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Prickles 🫶🏼🌵 @cognitiveimagry.bsky.social · Aug 16

-social media break- 🫶🏼🌵

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 15

Is that what he is doing? Fighting crime? Phew. I thought he was using federal power to assert power over the country’s capital

Fighting crime in D.C. cannot end with Trump's show of force

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Prickles 🫶🏼🌵 @cognitiveimagry.bsky.social · Aug 16

😂😂😂😂

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Aug 15

Newsom can't be President because he's an asshole with bad politics but he can absolutely goad the current President into doing dumb and loud shit and there is no greater need in the moment than a loathsome fuck to anger and annoy the other loathsome fuck

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Aug 15

I regret to inform you that this shit has me libbing out. Sue me. (And yes; I know about Newsom!)

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Prickles 🫶🏼🌵 @cognitiveimagry.bsky.social · Aug 15

That being said, allegations of the USG suppressing information and news reporting to the rest of the world surprises me, 0%

Prickles 🫶🏼🌵 @cognitiveimagry.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you - the comparison of Gifford to what occurred in LA in January is at best really ill informed and at worst bad faith communication with respect to the example of how Big News isn’t being covered or isn’t being transmitted globally.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Aug 15

In a #win for voters, the 5th Circuit strikes down Louisiana's state legislative maps for unlawfully diluting Black voting power. The state must now redraw its maps to ensure Black voters have equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.

Federal Court Delivers Major Win for Black Voters in Louisiana State Redistricting Battle

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 15

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

arstechnica.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · Aug 15

Also, this plot never fails to scare me. All of recorded human history - domesticated crops, cities, religion, etc. - happened during an anomalously stable period in our climate history. Our efforts have now pushed us out of that zone. Humans existed before then... but we were migratory.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · Aug 15

The California Coastal Commission has unanimously voted against SpaceX’s plan for a dramatic expansion of rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, citing environmental and regulatory concerns.

California panel opposes SpaceX’s bid to nearly double Vandenberg SFB launches

www.stripes.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Aug 15

This divided decision willfully ignores the Administration’s lawless attempt to destroy an agency created by Congress that has helped millions.

But the Administration cannot yet resume its illegal attempt to shut down the CFPB.

The fight continues.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Aug 15

Nationalist Christians (Nat-Cs) want to repeal the 19th Amendment.

MAGA pod bros demand women "owe" men sex as "marital debt."

MAGA politicians are banning repro health, Mifepristone, & Medicaid.

All men must step up to stop these violent attacks. My latest:

www.qasimrashid.com/p/maga-attac...

MAGA Attacks on Women In Hyperdrive

'Christian' nationalists, right wing podcast bros, and MAGA politicians have formed an axis of evil against women — men must step up to fight back

www.qasimrashid.com

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · Aug 15

The Trump administration is anti-worker, anti-family, anti-veteran. Union busting is disgusting. www.axios.com/2025/08/15/v...

Exclusive: VA curbs maternity leave following White House cancellation of union contract

Last week, the VA was the first federal agency to terminate a union contract.

www.axios.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 15

Not only is Clark the second most powerful House Democrat, her photo is also featured on AIPAC's website, with the caption: "We stand with those who stand with Israel."
And now Clark just admitted Israel is committing genocide.

AIPAC website featuring some of their favorite members of Congress

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · Aug 15

Judges need to start seeing around corners. These m’f’k’rs are textbook bad faith actors, through and through. They forfeited all deference and judicial forbearance long ago.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · Aug 15

Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left.

AG Bondi this afternoon on right.

We turn next to the putative shutdown decision. The
plaintiffs point to no regulation, order, document, email, or
other statement, written or oral, purporting to shut down the
CFPB. Instead, they infer such an overarching decision from
various discrete “actions” taken by agency leadership to
downsize the Bureau, “including by issuing stop-work
instructions, cancelling contracts, declining and returning
funding, firing employees, and terminating the lease for its
headquarters.” J.A. 46–47. The district court found a “decision
to shut down the agency completely” and equated it to a
“wholesale cessation” of CFPB activities. NTEU, 774 F. Supp.
3d at 46.

Tweet from AG Pam Bondi in which she says "Another victory for President Trump! In a 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit sided with my @TheJusticeDepartment attorneys in our effort to dismantle the CFPB and rein in crippling Obama-era regulations."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 15

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 15

ADORABLE ! ! ! !

THIS TODDLER CAN'T WAIT FOR HIS DADDY TO COME HOME !

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 15

Trump claps for Putin as he arrives in Alaska.

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Prickles 🫶🏼🌵 @cognitiveimagry.bsky.social · Aug 15

Don’t forget the cookie 🍪

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · Aug 15

The only thing I have to say about the email SSA sent out and the attached letter to the American people is this: none of the data matches the lived experience of myself or any employee I know or have talked to. Once again, I can’t access the data needed to rebut the cute graphs Commish Frankie 1/?

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Prickles 🫶🏼🌵 @cognitiveimagry.bsky.social · Aug 15

Then wrap em em’ in butcher paper and throw ‘em in a plastic sack

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 14

Trump refers to Obama officials as "Clapper and Comer and that whole group of criminals ... that is a criminal group of people, they are sick people and they are criminals and they should be taken care of."

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Aug 15

"Public confidence in vaccines isn’t boosted by governments cancelling science...removing funding for a cutting-edge technology that has saved lives will leave people less protected when the next pandemic strikes. It is irresponsible and will slow global progress."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility

The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.nature.com

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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · Aug 15

The US military has a golden opportunity to lock them both in a room and not let them out.

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Alt DHS @altdhs.altgov.info · Aug 15

Red - the juice of tomatoes!
Black - the dark of olives sliced!

Poster with a silhouette of a person throwing a sub sandwich with the words "Do you see the people yeet, yeeting the subs of angry men? It is the sandwich of a people who will not be slaves again."

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