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bdonnelly

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NYC. Turn ons include black coffee, loud guitars, dead lifts, books, Islay whiskey, demonstrations, and anything for the revolution. He/Him. Happy to be here. Happy to be anywhere. mastodon.social/@Theblueone

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

What if the Deep State was just the norms we made along the way?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 14h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 14h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 3h

“Thank you for joining us on our tour today, ladies & gentlemen. Now if you’ll look out the side windows there you’ll find we are rapidly approaching the fabled Rubicon…”

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 3h

I think in criminal terms this is called “The setup”. They are preparing the ground for whatever crackdown they’re going to bring on protesters next weekend.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

im sorry but it’s going to be super funny if they turbo fuck the entire government because they literally start ripping the copper out of the walls to only make a few weeks worth of payroll for the military.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 7h

Catholic Father Dowling combining social justice--do not stay silent as they harm God's family--and exorcist style

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 8h

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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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think I exaggerate when I say that the abolition of the filibuster is a matter of national security and the continuity of civilization

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 9h

I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 9h

Wow. Well. Fuck this...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 9h

Oh hai new buddy

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 13h

Inject this into my eyeballs

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14h

“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

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 3d

Be Like Water – the philosophy and origin of Bruce Lee's famous metaphor for resilience www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/29/l...

Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

During the months when DOGE was most aggressively canceling contracts, O.M.B. was concealing how it was moving money through to agencies. Mr. Vought removed a legally required public database tracking those records. When a court forced the administration to restore it in August, the spending logs showed O.M.B. exerting unusual control over agency spending, using other documents the public can’t see.

Under a 1974 law, it’s illegal for the administration to “impound” or block money appropriated by Congress (to not spend the funds on those credit cards). But Mr. Vought has made clear he believes that law is unconstitutional and wants to test it in court.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 16h

[current vibe]

"Hands all over the Eastern border
You know what I think we're falling
From composure
Hands all over the Western culture
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures"

Hands All Over

YouTube video by Soundgarden - Topic

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 16h

It's Saturday! 📺
Post a cartoon TV series you love.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 17h

Guitar of the Day

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 17h

So an entire state apparatus of dog killers, huh?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 17h

Soooo…we can jump over them then?

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

They think they’re inflicting trauma and fear but the only thing they’re doing is building the waters of righteous anger that will rise and wash them out to sea.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 18h

**always follow the money**
PE firm behind for-profit universities using its WH influence to handwrite terms that will eviscerate, hamstring and control its own competitors in higher ed…and NY Times giving space to the CEO to come out and admit this influence in a pro-Compact piece

As someone who played a part in the compact’s initial formulation, working alongside an administration working group, I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact and to address its detractors.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

Dude, look in a fucking mirror.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.