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jammaj.bsky.social
Head growing out of that suit like a tangerine mushroom. 🍄
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joepositive.wtf
It's Fortnight Tuesday! Take a break from the madness with the new episode of The Bad Piano Player Podcast! Listen as @johnwing5.bsky.social plays and sings 6 of the sweetest late-bloomers you'll ever hear.

#podcast
#badpianoplayer
#music
#popmusic
#musichistory
Not Hits - Hits!
Podcast Episode · The Bad Piano Player · 10/14/2025 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Future historians may well argue that the Jim Crow era, which, depending on how one periodizes, lasted for roughly 75 years, represented a longer time period than the modern civil rights era, which, even if one starts with Brown v. Board, is barely 70 years old.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?
www.nytimes.com
jammaj.bsky.social
Head growing out of his suit like a tangerine mushroom.🍄
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kateinkharkiv.bsky.social
Rutte deluding himself and others that shooting down Russian planes violating NATO airspace is a sign of weakness, while letting them fly freely somehow demonstrates strength is... absurd.
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jamellebouie.net
I read Caleb Nelson's piece on the removal power and I was taken with a reference he makes in the conclusion.
When the First Congress confronted the same ambiguities, more than one member warned against interpreting the Constitution in the expectation that all Presidents would have the sterling character of George Washington.  The current Supreme Court may likewise see itself as interpreting the Constitution for the ages, and perhaps some of the Justices take comfort in the idea that future Presidents will not all have the character of Donald Trump.  But the future is not guaranteed; a President bent on vengeful, destructive, and lawless behavior can do lasting damage to our norms and institutions.  As one member of Congress argued in 1789, we should not gravitate toward interpretations of the Constitution that “legaliz[e] the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”
jammaj.bsky.social
Cat’s name is Limbo?
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
New cartoon about a secret agent cat who finds itself in dangerous traps each episode, always counting down to the moment when hydrocyanic acid might be released into the room. Every episode ends on a cliffhanger.
jammaj.bsky.social
She sold seashells by the seashore.
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hurricanexyz.bsky.social
Speaking of constitutional ethos, lol

So, story time. In 1927 the Supreme Court heard a case about whether a state could impose compulsory sterilization on, e.g., the mentally disabled. Yeah, seems fine, the Court said.

Fifteen years later, same-ish question. Same result? Nope!
royalpratt.bsky.social
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
jammaj.bsky.social
Pray for death.
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
jammaj.bsky.social
On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social discuss whether and how to engage with #Russians while the invasion of #Ukraine is ongoing, & talk about #Israel, #Palestine, and settlements in occupied territories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN2S...
Conflicts and Settlements
YouTube video by #DogShirtTV
www.youtube.com
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johnshirley2024.bsky.social
This is pretty cool--the new official logo Stokercon, the official con of the Horror Writers Association. I'll be a Guest of Honor there in June. You don't have to be a member of HWA to join the con. See you in Pittsburgh!
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kjephd.bsky.social
Shorter Plato:
resnikoff.bsky.social
I don't really believe in an afterlife, but I do believe that living is basically preparation for a good death, and that a life spent beneath the yoke of your own rapacious hungers prepares you to die scared and alone.
acyn.bsky.social
Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Mars, Gale Crater, Mount Mercou, Selfie from Nasa’s Curiosity SOL 3070 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kPuw21
Nasa/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/AndreaLuck
jammaj.bsky.social
How those inflatable protest costumes are made.
Protestors wearing colorful inflatable nylon animal costumes in Portland, Oregon, 2025