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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 21m

Every time.

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 42m

Yeah the part where Azaria talks in an American accent for a bit was particularly jarring in retrospect.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 57m

The episode of the Simpsons where Springfield votes to expel immigrants and have to learn that immigrants are actually both good people and essential is on and it reminds me how heart this show once had and how the cynical both sides suck content (e.g. South Park) has helped break our society.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 8h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1h

They're delegitimizing themselves in substance by subverting the Constitution and aiding the establishment of a lawless autocracy. But they're further delegitimizing themselves because they really don't understand, and can't even halfway convincingly mimic, how the Court is supposed to function.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1h

There’s a possibility, which we shouldn’t rule out, that this backfires on the admin because it can’t redirect the funds before payday comes. (The people with the knowledge to make that happen may be furloughed, for starters.)

Anyway, that’s what I’m watching for.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

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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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 1h

Death panels was always projection. They just want to control them.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

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...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 4h

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

bit.ly

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 8h

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 8h

I love the "it's realistic.. Real life is brutal that is why you starve to death if you don't eat an entire roast chicken every 15 minutes" as a gaming philosophy.

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 9h

"Hedge fund Alden Global Capital gobbles up newspapers across America and guts them. No one knows why, until journalist Julie Reynolds investigates. Her findings trigger journalist rebellions at Alden-owned newspapers nationwide."

Full documentary streaming at @pbs.org.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8h

Again, and forever, if Trump -- with the leverage he has now -- can't compel the release of Marwan Barghouti, then he is content with only another pause in the century of bloodshed in The Levant. Barghouti marginalizes and affronts extremists on both sides and means real negotiations and two states.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 8h

Also that this is at least his second annual physical this year.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty sure "heart of a 65 year old" was bait to lure the press away from vaccine denial enabler got his shots.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty sure "heart of a 65 year old" was bait to lure the press away from vaccine denial enabler got his shots.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

Portland is toadily opposed to the violent cruelty of the Trump Administration.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Frog gets it

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 8h

Time for John Roberts Taney to write another op Ed about civility and the need to respect the integrity of the Court.

Stacey D @ladyoutside.bsky.social · 9h

Federal judges are calling it out.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Stacey D @ladyoutside.bsky.social · 9h

Federal judges are calling it out.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 9h

And UNC is nowhere near its bottom, yet.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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