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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 3h

one small benefit of this era is that Dems should be over their attachments to cops, courts or the NYT

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 4h

mike johnson talks a lot of shit for a guy who looks like that

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 4h

Gonna have a flag and every patriotic piece of clothing I own.

Gonna look like an early 2000s Old Navy ad out there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 4h

Every time Trump says something like this is a Democrat program that he's going to cut, Dems should immediately drop it into an ad to run ASAP on network tv.

"Trump says Dems support special Ed? Hell ya we do." -Should be the general tenor of the ad.

jillnaustin @jillnaustin.bsky.social · 9h

So, no republicans have children in special education programs? Trump says it's a democrat program.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

Reminder that the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic institution dominated by liars who literally made our racist, fascist president a monarch untouchable by law so

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 6h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 4h

Holy cow.

Kisha Delain @skyintist.bsky.social · 4h

SNAP is not processing benefits because of the shutdown, here's a 🧵 of some places to donate and help

Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 4h

But I do love that my local nerd Slack started a thread of food shelves to donate to/use.

Because community. We have to make sure our neighbors are fed. So in no particular order some local food shelves to donate to, if you are so inclined.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 4h

Go live your dream Brian.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 4h

Ya that's always been strange to me.

That takes a lot more effort to manage and seems to cause a lot more issues too.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 4h

😭😭😭

I salute you. I was the tech teacher at a Jr High for 6 months during grad school and that was enough for me.

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 5h

They should have interviewed me!

My Trophy husband era was some of the best days of my life. My wife still earns more and it's fantastic.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

apple.news/A5hb-fXeDQci...

The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

apple.news

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

The level of distaste I feel for these assholes cannot be overstated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 6h

Had 3 extra scraps of plywood laying around, so we have a slightly more secure fence now.

Landlord should be sending someone out to fix it permanently soon.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

GOV. WALZ: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business — the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Trump’s the one with government interference." (From @atrupar.com )

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine the New York Times front page if some rando Dem in rural New Mexico said "I love Osama"

There are zero stories about Kansas Republicans exchanging racist and klan notes. Note that the Texas GOP chair also said similar stuff

The Republican Party are proud nazis. We ignore it at our peril

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 20h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

Keir Starmer, to the country, after betting the UK economy on AI: All our apes gone

ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 8h

We lost nothing but gained the phrase 'all my apes gone', so on balance I feel we're better off for their brief & idiotic existence

I paid £14 billion for this NFT image. Please don't steal it

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

It’s all about the grift.

‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President

A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.

www.wsj.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

We should be treating this inability to yield power as a pathology!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17h

Madness. In jail, in another state, since Sunday, clarinetist Oriana Korol is a 38-year-old child and family therapist, a U.S. citizen and mom with a 3 y.o.

Sound dangerous?

The Sheriff says she is being held on suspicion of assault on a federal officer. But, not charged yet?

Habeas corpus, kids!

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 19h

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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