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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 18h

Celebrating Gavin Newsom signing SB79 at Los Angeles Lithuanian Days! May California continue to be a beacon for people from around the world. 🇱🇹 🇺🇸 🐻

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 1h

I know this is going to shock many of you, but it turns out all these tweets on the Everything App were wrong! Shocking! I know!

SB79 won’t wreck Pacific Palisades! A delicate community, home to Adam Sandler, Dr Dre, Ben Affleck, John Mayer, and others.

mnolangray.substack.com/p/everything...

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3h

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Everything You Need To Know About SB 79

…but were too afraid to read about in the actual bill.

substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

It is incredibly clear that Stephen Miller has decided this guy must be tortured, and nothing else will suffice, otherwise the Trump administration looks weak.

Dude is a literal war criminal.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe you shouldn’t be doing controversial changes to precedent or reversals of reasoned lower court opinions using it then?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 4h

I will endlessly criticize leadership for its many flaws, but they‘re doing a decent job on the shutdown fight

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Ben Kannenberg @benkannenberg.bsky.social · 5h

I would be just as pissed by Governor Evers, who I love and adore, announcing he was running for reelection or for senate. He didn't, he's stepping back, and giving up the opportunity to lead the first democratic trifecta in Wisconsin in decades. Imagine the legacy he could have built!

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Ben Kannenberg @benkannenberg.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's good that there will be a competitive primary, that's not the problem.

The problem is it's irresponsible on the part of Mills and Schumer to bet the senate majority on a 77 year old remaining in good health for 7 years. It's anti-succession planning!

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 6h

Graham Platner is a very high-ceiling candidate in Maine with a lot of potential. He's also extremely untested and while he looks promising for Democrats, it's pretty important to have a primary here to see if there are any red flags that bubble up.

Just let it go and log off.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4h

no there is absolutely something to this

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 4h

I submit that the radical Left are paralysed in the face of this mass movement because it contradicts their theory of change - that "Normie libs" are NPC and that change only happens by recruiting to radical ideologies

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5h

NUREMBERG 2.0 might be a good protest sign.

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Dan Angelucci @danang.bsky.social · 5h

NUREMBERG 2 THE POLLS

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 5h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 7h

Despite cloaking themselves in it, this has nothing to do with the constitution. It’s like how the people most likely to festoon themselves with American flags have the least to do with living up to the lofty ideals it is meant to represent.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” captures the defining sensibility on the Trumpist Right: “The Left,” he believes, has command of America, there is nothing left to conserve, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can now save the nation.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

JD Vance is the worst. Luckily, he’s also dumb as a rock and has the charisma of that rock.

I, too, would like to interview JD Vance, primarily to tell him I’m done with him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 3d

Ban them from operating within 50 miles of a school. Force them to read a statement about how evil they are. I want the entire forced birth playbook thrown at these fuckers.

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 3d

Every state that's about to have their conversion torture ban overturned should put a 1000000% tax on it, do the Texas bounty hunter thing, whatever

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h

The MTG Test is basically a test of someone's threshold tolerance for antisemitism; we are once again learning how many people are totally cool with someone being a vicious ideological antisemite.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

This is getting directly to the trust issue, and is a demonstration that they understand a bill with their ask isn’t enough for them to believe their ask will be respected.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

the kind of thing that is a whole lot more significant given who's in power

Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

You are loved, celebrated, and supported regardless of where you are on your journey.

Graphic that reads, 'Proudly celebrating National Coming Out Day.'

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