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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’d been looking forward all week to going to the Yankees game tonite. Not so much now, but I’ll go.

I wish that asshole would just leave us alone today. It’s a sacred day here. He doesn’t belong, especially to just put on his act to bogart a tragedy on the anniversary of 9/11 for some attention.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 11

Disgusting.

keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 11

In some capacities, I’m well past civility.

If a young adult making a living playing social discord & political division as a firebrand, influencer or proxy for the worst bad actors in this Trumpian hellscape we’re living through, you’re wasting your life for nothing.

And risking it.

For nothing.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is this very hour on this day every year that just cuts me open again.

It never gets easier & in many ways gets worse the further removed we are from it.

As it should be, I suppose. I miss my friends who had to leave too soon today years ago.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 10

Also today - another school shooting. It ain’t even news today.

Less than a fortnight after an 8 year old & a 10 year old perished in another school shooting while at church.

The filth of humanity made their bones playing Kirk’s murder for attention today.

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e...

2 students shot at Evergreen High School; suspect also hospitalized

At least 3 students, including a suspected shooter, were in the hospital Wednesday afternoon at a Denver-area hospital following a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Jefferson County foothill…

www.denverpost.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 10

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Tebow Couch @tebowcouch.bsky.social · Sep 9

@keysersoze2024.bsky.social my prediction:
Roberts tries to NFIB vs Sebelius this ruling, finding something something taxing authority to justify the tariffs. Or he could go full Roger Taney and say Trump is godking, you lose.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Supreme Court to Review Trump Tariffs on Fast-Track Schedule (1)

The US Supreme Court said it will decide whether the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are legal, agreeing to quickly review a challenge to his signature economic policy in a case with worldwid...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m sorry but this is so pathetic

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tiger Mom apology for [waves arms] all the YLS bad actors spewed out into the political main is welcomed.

Any time now, Ms. Chua, any time.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 9

Claiming he’s too lazy & stupid to draw something creative or write out something that doesn’t drip with attacks on basic grammar, then have the wit to sign it as if the scribbles are pubic hair is legitimate advocacy for him, as I see it.

Not to say they aren’t lying (they are), but well played.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 8

Let’s be blunt: right now there’s more than 1/2 dozen red state AGs who are touching themselves in excitement over filing an emergency relief brief to a bespoke single-Trump appointed-judge district court in their state, then to SCOTUS to keep their Orange Ape in play after a Dem is elected in 2028

Nacmtrader17 @nacmtrader17.bsky.social · Sep 8

its hard not get super worried about this court going forward and what that portends for Trump trying to keep power

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 8

Let’s Trump oust FTC Commissioner now while also remanding it back to the district court to be litigated.

That doesn’t pass anyone’s laugh test. It’s a disposition masquerading as a remand.

This fucking guy. 🤷‍♂️

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration.

See if you can spot the pattern...

A chart listing the Supreme Court's rulings on emergency applications from the Trump administration, the last 20 of which have been granted in full or in part, and almost always over dissents from (only) the Democratic appointees.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 8

I mean, we already knew the Roberts 6 was worse than the Taney 7, but holy shit.

It’s now unconstitutional to block any ski masked ICE thugs from just grabbing & detaining anyone who speaks Spanish or looks the part of a Spanish speaking person working any low paying job.

What. The. Fuck.

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · Sep 7

Burisma hired Hunter Biden to help it develop Ukraine’s own gas reserves. Instead, Rick Perry pressured Ukraine to buy expensive LNG and put his Texas buddies on the board of Naftogaz, a state company. Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador, was ousted because she supported Naftogaz against corruption

Kobolyev declined to comment on many recent events that have vaulted Naftogaz and Ukraine into the news. He wouldn’t air any views on why Giuliani’s associates — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — tried to replace him with a different CEO. Lawyers for Parnas and Fruman also declined to comment.
Nor would Kobolyev comment on U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s efforts to shake up Naftogaz’s supervisory board, as first reported by the Associated Press and confirmed to The Post by people familiar with the matter, who said Perry lobbied Ukraine to install new board members during a May visit to Kyiv. The Department of Energy didn’t respond to requests for comment.

https://wapo.st/4mX9HxE

Q What is Naftogaz?

