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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

boy the tiktok ban has really turned out to be one of the most singularly stupid things ever passed, huh? as if these people needed more help controlling the entire information environment

what a shitshow

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 2h

Muppet Evangelion

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 2h

do the british just have a fetish for making things crimes

David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 2h

Attlee taught Labour to walk, now he watches on as they fly

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

Negative

For starters as a logical matter there is no universe in which this meets the intended purpose of reprogramming language

But as a legal matter you've got to have a valid appropriation to transfer the monies into

Congress appropriates some things on a multi-year basis and others annual

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 8h

The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.

Of course it has. It always does. Sec 8005 of DOD Appropriations, for starters…

That one provision now allows for $8b in transfers, per March’s full year CR:

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 13h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Just learned about a brilliant scientist friend who is at risk of being deported because their research field (brain chemistry???) is apparently considered a priority for the People’s Liberation Army and I cannot express in words how much I despise this administration

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Amanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 5h

Public funding of elections, then instead of giving mostly-ceremonial ambassadorships to big donors, we give them to elderly Senators.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 6h

Look, this is what Catholicism does so well. Yes girl, BRING OUT THE MONSTRANCE. MAKE THEM SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Martin Luther could *never*. He failed to predict the Trump Presidency and also is directly implecated. I am so serious.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 3h

I know a guy whose whole family is Presbyterian, mom is even a pastor, but the second they thought there might be some weird demon shit going on in their house, they called the Catholics and he called me. Ask the experts, I guess.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 3h

woke Marxist pope strikes again

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

this explains a lot of the public dooming about Democrats imo, especially ones who are liberal darlings

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

we're all very powerless right now and for some people having their cynicism proved right gives them the illusion of control

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

we're all very powerless right now and for some people having their cynicism proved right gives them the illusion of control

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

I'm more sympathetic to chicagoans in this situation but some of the other stuff feels opportunistic

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

especially if they actually *listened* to him.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

if, IF it turns out a Pritzker staffer saw this, told the governor, and he called off the state troopers, that would an enormously consequential precedent being set.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

I think annointing Pritzker as the best 2028 option in 2025 is equally as foolish as assigning particular malice to him. All the governors are going to be tested eventually.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

again, there is no acceptable progressive playbook here. governors will be forced to write them in real time.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not saying it was Pritzker but I'd be very interested to know if it was.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

I am extremely curious to know who gave that stand down order.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

After kettling the remaining protestors, the cops apparently got an order to stand down(?), and are pulling back, and now getting in vehicles and leaving it seems. Residents on the street are outside dancing with protestors. Everything just got de-escalated.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 3h

What now playboy

Cubs infielder Matt Shaw defends missing game to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial service

"Whatever backlash comes is OK," Shaw told reporters after he missed the Cubs' game Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds to attend Kirk's service in Arizona.

www.nbcnews.com

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 3h

I guess the Cubs losing the NLDS was their tribute to Charlie Kirk.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

Every once in a while I remember Trump changed vice presidents because he sent a violent mob to take care of his previous one and that’s not a thing anyone even talks about.

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