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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 6h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 24m

I genuinely don’t know. There’s a lot of convergent evolution in food, mind.

timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 8h

This raises some rather obvious questions about what he was told at that medical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 8h

The Nobel Committee have broken him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "This will be my 8th war I've solved. And I hear there's a war now going between Pakistan & Afghanistan. I said, 'I'll have to wait until I get back. I'm doing another one.' In fairness to the Nobel committee, this was picked for 2024. But there are those who say you could make an exception"

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 9h

Irish people do not eat corned beef and cabbage. Bacon and cabbage, yes; corned beef, no. There’s a regional thing in Cork of spiced beef - former RN victualling going to the West Indies and bringing back spices - but the idea that corned beef and cabbage is Irish is American in origin, not Irish

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 10h

Quite spectacularly stupid to remove any leverage over them, surely? What do those members have to lose, now?

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 15h

Brussels to back net-zero shipping deal despite Trump sanction threat

Trump administration threatens 'sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies'

dlvr.it

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 10h

Desecrating a cemetery.

A new nadir.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 21h

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
🐢💨

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 10h

When your parents name you after a type of crane, there's going to be side effects throughout life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Rep. Derrick Van Orden: "I'm disgusted with the Nobel Peace guys. They gave Barack Obama the Nobel Participation Trophy and they refused to give this to Donald Trump with his amazing accomplishments."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 13h

“The limitation period’s expired.”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, well.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 13h

I will freely confess that “devouring him like a boa” has me giggling in an entirely unseemly manner.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14h

As here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14h

@bikesnbukes.bsky.social

Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 3d

BROADCASTER: [Voice shaking] They killed him. The Phillies killed Clayton Kershaw. All he's got now is his ring, millions of dollars, and some personal beliefs no one wants to talk about. Oh god the Phanatic is unhinging his snoot and devouring him like a boa. Why is he even here

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14h

Cross-examination does not get the truth.

But, done well, nothing is remotely as effective as cross-examination in showing up lies.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14h

He’s trying to run down the clock, here, and failing badly because for *once*, an American interviewer cross-examined: short, precise question where there is no possible desirable answer, and stuck at that question when it wasn’t answered.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

It’s bonkers. Like say what you will about Andrew Carnegie but after getting wealthy beyond compare he built libraries. Thiel and Musk and Ellison have been like “what if we restored the third reich? what if I became Big Brother? what if we ushered in an age of superstition, wouldn’t that be neat”

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2d

I want 10,000 words longform on how these drug-addled creeps have all openly embraced literal villainy. Like, the most clownish form of "I want to look evil." This feels different than a lot of their historical predecessors!

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 15h

Clinical psychologist, barrister, councillor, TD, Leas Ceann Comhairle.

Truly the wretched of the earth.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 15h

Hon Carrigtwohill!

Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 15h

Nicolas Roche takes world title in his age group 🇮🇪

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Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 15h

Nicolas Roche takes world title in his age group 🇮🇪

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 15h

a close up of a man 's face with the words i 'm not ready written below him

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words i 'm not ready written below him

media.tenor.com

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 15h

[Apparently, Kubrick and Scott fought lights-out over how to play Buck Sturgeson, and I have to say: Kubrick was right, and Scott was bloody brilliant as Sturgeson because he was right.]

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