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December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM

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David Gura

@davidgura.bsky.social

Why is NPR letting this happen?!

Erykah Badu Performs Surprise Concert For Us!

YouTube video by Popcast

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December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM

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Taniel

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December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM

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ArtButMakeItSports

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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lukelukeluke

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social

Here are some nice mushrooms for you

A cluster of orange wild enoki mushrooms grows from the moss speckled bark of a dead American tree. Their caps support a large tuft of fluffy white snow. All photos by me

December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Josh Gondelman

@joshgondelman.bsky.social

I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA

December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Van DeYolks

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This highlights the real problems with the second strike focus:

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks

www.nytimes.com

December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney.bsky.social

JUST IN: A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit rules that Trump may remove members of the NLRB or MSPB regardless of laws meant to shield them from removal without cause.

Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump)
Dissent: Pan (Biden)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Van DeYolks

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My sweetheart does this but doesn’t even stick the landing, spending another 1,000 hours after-purchase online AND in stores looking at what he could have gotten.

It’s… it’s a lot

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician

December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM

Van DeYolks

@vandeyolks.bsky.social

All legs and ZZZs

#iggy #italiangreyhound #fritofeet

Brown and white Italian greyhound curled up and asleep with legs everywhere and akimbo atop a golden yellow pillow which is on top of a grey and white chevron blanket which is itself on a grey couch.

December 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis.net

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.

16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN
AMERICAN CITIZENS
KAGAN, J., dissenting
And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour,
whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla-
ture that decided to change its map six months before a
March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any
faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was
even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de-
clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac-
counted for their failure to submit an alternative map,
which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu-
lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District
Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion
(on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing
concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District
Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en-
acted a new map less than three months before.
If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the
opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District
Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re-
view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla-
tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need
only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155.
That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is.
According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis-
trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante,
at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in
2028.

December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM

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Congressman Bill Keating

@keating.house.gov

The American public should see what happened during the second strike of a suspected Venezuelan drug boat - my op-ed in today's Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/opinion/strike-drug-boat-hegseth/ @globeopinion.bsky.social

December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM

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Taj Mahal

@tajmahalblues.bsky.social

#ThrowbackThursday to 1999, and Taj performing "Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes" at North Sea Jazz in The Netherlands.

Taj & The Phantom Blues Band will be on the road in April of 2026, get your tickets at www.tajblues.com/tour.

December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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Russ @russ41.bsky.social · 2d

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December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Peter Sagal

@petersagal.bsky.social

(breathes slowly. Tries to stay calm. Fails.)

WE ARE ALL DRIVING STATION WAGONS THEY'RE JUST CALLED "COMPACT SUVS" TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS!

[pants]

The Legged One @palmtungsten.bsky.social · 1d

There have been multiple attempts to sell a modern station wagon to Americans, the problem is that almost nobody actually bought them

December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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On the Media

@onthemedia.bsky.social

Some good news for libraries! 📕📗📘📙
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order

A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.

www.washingtonpost.com

December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM

Van DeYolks

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No, really. Check your cheese

NPR @npr.org · 2d

The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses. n.pr/48yohW6

Check your cheese: Shredded and grated varieties are recalled nationwide

The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses.

n.pr

December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

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Paris Hilton and someone even dumber hawking NFT slurp juice apes or something

December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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Bill Amend

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Hey! If you’re interested in any FoxTrot merch, grab it before our holiday shipping cutoff (Dec 15). Orders placed after will start shipping week of Jan 5, 2026... store.foxtrot.com