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Whatever brought you here was a mistake. Another mediocre cis-dude, he/him. 41 years old.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · May 2

Every time I link this, I get a little more earnest about it. We don't have to keep holding back.

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation - Harvard Law Review

For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

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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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

Revelatory for how they view people, as inefficient and overly willful content engines that can be replaced with better-behaved property.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

Really internalized a new wellspring of respect for the women in my life during covid quarantine. Hair is such an investment.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

That is not a teacher anymore than leaded paint is a refreshing beverage. That's way beyond professional malpractice.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

Increasingly convinced that if we want a "strong republican party," we have to stop putting it like that. We have to condemn the existing republican party for what it is. Yeah, I get what Nancy's saying, I just wish she'd stop saying it and start actually pursuing it.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

Also, if he was going to de facto transfer the loyalty of our military to a private party, we would have to burn down the capital. That's a Country's Over, Try Again level failure condition.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Allow me be the first to thank you for ur efforts. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ur

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ur

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

"It makes low quality, soulless, barely novel content, ad infinitum" fits porn and no other industry.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

I'm following Thecla on mastodon, that shit's fire.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

Tankies and reactionaries both yearn to own the libs, because they revile someone who does limited good within limited means rather than hewing to a purity culture that demands violent revolution.

They don't want to make the world better, they want cynicism to preempt pragmatism.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 3d

What I don't get is if hardcore tankies really think raiding detention facilities is the best path forward, if you're not just engaged in performative bullshit, then why do I, the shitlib, have to do it?

Like, shouldn't YOU be doing it?

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 3d

I love bluesky

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Valk @einherjarvalk.bsky.social · 3d

We’re now using ChatGPT.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 5d

The earnestness really puts a smile on my face. Here's someone trying with their whole heart to do their best and speak the truth as they know it. Bless their heart.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 6d

The endgame of the myth that the acquisition of wealth is proof of virtue was always going to be this, the predatory economy strangling the productive economy for its last few pennies.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 7d

This is something all too rare: A Republican asking himself, 'How would I feel if a Democrat did to me what Trump is doing to Democrats?'

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 7d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 7d

Absolutely. Accepting the surrender of the Confederate soldiers dumb enough to fight for the right to be penniless sharecroppers was a mistake. Accepting the surrender of the plantation owners who played them for fools was a cardinal sin.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

I have a cure for both, but to achieve it, we'll need to burn so much leaded gasoline.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

They're betting they will get robocops before the rest of us organize to overthrow them, and they might be right. Replacing artists or doctors isn't the play. Replacing ag workers isn't even the play; human skin is incredible.
Put guns on a self-driving tesla, and you're done. Caste beyond conquest.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

Prediction: a right-wing lunatic realizes he could sneak a gun or explosives inside one of those big mascot costumes, uses it for atrocities, and the Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the first amendment no longer applies to frog costumes.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 8d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

Bummer. If there's anything we can do to help, please let us know.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 9d

There's a reason Trump, et al, aren't worried about this sort of thing happening again.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10d

The 2008 Great Recession was a wealth transfer of tens of thousands of dollars from every Black and queer family in the United States to the largest banks.

No, seriously. A study afterward found the average Black family lost *50%* of their wealth. The average queer family lost 12% of their wealth.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 9d

If you provide enough money to survive directly to the people who do what they do out of passion, we're all* better off.

(* except for capital that exploits the needs of artists, academics, researchers, physicians, and entertainers of all kinds.)

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 9d

Border Patrol executed a US Citizen, then attempted to frame her for somehow provoking the murder.

Redistricting is cool, and all, but I want a referendum on secession and I want it yesterday. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social. The most salient threat to my life and freedom is the federal government.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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