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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 22h

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

It has sound, too.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 20h

It's really hard for me not to think that the appropriate punishment for these people is forcing them to endure the same conditions they're easily illegally cosigning other people too

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 21h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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powerje @powerje.bsky.social · 20h

lol

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h

He's got the Grim Reaper looking over one shoulder and the Ghost of Epstein Past looking over the other

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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powerje @powerje.bsky.social · 20h

Reminds me Google more than doubled my email costs to shove Gemini down my throat and I need to move my mail somewhere else

phantasmAgaric 🦑 @lalonde.bsky.social · 20h

this shit must go so hard if you're stupid

chart comparing the adoption of chatgpt with the adoption of the internet

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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powerje @powerje.bsky.social · 1d

this is cool shit

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks. www.wired.com/story/new-me...

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

www.wired.com

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Wilma Marlene Fine ✈️ @wmf5.bsky.social · 1d

It's unfortunate that children have to suffer the discomfort and danger that measles causes. This because a former 14 year heroin addict has deemed preventative measles vaccine dangerous. 🥺

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

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27909.bsky.social @27909.bsky.social · 1d

The silver lining for MAGA of the failed 2020/21 coup was that it revealed all the points in the system that prevented them from succeeding, and they and their allies have spent the last 5 years slowly buying, winning, or destroying each and every one of them

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way

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powerje @powerje.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't Walz keep calling them weird in his speeches and media just stopped reporting on it?

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powerje @powerje.bsky.social · 1d

It's to purposefully crash the market and let you and your friends time your shorts