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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22h

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23h

My contribution to the WW2 discourse is that pissing on the memory of the war as a fight against fascism is undermining the antibodies of the body politic against Trump. You are literally the RFK Jr. of ideology.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

We have barely even sniffed around the insider trading crimes of the WH and its friends

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

Imagine that

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

wait so he cast Turn Undead on ICE and it *worked*?

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

Oops

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

To be fair, "Kramer of Machiavellis" is actually scarier to me than Vought was.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 1d

To think people once feared Russ Vought as a mastermind and it turns out he is the Kramer of Machiavellis.

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Chris Peterson @realchrispeterson.bsky.social · 2d

This may just be me, but if my interest was not having Republicans win the messaging war (which it is), I would stop saying that Republicans are going to win the messaging war.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

...despite trying to claim that this "play" supports Graeber's idea of a radically anarchistic structureless society (the idea that we can "choose differently), the book is just as much a catalogue of egalitarian societies supplanted by despotism as the reverse--moreso, even.

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

...their complete lack of faith in the reader's capacity to imagine and experiment. They rail against the "single story" of prehistory, but by politicizing the (truly fascinating) breadth of discoveries in archeology, they clearly demonstrate their desire to create their own. And...

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

they're arguing that imagination & "play" have always been what characterizes human societies, and therefore hierarchy and structure are more unusual/"unnatural" than pop culture thinks
but the way they argue is chock full of weasel words and manipulative insinuations which demonstrate...

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Jack Wolflink @cubicdystopias.bsky.social · 22h

I liked it a lot, but you do have to basically tune out all of Graeber's contributions and approach it as a meta-analysis of modern archeology. (However, if you *don't* tune out Graeber's analysis, you'll watch him accidentally demolish his political project.)

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think I exaggerate when I say that the abolition of the filibuster is a matter of national security and the continuity of civilization

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Great statement.

Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 1d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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