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NYC. Turn ons include black coffee, loud guitars, dead lifts, books, Islay whiskey, demonstrations, and anything for the revolution. He/Him. Happy to be here. Happy to be anywhere. mastodon.social/@Theblueone

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

What if the Deep State was just the norms we made along the way?

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 2h

Inject this into my eyeballs

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3h

“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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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 3d

Be Like Water – the philosophy and origin of Bruce Lee's famous metaphor for resilience www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/29/l...

Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

During the months when DOGE was most aggressively canceling contracts, O.M.B. was concealing how it was moving money through to agencies. Mr. Vought removed a legally required public database tracking those records. When a court forced the administration to restore it in August, the spending logs showed O.M.B. exerting unusual control over agency spending, using other documents the public can’t see.

Under a 1974 law, it’s illegal for the administration to “impound” or block money appropriated by Congress (to not spend the funds on those credit cards). But Mr. Vought has made clear he believes that law is unconstitutional and wants to test it in court.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 5h

[current vibe]

"Hands all over the Eastern border
You know what I think we're falling
From composure
Hands all over the Western culture
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures"

Hands All Over

YouTube video by Soundgarden - Topic

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 5h

It's Saturday! 📺
Post a cartoon TV series you love.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 6h

Guitar of the Day

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 7h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 7h

So an entire state apparatus of dog killers, huh?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 7h

Soooo…we can jump over them then?

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They think they’re inflicting trauma and fear but the only thing they’re doing is building the waters of righteous anger that will rise and wash them out to sea.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 7h

**always follow the money**
PE firm behind for-profit universities using its WH influence to handwrite terms that will eviscerate, hamstring and control its own competitors in higher ed…and NY Times giving space to the CEO to come out and admit this influence in a pro-Compact piece

As someone who played a part in the compact’s initial formulation, working alongside an administration working group, I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact and to address its detractors.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 7h

Dude, look in a fucking mirror.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 7h

What’s not to like about WW1 dazzle camouflage Conan the Barbarian?

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 8h

Me in 1989: “How do I get my guitar to sound like a computer? I’ll run it through all these weird analog boxes…”

Me in 2025: “Oh these computer plugins will make my guitar sound like it’s going through a real tube amp in 1971!”

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 8h

I’m thinking of all the “digital age is coming” music in the 80s as well and now all the computer/digital music gear for musicians boast of being closest to analog recreation as a selling point

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Nov 6

saw an interview with Lavar Burton the other day where he said the “no child left behind” measure is what killed reading rainbow. “There was money for books but no money to foster a love of reading them,” he said.

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Just Ben @justanotherben.bsky.social · 8d

These guys come from the depths of meme culture totally divorced from the source material and that gave birth to the memes in the first place. Which is not surprising since they can basically only experience media as an expression or critique of their own fucked up worldview.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 8d

The Department of Homeland Security using clips from Twin Peaks in their cringe and racist anti immigration edits….

Life after all criminal aliens are deported

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely, primarily by removing one from the normality of shared social experiences with other humans and truly humans species success is based on normative social cooperation. These jabronis drag us off building ziggurats and shit in the desert. They’re walking, talking fitness landscape sinks.

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 10h

C’mon… I *just* woke up. This stupid cat doesn’t know nothing about it being [checks time] fuuuuck 4am and this instant coffee isn’t gonna drink itself

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 10h

Came around to the evidence based opinion, that above & beyond the negatives of resource hoarding & outsized poli-social influence, it destabilizes the minds of those experiencing it. Like looney tunes. [makes rocket launching to crazy planet hand gesture while making Doppler shifted whistle sound]

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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