Jillybean
@jillybeanbuttle.bsky.social
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Nebraska expat living in Southern Missouri. I love the Ozark mountains, but I miss the plains. Also love the ocean, and RMNP.
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And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM
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The founders assumed a guy like Trump would come along. They never assumed a congress would so willingly give up their power

This arch thing is bat shit loonery
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Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.
No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
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Fuck this.
“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”
LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press
The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.
laist.com
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Penn rejecting the compact is a big deal bc Marc Rowan, the author of the central academic sections, is a huge Penn donor and was responsible for the defenestration of President Liz Magill. So they are not only standing up to an administration they had caved to (like Brown) but to their own alum
AAUP @aaup.org · 10h
🚨🚨🚨

And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
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Our Chicago bureau chief was out for a run near Lake Michigan, when she watched a black S.U.V. make a U-turn and chase down three young men. It’s a scene now unfolding across the city every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Chicagoans Resist I.C.E. Agents
www.nytimes.com
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You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.
Women don’t like the vehicle
Idiot man sitting on his blue truck’s hitch so the hanging balls on the hitch look like they could be his balls (to make up for his tiny dick, probably)
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imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
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This is the singular project of John Roberts’ entire career. He is champing at the bit.
my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...
The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act
The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.
ballsandstrikes.org
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The absolute GOAT. I've been hearing or saying "did you not hear me? W cain't give out, NO infor-maysh-in" for almost 20 goddamn years. Maybe the best line reading in cinema history
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As we all know, existing while fat and/or ugly is innately worse than a person’s actions or words which is why the first is mocked, derided, and used as an example of why a person is bad and the second is treated as less important - often as a result of the first.
I'm not trying to be a dick.

But they picked two fat republicans for a bunch of jokes when the young republicans said the worst shit imaginable.

My fat ass is out there fighting for what's right.

Stop equating fat with bad or less. Stop telling ME I'm one annoyance away from being your target.
Two-fat white men in suits.
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Again, states and cities should demand they get what was budgeted to them by law or they'll take all federal property as collateral on what they're owed. Fuck this fucking around with the Constitution. It's not an escalation to do that. It's a response.
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money
The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.
nyti.ms
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Kinsley gaffe at the end there, my weasel.
Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.
Aging:
I was not expecting the thin skin thing to happen in my 50s, I thought that was 70s-80s thing.
My forearms are a mess. 😐
(dogs, regular daily life, harsh glances, all seem to disrupt the skin)
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She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
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