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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

Where do they find white people with such thin lips? It's so weird.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

Or as we say in Gay Land....

QUEEN.......PLEASE.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

I advise throwing a bash. I did (it was in 2004) and had a ball. A bunch of people I did not expect showed up, including one friend from college I hadn't seen in almost 20 years who rang the doorbell during the party! It was amazing. Happy birthday in advance!

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 4h

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

Sigh. Yeah, I'm the worst. I'm a terrible guy. I eat baby kittens for breakfast, KAT.

What the fuck is wrong with you? You pretend to know me? And you act all snide and high and mighty and self-righteous?

Go ahead. Be my guest. I'm out. I'm not your punching bag, MA'AM.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

But that has been underway for a very very long time. And the fault can be laid at the feet of the God of the right, Ronald Reagan. He was a nasty piece of shit. And he's now being positioned as the voice of reason. He was nothing of the sort.

He was a pig.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

Uh huh. Well that's not how our system works. Until there's an alternative, this is what we got.

So for now, my very nice tenant pays me for the privilege of living in a brand newly renovated apartment in my house.

I live in this house, too.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who says this is an idiot. Full stop. They either weren't alive then or they were living in a cave with no news media.

Republicans have been racist since always. Even when they were championing Reconstruction they often did not think black people were the equal of white people.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

And you can bet that their elders have similar group chats. They're just better at keeping them hidden.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sure you are, dear. I'm sure you are.

Rogue Potus Staff @potusstaff.com · 5h

Annie Kaykaty of New York State Young Republicans.

When you just can't wait for the showers to be retrofitted into a gas chamber.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

He's also a :sexist, egoistical, lying, hypocritical bigot."

With apologies to Lily, Jane and Dolly.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

He did it without anything to back him up. No army or militia or anything but words. Marshall had the biggest balls of any of the guys of that era.

No one outside the legal or historical professions has ever heard of him. He wasn't even the first (or second) Chief Justice. He was #4.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

Have NONE of them heard of privacy screens?

They've been around for decades and cost around $15-25.

Also, that's lazy. But they're all lazy.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

That's what Janet Mills is hearing. "I'm still young! I can run for the Senate at 77 years old! That's FINE."

Fuck that damage. Fuck the gerontocracy. (And I'm OLD TOO.)

All of these old coots need to FUCKING GO RETIRE.

ALL. OF. THEM.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

I remember taking a con law course as a history undergrad (I loved it) and being amazed at what an elegant power grab it was. And NO ONE STOPPED HIM. They just said "OK, yeah, sure. I guess that's FINE."

The rest of the classes hated the tough professor but I loved her and she loved her subject.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

It sounds like the landlord is overextended and lacks capital. She's fucked herself over and in the process REALLY fucked over her tenants.

But the city has fucked the tenants over even worse.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

I'm a small 2 apt landlord in New Orleans. When I bought my house the condition was awful. I renovated with my money.

This is the kind of bullshit that gives landlords a bad name. She has no business being a landlord if she can't afford to keep properties in a minimally habitable state.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 3h

And yet, THESE guys are the heirs of Charlie Kirk. They're the ones who he radicalized. These statements are just the logical progression from what HE was saying all along.

And he got the Medal of Freedom this morning.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Rank-and-file Young Republicans are more upset at the guy who leaked their leadership’s Nazi group chat than they are at their leadership for being in a Nazi group chat.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not a lawyer but you'd think that people who claim to be "originalists" would reject Marbury v Madison since holding laws unconstitutional is not IN the constitution. Justice Marshall took that right for himself (a very ballsy move for 1804) and the court. He literally made it up. Poof. Magic.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

Not only is it invented, it is ASININE.

We've had the Voting Rights Act for 60 years.

On top of 88 years of Jim Crow and 250 years of slavery.

If there is a time limit, it should 250 + 88.

I have such loathing for these justices.

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 5h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 4h

My favorite was this one.

Either his barber REALLY REALLY hates him or he's wearing his Uncle Murray's toupee from before Murray died in 1967.

These are faces even their mother would slap.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 4h

So what do we think.....necrophiliac? His kink is something deeply disturbing.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 4h

So was my husband, and his teeth are awful.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 4h

God wants you to have bad/no teeth? Just like in 1702?