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If the entire Trump administration doesn't realize that this would guarantee that the Trump pardons they're all banking on will also be declared invalid by a future president, nobody tell them.
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
If the entire Trump administration doesn't realize that this would guarantee that the Trump pardons they're all banking on will also be declared invalid by a future president, nobody tell them.
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So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
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Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
‘ICE was here’: Dedham church sparks outrage over nativity scene with political message
A Dedham church is causing controversy over another political statement in their Nativity scene this holiday season.
www.boston25news.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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I like how their absolute worst nightmare is that one day we might give all students more time and a calmer environment to complete tests.
And here are two senior editors at @theatlantic.com smugly telling us on X how accommodations are now a "problem"
Maybe @yappelbaum.bsky.social and @giladedelman.bsky.social would like for disabled students to be drummed out of education altogether--perhaps institutionalized?
Maybe @yappelbaum.bsky.social and @giladedelman.bsky.social would like for disabled students to be drummed out of education altogether--perhaps institutionalized?
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I like how their absolute worst nightmare is that one day we might give all students more time and a calmer environment to complete tests.
A coworker's daughter was diagnosed with something (I forget) that needed accommodations. The school required notes from multiple doctors and several forms filled out before providing anything. I said, "What about kids who can't get that?"
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A coworker's daughter was diagnosed with something (I forget) that needed accommodations. The school required notes from multiple doctors and several forms filled out before providing anything. I said, "What about kids who can't get that?"
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This raises another interesting (to me) point, which is that our total failure to provide health care nationally by definition means that the only folks who can afford to be tested for disabilities are the ones who are wealthy enough to afford the time and copays.
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This raises another interesting (to me) point, which is that our total failure to provide health care nationally by definition means that the only folks who can afford to be tested for disabilities are the ones who are wealthy enough to afford the time and copays.
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Can you imagine how many of the people facing homelessness today, right now, just here on Bluesky, could be made secure for months, if one billionaire decided to part with ONE of their billions.
Just one.
Just go off on a donating spree to people in need.
Just one billionaire, one billion.
Just one.
Just go off on a donating spree to people in need.
Just one billionaire, one billion.
That feeling of despair when you see so many people who need help, sometimes quite a small sum of money, and you desperately want to help as many as you can, but you have already given as much as you can without fucking your own limited budget.
IT FUCKING SUCKS
Billionaires don't have this problem
IT FUCKING SUCKS
Billionaires don't have this problem
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Can you imagine how many of the people facing homelessness today, right now, just here on Bluesky, could be made secure for months, if one billionaire decided to part with ONE of their billions.
Just one.
Just go off on a donating spree to people in need.
Just one billionaire, one billion.
Just one.
Just go off on a donating spree to people in need.
Just one billionaire, one billion.
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if I'm ever head of the DOT, I'm going to spend my time railing against tactical parkers. "You're making me wait while you back in – poorly, I might add – so that, what, you get an eight-percent easier time leaving? Guess what, when you're ready to do that, there might not be anyone there to inconve
Duffy: "We've asked Americans to bring their better selves, to bring the civility back to travel. To say please and thank you ... maybe not wear pajamas or slippers on the airplane."
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
if I'm ever head of the DOT, I'm going to spend my time railing against tactical parkers. "You're making me wait while you back in – poorly, I might add – so that, what, you get an eight-percent easier time leaving? Guess what, when you're ready to do that, there might not be anyone there to inconve
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i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get!
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www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make ...
www.harpercollins.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get!
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo.
85%
85%
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo.
85%
85%
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Amirah at the Detroit Zoo, a 9 year old lioness, gave birth to three cubs yesterday!!!
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Amirah at the Detroit Zoo, a 9 year old lioness, gave birth to three cubs yesterday!!!
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"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
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Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
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In the same church I thought this badass cherub was playing hockey with golden skulls, but I think it's meant to be a scythe...
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In the same church I thought this badass cherub was playing hockey with golden skulls, but I think it's meant to be a scythe...
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The Last Wolf in England - a piece from me first published in @forteantimes.bsky.social and then republished online for @dailygrail.com
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
The Last Wolf in England
The official wolf hunting season in Britain once ran between late December and late March, but by all accounts the beasts were more-often-than-not killed whenever the opportunity arose. Indeed, wolves...
www.dailygrail.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The Last Wolf in England - a piece from me first published in @forteantimes.bsky.social and then republished online for @dailygrail.com
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
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It’s not that far off of All County Building Supply & Maintenance, the wholly owned Trump subsidiary that existed only to receive Trump Landlord purchase orders, fulfill them, and then charge the Trump Landlord companies a 100%+ upcharge, which money went into accounts for the Trump children.
Nvidia is spending $1.3 billion to rent its own chips back from CoreWeave, a company in which it owns a $4 billion stake.
There are, AFAICT, only two explanations for this arrangement:
(1) It's accounting fraud.
(2) It's accounting non-fraud, because we don't prosecute financial crimes anymore.
There are, AFAICT, only two explanations for this arrangement:
(1) It's accounting fraud.
(2) It's accounting non-fraud, because we don't prosecute financial crimes anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It’s not that far off of All County Building Supply & Maintenance, the wholly owned Trump subsidiary that existed only to receive Trump Landlord purchase orders, fulfill them, and then charge the Trump Landlord companies a 100%+ upcharge, which money went into accounts for the Trump children.
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Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
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I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.
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At least the Democrats shut down the government for over a month and got absolutely nothing in return
NEW: Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Billions of dollars in tax credits under the Affordable Care Act are poised to expire at the end of the year. Lawmakers in both parties say they're nowhere close to a deal to renew them.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
At least the Democrats shut down the government for over a month and got absolutely nothing in return
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Oh what's that Olivia? A name dropping list of people worried about your mental health?
Keep their numbers handy, baby, but we haven't even begun yet.
Keep their numbers handy, baby, but we haven't even begun yet.
Three infants have died of whooping cough, in pain and terror, and every time I see a smirking photo of Olivia Nuzzi, I want her bill settled in blood.
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Oh what's that Olivia? A name dropping list of people worried about your mental health?
Keep their numbers handy, baby, but we haven't even begun yet.
Keep their numbers handy, baby, but we haven't even begun yet.
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The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”