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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 23h

has anyone rewritten Tom Petty's American Girl to be American Pope

volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 23h

mafalde

Part-Time Genius @parttimegenius.bsky.social · 1d

Help us with an upcoming episode! What is the best pasta shape of ALL TIME? And WHY?

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 23h

An American Pope

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 1d

It was both obviously the right way to peacefully bring the standoff to a close and also made clear there were limits of Democratic governances willingness to meet force with force.

volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all remember when Obama waited out the right wing cranks who literally occupied federal property rather than retake it by force?

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 1d

was gonna add this, a not insignificant number of states have property taxes for vehicles.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 1d

just want one set of leaked chats to be a set of young republicans saying like "oh wow, that was really shitty, we shouldn't be shitty".

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

Frank was Antifa.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Garibaldi day to all who celebrate

Giuseppe Garibaldi, founding father of modern Italy. Leftist revolutionary. Presented here with sword and flag in hand after landing on a beach. In the background there are ships and the silhouettes of soldiers.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 3d

Is there an ad Kevin hart has said no to?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 4d

There’s gotta be a little FDR, traitor to his class, in there.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 4d

Mamdani’s greatest skill, and what makes him such a threat to these plutocrats, is that when they sit down with him they leave utterly charmed.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 4d

Quite something that the entire premise of immigration enforcement is the insistence of the supremacy of civil law over and above faith. Like the Bible couldn’t be clearer on refugees, the poor etc. it also couldn’t be clearer on its skepticism of civil authorities in the face of faith.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 5d

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What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

www.newyorker.com

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 5d

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Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a fancy charcuterie and sausage place in town and I really want to love them, and yet nothing they’ve made has been exciting.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 5d

Springsteen, much like Fonzi, is hard for me to even see as cool even if he was at one point, the platonic ideal of cool. Dudes a super emotive dork with daddy problems! and we love him for it

volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a federal issue and she’s a state governor. It’s a lawsuit which relies on the judiciary being anything other than trump stooges which they aren’t, and it’s not visible or meaningful to voters.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 6d

man, Sherrill's single thing she is doing day 1 as governor is joining a lawsuit against tariffs? my god it encapsulates everything wrong with the current democratic party.

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volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 6d

kinda wish I didn't skirt in under the wire on this one

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

volunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 6d

Confiding a teacher should be no different.

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