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Secular Jen 🫘

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Stay secular, friends. Keep religion for the religious. Cherish public education. It's how we find our true geniuses and give kids a window to the world. We belong among the wildflowers. Stay safe. #Leguminati 🫘

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · Jun 24

Three years since the Dobbs decision.
(Based on Sting's "Russians".)

All across America
they're accusing women of hysteria
Ordered to defer to religious men
On the question when does life begin
Mister Trump said, "I will protect you,"
"Whether or not you want me to"
Choice means doing what you want to do
If Republicans love women too

Throughout the states and all the lands
We must defeat these deadly bans
They're traitors with no common sense
On the other side of the political fence
No science, no biology
For them it's about misogyny
Believe me when I say to you
I hope Republicans love women too

What might save us me and you
Is if Republicans love women too.

-- Secular Jen

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 6h

Defense is now questioning Lairmore on cross-examination. They show a video still of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground, post-throw.

"Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks.

Lairmore won't confirm.

"I did not go back to collect it," he says.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 5h

Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.

Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 7h

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.

Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.

'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 5h

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 6h

LECTER: What became of your sandwich, Clarice?
STARLING: It kind of exploded.
LECTER: You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and smell the onions and the mustard.
STARLING: [choking up] Yes.

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 6h

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 6h

NOAA cancels funding for data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems

Direct feeds from seismology stations across Alaska are expected to stop in mid-November, state officials say.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.

He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.

Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids

According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

www.motherjones.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom: They did not expect California. They did not expect all of you. They thought we were going to write an op-ed, have a candlelight vigil, maybe do a rally. They poked the bear and the bear is poking back

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 18h

My immediate internal response every time Ezra Klein shows up on my timeline.

a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush .

ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush .

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 18h

Lol maga mike

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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 18h

"This story is adapted from the forthcoming book by Leonnig and Davis, “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department,” which will be published Nov. 4 by Penguin Press."

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump

A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.

www.msnbc.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Multiple senior Trump officials are moving onto military bases.

That’s not normal behavior. So ask yourself, is it really about their safety, or is the stage being set for something bigger?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

My predictions for Tuesday's elections is a clean sweep for Democrats and democracy:

NJ: Sherrill wins.
VA: Spanberger wins.
NYC: Mamdani wins.
CA: Prop 50 passes.
ME: Q1 fails.
PA: SCOPA Justices are retained.

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely nowhere in the world I want or need to travel to that badly.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

Air travel during the Trump administration:

"Photos from Houston's Bush Intercontinental airport show TSA lines at Terminal E extending outside the building and down the sidewalk Sunday night.

At 6:15PM, new photos showed the same long lines hours later..."

www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

Alright I'll give him some credit for this one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Admin Tells Judge It’ll Disburse Half of SNAP Benefits for Eligible Households in November, With ‘Significant’ Delays talkingpointsmemo.com/news/snap-50...

Trump Admin Tells Judge It’ll Disburse Half of SNAP Benefits for Eligible Households in November, With ‘Significant’ Delays

The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it plans...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

1/ This week, SCOTUS will hear Trump’s tariffs case, arguably one of the most important all term. It’s important to understand that this is not a case about tariffs in general or whether they are good policy. It’s about whether Trump had the authority to impose them.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A mayor in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities say.

Mexican mayor in state of Michoacan killed during Day of the Dead celebrations

The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, was gunned down Saturday night in the town’s historic center.

nbcnews.to

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 34th day.

She holds the record for the longest wait to be sworn in of any special House election winner in decades.

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP recipients are real Americans who need help, and everyone needs help sometimes.

Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 1d

"Some of the steps insurers such as UnitedHealth and CVS are taking include eliminating certain plans, trimming benefits, raising out-of-pocket costs and pulling back from offerings such as PPO plans that give members more choice."

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

In Medicare, Less Is Now More for Big Insurers

UnitedHealth and CVS are pruning their Medicare Advantage businesses to favor profit over size.

www.wsj.com

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 1d

Ratings poison. I used to love that show.

Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't we run out of ways to pander to the wealthy? How about giving them some incentives to spend money to help people with food, childcare, medical care, career prospects, and infrastructure instead of on weird doomsday bunkers and trips to Mars? How about they pay their fair share of taxes?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

This is the essence of the emerging fascist state.

Access to resources and programs designed to make our lives better is being stolen from us so that the oppressors can use, hoard, and distribute them to friends and hold them ransom in order to force compliance.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Healthcare but only for my friends

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