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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later).

With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

@DHSGov account says "Ratio." They are QTing a post that I wrote (next picture reproduces in full) asking, with a fair amount of snark, why DHS was blaming Governor Pritzker for the Hanover Park PD having hiring someone who allegedly was a visa overstay. They post two headlines about an Illinois law which authorized noncitizens with valid work authorization to become cops.

The post that set this off, in which I too was QTing the DHS account. The DHS post about the Hanover Park PD incident reads as follows: ".
@GovPritzker
doesn’t just allow illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows them to work as sworn police officers.

Radule Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart the U.S. on March 31, 2015. Over a decade later, he was still illegally in the U.S. working as a police officer for the Hanover Park Police Department earning a salary of $78,955.

Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces."

My QT response to this was: "What the heck does Governor Pritzker have to do with a local police department hiring decision?

Do the people running @DHSgov not even know the basics about how state governments work?"

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans in Congress had multiple chances this year to keep your premiums low—and they said NO every single time.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 8h

Step 1: Lie about prices going up when they're going down
Step 2: Promise to bring prices down
Step 3: Win
Step 4: Break promise to bring prices down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7h

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do

Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

I regret to inform you Josh Barro is correct

Barro: The moderators devoted 15 minutes to Israel, not a policy matter within the mayor’s purview, before they asked questions about the N.Y.P.D., education or housing. It’s another reflection of the ludicrous amount of space that Mideast policy has taken up in this campaign — sometimes because of the media, but often at the instigation of the candidates themselves.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 8h

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 10h

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How EVs can fix the grid and lower your electric bill

A pilot project in Maryland is using EVs to create a cleaner, more resilient, and more affordable energy supply.

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Scare-bag Boooooments 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

Pearl clutching "divide"-haters at NPR mentioned Clinton's "deplorables" comment in 61 different stories.

They have not mentioned Leavitt's comment at all. The double standard is...deplorable. (And glaringly obvious.)

Scare-bag Boooooments 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

This is SO MUCH worse in every dimension than the deplorables comment.

Clinton defined "deplorables" in a specific way that, if anything, underestimated the number of hateful MAGA fuckers. How rude to tell the truth!

Whereas Leavitt's statement is yet another dangerous, dehumanizing Nazi lie.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 10h

The Washington Monument took like 40 years, and a partly-finished version of it stood as an embarrassment to the U.S. government for decades.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 22h

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 4d

Let Kamala have her fucking book tour

If y'all wanted to protest her, y'all should have elected her

Stop blaming Kamala, she didn't tank the economy and send stormtroopers into US cities

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap.

A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.

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#Climate #Tech #Farms #Farmers #BioChar

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap

A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1d

I've heard it said that you shouldn't speak ill of the dead.

So, I'd like to get it in ahead of time.

Mitch McConnell is a truly awful human who has worked hard to make the US a much worse place. (And much of the rest of the world too, come to think of it.)

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 1d

Euskefeurat -Vöre Vale [Sweden, Folk] (1986) This song is sung on a spoken dialect that is so obscure most Swedes can't even understand it.
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Euskefeurat -Vöre Vale [Sweden, Folk] (1986) This song is sung on a spoken dialect that is so obscure most Swedes can't even understand it.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · 1d

For all our talk about how Trump was going to end up in, say, Tajikistan, this would actually be a good fit

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

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

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

This should be a far bigger story than it is.

Mike Johnson is refusing the basic constitutional right of representation to hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

It's been 23 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 1d

My good friend @deraillieur.bsky.social took this lovely and timely picture.

A string of Barbara Kruger-inspired Portland frog posters, captioned DON’T OBEY, rounding a corner and running down a block of plywood facing out from an abandoned downtown building

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