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Mark Cathey @markcathey.bsky.social · 11h

Also you have to think that the combination of background and judgment he has displayed gives him a 75% or 80% chance of pulling a Fetterman if he gets elected.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 3d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Mark Cathey @markcathey.bsky.social · 4d

@kaine.senate.gov

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 4d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

Mark Cathey @markcathey.bsky.social · 5d

Ha ha Schumer will find a 90 year old Alaskan whose operating theory is "Our Friends Across the Aisle Will Soon Come to Their Senses" to run against her in the primary.

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Mark Cathey @markcathey.bsky.social · 5d

Did you see that Megan, Josh Barro and Ben Dreyfuss just launched a “centrist” podcast 🫣

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7d

[Exit King.]

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Mark Cathey @markcathey.bsky.social · 14d

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15d

As the WNBA continues to grow in popularity, targeted abuse has spiraled into a leaguewide problem. Hate speech and misinformation, much of it boosted by right-wing media and content farms, have joined forces to spin demeaning or harmful narratives about players.

The W.N.B.A Gets More Attention Now. That’s Not Always a Good Thing.

nyti.ms

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 17d

I want a fucking Works Progress Administration devoted solely to auditing, investigating, and prosecuting every shitheel DOGE kid and MAGA cultist involved in gutting USAID, starving Gaza, and siccing ICE goons on our cities and towns

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 17d

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 20d

Saints W, as it should be

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 20d

Stacks of these at the used bookstore

Cards that say:

I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.
I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door.
I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights.
I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.
These cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards

Usted tiene derechos constitucionales:
• NO ABRA LA PUERTA si un agente de inmigración está tocando la puerta.
• NO CONTESTE NINGUNA PREGUNTA de un agente de inmigración si trata de hablar con usted. Usted tiene el derecho a guardar silencio.
• NO FIRME NADA sin antes hablar con un abogado. Usted tiene el derecho de hablar con un abogado.
• Si usted está fuera de su casa, pregúntele al agente si tiene la libertad de irse y si le dice que si, váyase con tranquilidad.
• ENTRÉGUELE ESTA TARJETA EL AGENTE. Si usted está dentro de su casa, muestre la tarjeta por la ventana o pásela debajo de la puerta.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 20d

Mentioned on the pod—Denver is dead last in EPA/play vs RBs in coverage. Struggled last year too.

Michael Nitikman @michaelnitikman.bsky.social · 20d

@minakimes.bsky.social TD to Barkley with Singleton in coverage. That’s a called shot by Mina Kimes as good as I’ve ever seen

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 20d

The "fair" catch is woke social engineering. It forces people uniquely able to absorb blows to return punts at the same diminished level as the most snowflaked returners. It's theorized that elite returners could still take it to the house while being shot at with arrows, which should also be legal.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 20d

rattler tried to throw two passes on the same play. there's a lot of "buddy" to go around in this game.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20d

Jaxson, buddy

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20d

he doesn’t know who the judge is, he didn’t read her ruling, he doesn’t remember speaking to kotek just a few days ago, he’s unable to tell the difference between fact and fiction, he couldn’t find portland on a map and he probably can’t draw a clock showing pacific time at this point

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20d

he doesn’t have any fucking idea what’s going on

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20d

Trump on Portland ruling: I wasn’t served well by the people who pick judges. I appointed the judge and it goes like that. If he made that decision—Portland is burning to the ground… all you have to do is look at the TV and read your newspapers.

That judge ought to be ashamed of himself

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 22d

Two Figures: One Leaping (Orange); One Reacting (with Blue and Green) - John Baldessari (2005)

#artsky #phish

Two Figures: One Leaping (Orange); One Reacting (with Blue and Green) - John Baldessari (2005)

A man is looking to the right and there's some color field paint next to him, a green spot, a blue staircase, and an orange man jumping down towards the first man. There's a mainly gray background and it appears to be inside a house.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 23d

haven't looked at babel in a few months (it's been rolled up in a tube, out of sight...but not out of mind)

hung the hide tonight, might fuck around (and find out)

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 27d

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.

Here’s the President of the United States of America.

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Mark Cathey @markcathey.bsky.social · 28d

One of the main reasons I cancelled stratechery was Ben Thompson’s multiple credulous dupe interviews with the Anduril guy

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 28d

a pithy re-summary for undercurrents in the bay, is that a *significant* causal factor in the sudden right wing turn in VC/tech was—beyond MeToo—the end of ZIRP and transitively the decline of the VC model. Defense contracting was the only viable bastion of similar rent extraction. Being a hawk == $