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“Boo!” Saysceej @saysceej.bsky.social · 10m

I know that this is stupid to expect at this point…but it’s illegal. And not like in a “it doesn’t say a dog can’t play” way, but in an explicit “under no circumstances may a dog play and this isn’t just a rule in this league this is fundamental to the actual game” way.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 6h

Sen. Rand Paul: “what were their names” and “what was the evidence linking them to being part of a gang?”
“The Coast Guard, when they interdict boats, … about 25% of the time the boat that they board doesn’t have drugs on it. So they have made an error, but they don’t kill them.”

US strikes another alleged drug-carrying boat off Venezuela coast

The strike marks the fifth deadly strike on an alleged drug-carrying vessel in the region.

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Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 3h

If anti-woke is real….

Ask any one of them to remove name and race from all applications to hire and make college admissions totally blind.

These are not serious people. They are just white power folks COSPLAYing being normal.

Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 4h

CUTTTTTEEEERS!!!

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Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 4h

We are literally seeing every 80’s movie bad guy WASP/ country club type come to the fore in America.

Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5h

It's been a fact of my entire working life, but I can't for the life of me understand why open, explicitly partisan gerrymandering is legal in the first place

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Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 6h

Lemme say this clearly.

Fuck you JD.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 6h

1.) One of those „kids“ is a state senator in Vermont. (They’re not kids)
2.) kids are bigots is a weird stance
3.) going full boys will be boys about the „I love Hitler“ chat is quite a choice
4.) What else to expect from a guy who still follows Bronze Age Pervert on X? (Rhetorical question)

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Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 8h

The first person to confront Trump on camera and call him a fucking narcissistic child to his face will be the “have you no shame, sir” person of our age.

Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 8h

If we subscribe to the idea we live in a society with generally shared societal mores, the only guardrails to that enforcement are shame and then at some point law. I think all of this is happening because somehow people want to make shitty online behavior ok IRL.And we let that go for too long IMO

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Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 8h

It’s some “capitalism ends here” ↙️ stuff.