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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · Apr 7

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Apr 7

4am Bluesky was once about multigender thirst pics and now it's about the imminent global economic collapse and while I know that right now it really does have to be about the latter rather than the former let me tell you I liked it better when it was all about that first thing

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Hornby @hornby.bsky.social · Apr 5

Damn NY 👏👏👏

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Hornby @hornby.bsky.social · Apr 5

#handsoff 🤗

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Apr 5

While Trump and Elon Musk take a chainsaw to vital services and rip away resources that millions of Americans rely on—

Musk himself is lining his pockets with new government contracts left and right.

Republicans' response? A budget that encourages this corrupt agenda.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · Mar 26

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · Mar 27

I’m just a small-town academic, but it seems to me that arrests should be handled by uniformed officers with visible name tags, badge numbers, and faces.

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italianstylemeats @blagueplague.bsky.social · Mar 25

screenshot of a skeet (?) explaining that the use of 3rd party software or apps is deliberate to obscure their criminal fuckery

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The local news comment section 🔰 @localnewscomment.bsky.social · Mar 26

We're never getting that binder back

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 26

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Mar 26

Rep. Himes: “As far as I can tell, we are now on team Kremlin. We vote with them and against our allies in the UN. We humiliate President Zelensky in the Oval Office. The president's chief Russia negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is repeating Russian talking points.”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 25

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · Mar 27

Elon Musk announces he has given away $1 million for signing his PAC’s petition in support of Brad Schimel.

How is this legal?

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Mar 26

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.

Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Mar 20

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

A Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, has been detained by federal immigration authorities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student activists whom the government accuses of opposing American foreign policy, according to court papers.

Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.

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BostonCatherine @banner19.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our tax dollars are paying for these people’s imprisonment with zero legal process.
@warren.senate.gov
@markey.senate.gov
@whipkclark.bsky.social
What is Congress going to do about this?

🚨 the Trump admin will pay the govt of Pres. Nayib Bukele $6 million for one year of services
@apnews.com

What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there

A mega-prison where visitation and education are not allowed became Trump's latest tool in his crackdown on immigration, when hundreds of immigrants facing deportation were transferred there.

apnews.com

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Mar 19

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 19

Cool we're North Korea now

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Mar 19

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 20

Sorry but this whole thing is a farce! This woman plainly does not run the organization, THE GUY WHO CAME UP WITH THE NAME AND WHO THE PRESIDENT SAYS RUNS IT RUNS IT

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Mar 20

JUST IN: In new sworn declaration, DOGE administrator Amy Gleason says DOGE has 89 employees and no “formal front office or organizational chart.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 19

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation

The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · Mar 20

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Mar 15

julius caesar's chariot with a bumper sticker reading IDES RATHER BE AT THE COLOSSEUM

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 15

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same

When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state

www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks

The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

www.wunc.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 15

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

www.nhpr.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Mar 15

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”

WOW. Planes in air must turn around.

A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

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