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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 1d

For the international #ALCS I propose raising the stakes a bit. If the Blue Jays win, they get to take Seattle. If the Mariners win, we get to join Canada.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way the game ends
This is the way the game ends
This is the way the game ends
Not with a bunt but a single.

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 1d

Don't promise us a good time!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 1d

That Mariners game was INSANE!

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, this is going to end well, for sure.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: The U.S. says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private sector players, U.S. officials say.

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 2d

Like jobs numbers, they need to run CPI figures up the chain for pre-emptive de-woking before they are released.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. It isn’t clear when the Consumer Price Index report, originally scheduled for Oct. 15, will ultimately be released. But it will almost certainly be in time for the Federal Reserve’s next meeting ..”

@bencasselman.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 2d

Well, guess we see how the Republican plan for 2026 and beyond is shaping up.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 3d

The whole thread really. Russell Vought is the architect of the downfall of American democracy. Trump is his weapon.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism.

If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 4d

Essential reading from @radiofreetom.bsky.social. This is where we are now. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 4d

“How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget “deal” with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the “deal” he wants?”

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 4d

Dept. of Elections-for-me-not-for-thee

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 4d

This isn't to say there will or won't be an election next year. This is saying that, *if* we have an election next year, it will be because lawmakers, *specifically Democrats*, stand up to Trump and *ensure* we have one.
A free and fair election only happens *in spite of* Trump, not because of him.

Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 4d

The only possible interpretation is that he hopes the government workers never come back. Without staff, there isn't anyone who can tell him "no," because all the people that matter surround him in the White House.

Once again, what makes Democrats think there will be an election in 2026?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Breaking news: Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration argues, adding that a law Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing.

Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 4d

The only possible interpretation is that he hopes the government workers never come back. Without staff, there isn't anyone who can tell him "no," because all the people that matter surround him in the White House.

Once again, what makes Democrats think there will be an election in 2026?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Breaking news: Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration argues, adding that a law Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office says

Federal workers may not be entitled to backpay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up ten...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 6d

File under "Terrorism, stochastic" and "See also: Jan. 6, 2021."

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 6d

A huge victory that will last until the Supreme Court decides posse comitatus was a mistake.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 6d

Trump has never let reality intrude on his fantasies of personal superiority.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 8d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

One of the things we are going to have to be very, very aware of is that a lot of people who are being heavily armed right now will simply not be willing to accept the results of a democratic election because they will go to jail.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 7d

also he did this while everything was very very obviously being recorded

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, this is in fact illegal. www.wired.com/story/govern...

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 9d

You fed it after midnight, didn't you?

Crispy Splinters (boo! 👻) @chriswinters.bsky.social · 9d

You can't find common ground with people who want to kill you.