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H R Pickens

@hrpickens.bsky.social

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I don't expect to be followed back. When I find your stuff interesting, I don't necessarily expect you to find my stuff interesting. That photo is fake. It's not me. But also, basically, it is.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 10h

There's gonna be a great movie someday in which some handsome young actor explains this shit to Steve Carrell who just sits there gobsmacked.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 11h

They're gonna have a devil of a time hiding. Such a wide paper trail. IRS. Social security admin. State tax boards. Mortgage applications.

And whichever of their comrades turn state's evidence. These guys better hold on to some evidence so they have something to offer prosecutors down the road.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 11h

Goddamn slave-catchers. May they never know a moment's peace.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, best get at it. Those bases aren't gonna load themselves.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 12h

Posters wear vests with special sensors so that judges can tell, to an accuracy of five milliseconds, who said 'privilege' first and thereby won the exchange.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 12h

That was some little-league bullshit right there.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 12h

Redeemed!

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 13h

Ah well. Two stanzas of timeless genius ain't bad.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 13h

Is this about the regrettable turn it takes in the third stanza?

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 21h

Makes sense. If you're reducing the use of vaccines, disease is going to spread far more easily.

So you'll need to fire the people who measure this or else they're going to produce data that embarrass you.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 21h

One very procedurally easy thing the next Dem administration can do is just have the AG say “we are not going to indemnify Bivens claims against federal LEOs who engage in willful constitutional violations”

If ICE guys want to do this, they can lose their house over it

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

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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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

"This person" is an important and usually reliable voice. Anyone can get fooled by an AI video.

Comments aren't turned off.

And she's had no activity at all since posting it, 10h ago as of now, so I don't see any willful refusal to delete it.

So far, it just looks like an innocent mistake.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

It was pretty embarrassing when Obama got it.

We were all super excited that he'd won, and had high hopes for him. But they gave it to him like five minutes after he took office. Clearly it was just for the awesome achievement of being Not George Bush, and the bar ought to be far higher.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Good God and the serene, impenetrable smugness of those bigots.

That's the stuff of nightmares. Those people sounded like they could join the right kind of lynch mob and sleep soundly after.

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

One must begin with a rebuttable presumption that LE are simply making shit up.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I'm definitely really to believe that--If there's video that clearly shows it and which hasn't at any point been under the exclusive control of CBP/ICE/CPD.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if that's the actual play here: box the GOP into killing the filibuster, because Dems have no good way to get it done on their own.

They always seem to fall one or two Sinemas short. (And, I'd bet, a few more D senators who quietly oppose it and are happy to let the Sinemas wear it.)

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Do you suppose that fact is sufficiently well-known that one could make a joke which assumes that one's audience knows it?

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Well, shit. I was gonna race in here and play the smug "I'm not surprised and you're an asshole if you are" card, but you got here first. And the rules say that the first person to respond in that manner wins.

Well played.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Eh. They're all talk.

Religious fanatics may sometimes bang on about foreign bases on what they consider to be holy soil, but in practice they never do anything about it.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Guess we'll see. But I don't like his chances. I can see whose feet are already slipping.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social . Well done.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 1d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
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