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hoffnagel @hoffnagel.bsky.social · Jul 26

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jul 26

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

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hoffnagel @hoffnagel.bsky.social · 8h

More shame on those who caved.

hoffnagel @hoffnagel.bsky.social · 8h

Because they don’t have a law school, and because most “engineers” & stem only folks are RW.

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Zongo-the-Zischer @gattllc.com · 12h

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Catherine Zoltan @catherinezoltan.bsky.social · 12h

Benny Johnson works for the Kremlin. An agent provocateur for the Kremlin has been integrated into White House society and announced to the public. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

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hoffnagel @hoffnagel.bsky.social · 8h

How’s Monsanto?

hoffnagel @hoffnagel.bsky.social · 8h

Flabbergasted that it should be MIT.

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Adam Brailove @abrailove.bsky.social · 13h

Proud of my alma mater @mit.edu for being the first to reject fascist President Trump’s attempt to control higher education.

Leadership.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. Molly is right. This is the way. The only way.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

This is the way

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

Also: I know we’re all over — including me: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials... — the troop deployment litigation in Portland and Chicago, but, don’t forget what is going on in D.C.

It’s now been more than two months since Trump authorized this.

Four National Guard troops, two leaning against the wall by the Dupont metro. None have anything to do, but they’re still here.

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Catherine Zoltan @catherinezoltan.bsky.social · 11h

Come to your own conclusions.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 12h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

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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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 16h

Never in Social Security’s 90-year history has a Commissioner held a second job.

If Bisignano doesn’t want to focus on Social Security, it’s time for him to quit.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h

The house just extended their vacation!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 12h

Who could've POSSIBLY seen this coming except literally anyone who knows anything about the history of "protect the kids!" Weirdos

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 12h

I don't want to lambast a guy for the crimes of his son, but how many times do we have to hear about another church pedophile.

It's not porn's fault you're a sexual abuser. Maybe if people spent time dealing with actual ISSUES rather than blaming everything on a imaginary demon...

Screen shot of Ron DeHaas essay (The Perfect Sin) recovered from the Covenant Eyes website:

As my personal burden for the issue of internet pornography has grown, I have seen in the testimonials of our members how pornography has broken relationships.
It breaks down relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, on the job, even lost jobs, relationship to church family, relationship to the "inner man," and a person's relationship to God.
Related: The Effects of Porn on Wives and Marriages
When there is a secret life going on, that secret life affects every one of those relationships. A secret life pervades every aspect of life, and diminishes effectiveness in all areas of life-home, job, church, everything. For those who are active in a church of any faith, a secret life destroys ministry, and the cumulative effect of millions of secret lives is an ineffective church. Basically, Internet pornography has been perhaps the greatest push toward an era of ineffective ministry.
Related: Porn-A Gateway Drug
All the more for the pastor, minister, or counselor whose job and ministry are tied together. The damage that Internet pornography has done is truly immeasurable.
So, from Satan's perspective, internet pornography is the perfect sin. It breaks families and jobs and communities, it tears down a person's relationship to God, it diminishes the work of ministry, and it is devastating in every way. And it is freely available to everyone of all ages, it is only two clicks (maybe one if it's bookmarked) away from you reading this, it is addictive, and (without a monitoring program) it is totally secret. I firmly believe that internet pornography is the sin of this decade. What more could
Satan ask for?

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 13h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 1d

Funny but true.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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