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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 7h

his biggest claim to infamy was participating with a group of young conservatives from the Stanford Review in a campaign of harassment against a gay Resident Fellow in one of the Freshman dorms, all before he came out, decades later, of course

he is an unprincipled and cruel human, from his youth

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 7h

David Sacks also participated

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 3h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 49m

Exit polls for Portugal’s nationwide local elections today show the top candidates neck-and-neck in Lisbon and Porto, with the far-right Chega party failing to conquer any major cities.

Portugal election exit polls show Lisbon, Porto too close to call

The far-right Chega party is expected to take over city halls in the country’s interior, but has failed to win outright in major cities.

www.politico.eu

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 2h

Jim got his job by not looking into things.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

BASH: Are you gonna look into the way ICE is conducting itself?

JIM JORDAN: We're going to look into the whole situation where you have these mayors--

BASH: So you'll only look into that side and not federal law enforcement?

JORDAN: Wuh wuh wuh we'll look into all this

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 4h

Professional makeup artists are amazing.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Supreme Court Justice hawking her book on a media outlet that is effectively an extension of the administration she is charged with overseeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 5h

If violating oath of office is criminal offense… nevermind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 7h

Our last couple reading group books haven’t been great. The last one was 500 pages of telling not showing. Literally 3 cites for dominant tradition she said she was challenging.

It was great to read a banger.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 5h

We’re in control of a three branches of government, Trump has 97% approval rating, Pete can do 1000 pushups, but THEY have forced us to this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 7h

If you want to read 20,000 or so more words on how Trump has assaulted Congress’s power of the purse, and how Congress should fight back, I’ve got the law review article for you: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Crisis of Appropriations Law

<p><span>Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principle

papers.ssrn.com

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 8h

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 7h

If politics is guide…he has blackmail on people.

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Cadence ”Sewer Game Use Badwater” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 18d

I want him to drink raw milk and suffer

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 7h

Our last couple reading group books haven’t been great. The last one was 500 pages of telling not showing. Literally 3 cites for dominant tradition she said she was challenging.

It was great to read a banger.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 7h

Mars awaits.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 7h

Eugenics are a common ideological thread that hold together MAGA from MAHA to the tech right to Voight.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 8h

Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 17h

There needs to be a lot more red in bottom red. Signed, reviewer 2.