A It is the gas monopoly that is owned by the Government of Ukraine.

Q Has it had some corruption issues in the past, to your knowledge?

A It has. You know, it's really cleaned up its act. I mean, we consider it to be one of the success stories in Ukraine. But that doesn't mean it's done. I mean, there's still issues going forward.

Q Did the act cleaning up occur in conjunction with the fact that they added a supervisory board to the company?

A I think that was important. I think the most important thing, though, was actually the head of Naftogaz, a guy by the name of Andrei Kobalyev, who is, you know, as clean as they come, and was fearless and determined to sort of shake everything up and really made some amazing steps forward, I mean, from a country that was getting the vast majority, something like 93 percent, of its gas from Russia to importing zero from Russia.

So, I mean, if you think about that from a security standpoint, huge steps forward.

https://impeachmentpapers.dp.la/Text/body13_001.xhtml

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 7

That’s about the last thing average voters care about, IMHO.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 7

He’s not old, he’s not too young/inexperienced, he’s smart, he’s not a firebrand like Newsom, he’s articulate & he’s very white & very male.

He’s Al Gore without the Clinton post-blowjobgate baggage.

That’s a Dem nominee that would mop the floor with Vance or sone wimpy Trumper like Youngkin.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 7

Early gut read:

Chris Murphy is filling the decaf kinda socially progressive but absolutely moderate economic lane in the Democrat party & that makes him electable.

Murphy vs. [fill in any garden variety Trump ass kisser] in 2028 is an easy win.

The real question is will Dem voters nominate him?

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · Sep 7

"backs off claim" means he lied

say he lied

SAY HE LIED

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 7

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) backed off his claim that President Trump was an FBI informant in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Johnson backs off claim that Trump was an ‘FBI informant’ in Epstein case

The statements from the speaker come as Democrats and a small number of Republicans are pushing for legislation to compel the release of more files on Jeffrey Epstein.

www.washingtonpost.com

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes. And the dipshit son-in-law.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 7

Notable that Pseudo Princess First Daughter isn’t there with Pseudo Prince Jared.

Donny lives in an imaginary world and right there just acted & believes he’s being cheered. She’s not like that - thin skinned & definitely self conscious about how virulently hated the Trumps are here in NYC.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 7

The gestation period for a bond market sell-off is materially longer than the average duration of a TikTok video clip.

Hard to compel people to accept these normative patterns in the now.

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tooze questions his own vision of a "polycrisis" and comes to the conclusion that talk of a bond-market correction disciplining Trump is liberal wish-casting. www.ft.com/content/8b41...

And this backdrop also puts into perspective the wistful talk about bond vigilantes and the US Treasury market. In the liberal version of the world, the Treasury market is the naturalised power that serves as the backstop of hegemony. It defines the order and punishes transgression. If, faced with Trump’s multiple code violations, the market were to start responding violently, though painful, it would come as a tonic. Faced with a populist as aggressive as Trump 2.0, progressive liberals all too readily agree with Andrew Mellon, Treasury secretary to Herbert Hoover, that a massive sell-off would “purge the rottenness out of the system”.

But what if there is no crisis? What if the markets merely shrug? Some investors may cheer. But anyone attached to the before times will know that the game is really up. A crisis, after all, is a sign that the patient is not dead yet.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Sep 6

The most incredible thing to me is O’Brien completed that “Art of the Deal” put his name on the book knowing it was a myth, a stream of Donny’s delusions.

The next most incredible thing is he kept this ⬇️ story private for decades.

This pretty much sums it up.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10...

Donald Trump’s Fake Renoir: The Untold Story

Trump biographer Tim O’Brien talks about his years covering the developer turned reality star turned president—including a bizarre incident involving a fake impressionist painting.

www.vanityfair.com

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