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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 3h

Not what Google AI returned for the writer

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine that

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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TT @tathompsonks.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sorry, what

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 6h

The Hawaii Supreme Court is some real ones

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 8h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 7h

-West Texas Fertilizer Depot (2013)
-California Fireworks Depot (2025)
-Atlanta Chlorine Depot (2024)
-This incident

This and Countless other examples is a reminder that hazardous solids are exempt from RMP process safety rules, and deaths pile up every year. Shameful bipartisan fuckup

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

A powerful explosion that tore through a central Tennessee ammunition plant on Friday morning has left 18 people missing, putting the small rural communities surrounding the facility on edge. Here’s what we know about the blast.

What We Know About the Explosion in Central Tennessee

The blast happened at a plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. Officials did not specify a death toll but said 18 people were missing.

nyti.ms

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 7h

In 2017 you had a minority faction in the senate that said “yeah, we’re just gonna pick up the dollar bills and appoint all these justices and more or less steer the macro ship on course”. That faction no longer exists.

Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 7h

And I think both are directly downstream of the elimination of basically any substantial voice of reason or principle in the congressional GOP. 2017 to 2025 has seen the replacement of the McCains with the Tubervilles. Rendered Collins/Murk irrelevant and opened the store to billionaires and P2025

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 7h

Good lord

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 7h

That and brain worms

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7h

A new book argues that when easy money ran out, Silicon Valley’s billionaires looked for someone to keep the good times rolling. They found him in Donald Trump.

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

bloom.bg

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 8

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 8h

Same as in Missouri. The fact they’ve decided KANSAS CITY doesn’t deserve a congressional representative should be front page news everywhere

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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 9h

This is how pitiful & pathetic Indiana is. There are only 2 blue of 9 congressional districts. JD Vance was in IN yesterday trying to convince Repugnants to gerrymander the 2021 maps. The gov is telling them they need to do it because the pres admin will make it uncomfortable otherwise. Mob tactics.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11d

the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 9h

And encouraged by the political leaders and cultural figures associated with their identity/values systems. Banning this shit has to be part of a “Heal America” platform

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 9h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 10h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 9h

Pāʻulaʻula State Historic Park – Russian Fort Elizabeth, Kauai

Russian Fort Elizabeth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Suburban Dad @suburbandadstuff.bsky.social · 17h

Especially from Detroit. They have at least a couple good dudes on the bench. Seattle is just atrocious.

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