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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 4m

If the logic goes that the President is too busy to be sued he should also be too busy to sue. Insane that we're even discussing it.

Democrats, please move heaven and Earth to find someone smart who can start working on fixes for little nonsense like this.

Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 10m

The president's ability to file personal lawsuits should be severely curtailed, but we should also prevent the accretion of wealth in such individuals whether they are president or no. Musk's ability to endlessly litigate is just as much a menace to the rule of law.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

one thing we can never allow to happen again is making someone president who is rich enough to fund endless frivolous lawsuits

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 8m

In order to keep our democracy, we should be prepared to compromise with the right on up some rights

by Ezra Klein

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 9m

Lots of remedies for chafing. Maybe just spend your time looking those up instead of whatever this is.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 53m

Third Eye Blind put out one of the best albums of the 90s.

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 4h

Sounds like *someone* prefers traitorous gravy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 13h

I keep going back to the fact that Children of Men is just better

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, idiots! Can you go away forever now?

Axios @axios.com · 14h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15h

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 14h

Vetoing a lot of primary votes

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 14h

Kavanaugh Stop

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 18h

Can't wait for the extremely real arguments on this extremely real challenge to decades-long voting protections.

Just sitting on pins and needles to see what the outcome will be!

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 19h

He’s bald as hell lol

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah but it smacks of effort

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 20h

So sick of the crying and dooming. What would your response be if some 10 y/o stopped you on the street and demanded you right shoe?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 20h

This is what Schumer tried to pretend was worth giving in for in March.

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 22h

I would be much more willing to write this all off as "iron discipline" if Trump himself wasn't constantly muttering "I am dying" and looking like a candle left out in the sun for a week.

I mean, are threads to pull if reporters wanted to pull them.

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 23h

If you press too hard on this stuff they don't feed you the good gossip for your book

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 23h

Wait until bodycam footage comes out of it running from a DUI and then peeing itself for 2 minutes straight on a patio while 4 embarrassed cops stand over it as it meekly says, "I'm peeing. I'm peeing my pants" over and over again and then mock it until the end of time?

Sorry-different Millennial

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not paying people that mock and hold me in utter contempt. Their arrogance is a fiction created by generational privilege and family connections and I'm not giving them dollars that I earned doing competent work in a position that I achieved with my own skill and effort. (Jamelle excepted, obvi)

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

I see we're hitting the ground running with BS right wing framing on every story.

Congrats to the people who used to work at CBS News who now work at The Free Press East.

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

I’m convinced that AI is literally just a scam. This shit doesn’t work, they know it doesn’t work, 500mn of every billion they’re “investing” in “research” on “inference” is just going into a bunker, and when it all tumbles, Sam Altman will be the biggest conman in history.

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