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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2h

Literally “‘Racism!’ is such an unseemly charge that we must presume in any case before us that it doesn’t exist.”

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 13h

Few will even deign to make an appearance.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14h

This is the remarkable thing. We’re seeing an extraordinary level of popular mobilization. The press are less interested than they were in a dozen dudes throwing tea bags at local car dealerships, & elected Dems don’t seem to have any plan to harness it beyond using it as hook to beg for another $5.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

You’re right, but it’s not hard to see how an anti-Trump protest movement that turns out nearly 2% of the US population is both historically notable and has massive potential energy, if highlighted and harnessed by leaders and institutions instead of largely avoided by them

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 20h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

These extreme hypotheticals must cease.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

wtf, solar wind

Solar wind tears a chunk from Comet Lemmon's tail

See how the solar wind shredded Comet Lemmon's tail in an extraordinary view from Earth

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s go!

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 1d

Four months after the last No Kings protests, millions will descend onto the streets again on Saturday to protest Trump’s autocracy and the government shutdown. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
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Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, there are many “functional substitutes” if you ignore the function “taste like coffee.”

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

[covertly-self-referential meta-pedantry joke omitted]

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

The “Democrat Party” soon to be added to the CBS News style manual.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3d

The misspelling is on purpose. A flex. Like saying, "yeah, CBS News is basically the Post Millennial now. What are you gonna do about it?"

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

Closeup of Trump’s neck flipped and rendered in black and white

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

The unitary executive theory is toast.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

🎯

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

That Biden wasn’t even President at the time makes his ability to stage the riots with FBI agents *all the more insidious*

Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 4d

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

Sarah would have got back to him by now but didn’t have ChatGPT to help her craft a quicker response.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

More on ICE Gestapo tactics, with a tip on how you can help if you’re at the scene of a Kavanaugh stop.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

#typography

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 4d

If you underline tab characters (ctrl-tab) or fixed-width spaces (ctrl-shift-space), you can avoid these ugly underscore signature blocks that break for text.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/12/s...

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

I just use prefab tables, but I’ll have to try this.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

The solo break on the album cut is even greater. The *sound* he gets. The rhythmic play and displacement. Right up there with Bird’s legendary break in Night in Tunisia.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, still on track for our very own Aktion T4.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d

(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

A method adopted more recently (to slightly different artistic ends) by Johnny Cash.

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

“[T]here were rumors (probably mad and unfounded) that Michelangelo murdered a man and watched him die in order to be able to paint the agony of Christ.”—Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

“[T]here were rumors (probably mad and unfounded) that Michelangelo murdered a man and watched him die in order to be able to paint the agony of Christ.”—Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

Similes, metaphors, and analogies are all the same fucking thing.

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 4d

The contemporary experience suggests that, for the most part, it’s just snakes.