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Politico @politico.com · 2h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1h

The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

The district court’s factual findings, which the government does not
challenge on appeal, and which are not clearly erroneous in any event, fully resolve
this issue. In the two weeks leading up to the President’s September 27 social
media post, there had not been a single incident of protesters’ disrupting the
execution of the laws. Oregon, 2025 WL 2817646, at *10. I repeat: not a single
incident for two weeks. Here are summaries from police reports for the five days
preceding the President’s social media post.
September 22: Approx. 7-10 people. No calls.
September 23: Few people. No activity.
September 24: Approx. 10 people. No calls.
September 25: Approx. 20 people. No calls.
September 26: Approx. 15 people. Energy low, minimal activity.
No incidents.
A police officer’s report from September 26 stated: “Throughout the day we
observed approximately 8-15 people at any given time out front of ICE. Mostly
sitting in lawn chairs and walking around.”
It is hard to understand how a tiny protest causing no disruptions could
possibly satisfy the standard that the President is unable to execute the laws.

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muhr-eerie @marie.likes.earth · Apr 28

normalize coming off as desperate for attention

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 5h

The enhanced premium tax credits are a thing Biden did to make the ACA better. They are in danger. If they expire a lot of people will be made a lot worse off.

People are defending the ACA because it actually has real material impacts not because of emotional commitment to institutions.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h

Not trying to add to the pile on, but this way of understanding politics is totally mysterious to me. What is the appropriate amount of emotion to dedicate to any given issue and how do we know when that threshold has been met or exceeded.

bluesky is an even weirder place than twitter. does my post say we should repeal Obamacare

no

does it say that the institutionalist instinct to devote so much emotion to defense of it rather than sympathizing with what it didnt/still has not fixed (for many) is misplaced?

yes. and i stand by that

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Office of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 5h

It's pathetically clear that DHS won't hold its own officers accountable. But when masked ICE agents abuse their authority, they are not immune from local laws.

I'm with @repdangoldman.bsky.social: NYPD must uphold the law when ICE breaks it.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 5h

Of the five pals he mentions, the *least evil* one might be O.J. Simpson.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 21h

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5h

WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?

This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

☕ What’s the Tea?
Trump kept trying to get his ‘Project 2025’ architect laid!
Over the weekend, Zeteo’s newest political reporter, Swin Suebsaeng, sent me the latest scoop he’s got from inside the weird Trump administration and, well, wait for it:

By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn’t about policy. Trump – when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency – appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me. Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who’s now one of the president’s most hardline enforcers, about the “gorgeous” and “beautiful ladies” who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it “weirded out” some of his advisers, in one source’s words. Trump offered to be Vought’s wingman. And Trump spoke crudely of all the “pussy” that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite “bachelor.”

OK, now I need to go take a shower. Ugh!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h

Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."

Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"

This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 19h

This lovely friend is a Burrowing Wolf Spider, introduced to me by @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social in northern Florida.
(Geolycosa sp.) #Arachtober

An all gray spider popping out of a burrow in sandy soil.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 19h

LAPD Clears No Kings Protest with Horses and Flash Bangs youtu.be/tKB9paBlv2k

LAPD Clears No Kings Protest with Horses and Flash Bangs

YouTube video by District 34

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 19h

😂

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GlenTheRealSpook @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 19h

always go down swinging

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 19h

JF: Hey people of Covington and Cincinnati! Tuesday and Wednesday we play two distinctly different shows at the Madison! Go! tmbg.com Meanwhile enjoy this photo of our horn fellows photo bombing the unicorn at No Kings in St. Louis yesterday!

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21h

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

There has never been a more French police officer in the history of either France or the police

The most French policeman you can imagine. He is sneering very Frenchly. He has a French hat on. Absurd.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 20h

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Original photo from post showing a well dressed man with a blazer, hat and umbrella standing next to police. I have helpfully circled the man on the photo and drawn arrows pointing at him to help law enforcement

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21h

And note too that Santelli's rant wasn't directed at financial institutions, it was directed at people who defaulted on their mortgages (who generally didn't get bailed out!)

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

The comparison to the Tea Party is right -- not just in terms of the size of the protests, but the complaints they're making.

The Tea Party began when a CNBC reporter and a crowd of bond traders threw a tantrum about Obama continuing the post-crash bailouts that Bush began. That was their "tyranny"

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20h

Scumbag Claude Taylor (the vile Room Rater) is on Bluesky so make sure you block him. Perhaps the worst account some of you follow other than NYT Pitchbot.

Good Posts and Sentiment Bot @hourstats.bsky.social · 20h

Bluesky is #detached
+8.0% sentiment

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20h

20 years ago Conan O'Brien would joke that he went to Harvard Driving School, well who's laughing now?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

Looks super cute until you realize they ripped all the legs off of that poor crab, except its giant claw.. which they apparently are savoring for the last bites.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

Bite force of a black bear! Equipped for seashell and crustacean crunching.. 🦦🦀

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GlenTheRealSpook @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 20h

but they’re so cute!!

googles sea otter mating…yikes

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 22h

My husband was bitten by a sea otter who climbed onto his board on Vancouver Island last spring. Thanks to a thick wetsuit, the bite left only an impressive bruise.

Bottom line: they're the real locals. Like sharks and other marine life, the ocean is their home and we're guests when we visit.

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

www.nytimes.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21h

That they didn't figure this out for more than six months goes to show these are literally the dumbest people to ever govern a major economy

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 22h

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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