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DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 8h

You can bet he's probably read fewer than 0.03%.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Trump's future presidential library.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 8h

For a moment there, and without my glasses on, I thought you had written rescue politicians, and I was hopeful.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 15h

There's the unforgivable that, but yet, willing to negotiate terms.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 15h

Except for being poorly educated, a debater of quantity not quality, and of course, choosing to be a criminal wannabe dictator's lakey.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 15h

Trump thinks he can fix his watch with a sledgehammer, the only tool in his kit.

www.nzherald.co.nz/world/beijin...

China’s rare-earths power move jolted Trump but was years in the making

China controls about 90% of the world’s processing of 17 vital rare-earth metals.

www.nzherald.co.nz

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good news: men have stopped disrupting women’s sport with dildos. Bad news: now they’re betting on their periods | Arwa Mahdawi

Speculating on basketball players’ menstrual cycles is creepy and intrusive. In other words, it’s just what you’d expect when women must be punished for standing out, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 1d

Grammar D minus.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 1d

Must be talking about Scandinavia.

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DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 1d

The guys Trump is said to have given free reign to in Gaza: extra judicial executions reported.

www.nzherald.co.nz/world/famili...

Hostages reveal horror of two years in Hamas captivity

Families say some hostages were tortured and starved in tunnels for months.

www.nzherald.co.nz

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 2d

But that IS the family business.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 2d

I wish the speaker were a better liar. It's so embarrassing.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a two page book last month but can't find a publisher willing to publish it yet. The working title is: "The Times He Didn't Lie."

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 2d

A paragraph like that used to get you a free trip to Camarillo, California, and maybe a pony ride if you were good.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 2d

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DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry. I don't see it.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

If I believed in it, I'd say he's quite right.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

He may do this, and he may do that. If he can't make up his mind, just shut up.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump says Ukraine may get Tomahawk missiles to use against Russia

Ukraine wants long-range missiles to hit back at Russia - and Donald Trump says he may send Tomahawks.

www.bbc.com

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

Taking lessons from Collins and Murkowski?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like Eric has been taking speak stupid faster lessons.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d

And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 18d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

And he and his party have NOTHING to do with it! 🤔

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government shutdown: 'Painful' job cuts to come if impasse drags on, warns Vance

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are already on leave without pay as the impasse approaches its third week.

www.bbc.com

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

@flipturns.bsky.social I never mastered the competitive breaststroke event flipturn.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly not, if you have to mention heaven four times in four redundant sentences. There's a rule against that. The rule is: no dumbasses felons in heaven.

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

But minus 7 points for the missing '...from which...'

DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social · 3d

She has her mandate and her man date.

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