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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 10h

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 15h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 10h

juicy

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 10h

update:

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Firthermor @firthermor.bsky.social · 11h

Heisenberg’s RIF Uncertainty Principle.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 11h

are infectious deadly diseases RIF’ed or un-RIF’ed

wow what a fun game

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 11h

some day, maybe, we will see a theme emerge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 17h

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 11h

When your commitment to family annihilation as policy gets a slight reprieve.

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 11h

honestly I’ve never been super into girls with nose rings if I’m being honest but hearing this from him, I’m about to change my tune because whatever he’s not into has to be good

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.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 11h

But I strongly resonated with @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social’s bio line about this issue.

Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 18h

the worst part of people moving to mastodon is that now i have to post to both platforms and do math to know if it was a banger

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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not Catholic and I'm not even sure there is a God, but man this language is powerful. Calling out evil like this is good.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

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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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

Fighting for the independence of the judiciary matters. We know this is true, because Trump is trying to take it away. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

When they Bukele the Courts

When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was first deported to El Salvador and his lawyers went to court, arguing an immigration judge had previously prohibited it, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff,...

open.substack.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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👻 S P O O K E R S T A R fish 👻 @quicklycrocodile.bsky.social · 18h

it was fine when it was all theoretical* but i haven’t been a fan of the consequences**

*aging
**body crumbing and turning to dust

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1d

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.