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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

The best and the brightest

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 11h

Also if I were career staff I would not work one second past 5 pm and I bet a lot of this is happening around the clock.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

/3 It‘s entirely possible it’s a mix of (1) everything being a constant fire drill because there is so much litigation because they are so lawless and (2) they likely don’t like or trust the long-term civil service staff like legal secretaries and paralegals.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

People are responding to this quote by mocking the guy's claim of libertarianism, but understand, at root this is what *all* libertarians mean in their heart of hearts: "the government should be 'small' in the sense that it allows me & mine to do whatever we want." Small for me, not for thee.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14h

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Upstate Bozo @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 14h

Truly screamed with delight at @ugarles.bsky.social describing the Burger King jingle as “like the Kars 4 Kids people met a black guy” on @whatatimepod.bsky.social

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 17h

War Dogs (2025)

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

That’s insane. It was a foul ball. But I guess it gives you a force play.

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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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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I think the Tigers should let Skubal go the distance. Throw 150 pitches. There is no limit.

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

I’d fully support wholesale prosecution of mortgage fraud and other white collar crimes if it applied to everyone equally and not just Trump’s perceived enemies. The rich constantly cheat on this shit.

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

We used to make fun of how the “future” tech of the Alien universe was all switches and knobs rather than screens. Little did we know how superior they were.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

We already tested this extensively during Covid and BLM and found that police refused to enforce masking requirements or business closures for ideological reasons and brutalized protesters despite orders not to. What's left to test? bsky.app/profile/book...

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 1d

not disagreeing with you, but we should actually test police oversight for the same reason one should test their backups. i would rather find out everything is broken while there is still time to do somethig about it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

If you really want to piss off Trump and MAGA and have no mlb team left, might I interest you in the Toronto Blue Jays.

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong…

Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 1d

This one is fascinating:

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Machado is a good choice. She'll be controversial because she's in the fight, not above it. That makes this prize continuous with the 2021-3 streak of honoring opposition figures and dissidents rather than do-gooder organizations or already-powerful officials.

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously the goddamn raccoons knew @weirdneal.bsky.social is in SJ and they’re just fucking with you.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 1d

Here is your Nobel Peace Prize, advocating for the open murder of mariners simply because they were returning on their boat to Venezuela. She is a violent sicko.

"Legitimate pressure". Someone should put some legitimate pressure on the Nobel Committee and really start doing some politics!

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 1d

Invaders generally don’t share logistics with the invaded.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning

With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t entirely disagree. The Yankees have a better roster. They scored more and gave up less all year. They have four really good starters and a deep, frankly terrifying lineup. But the Jays outplayed them over four games. That’s all that matters.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 2d

This week’s JAMBOROO topper is about Slow Horses, which is a perfect TV show. defector.com/how-slow-hor...

How 'Slow Horses' Explains The World | Defector

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE,...

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a great example of why everyone should oppose online age verification efforts. At this moment in time there is just no good way to do it.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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67 Sound @67sound.bsky.social · 2d

It goes against all my instincts to yank a reliever who’s cruising but Schneider’s gotten this far with a roster no one predicted to be any good so I’m just going to trust him.

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