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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

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CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 7d

It’s cool that I need to figure out how to organize a food bank at my kid’s school because Donald Trump is a hobbyist child molester and dissolved Congress so he could keep people from talking about it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9d

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 9d

More from the scene

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d

"men who clearly have hang-ups about their ability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity" is a society-wide issue. There's a reason pickup truck sales have continued going up (to the degree the F-150 is now America's best selling vehicle) even as blue collar employment has gone down

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 9d

It’s funny that this dummy, who clearly loves and utilizes AI, is also aware that AI produces bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"

Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 11d

My wife is a school teacher and we are planning to greatly increase the amount of protein bars and ramen noodles she already keeps in her classroom for her students who don’t have enough food. Maybe look at organizations that partner with local schools to see if there is a way to help there.

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 12d

Where I moved to in Oklahoma, I still have a Southerlands nearby but there is nothing like Waldo Hardware! I miss it!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14d

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14d

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 14d

A fun part of the Tulsa, home of the Woody Guthrie museum, protest is how prominent Woody Guthrie was - from tshirts to signs to people playing his music.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15d

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 16d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16d

OKC was just one of 19 cities in OK to have a No Kings rally. These are the others: Tulsa, Norman, Lawton, Stillwater, Ardmore, Durant, Idabel, Pauls Valley, Ada, McAlester, Chandler, Guthrie, Enid, Ponca City, Bartlesville, Tahlequah, Muskogee, and Miami.

www.newson6.com/story/68f39d...

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 16d

I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 16d

Don’t be a stenographer for the police. You know how often they lie. Only cover this type of story if you have done some actual reporting on it.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 16d

Block list of US Gov Bluesky accounts. You don’t want them seeing your stuff.

QuyetPawz @quyetpawz.bsky.social · 17d

Here ya go

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 17d

This part is important: “The jury program is funded by money not affected by the appropriations lapse and will continue to operate. Jurors should follow instructions from courts and report to courthouses as directed.”

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17d

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 18d

If these 1Ls had not figured out by the way Big Law is capitulating to Trump that they would be terrible places to work, then this ought to drive the message home. Sadly, I doubt it will.

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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 18d

Cheers for AFPDs Abe and Ohm, and their client Ms. Reid, guardians of democracy all three.

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 18d

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 19d

It’s interesting that the second Rule 29 motioned was reserved instead of denied. I’ve had that situation once before and the judge granted my Rule 29 a couple of weeks after the jury verdict and briefing.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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