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starting a fistfight at the family 4th of july bbq by reminding the divorced uncles that trump is a convicted felon

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · Jun 29

the great khan pritzker rallying his vassals as he prepares to wage war against the tyrants in washington

emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay · Jun 29

google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity

a bunch of labels in a circle around chicago

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 15h

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 2h

yet another data point that an economics professor is about as much of a scientist as a guy who goes dowsing for water

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5h

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 2h

we should all be voting for whichever dem pledges to put the most trump administration figures in prison which means that, at least as of this moment, jb pritzker is our guy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 2h

very excited by the idea of timothy parlatore, prison lawyer

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 4h

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 6h

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18h

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 6h

the bar is so low that if platner were to become grunge affect chris coons it'd be extremely disappointing but still a huge upgrade over collins

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 6h

i'd say i'm guardedly optimistic about the guy but given how little that we know about him to this point—or the type of people he would surround himself with—it's impossible to know where he'd fall on the sanders--booker--fetterman continuum

still, seems better than the extremely old janet mills

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 6h

i like what the guy has been saying but i have some enormous reservations about a guy who signed up to do mercenary work for blackwater during the first trump term

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 6h

every ICE agent is an irredeemable thug who must be purged from ever again holding any speck of authority

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

A van just drove past the MDC lot entrance and feigned swerving into protesters, nearly hitting a few of them.

Another transport van drives into the MDC with at least one person in the back.

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

ICE is an irredeemable agency

we're stuck footing the bill for the continent's most racist thugs to play a murderous game of bumper cars on our public streets

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 10h

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 10h

After decades of lame jokes, we finally see just why jury duty is one of the most important things you can do

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

lol.

LMAO, even.

Case 1:25-cr-00244-SLS
Document 69 Filed 10/16/25 Page 1 of 2
CO 109A - Rev. 3/2010
UNITED STATES DISTRICT AND BANKRUPTCY COURTS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
VS.
Civil/Criminal No.:
25CR244-SLS
SYDNEY LORI REID
NOTE FROM JURY
Judge,
We have reached a verdiet.
Date: 10-16-2025
Time: Q1: 35 pm

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
:
:
:
Case No. 25-CR-244 (SLS)
....
VERDICT FORM
As to the charge of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers, we, the jury in the
above-captioned case, unanimously find the defendant, Sydney Reid:
X
_Not Guilty

Guilty
Foreperson Signature
10-16-2025
Date

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

ah, i see we're inclining toward the moderate option on court reform

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

once again pointing out that the harris campaign actively sought advice from keir starmer's labour party on how to run her presidential campaign

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15h

The party of government, that won a generational landslide just over a year ago, is polling at just 15%.

Starmer will be remembered as one of the worst prime ministers in British history, and a willing midwife for the fascism to come.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

blessed to have never heard of michael barbaro before now because this excerpt makes it clear that the man is a rancid piece of trash

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 9h

like for real for real

Ultimately, a major reason why Trump might intervene in New York would be part of an ICE campaign to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. That’s been an argument, pretense he’s made in several places where the National Guard eventually comes. There are an estimated 400,000 undocumented immigrants in New York. And as you found as you ran this primary that was so successful, and you met with many Trump-supporting New Yorkers who turned around and supported you, is that their viewpoint on these issues is complicated. And many of them have serious objections to undocumented immigrants and many of them have serious objections to the level of undocumented immigration in a place like New York City. But I don’t hear from your campaign that you’re going to be participating in any Trump-led effort to detain, deport undocumented immigrants.

I’m not looking to assist Donald Trump in his attempt to fulfill his campaign promise to create the single largest deportation force in American history.

Even if you know that some of your — maybe perhaps many of your — supporters want illegal immigration to be treated differently than it has.

What I’ve heard from my supporters and what I’ve heard from New Yorkers, frankly, is a desire for dignity. And in looking at what ICE’s presence has been in New York City, what it has meant for our city, seeing at the very least an absence of that, and in fact an attack, not only on the question of dignity, but on the very fabric of the city. There are New Yorkers I know of who took down the numbers on every apartment on their floor. So that ICE wouldn’t know where anyone lived. I spoke to a Dominican barbershop owner in Harlem who told me that all of his barbers have legal status and they are terrified of coming to work. A general sense of the hollowing out of the immigrant hubs of this city. And no, I’m not going to help Donald Trump in doing so. I’m in fact going to fight Donald Trump when he looks to tear families apart. And I’m going to do so because I know what the stakes are when he detains a 6-year-old girl from Queens and deports her. I know that her principal is writing a letter to ICE, saying please don’t do this.

I mean here you’re saying the method can’t be separated from the goal and you’re rejecting the method——

I think also I reject the goal. It’s not just the manner in which this detention is happening. It’s the fact that the goal here is cruelty. The goal is to rip these families apart and the goal is to attack so much of what is the foundation of the city as an immigrant city.

Would you ever meet with President Trump in the hope that you could defang this person, this president, who may have ill will toward you, but frankly doesn’t really know you at all?

Absolutely, I will meet with President Trump. I think it’s incumbent upon any mayor of this city to meet with the president of the country. What I won’t do is work with President Trump at the expense of the city. That’s the critique that I’ve made of Andrew Cuomo and of Eric Adams, is that their conversations with Trump have more to do with themselves than to do it with the people of the city. It’s not that they’re talking to him, it’s that who are they talking to him about?

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 7h

there's an extremely obvious solution to this issue

trump's pardons are invalid because his entire presidency is invalid because as an insurrectionist trump is ineligible to hold office under the 14th Amendment's Section 3 disqualification clause

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

to temper that a hair, i think people generally need to start wrapping their head around what prosecutions into a likely field of pocket pardons look like, because it's not going to be anywhere near as satisfying as you want it to be

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

Greenblatt with kinder words for Republicans who are affiliated with actual Hitler Youth than what he says about Zohran Mamdani

What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @ReMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled. politico.com/news/2025/10/1...
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.
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Great. I love Hitler
Also ... we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.

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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 15h

And to put the neglect of rules into the (ahem) wider context:

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 16h

dril is truly the prophet of our times

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 16h

relatedly, i'm still salty about the 2021 february freeze and the extortionate payments the legislature locked us into making for the next couple of decades

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 17h

nothing is as radicalizing against the concept of small businesses as the act of partnering with or being employed by a small business

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 17h

ringwiss is a psycho [laudatory] because who else is reading the congressional record & watching c-span then feeling a bit outraged when it appears that the senate is failing to follow its own established procedural rules

an image of John Goodman's character Walter Sobchak from the film "The Big Lebowski" racking the slide on a pistol.

the accompanying caption reads, "Am I the only one here who gives a shit about the rules?"

Superimposed over John Goodman's head is the avi used by ringwiss's account which is a cartoon image of Homer Simpson eating a donut with purple frosting

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peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 20h

superb cat sequence, a furious jump followed immediately by a countenance expressing mild chagrin. A+++

peppermint.jack @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about how biden could have done this but chose not to

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