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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 10h

I have such a soft spot for president chester arthur

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

I had people telling me in mid 2024 that Patrick Leahy didn't understand the Leahy Law because he said Biden and Blinken weren't enforcing it

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 18h

GOP legislative leaders in NC just announced that they'll vote on a new congressional map in a session set to begin next week. NC already has one of the most extreme gerrymanders in the nation. A new plan is likely to target #NC01 and perhaps more.

General Assembly Heeds President Trump’s Call to Thwart Blue State Attempts to Take Congress

Raleigh, N.C. — Today, legislative leaders agreed to hold votes during the previously scheduled October legislative session to block the…

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

The real victim of the two year genocide of Gaza? Biden.

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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 19h

@anguirus.bsky.social welp managed to borrow a digital copy of destiny of the Republic through my library

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 23h

bus with one depressed and one happy character. the depressed one says the world is harsh cruel and unforgiving and is wearing clown makeup. the happy one, wearing a doctors coat, says great clown pagliacci is in town yay

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23h

the pillars of tenure as an institution are being able to sexually harass people and to be racist for Halloween

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 23h

i hate it when my inability to wear an offensive Halloween costume compromises my research

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 23h

Not really sure I follow the logic here

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the question of the moment, for them, should be: what if anything has changed to justify invalidating a legitimate and constitutional decision of congress to limit the president's authority?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

with that said, in a world where these people acted with either integrity or intellectual honesty, the strong evidence that the original intent of the constitution was for congress to exercise real authority to limit presidential removal would lead them to show a little judicial humility, i.e.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

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

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting in itself that the public's default reaction to whatever the government is doing seems to be "stop doing that, try the opposite". It suggests something quite profound is going wrong.

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 1d

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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Hugh @shxnhugh.bsky.social · 1d

1993 called it wants its coalition back

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 1d

not only is she lying about the substance and procedure here, she is a sitting justice commenting on the active and past caseload of the Court. on an obviously political program. grounds for impeachment by anyone who isn't a moral coward

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday!

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Evil Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 1d

The entire political regime for 40 years agreed on varying degrees of neoliberalism. We don’t have that anymore. But that’s fine because that shit got us here.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 16d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating, the right wing leader of the World Jewish Congress attempted to convince Israel to release Marwan Barghouti and Israel refused

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⛓️‍💥 New: World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder – heir to the Estée Lauder empire – offered to travel to Egypt last week to lobby for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as part of the upcoming hostage deal, Times of Israel reports. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office...

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

reminder that the atlantic, which is run by a former israeli military prison guard, tried to acquire the free press but couldn't provide bari a big enough payday and that literally everyone on staff at the atlantic except for adam serwer has absolute trash opinions

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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