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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 7h

My guess is a cup of coffee or water when an unmarked van went flying in her direction seemingly on purpose

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 7h

Reminder: the President may be allowing his secretary to undermine access to vaccines for others and promote anti vaccine misinformation, but he himself is fully vaccinated, including this year’s flu and Covid vaccine.

In this, do as the president does, not as his secretary ‘s ACIP minions say.

Letter saying President Trump got his annual flu and Covid vaccine.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog."

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 7h

Ok I think we have enough facts now. Contempt! Contempt! Contempt!

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10h

youtu.be/m-RI3R-l3yg?...

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity on Chicago’s North Side, later released

YouTube video by WGN News

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 7h

(By the arresting officers)

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 7h

contempt! contempt! contempt!

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 10h

I think that’s right; we’ll get “incoherent and laser targeted rule invalidating protection for trans people and maybe other groups” instead of “coherent but flawed legal principle that affects trans people.”

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 12h

Plates on the top rack?!?

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 12h

hope they make it *good* at loading the dishwasher someday

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 13h

Me after getting arrested for trying to hire a hitman: “oh, so now talking is a crime?”

SCOTUS: “no sir it is not, you are free to go.”

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

It would really suck if he tried but i don’t think it is likely

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

I think also think Newsom could not credibly take a radically different stance on trans issues in a general pres election than he has as governor, having signed *so many different pieces* of legislation that protects rights on these issues. Sanctuary laws, laws protecting ct records, access to care

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

he’s still pretty good actually and there’s still plenty of this going on

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3d

I think part of the dynamic is that the CA legislature likes to pass things that sound good but aren’t well thought out / subvert processes that already exist for producing that thing. IMO, the veto message seems pretty reasonable. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

www.gov.ca.gov

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

the architects drawings resulted in a building that collapsed because he made a mistake. but his mistake was just a drawing, so I’m afraid there’s no choice but to let him off the hook

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

defeating professional malpractice of all kinds because it’s just words

fraud? you mean… words?

conspiracy? sounds like words.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 14h

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

seeing this just reminded me to get my ballot filled out and returned!

Vote YES!

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

I agree with all of that except I don’t really like Platner. He’s leagues better than Collins as virtually any Democrat would be but I’m otherwise a pass.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h

Thune is lying here. Trump and Vought didn’t “hold off for as long as they could” because shutdowns don’t force people to be fired. No one was ever fired in any of the previous shutdowns in history. They fired a bunch of people because they wanted to — like they’re been planning since February.

Claudia Grisales @cgrisales.bsky.social · 16h

Senate Majority Leader John Thune responds to OMB head Russ Vought’s post “the RIFs have begun,” telling @jordainc.bsky.social and I:

“Well… I think they held off for as long as they could.”

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 1d

We are on the offensive for the first time this year, we're winning against this admin & people are acting like we're at the cusp of the Civil War crossed with the Enabling Act crossed with the Years of Lead. I am begging people to get a fucking grip.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 14h

I have sent defamation demand letters that have achieved their intended result. My trick is that I’m really judicious about when I would agree to send them in the first place, and I write to sound reasonable in the ever possible event they go wildly viral.

This one fails on both counts.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 14h

glad you’re coming around!

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t clear to me from what is publicly known that Israel’s position has changed in any meaningful way from when Hamas broke the ceasefire the Biden admin helped negotiate.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 14h

less power to *help* you, not hurt you

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14h

Outrageous treatment:

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 14h

Seems like a violation of the TRO but we’ll need more facts to establish that

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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