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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3m

Yarvin is an intellectual unicorn and I do not mean to imply that in a good way. The man is trailer park shut in elderly person levels of strange.

AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 32m

The piece on the shut down you didn't know you were waiting for

Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 3h

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece: I take a look at the government shutdown by focusing on the big picture constitutional issues. I go on to assess the White House's claim to use "tariff money" for WIC. Then I connect this up with the ongoing impoundment crisis

www.crisesnotes.com/what-the-hel...

What the Hell is a Government Shutdown Anyway? The Accounting Gimmicks at the Heart of the Federal Budget

Subscribe Today! So the federal government is shut down. I’ve been late to covering this story because of my focus on events at the Federal Reserve. Well, that was true when I first wrote tha...

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 46m

It ain't gonna look any less like a hypocritical lie with clean glasses. I tried, as well.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h

At Dame I wrote about tradwives and white women choosing white patriarchy because whiteness gives them power. www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/15/t...

“Tradwives” Is Just Influencer Speak for Patriarchal Subordination - Dame Magazine

A blonde woman in a low-cut flowery dress and immaculately shaped eyelashes speaks softly to the camera while gentle music plays in the background. “I’m here to make a clarification video because of t...

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

This primacy of the executive has been their goal for a long time. I am old enough to remember preGingrich when a president's own party was jealous enough of their prerogatives to fuck up their own president.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

At this point, I really think Miller is the unofficial Cardinal Richelieu moving all these white supremacist levers behind Trump.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

They are gonna try a modern version out for size, and a lot of poor whites are gonna be shocked at what category they suddenly end up in.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

Chris Geidner over at law dork will have one of usual stellar write ups on it later, as well, if anyone who follows you needs more.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

Been following Elie's thread. This is not a good day.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 1h

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

I... fucking up your partner to the point they are scared and sensible enough to get restraining orders isn't serious?

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

Following a couple of Supreme Court threads for the VRA section 2 arguments today. I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem to be going well. Kavanaugh is of the opinion that racism is over and Alito is just a lying fucking prick.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 1h

Yep. It is, to say the least, a harrowing read.

AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 2h

Shit. Looks like i am on another list.

AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 2h

Mamdani may be the most gifted politician of his generation, at least that i have seen. Dude is a wonder to behold right now.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2h

NEW in Bolts: No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week.

No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 2h

/cue up the Airplane references. I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3h

As a non New Yorker, I thought it was a point of pride for a "real" New Yorker to wait for some obscure niche food restaurant so you could bitch later about the wait for the *best* squid tentacles on rye toast in the city or something, yea?

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3h

Bessent seems the type to think of us as rabble, reference us unironically as the unwashed masses, and chuckle over an old fashioned about the hoi polloi.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3h

Also am I confused in thinking it is called precedent because it usually is considered by at least one party as a given/status quo? I know one of this court's kinks is killing stare decisis, but still.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3h

In other news, Joe Arpaio is still alive and being an actively evil, racist piece of shit.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
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He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3h

I have not had enough caffeine to wrap my head around imagining this exchange. I am also not sure that much caffeine wouldn't be lethal.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 5h

My latest @npr.org story: A Supreme Court case over Louisiana’s congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to redraw 19 more House seats

A Supreme Court ruling on voting rights could boost Republicans' redistricting efforts

A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to draw 19 more House seats.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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