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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 4h

“If you want my body…” puts habeas corpus in a new light.

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 4h

You know what? That's a follow.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 6h

HOLY

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 6h

For decades, the U.S. military properly treated climate change as a threat. Now, under President Convicted Felon, it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather, even as heat & storms slam the troops. floodlightnews.org/pentagon-rol... h/t @sejorg.bsky.social

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam troops

For decades, the military treated climate change as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather.

floodlightnews.org

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 6h

This sounds a lot like the stupidity the politicians created for the U.S. Postal Service.

(See the section on Act 44)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsyl...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 7h

Wednesday in your Nations Capital
Shutdown Day 15

Things continue to unravel.
The House is presumably enjoying their PAID VACATION thanks to the Speaker.

Meanwhile thousands of federal employees aren’t getting paychecks. And can’t talk to the media about it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

"Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 8h

"Oh, Dolly Mae, how can you hang me up this way?
On the phone you said you wanted to run off with me today
Now I'm standing here like some turned-down serenading fool
Hearing strange words stutter from the mixed-up mind of you ..."

-- Jimi Hendrix

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

When I tell him I can’t use my lunch break to help him dig through the floorboards to find out what that noise in the crawlspace is.

Small, cute, gray rabbit, on a rug, looking somewhat disappointed

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Unprecedented corruption

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 2d

You can point out to the neighbor that leaves typically require more nitrogen to decompose, so you'd be glad to leave some bags of ammonium nitrate near your property line until you get a chance to distribute it properly.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

The only sensible response - as only John Oliver can do - to the deeply unserious “Bari Weiss is doing journalism the right way” Discourse™️.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 2d

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 2d

I wasn't planning this but you just got me learning tonight. Thank you for responding to dumb snark with something intelligent!

Bombyx mori sounds like a great character name in a sci-fi show.

And I'll just spend a while contemplating why silk lingerie is considered classy because ... what

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 2d

They don't even pay the worms, Danielle, and it's still considered ethical.

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 3d

This thing might bring you joy if you're ok with canned salty stuff too

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · Oct 30

How do you feel about garlic? Lemme introduce you to agnolini soup, something like tortellini and sausage in a red sauce
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