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Ross Hammersley @rhammersley.bsky.social · 19h

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 1d

This is one of the best games ever but not really enjoyable in any way

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

How. how. Back to back double plays to get out of the last two innings. Wild shit.

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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve gotta be up at 6 am.

a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says don 't even care .

ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says don 't even care .

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 1d

The Tigers-Mariners game has been going on for seven months already and shows no signs of letting up.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ross Hammersley @rhammersley.bsky.social · 1d

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

In 2002 aumf news

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Actually being broadcast. First the Chicago cyclist and now the Portland inflatables. Who knew "Yakety Sax" would become our freedom anthem

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Moral clarity is such a refreshing change of pace

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

Good for them

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Vicki with an 👁️ @catmomdo.bsky.social · 2d

History rhymes... and in that, there is hope; where there were triumphs before. "Reformers then used this philosophy—legal realism—to champion workers’ rights, challenge the pro-corporate bias of federal courts, create a strong progressive legal bench, and lay the legal foundation for the New Deal."

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

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“Stay Wrong”: When State Supreme Courts Fought Back - Bolts

More than a century ago, the legal left sought to blunt the power of conservative federal judges. They did so in state courts.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

“My NIMBY stance was for my family property in the beginning. Now it’s for my whole state. I say no, we don’t want a prison. We don’t want this mega prison in this state,” says a resident of Franklin County, Arkansas.

The Prison Next Door

How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely tempted to go kayaking to ruin my congressman's ocean view with a large "Release the Epstein Files" sign

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

They should give the peace prize to JD Vance just because that would be a funny dynamic

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

Better call Agent Smith, someone has escaped from the Matrix.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d

What people do not understand is that there are federal prosecutorial guidelines. Even if Leticia James violated the law (and we don't know she did), federal prosecutors would not bring a case for $18,000. I indicted cases for DOJ. This is a vindictive prosecution.

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Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two s...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

Ingrassia seemed like such a winner before this new allegation, I guess you never can tell

In May, Trump nominated Ingrassia, who received his law degree in 2022, to head the Office of Special Counsel. After he drew publicity for ties to white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate — an influencer who has been
charged in Britain with rape and human trafficking, which he denies - Ingrassia's July nomination hearing was indefinitely delayed.
It was a rare instance of Senate Republicans pushing back on a Trump nominee.
Ingrassia has shared conspiracy theories about 9/11 and praised far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. A podcast that he co-hosted called for martial law and secession after the 2020 election if legal efforts to overturn the election didn't succeed. He has advocated for some people who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
On his Substack, Ingrassia, who interned for the first Trump White House, dubs himself
"President Trump's favorite writer" because
Trump shared his comments almost 100 times last year on social media.

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