at the camera with a black background

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Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 5d

a blue white and green flag with a pine tree in the center

ALT: a blue white and green flag with a pine tree in the center

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6d

Somehow, Stuartism returned

George Pearkes @peark.es · 6d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Given that any ruling appealed up to SCOTUS is now rendered as "Trump gets to rule like a king," the main merits of power-court rebuttals are temporary relief and a permission structure for others, mainly congress and Governors, to see the illegality of Trump action & justify their opposition.

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Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 8d

Few terms better define this year for me.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 8d

Every single day I wanna shake someone I see online and go "Stop listening to liars! Judge people by their deeds and the content of their character and ignore their words! How did you survive into adulthood?!"

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