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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 45m

😂😂😂

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 57m

No it’s the really big spider. Also the little guys.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.

Every time they’re asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they don’t deny it.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1h

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sorry, it’s called RIPPLE?

Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1h

Well, good luck with the movie anyway. I will not be joining you.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1h

They always ask brightly. I cannot figure it out.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1h

tbh I had some problems watching Giant Spider Invasion on MST.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1h

More than one person has reacted to my telling them that I suffer from arachnophobia by asking, brightly, “oh really? Did you see that movie?” smdh

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

I appreciate the Trump administration finally providing us an answer to the perennial question: “Who Would Jesus Shoot in the Face With a Pepper Ball?”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

Rev. Kardon “said she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole,” Religion News Service reported👇🏽

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

“Every time we have been attacked w/pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor. “They are unhinged.”

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1h

I am planning to attend my local #NoKings protest this weekend, and I’m wondering where to send the W-2 form. I want to make sure my check doesn’t get held up. Does anyone know contact info for the Antifa payroll office?

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3h

3/ In more sensible days, ICE mostly left defendants alone unless they already had convictions for deportable offenses & let new charges play out in the system. But between Trump/Miller and the Laken Riley Act it's completely indiscriminate now, yet another way to waste everyone's time & resources

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3h

1/ Good morning from Chelsea District Court, which has jurisdiction over more non-citizens per capita than any other MA court. Just thought you should know that ICE has left the prosecution unable to proceed against dozens of cases scheduled for this morning, including the one I am appearing on

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

Hi there. We're the Republican Party. Our policies are such that without voter suppression, gerrymandering and a gutting of civil rights legislation, we couldn't stay in power. And, oh yeah, if you do somehow manage to win an election on the merits, we won't swear you in to serve.

Best of luck.

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 21h

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

nyti.ms

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16h

You must read this account because it will make you understand how evil Ghislene Maxwell & how heinous it is for Trump to even consider pardoning this monster. Kudos to the late Virginia Giuffre for her bravery and battle to redeem her young and vulnerable self www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 17h

THIS 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17h

The thing that always gets me is that Tolkien obviously would have hated Silicon Valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17h

Indeed @dwillner.bsky.social is correct

Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17h

The thing that always gets me is that Tolkien obviously would have hated Silicon Valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 18h

Black and brown boys are routinely seen and treated like adults and Black girls are sexualized as promiscuous. Meanwhile, grown-ass white men are forever infantilized.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 23h

I am obligated to inform you that in the original Hebrew, it is a plague of Frog. One. Singular. Giant. Frog.

Do with the knowledge what you will.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

“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 · 1d

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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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this, by the way. I loved this show so much.

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