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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 6h

No, didn't look her up, thought you meant the woman who said he made her uncomfortable.
Enjoy your victory.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 6h

Not the primary accuser, she was just a stupid person, a useful idiot.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 6h

Reckless assumption that "if we had proof they'd face a court", the main point isn't apprehension or interdiction. The primary point is to kill them, because we can. Power projection uber alles.

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 6h

You think that 38.5% of voters didn't vote on a whim?
I sorta dislike the term stochastic terrorism but the sense it conveys, that 1 prepares the ground 1st, then acts or gets others to act, is an important concept that too many feel is beneath their notice somehow.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 6h

So, there's callous and there's delighting in enmiserating others by vandalising or destroying cherished art or structures that can't really be reproduced. The sort of thing that Putin enjoys doing. The ultimate power trip, you can't stop me. & bad buildings usually outlast their builders.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18h

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 19h

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, look into the accuser's arc and get back to me.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 7h

Is that a surprise? I declared upfront that I thought he was targeted. If you want a progressive Greek chorus then you'll have to seek it elsewhere.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 7h

Symbolically, he's been tearing down our Republic and its institutions for 10 years. This is just more of the same but rather more concrete, if I may. It's real 70s,80s scumbag developer shit, tear down a protected structure fast before anyone can get a stay. Then throw up (lit) some gilded shit.

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 7h

Again, specifics or forget it. None of the other muddled junk. Specifics on who, what, when, and what happened to their careers post scandal.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

They're getting the unrest they want now.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

What shit was that?
Be specific.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

Not all Ds are the same. I still believe that Stone & Bannon targeted Al because he was the biggest threat to their act. His insightful ridicule was the most effective weapon on the Left. So much so that his own fellows were jealous of him & pulled him down, hoping to better herself, I mean, them...

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

Pass the budget by majority vote, doesn't need a single D.

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

I feel the same about some sports, once my skills deteriorate I don't really enjoy them. Others are lifetime.

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 9h

Poland Warned Putin His Plane Would Be ‘Forcibly Landed’ and He’d Be Taken to The Hague If He Flew Into Polish Airspace

Poland warned Russian President Vladimir Putin not to enter Polish airspace, or his plane would be "forcibly landed" and he'd be escorted to The Hague to be prosecuted for war crimes, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski said in a radio interview on Tuesday. The post Poland Warned Putin His Plane Would Be ‘Forcibly Landed’ and He’d Be Taken to The Hague If He Flew Into Polish Airspace first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid

The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

Which party will do a better job of keeping America prosperous?

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

He has kids?
World needs more fucked up kids?

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 8h

#1, any architect who draws an addition that dwarfs the original structure has no respect for the original structure.
Scale, massing, basic principles.
And that goes for highrises squatting on low rises.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 9h

Retro permitting, a developer's favorite trick.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Dems should absolutely pass the Pay Our Troops Act if they get the chance.
It sucks that it creates two tiers of federal employees when it comes to getting paid, but it feels dangerous to allow Trump to claim the mantle of personal savior of the armed forces. Do anything to take that off the table.

After a series of failed votes in the Senate, lawmakers in the chamber this week are set to consider a backup plan, which would restore pay for military service members and other federal workers who serve in vital federal roles. But some key Democrats have already said they would reject the approach, describing it as limited and insufficient.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, criticized the bill on Monday as “more like a political ploy to pick and choose, giving Donald Trump discretion, which employees should be compensated and which employees should not be compensated.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

The other big reveal of this piece is that the DHS salaries are coming from the $10B slush fund from H.R.1. Meant to
to pay contractors, state or local law enforcement, to join Trump's immigration enforcement efforts. Money to expand executive power in one way being used to expand it in another.

One fund, totaling $10 billion, was set aside for the Department of Homeland Security to reimburse its work to “safeguard the borders of the United States,” the law specifies. Another, totaling about $3.3 billion, was allotted to the Justice Department to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration, and defend the Trump administration against lawsuits in court, according to those familiar with the plans.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

This is the same General Counsel who said withholding funds to Ukraine, the basis of Trump's first impeachment, was perfectly legal, and this sounds like similar bullshit.

Mark Paoletta, the general counsel of the White House budget office, said that funds approved by lawmakers for one purpose could not “ordinarily” be used to backfill another, completely different account. But Mr. Paoletta argued that the accounts to pay military service members “no longer exist as a matter of law” now that federal funding has lapsed.

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 9h

So legality is just a question of timing?
Good to know.
Sounds rather Original.