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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 10m

Apex predator of trees and fruits. Can't really fight that.

yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 13m

Good lord. Sounds like blackberry season on turbo.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 24m

I think it's great he's making everyone watch it, tbh. No ignoring the state of things.

yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 25m

Citrus trees have thorns?? Nature is wild.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 48m

Big 'whomst among us???' vibes

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 1h

Never tried this on Bluesky. Let's see if it works.

I'm looking for a good book or two on economic and technological competition between the US and China.

I'm eyeing "House of Huawei" and "Apple in China."

Any others I should think about buying?

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Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 1h

Cool cool so a local tv station is posting ai generated articles under a (likely) fake reporter’s byline. Which means the “facts” probably just came from a press release, not any kind of real reporting because ai can’t do that.

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Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 2h

Ok this actually gets even more interesting. When you google the lede of this story, it pops up also as a story by Anita Hollier at KHQ. So did someone plagiarize? But then you search Anita Hollier and she has stories across the country, in Montana, in Charlotte, in Spokane.

Erin Hut @imerinhut.bsky.social · 7h

A story written by…. the City of Spokane Valley about the City of Spokane? With a photo of Spokane Valley City Hall?

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 3h

Attorneys for the DOJ argue Portland's ICE building closed for 22 days this summer, halting operations. Reporting by @troywb.bsky.social and @tonyschick.bsky.social shows that's... not exactly accurate.

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Portland’s ICE building closed for 22 days this summer, but immigration arrests and detentions hardly slowed

Justice Department attorneys argue the facility was “inoperable.” Some public functions were halted. Bookings were not.

www.opb.org

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 3h

Fantastic thread:

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

Then Gerardi pulls out that "deposing of the POTUS would be inappropriate."

Immergut: "...... Sounds like both sides need to talk."

Marshall: Asks the court to set time limits for responding to discovery. Suggests 10 days.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 3h

Classic (pre-current tagline) vibes from this scathing review.

Pajiba @handle.invalid · 3h

Vasectomies Are More Thrilling than Netflix's 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' and Less Painful

There was a stretch from around 2015 to 2021 whre it felt like every other mystery novel centered on someone (usually a woman) being gaslit by an antagonist (usually a man), and I tore through them. Ruth Ware seemed to... Read more...

www.pajiba.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

Judge blocks Russell Vought from RIFing

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 4h

NEWS: Judge Illston grants labor unions request for a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the Reductions in Force that began during the shutdown.

"As of right now the TRO is in effect."

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

Immergut finds good cause to extend both TROs for 14 days from the original expiration dates, with the understanding that if the 9th Circuit finds that she erred, she'll issue an order saying the extensions have ended.

We're moving on to discovery.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 4h

I have gotten some really great ones from thrift shops like st Vinny's and value village.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 4h

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

I'm getting set to follow today's hearing in State of Oregon v. Trump. I'm also begging the Northern District of Illinois to start making their hearings available for those covering the case remotely!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

i hope this guy is ok but also this imagery is perfect to undermine the fascists

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 7h

I do wish they would have specified what 'long-held' meant here. Like, a hundred years? Ten?

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 7h

"“Courts have not ever engaged with whether the president has an inherent authority to use the military to protect federal functions,” he said. “It’s come up tangentially in one case from the 1800s, but it’s never been litigated squarely.”

Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 7h

Some interesting perspectives from experts on the proposed National Guard deployment in Oregon as we await word from the Ninth Circuit.

What we know – and don’t – about troops in Portland

Legal experts say the president is asking the court system to clarify – and even expand – the ways he can use National Guard members on American streets. Many Oregonians, meanwhile, have questioned if...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for this morning's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

We also have what's been labeled a "brief status hearing" in Illinois v. Trump, the lawsuit over deployment of National Guard troops here. That's at 9:30 a.m. CT.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning on what looks to be another busy day at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago.

The docket's full of arraignments and preliminary hearings, much of it stemming from the ICE campaign playing out across the city and suburbs. Stay tuned.

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 8h

Any day roaming the high desert is a good day.

Owyhees, Idaho. #publiclands #KeepItPublic

Sagebrush, mountain mahogany and the wide-open space of Idaho’s Owyhees.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 8h

"When I asked if that means the city will not confirm whether or not the mother was informed by Everett PD that ICE was taking her child, I did not receive a response. "

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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