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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 3h

ha tbh that would drive me up the wall!

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The Lever @levernews.com · 2d

🚨NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir defending his ruling letting oligarchs buy elections - yet he says he worries democracy may not survive.

None of the media Kennedy is granting interviews has even asked him about Citizens United.

Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This

The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.

www.levernews.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

NBC Out has had some of the best coverage of LGBTQ+ news in the last few years. In a time when the Trump administration takes historic assaults on transgender people's rights, this feels short-sighted. Good journalism is good business.
www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 7h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 8h

"no no it's the person I hired who's a Nazi, not me!"

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Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago — the great city — famously located in Texas, Florida and other non-Illinois states!

STORY: White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities
via @afp.com
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

factcheck.afp.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 10h

BIG BOAT STUCK

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

Photo of the unfortunate vessel, suspiciously close to the shore and even more suspiciously not moving...

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 10h

ooooh this is a great debunking of that "fossil fuel companies are bad so why should I even lift a finger" nonsense

Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.

Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d

In one corner we have Pornhub refusing to store users' PII & government IDs because of the myriad security problems inherent in that situation

In the other corner, openAI very much wants to store your government ID attached to your gooning chats

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

www.cnbc.com

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 11h

When you snub your Trump-voting family members (or friends who write genocide apologia in the Free Press), you take away their sense
that they are decent, respectable, normal people. It’s good to fight that normalizing impulse, when Trump in power means people getting kidnapped by masked police.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 11h

Or...you use the additional tax revenue from people being able to get around to work/shops/etc to fund transit the way everyone funds roads without blinking

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 11h

Books...by women?! Gasp

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 11h

On ICE‘s abuses of power & accountability: “Swalwell said he and other Democrats are discussing ways to make agency funding directly contingent on dispensing with masks.
‘We cannot have a budget that allows them to wear masks,” Swalwell said. “We’re not going to fund a department that does that.’”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 11h

I would believe that Illinois Policy has a rule against non-cherry picked data

priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 11h

Ok tbh I'm wondering how much of the male loneliness stuff isn't just them waiting for a woman to fix it but also everyone around them being insufferable douchebags

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

Germany’s parliament met only 20 times during the Nazis’ 12-year reign, and didn’t meet at all in the last 3 years. MAGA Mike Johnson is going after that record.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 11h

A whole-ass, peer-reviewed article was just published claiming that the Rat Hole is actually a squirrel. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Rodent indent not self-evident: a case of mistaken identity of the ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ | Biology Letters

The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ is a remarkable full body impression ostensibly created by a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) crossing fresh concrete in Chicago’s Roscoe Village that became a viral sensation. While the public attributed the mark to a brown rat, no ...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.