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Professor Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
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Husband/father/lawyer. I'm not like this because I'm in Van Halen, I'm in Van Halen because I'm like this. Diamond Dog. Swiftie. Here for sports/pop culture/theology/politics. Ted Lasso S2.9 at 12:35.
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governor.ca.gov
Trump tonight:

Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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gregolear.bsky.social
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: A judge ruled today that the Trump administration had illegally blocked Congress from accessing ICE detention facilities.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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mordyoberstein.bsky.social
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.

Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”

I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
bdonedone.bsky.social
Who would watch this?
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
The trailer for Melania’s movie is out.
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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pinksalad.bsky.social
This quote from the WaPo rocks. Artists with integrity are such badasses.
From WashPost article with the photographer, Christopher Anderson: “I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too."
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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kylekulinskishow.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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althistorian.bsky.social
Wow they really just waited for everyone to forget about it and then went ahead and did it anyway.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Breaking news: U.S. Coast Guard allows a new workplace harassment policy to take effect, downgrading the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite facing backlash over the new language.
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Although Trump’s abhorrent political beliefs are ultimately more damaging to the nation, his reprehensible personality is more shocking to me on a personal level.

I can’t fathom how anyone can support someone who is so obviously a terrible human being.
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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orgazmo303.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
bdonedone.bsky.social
We’ve seen the passing of several elderly white men in their late 70s over the past few days… but not the one that we’ve all been waiting on, desperately 🤞
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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skepchick.org
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
raypride.bsky.social Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
bdonedone.bsky.social
Man, this Rob Reiner news is tough. 😔
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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tiny.baby
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
theintellectualist.bsky.social The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 5d
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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atherton.bsky.social
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
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
bdonedone.bsky.social
As a reminder: Republicans have had 15 years to come up with a new health care proposal... and all they've done in that time frame is agree that "they need to do something".

Meanwhile, they came up with Project 2025 in less than 3 years.

That shows you where healthcare is as a priority for them.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 7d
Status update on House Republicans and a health care plan, after this morning’s conference meeting:

“The consensus is we need to come up with something,” Rep. Ralph Norman says.
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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pbump.com
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM