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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 11h

we need to fix Section 230 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 14h

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 15h

Does anyone in this admin have an effing calculator or the education level of a 4th grader?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 16h

#NotDragQueens

Just your average, run of the mill, Christian, holier than thou, pedophile and his dad

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 16h

#POTUSMiller

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 16h

The crossed paws are a real message.

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 17h

Well, no women will be part of the military base, that’s for sure.

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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 17h

Although Qatar is defined as a semi-constitutional monarchy, the emir holds almost all executive, legislative, judicial power over the government & legislation. It is authoritarian. No political parties, limited citizen rights. The legal system is SHARIA law. They're gonna fit right in to Idaho.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 17h

It's really sad how the violence is so pervasive in Portland that they don't even try to bury the war dead.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Around Portland today... someone takes their Halloween extra serious. (sorry for overposting today).

blackened skeleton in a cage with backdrop of figurehead of pirate regalia over front door in backdrop.

dead pirate sitting peacefully next to a skull with a candle for some reason with coins scattered at his booted feet.

skeleton roasting on a pitchfork spit because nothing is more succulent than cooked pirate

ossuary hill of rocks and skulls with gravestones in backdrop and bones in foreground

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 19h

Playmobil horse lost to the sea

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1
And yet I
dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the
federal case law that applies to this dispute.
FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY
AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM
While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving
Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that
the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By
doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and
condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements.

Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized
Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the
land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate
Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government
employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to
strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2
Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings.
The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8
L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty.
That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John
Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal
government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents
tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would
follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of
white supremacy.
Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong
and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually
sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man
was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils:

Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United
States resembles that of a ward to his guardian.
Id. at 17.
This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward,
was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions.
In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903),
often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,”
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the Court used that rationale to
justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes.
These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities
dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food.
Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and
helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power.
Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L.
Ed. 228 (1886)).
Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that
same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be
both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805
(1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111
(2020).
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Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was
less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes:
I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the
applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of
organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are.
Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to
equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the
conquered. Id. at 23.
In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope
used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages.
[W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become
agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of
humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel.
. . . .
But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states
or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law
of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held
together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or
government, beyond what is required in a savage state.
Id. at 23, 27-28.
This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030
(1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 20h

The collapse of the AI bubble will give us the third bubble driven recession of the century deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-magnif...

The Magnificent Collapse of the Stock and Crypto Bubbles

The third bubble recession of the century will not be fun

deanbaker22.substack.com

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 21h

Love the way the stripes are working up.

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 23h

Holy f**k

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 1d

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 23h

Watching the smile fade from Alford’s face is priceless.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller from Missouri to Missouri Rep. Mark Alford: "I hope you, sir, as an elected official, will think of the people who are in nursing homes, their parents are in nursing homes, their Medicaid is going to be cut. What is going to happen to Missourians whose hospitals are gonna close?"

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

“internationalists” ????

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

STOLLEN! (please)

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WUTF-TV @wutf.bsky.social · 1d

Kraft Heinz Shares Skyrocket After Trump Fails To Be Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to hear what the kids think about the fragrance when they touch it.

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

No lies detected

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

No, autocorrect, "shitposting" and "shit posting" are not the same thing.

ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

THE DOG WALL!!! ❤️❤️

ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve had great luck with rosemary. In 30+ years, I’ve needed only 2 rosemary plants. Both grew into enormous bushes. The first died after a brutal winter. The second’s been moved twice & trimmed back, with branches big enough for a fragrant fire (which I don’t do!). I wish you the same good fortune

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ACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!!!

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Every "Give Trump the Nobel" op-ed has the tone of an exhausted parent arguing with the other about letting their tantrum fueled toddler have the toy so they can just get the hell out of Target without child services being alerted.