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Paul Jankura

@anthropic42.bsky.social

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Emphatically not an AI company. Ohioan, Liberal, book-worm, news-hound, CLE sports s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶r̶ enjoyer, Anglophile, He/him. @Anthropic on Twitter

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 49m

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7h

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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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17m

this explains a lot of the public dooming about Democrats imo, especially ones who are liberal darlings

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18m

we're all very powerless right now and for some people having their cynicism proved right gives them the illusion of control

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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 26m

The rarely seen Nega-Bracket

Freezing Cold Takes @oldtakesexposed.bsky.social · 1h

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 59m

ICE is in the ballpark of twenty to thirty thousand people, we're not talking millions. Some of them are doing relatively mundane things, even things a post-Trump reconstructed government might still reasonably do. It doesn't matter. They're permanently tainted and they're replaceable.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

You could in theory have a Court that was very conservative, even way too Trump-friendly, but that wasn't like this. As it stands, there's no hiding that these just aren't very bright people and they don't really know what they're doing.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

The Court not that long ago, even in the earlier years of the Roberts era, produced opinions that made for compelling reading even when they got the result wrong. The oral arguments could make for interesting listening on the substance of ideas. That's not the case anymore. It's amateurish slop.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

They're delegitimizing themselves in substance by subverting the Constitution and aiding the establishment of a lawless autocracy. But they're further delegitimizing themselves because they really don't understand, and can't even halfway convincingly mimic, how the Court is supposed to function.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

The credibility of the Court, of any court, lies in how they're supposed to explain their reasoning, how they act as the outcome of an adversarial process. When they stop doing that, their standing with the general public collapses, sure. But as we see, their authority over lower courts also erodes.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

Their opinions are poorly written, when they even bother. Their rationales fail to hide their overt partisan bias even when ways of doing so are available. Their oral arguments are cringe-inducing. They might seem sober adults compared to the freak show in the White House, but only by that low bar.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

They could be doing ~90% as much substantive damage on half the pushback and political self-harm. But they're fittingly emblematic for the era of "everything has gotten dumber." They're sloppy, inept, ham-fisted. Merits aside, the Court might be at its least intellectually adept in American history.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

Paul Jankura @anthropic42.bsky.social · 1h

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1h

The Milwaukee Brewers advance to the NLCS

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1h

Not the biggest or most important point, but a Black woman going out of her way to buy a very modest home for a family member long facing housing insecurity, far from home, is something that I imagine will resonate with many people.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1h

BUSTER KEATON

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 1h

It's journalistic malpractice to post this kind of headline without any sort of qualifiers or really just to print this at all.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

It's cool how when you try to search for the solution to a computer problem now you can pick from an AI summary, several out-of-date videos by a guy with a shitty mic, or some forum posts on the publisher's site dealing with an obsolete version of the software

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1h

Separate campus shootings here in Mississippi this evening: Authorities say one person is dead and two others wounded at Alcorn State University. Meanwhile, about 70 miles northeast of that incident, a child has been hit by gunfire in the tailgate section of Jackson State University stadium.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1h

Brian Kelly is Coral Paradise.

LSU head football coach Brian Kelly

Pantone color Coral Paradise

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 1h

every dem who agreed that there was a "crisis at the border" paved the way for ICE to break into people's houses and disappear them

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1h

“you bring the flag that’s trolling the Brewers and wave it while the Cubs were losing like a total douche?”

Sadly, “yeah”