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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry? I didn’t understand that comment.

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Adam Tex Davis @adamtexdavis.bsky.social · 4h

When Trump & MAGA say "America First!" -- do they mean America is the first country they're going to attack? Or, that America will be the first country to bomb multiple countries this year?

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. 🤕

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 3h

We were taught not to judge a book by its cover, but then a guy shows up whose face looks like poster child for Nazis, and he has an American flag altered to be a swastika. Whadaya gonna do?🤷🏽‍♂️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US Capitol police investigating flag with swastika in Republican representative’s office – report

Authorities reportedly looking into modified flag displayed on cubicle wall of House member Dave Taylor’s staff

www.theguardian.com

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes you actually CAN judge a book by its cover:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US Capitol police investigating flag with swastika in Republican representative’s office – report

Authorities reportedly looking into modified flag displayed on cubicle wall of House member Dave Taylor’s staff

www.theguardian.com

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 3h

It looks like Roberts is about to knock out the last remaining legs of democracy. He's been after the VRA since he was a young fanatical legal henchman in the Reagan WH. Be careful what you wish for...

Make that 168 years now:

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 3h

It looks like Roberts is about to knock out the last remaining legs of democracy. He's been after the VRA since he was a young fanatical legal henchman in the Reagan WH. Be careful what you wish for...

Make that 168 years now:

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Carmen Czachor @carmenczachor.bsky.social · 5h

Now would be a good time for picketing at the Supreme Court. Right now.

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James Who Lives in Queens @jamesfromqueensny.bsky.social · 5h

Again, why are we letting one criminal monster and six rogue and crooked rightwing judges destroy EVERYTHING in our democracy???

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 3h

"Trump’s executive order also stopped aid to South Africa... The order may, in part, have been the result of the influence of his wealthy donors, who include far-right billionaires with roots in South Africa, such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks."

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote in february that the administration had an apartheid refugee policy. As usual though in this business it's better to be wrong in a way that powerful people like rather than right in a way they don't. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Only

Trump wants to “promote the resettlement” of white South Africans.

www.theatlantic.com

John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 4h

On time and on brand: The FOX way.
"Eric Trump attacks Jack Smith for “planting” evidence during Mar-a-Lago search that predated Smith’s service as special counsel"

www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/e...

Eric Trump attacks Jack Smith for “planting” evidence during Mar-a-Lago search that predated Smith’s service as special counsel

www.mediamatters.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck off, fascist Parson Reverend Speaker Mike.

If Pastor Johnson is a christian, then I am the Tsar of all the Russias.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

Mike Johnson on the No Kings Protests: “The Hate America rally that'll happen Saturday…I bet you see pro-Hamas supporters. I bet you you see Antifa types. I bet you see the Marxist in full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.”

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 6h

Attorneys for the DOJ argue Portland's ICE building closed for 22 days this summer, halting operations. Reporting by @troywb.bsky.social and @tonyschick.bsky.social shows that's... not exactly accurate.

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Portland’s ICE building closed for 22 days this summer, but immigration arrests and detentions hardly slowed

Justice Department attorneys argue the facility was “inoperable.” Some public functions were halted. Bookings were not.

www.opb.org

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 6h

The banality of evil. 🙁

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 6h

Every time I take the garbage out, I twist the bag shut by spinning it around. And every time I spin the bag around, I think of tetherball. Every time I think of tetherball, it reminds me of "Napoleon Dynamite."
I think about Napoleon Dynamite over 150 times a year.
youtu.be/azSxYbFovWo?...

Napoleon Dynamite Ending

YouTube video by SCANTV

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10h

Who let the dogs out? 😂

This made my day. I hope it brightens yours. 🫶🏻

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 10h

I really don’t like true crime. How could we tell the story of Sarah Zuber’s mysterious death in 2019 without being called a true crime podcast? That‘s at the heart of this week‘s new Hush episode, out now.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Episode 2: Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead

Podcast Episode · Hush · S2 E2 · 46m

podcasts.apple.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10h

Remind me, do taxpayers pay the president’s salary or does the president pay ours? Do we work for the president or does he work for us?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 9h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 8h

Apparently, to the GOP & Reverend Pastor Parson Speaker Johnson, domestic violence is not a "serious" matter. Watch him dismiss this question and the questioner. Just. Wow. These folks are not serious people. They're deranged and out of touch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9h

Violence against intimate partners IS very serious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9h

Not to be outdone, the Trump Solicitor General says you have to overturn Thornburg v Gingles, the 1982 precedent upon which all Section 2 claims are evaluated.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9h

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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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 8h

Fox deserves all the scorn it gets; but Media Matters brings the good and crunches the numbers to justify that scorn. As someone who reluctantly tunes into Fox on a regualar basis, I am not at all surprised.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 9h

The same migrant-centered misinformation that drove much of Fox's Helene coverage has recycled itself as falsehoods about Democrats shutting down the government to secure “health care for illegals.”

Fox News set its narrative on Hurricane Helene early, then used it to protect the Trump administration from accountability

Hurricane Helene, which made landfall on September 26, 2024, was the second deadliest U.S. mainland hurricane in half a century, killing at least 250 people and causing $80 billion in damage. In the y...

www.mediamatters.org